Madame de Stael says that only the people who...

Madame de Stael says that only the people who can play with children are able to educate them. For success in training children, the first condition is to become a child oneself. It means to treat the child as really one’s equal, that is, to show him the same consideration, the same kind of confidence one shows to an adult. It means not to affect the child to be what we ourselves want him to become, but to be affected by the impression of what the child himself is; not to treat the child with cheating, or by force, but with the seriousness and true love suitable to his own character.

Not leaving the child in peace is the greatest problem of present methods of training children. Parents do not see that during the whole life, the need of peace is never greater than in the years of childhood, an inner peace under all outside liveliness.

But what does a child experience? Corrections, orders, interference（干涉）, the whole livelong day. The child is always required to leave something alone, or to do something different, to find something different, or want something different from what he does, or finds, or wants. He is always guided in another direction from the true inner will that is leading him. All of this is caused by our so-called enthusiasm in directing, advising, and helping the child to become the same model produced in one assembly line（流水线）. Understanding, the deepest characteristic of love, is almost always absent.

To bring up a child means carrying one’s soul in one’s hand; it means never placing ourselves in danger of meeting the cold look on the face of the child. It means the truth that the ways of injuring the child are limitless while the ways of being useful to him are few. How seldom does the educator remember that the child, even at four or five years of age, has already had a sharp feeling! The smallest mistrust and unkindness, the least act of injustice, leave wounds that last for life in the heart of the child. While, on the other hand, unexpected friendliness and kindness make quite as deep an impression on those soft senses.

1.The passage mainly talks about _______.

2.Children, according to the passage, are experiencing _______.

3.If you were a parent, which of the following methods is TRUE according to the text?

4.We may conclude that the author believes people should _______.

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Some people think that success is only for those with talent or those who grow up in the right family, and others believe that success mostly comes down to luck. I’m not going to say luck, talent, and circumstances don’t come into play because they do. Some people are born into the right family while others are born with great intelligence, and that’s just the reality of how life is.

However, to succeed in life, one first needs to set a goal and then gradually make it more practical. And, in addition to that, in order to get really good at something, one needs to spend at least 10,000 hours studying and practicing. To become great at certain things, it’ll require even more time, time that most people won’t put in.

This is a big reason why many successful people advise you to do something you love. If you don’t enjoy what you do, it is going to feel like unbearable pain and will likely make you quit well before you ever become good at it.

When you see people exhibiting some great skills or having achieved great success, you know that they have put in a huge part of their life to get there at a huge cost. It’s sometimes easy to think they got lucky or they were born with some rare talent, but thinking that way does you no good, and there’s a huge chance that you’re wrong anyway.

Whatever you do, if you want to become great at it, you need to work day in and day out, almost to the point of addiction, and over a long period of time. If you’re not willing to put in the time and work, don’t expect to receive any rewards. Consistent, hard work won’t guarantee you the level of success you may want, but it will guarantee that you will become really good at whatever it is you put all that work into.

1.Paragraph 1 mainly talks about ______.

A. the meaning of success　　 B. the reasons for success

C. the standards of success　　 D. the importance of success

2.Successful people suggest doing what one loves because ______.

A. work makes one feel pain　　 B. one tends to enjoy his work

C. it takes a lot of time to succeed　　 D. one gives up his work easily

3.What can we infer from Paragraph 4?

A. People sometimes succeed without luck or talent.

B. Successful people like to show their great skills.

C. People need to achieve success at the cost of life.

D. It helps to think that luck or talent leads to success.

4.What is the main theme of the passage?

A. Having a goal is vital to success.

B. Being good is different from being great.

C. Luck, talent and family help to achieve success.

D. One cannot succeed without time and practice.

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Some people think that success is only for those with talent or those who grow up in the right family, and others believe that success mostly comes down to luck. I’m not going to say luck, talent, and circumstances don’t come into play because they do. Some people are born into the right family while others are born with great intelligence, and that’s just the reality of how life is.

