Science Daily—Kids may roll their eyes when their mothers asks them about their school day, but answering her may actually help them learn. New research from Vanderbilt University reveals that children learn the solution to a problem best when they explain it to their mom.
“We knew that children learn well with their moms or with a peer, but we did not know if that was because they were getting feedback and help,” Bethany Rittle-Johnson, the study’s lead author and assistant professor of psychology at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development, said. “In this study, we just had the children’s mothers listen, without providing any assistance. We’ve found that by simply listening, a mother helps her child learn.”
Rittle-Johnson believes the new finding can help parents better assist their children with their schoolwork, even when they are not sure of the answer themselves. Although the researchers used children and their mothers in the study, they believe the same results will hold true whether the person is the child’s father, grandparent, or other familiar persons.
“The basic idea is that it is really effective to try to get kids to explain things themselves instead of just telling them the answer,” she said. “Explaining their reasoning, to a parent or perhaps to other people they know, will help them understand the problem and apply what they have learned to other situations. We saw that this simple act of listening by mom made a difference in the quality of the child’s explanations and how well they could solve more difficult problems later on.
1.According to the passage, a mom had better ________.
A. give a kid some help when he is explaining his problem
B. just listen while a kid is explaining his problem
C. work together with a kid toward the solution to a problem
D. leave a kid alone when he meets a problem at school
2. If she wants to help a child with his schoolwork, a mom ________.
A. should know the answer to a problem first
B. should pay attention to the child’s feedback.
C. may not know the answer herself
D. should not interrupt the child
3.Who will be the least help to a kid when he is explaining, according to Rittle-Johnson?
A. The kid’s mom.
B. The kid’s grandmother.
C. A peer.
D. A relative the kid doesn’t know.
4.Which of the following best gives the main idea of the passage?
A. Children learn better when their mom is hearing their explaining.
B. Children learn better if they find the solution to a problem themselves.
C. Parents should not provide any assistance to their children’s schoolwork.
D. A mom should listen more to their children when they have problems at school.
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Science Daily—Kids may roll their eyes when their mothers asks them about their school day, but answering her may actually help them learn.New research from Vanderbilt University reveals that children learn the solution to a problem best when they explain it to their mom.
“We knew that children learn well with their moms or with a peer, but we did not know if that was because they were getting feedback and help,” Bethany Rittle-Johnson, the study’s lead author and assistant professor of psychology at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development, said.“In this study, we just had the children’s mothers listen, without providing any assistance.We’ve found that by simply listening, a mother helps her child learn.”
Rittle-Johnson believes the new finding can help parents better assist their children with their schoolwork, even when they are not sure of the answer themselves.Although the researchers used children and their mothers in the study, they believe the same results will hold true whether the person is the child’s father, grandparent, or other familiar persons.
“The basic idea is that it is really effective to try to get kids to explain things themselves instead of just telling them the answer,” she said.“Explaining their reasoning, to a parent or perhaps to other people they know, will help them understand the problem and apply what they have learned to other situations.We saw that this simple act of listening by mom made a difference in the quality of the child’s explanations and how well they could solve more difficult problems later on.
1.According to the passage, a mom had better ________.
A.give a kid some help when he is explaining his problem
B.just listen while a kid is explaining his problem
C.work together with a kid toward the solution to a problem
D.leave a kid alone when he meets a problem at school
2.If she wants to help a child with his schoolwork, a mom ________.
A.should know the answer to a problem first
B.should pay attention to the child’s feedback.
C.may not know the answer herself
D.should not interrupt the child
3.Who will be the least help to a kid when he is explaining, according to Rittle-Johnson?
A.The kid’s mom. B.The kid’s grandmother.
C.A peer. D.A relative the kid doesn’t know.
4.Which of the following best gives the main idea of the passage?
A.Children learn better when their mom is hearing their explaining.
B.Children learn better if they find the solution to a problem themselves.
C.Parents should not provide any assistance to their children’s schoolwork.
D.A mom should listen more to their children when they have problems at school.
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Science Daily—Kids may roll their eyes when their mothers asks them about their school day, but answering her may actually help them learn. New research from Vanderbilt University reveals that children learn the solution to a problem best when they explain it to their mom.
“We knew that children learn well with their moms or with a peer, but we did not know if that was because they were getting feedback and help,” Bethany Rittle-Johnson, the study’s lead author and assistant professor of psychology at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development, said. “In this study, we just had the children’s mothers listen, without providing any assistance. We’ve found that by simply listening, a mother helps her child learn.”