However, to succeed in life, one first needs to set a goal and then gradually make it more practical. And, in addition to that, in order to get really good at something, one needs to spend at least 10,000 hours studying and practicing. To become great at certain things, it’ll require even more time, time that most people won’t put in.

This is a big reason why many successful people advise you to do something you love. If you don’t enjoy what you do, it is going to feel like unbearable pain and will likely make you quit well before you ever become good at it.

When you see people exhibiting some great skills or having achieved great success, you know that they have put in a huge part of their life to get there at a huge cost. It’s sometimes easy to think they got lucky or they were born with some rare talent, but thinking that way does you no good, and there’s a huge chance that you’re wrong anyway.

Whatever you do, if you want to become great at it, you need to work day in and day out, almost to the point of addiction, and over a long period of time. If you’re not willing to put in the time and work, don’t expect to receive any rewards. Consistent, hard work won’t guarantee you the level of success you may want, but it will guarantee that you will become really good at whatever it is you put all that work into.

1.Paragraph 1 mainly talks about ______.

A. the meaning of success　　 B. the reasons for success

C. the standards of success　　 D. the importance of success

2.Successful people suggest doing what one loves because ______.

A. work makes one feel pain　　 B. one tends to enjoy his work

C. it takes a lot of time to succeed　　 D. one gives up his work easily

3.What can we infer from Paragraph 4?

A. People sometimes succeed without luck or talent.

B. Successful people like to show their great skills.

C. People need to achieve success at the cost of life.

D. It helps to think that luck or talent leads to success.

4.What is the main theme of the passage?

A. Having a goal is vital to success.

B. Being good is different from being great.

C. Luck, talent and family help to achieve success.

D. One cannot succeed without time and practice.

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--- Sorry to say that I can’t play football with you this afternoon, for I’ll have to prepare for the coming examination.

--- _____. Have some fun!

A．Don’t be a wet blanket                  B．It’s not my cup of tea

C．It doesn’t matter                       D．We’re all ears

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Some people like modern art, while others say that is rubbish. But a cleaner who works in the Tate Gallery in London isn’t able to tell the difference. The woman, whose name isn’t known, mistook a work of art by the German painter Gustav Metzger for a bag of rubbish, and threw it out with other bags. The plastic bad, which contained pieces of paper and cardboard, was later recovered outside the gallery, but the artist thought that it was too damaged to be put on show again. 78-year-old Mr Metzger explained that the exhibit, which he said was a copy of a similar work he had created in 1960, was meant to show that all art is temporary and “finite”(有限的).

Embarrassed officials at the museum said that they had had to call a meeting with cleaners to explain which things should not be touched. They would not say whether Mr Metzger would be paid any compensation for the incident. However, to make absolutely sure the same thing would not happen again, they decided to cover Mr Metzger’s work every evening with a colored cloth. In this way the cleaners arriving after the gallery had closed to the general public would realize they should not touch it.

This is not the first time that museum cleaners have had trouble distinguishing exhibits from rubbish. In 2001, in another London gallery, a cleaner threw away a work by the well-known British artist Damien Hirst. It was an arrangement　 of empty beer bottles, coffee cups, and overflowing ashtrays, which were meant to indicate the chaos in the life of an artist.

However, cleaners don’t always throw things away—sometimes they clean them! This was the case with a dirty asking what the bath was doing in the gallery, the cleaners simply scrubbed it clean.

1.What’s the best title of the passage?

A. Cleaners mistake modern art for rubbish

B. Modern art shouldn’t be cleaned

C. What makes a great work of art

D. Cleaners don’t always throw things away

2.Which of the following is not true?

A. People have different opinions on modern art

B. Mr Metzger would be paid much compensation

C. A work of Damien Hirst was thrown away by a cleaner in 2001

D. Some modern work is about artists’ chaos of their life

3.The last paragraph is written to show that____________.

A. cleaners often make exhibits as clean as possible

B. cleaners can’t always differ exhibits from rubbish

C. exhibits are usually difficult to clean

D. exhibits are not always so beautiful

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A new law helps people with disabilities. The law says that people with disabilities must be able to get into and out of all public buildings. It also says that business must offer special services to people who have special needs. Companies can not refuse to hire disabled workers. Many businesses may have to change their buildings and services.