Rittle-Johnson believes the new finding can help parents better assist their children with their schoolwork, even when they are not sure of the answer themselves. Although the researchers used children and their mothers in the study, they believe the same results will hold true whether the person is the child’s father, grandparent, or other familiar persons.
“The basic idea is that it is really effective to try to get kids to explain things themselves instead of just telling them the answer,” she said. “Explaining their reasoning, to a parent or perhaps to other people they know, will help them understand the problem and apply what they have learned to other situations. We saw that this simple act of listening by mom made a difference in the quality of the child’s explanations and how well they could solve more difficult problems later on.
1.According to the passage, a mom had better ________.
A. give a kid some help when he is explaining his problem
B. just listen while a kid is explaining his problem
C. work together with a kid toward the solution to a problem
D. leave a kid alone when he meets a problem at school
2. If she wants to help a child with his schoolwork, a mom ________.
A. should know the answer to a problem first
B. should pay attention to the child’s feedback.
C. may not know the answer herself
D. should not interrupt the child
3.Who will be the least help to a kid when he is explaining, according to Rittle-Johnson?
A. The kid’s mom.
B. The kid’s grandmother.
C. A peer.
D. A relative the kid doesn’t know.
4.Which of the following best gives the main idea of the passage?
A. Children learn better when their mom is hearing their explaining.
B. Children learn better if they find the solution to a problem themselves.
C. Parents should not provide any assistance to their children’s schoolwork.
D. A mom should listen more to their children when they have problems at school.
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Science Daily (May 1S, 2012) - People who rate themselves as having high emotional intelligence (El) tend to overestimate (高估) their ability to detect deception(欺骗) in others. This is the finding of a paper published in the journal Legal and Criminological Psychology on 18 May 2012.
Professor Stephen Porter. director of the Centre for the Advancement of Psychological Science and Law at University of British Columbia Canada along with colleagues Dr. Leanne Brinke and Alysha Baker used a standard questionnaire to measure the EI of 116 participants.
These participants were then asked to view 20 videos from around the world of people pleading (祈求) for the safe return of a missing family member. In half the videos the person making the plea was responsible for the missing person's disappearance or murder.
The participants were asked to judge whether the pleas were honest or deceptive say how much confidence they had in their judgments, report the clues (线索) they had used to make those judgments and rate their emotional response to each plea.
Professor Porter found that higher EI was associated with overconfidence in assessing the sincerity of the pleas and sympathetic feelings towards people in the videos who turned out to be responsible for the disappearance.
Although EI, in general, was not associated with being better or worse at telling the difference between truths and lies. people with a higher ability to notice and express emotion (a component of EI) were not so good at spotting when people were telling lies.
Professor Porter says: "Taken together, these findings suggest findings features of emotional intelligence and the decision-making processes they lead to may nave the paradoxical (适得其反的) effect of weakening people's ability to detect deception."
"These findings are important because El is a well-accepted concept and is used in a variety of fields, including the workplace"
1.Which of the following is true about the study and its findings?
A. EI has something to do with telling truths and 1ies.
B. The participants were asked to identify liars on the spot.
C. The participants had to tell reasons for their judgments.
D. Those confident participants all made wrong judgments.
2.According to Professor Porter's finding, people with higher EI
A. were actually less confident
B. were easy to be cheated for their kindness
C. had sympathy for the missing people
D. were good at spotting deception
3.What does the underlined word "they" refer to?
A. Features of EI B. People with high Ef C. The findings D. The researchers
4.Workplace is specially mentioned in the last paragraph to ______.
A. indicate that people with high EI are mostly adults
B. indicate that EI is very important in the workplace
C. warn employers not to trust employees with high EI
D. warn people with high EI of deception in the workplace
5.What is the best title for the passage?
A. How to detect deception in our daily life.
B. The disadvantages of high emotional intelligence.
C. The relationship between one's El and recognition.
D. Emotionally intelligent people are less good at spotting liars.
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Rather than rolling your eyes when it’s your turn to bow your head and give thanks, try being grateful. The result just might be good for you, from improving your feeling to your relationships. If you don’t want to voice your gratitude, writing a letter may work, according to various studies by Steve Toepfer of Kent State University and his colleagues.
Toepfer and his colleagues had 219 students with an average age of 25 fill out questionnaires(问卷)to measure their happiness. They returned to the lab to fill out the survey three more times, with each visit about a week apart. Some of the students wrote a letter of gratitude each time they returned to the lab, while the control group didn’t write about being thankful.