—Ramps (坡道) must be built so people can get into buildings.

—Movie theatres must have space for people in wheelchairs and seats for their friends to sit near them.

—Elevators (电梯) must have floor number in Braille.

This law will help millions of people. One woman who has been in a wheelchair for many years said,“It is like a dream.”

1.According to the passage we can see that________.

2. Ramps can help people________.

3.The fact that the new law has been passed shows that______.

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You only live once, and life is short. It’s easy to look at people who are happy and assume that they don’t understand your pain. The older you get, the more you realize that happiness takes work. People who smile in public have been through as much as people who cry, scream, etc. 1.So how can you live life to the fullest? Here are some tips to help you out:

●Decide what’s important to you. It doesn’t matter what it is. 2. Your parents, friends and society in general all have their opinions, but you’re the only person who will be around for every moment of your life. Do what makes you happy, and everything else will fall into place.

●Ready to take risks. Sometimes, there’s danger involved in life, but every reward carries risk with it. 3.However, if you never take risks, you’ll never get anywhere in life. When people look back on their lives, they regret the chances they didn’t take more than the ones they did.

●Ignore the haters. No matter what you decide to do with your life, there will always be someone around to point out the many ways you will fail. Know that every winner loses, but not every loser wins. 4. Instead, they keep pushing through failure.

● 5.Your being right about something doesn’t mean there aren’t other ways to look at it. Listening to ideas you don’t agree with or understand keeps your brain active and healthy.

A. Keep an open mind.

B. Speak through your actions.

C. Successful people don’t start out successful.

D. Don’t do what you think people want you to do.

E. It is true that some actions might have bad results.

F. They just have the courage and strength to smile through it.

G. Think about your past and future, but only focus on the present.

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“I would say, no matter what people tell you, anything can happen.” That’s the message Internet singer Austin Mahone says at We Day, an event for young people in Canada.

When he was 14，Austin and a friend began uploading pop songs to musical websites.“I was just doing it because we had nothing to do, living in a small town.”

“I’d check different websites for the hottest songs, and I’d record my own videos,” he explains. “That’s how people began to find me online.”His videos got millions of hits and he signed with a record company. The result was the release of Austin’s first album, Junior Year. While it seems like a sudden rise for the teenager, Austin admits the early days were not always fun. He says a lot of people thought badly of him for posting his videos online. Yet this didn’t put him off.“I kept working hard. ”And the hits on his videos kept coming.

Austin’s achievement and spirit make him a perfect fit for the message of We Day. After all, Free the Children, the creator of the event, was founded to “enable youth to make changes.” Even Austin’s unusual rise by way of the Internet fits with the way Free The children works and raises money.

Because of Austin, his four million followers will learn about Free the Children. While Austin’s presence certainly helps We Day, it’s good for him, too. Austin gets to show himself as someone who volunteers his time and talent for a worthy cause and show that he cares about making the world a better place.

1.Why did Austin put pop songs on musical websites?

A. He was bored with his life there.

B. To attract people’s attention.

C. To help advertise the songs.

D. His friend asked him to do so.

2.What does the underlined word “this” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A. Austin’s sudden rise.

B. People’s dissatisfaction.

C. The release of Junior Year.

D. Signing with a record company.

3.What Austin did at We Day ________.

A. was a win-win situation

B. set an example for all the singers

C. first made him become known to the public

D. led many young people to be volunteers

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It is you who are the only person that can change what you feel. A new relationship, a new house, a new car, a new job, these things can temporarily distract(转移) you from your ______, but no other person, no material possession, no activity can remove, release, or ______ how you feel. How often do you ______ people say things like “when I have enough ______, I won’t be afraid anymore”, only to find there never seems to be enough money to ______ being afraid. Or “when I’m in a secure relationship I won’t ______ lonely any more”, and finding they are still ______ regardless of their relationship. We need to _____ that we take our feelings with us _______we go. A new dress, a new house, a new job, none of these things change how we feel. Our feelings ______ within us until we release them.

You can not change or ______ your emotions. You can learn how to ______ with them, living peacefully with them, releasing them, and you can manage them, but you _______ control them.

Think of the people who go along day after day seeming to function normally, and all of a sudden they will ______ in anger at something that seems relatively little and ______.

That is one sign of someone who is trying to control or repress(压抑) their _____ but their repressed emotions are ______. The more anyone tries to control their emotions, the _______ they resist control, and the more frightened people ______ become at what is seen to be a “______ of emotional control”. It is a vicious(恶性的)circle.

1.A. belongings　　 B. earnings　　 C. surroundings　　 D. feelings

2.A. change　　 B. make　　 C. interrupt　　 D. abstract

3.A. watch　　 B. notice　　 C. hear　　 D. listen

4.A. courage　　 B. confidence　　 C. possessions　　 D. money

5.A. improve　　 B. stop　　 C. continue　　 D. suggest

6.A. feel　　 B. live　　 C. keep　　 D. have

7.A. desperate　　 B. lonely　　 C. helpless　　 D. careful

8.A. appreciate　　 B. admire　　 C. unfold　　 D. understand

9.A. whatever　　 B. however　　 C. wherever　　 D. whichever

10.A. remain　　 B. leave　　 C. fade　　 D. keep

11.A. waste　　 B. exchange　　 C. ruin　　 D. control

12.A. agree　　 B. do　　 C. be　　 D. help

13.A. cannot　　 B. wouldn’t　　 C. shouldn’t　　 D. had better not

14.A. calm　　 B. enjoy　　 C. function　　 D. explode

15.A. huge　　 B. giant　　 C. harmless　　 D. beneficial

16.A. emotions　　 B. wealth　　 C. actions　　 D. characters

17.A. fading away　　 B. leaving out　　 C. leaking out　　 D. going through

18.A. less　　 B. more　　 C. fewer　　 D. higher

19.A. thoroughly　　 B. eventually　　 C. completely　　 D. hopefully

20.A. loss　　 B. handle　　 C. victory　　 D. way

高二英语完形填空简单题查看答案及解析

Young people frequently say that they want to exercise, but they just can’t find the time.

The solution just might be in-office interval training.

Recent studies show that very short but intense exercise rapidly builds and maintains fitness and health, even when the workout is only a few minutes long.

Work the stairs

You can complete an excellent, effective — and very brief — workout in an office stairwell, says Martin Gibala, a professor of kinesiology at McMaster University in Canada and an expert on interval training.

For a study that he and his colleagues presented earlier this year, they asked 12 out-of-shape women in their 20s to warm up for two minutes by slowly walking up and down stairs in a campus office building.

They completed three of these abbreviated stair workouts per week for six weeks.

By the end, their aerobic fitness had improved substantially, the researchers reported, by about as much as if they had been running or cycling each week for hours.

Fidget your way to fitness.

Parents and teachers may once have urged you to sit still, but wiggling, tapping your toes, standing briefly, and otherwise fidgeting as much as possible at your desk is in fact good for your body.

In one recent study, college students showed healthier blood flow in their lower legs if they fidgeted than if they did not.

Even better, a 2008 study found that among office workers, those who frequently fidgeted burned as many as 300 calories more each day than those who resolutely stayed still.

1. What does the passage mainly want to tell us?

A. several ways to work out within short time

B. short exercise does no good to health

C. how to find time to exercise

D. fitness can be improved

2.According to the experiment, women spending two minutes working stairs for six weeks __________.

A. didn’t benefit from workout

B. felt more unhealthy

C. became fatter in figure

D. benefited a lot

3.How many studies are shown in the passage?

A. One　　　　　 B. Two　　　　 　 C. Three　　　　　　 　 D. Four

4.The writer may agree ___________.

A. sitting still during work hours

B. lying as often as possible

C. trying to frequently walk back and forth

C. standing and working without any stop

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