“The letter writers were instructed to write a letter of gratitude to anyone they wanted, however, the letter couldn’t be a‘thank you’note for a gift,” Toepfer said. “The participants had to write about something that was important to them.”
The results showed that their levels of happiness and life satisfaction improved after each letter they wrote. In addition, depressive symptoms decreased over time with the letter writing.
Gratitude doesn’t just cheer you up—it can improve your health and energy levels as well. A 2007 study conducted by researchers found that organ-transplant(器官移植) receivers who kept “gratitude journals” listing five things or people that they were grateful for each day scored better on measures of general health, and mental health than those who only made routine notes about their days.
A successful relationship may depend on your gratitude. Research reported in 2011 looking at more than 65 couples who were in satisfying relationships showed that each couple’s relationship quality corresponded with one partner’s feelings of gratitude. Researchers show that one partner expressed feelings of gratitude; both partners experienced a positive emotional response.
1.According to the passage, if you want to get along well with others, you’d better________.
A. write letters to them frequently
B. pay more attention to their feelings
C. show your thanks from time to time
D. take care of them when they are in need
2.The underlined phrase “the control group” in Paragraph 2 refers to the group that _________.
A. is cold to others’ kindness
B. is not good at writing letters
C. is unwilling to express their feelings
D. is not allowed to write thank-you letters
3.From the passage we can infer that people who often show gratitude are less likely to be __________.
A. nervous B. careless
C. depressed D. optimistic
4.From the passage, we can learn that _________.
A. it’s better to write a thank-you letter than to say gratitude with words
B. the results of different ways of showing gratitude are all the same
C. the good relationship of each couple is based on trust
D. gratitude is beneficial to health
5.What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Why you should be grateful
B. Ways of changing your feeling
C. How to show your gratitude to others
D. Thank-you letters’ role to human relations
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Parents may think they’re smart about where they store medicines, but their kids are smarter. Nearly 60,000 young children are rushed to the hospital every year after getting into medicines not meant for them, according to a new report from Safe Kids Worldwide.
The report finds little connection between what parents know about storing medicines safely and what they actually do. Nine out of 10 parents know that medicines should be stored up and away out of reach and sight, but 7 out of 10 of them admit not doing that. They leave medicines out on kitchen counters, sinks and sofas, believing babies and toddlers(学步者)aren’t tall enough or strong enough to reach them. Unfortunately, they probably can. Children as young as a month have ended up in an emergency department because they’d been poisoned by getting into a medicine that was left within reach.
Most poisonings related to medicines---particularly among babies and toddlers---occur within their home. Kids develop rapidly and they want to explore their environment. At certain ages they have a lot of hand-to-mouth activity, and so it’s very common for them to explore their environment and then try to taste what they find.
The new Safe Kids worldwide report includes a survey of 2,000 parents with children under age 6. While the number of children visiting an emergency department for accidental poisonings had declined since the 2010 maximum, the decline has slowed in recent years.
Prescription and over-the-counter medicines cause the most severe poisonings, but vitamins and supplements(补充品)can also cause problems. There are steps families can take to lower the risk for an accidental medicine poisoning.
1.Why are children poisoned according to the text?
A. Some of the medicines at home taste nice
B. There is something poisonous in medicines
C. Kids have easy access to medicines at home
D. Kids are curious to explore the environment
2.What can we learn from the text?
A. Vitamins and supplements can do good to kids
B. The team made a survey of 2,000 kids under age 6
C. 600 parents surveyed could keep medicines properly
D. Kids are usually smart at storing medicines at home
3.What could be the best title for the text?
A. Parents’ Casual Behavior Leads to Kids Poisoned
B. The Number of Kids Poisoned Has Declined Lately
C. Nearly 60,000 Children Are Poisoned by Medicines
D. Kids Are Facing the Risk of Being Poisoned at Home
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Plants may not have eyes and ears,but they can recognize their siblings (兄弟姐妹),and researchers at the University of Delaware have discovered how.The ID system lies in the roots and the chemical signals they secrete (分泌).
Canadian researchers published that sea rocket,a common seashore plant,can recognize its siblings.Susan Dudley observed that when siblings are grown next to each other in the soil,they “play nice” and don’t send out more roots to compete.However,the moment one of the plants is thrown in with strangers,it begins competing with them by rapidly growing more roots to take up the water and mineral nutrients in the soil.
After reading Dudley’s study,Bais decided to find the method behind the sibling recognition.Working in his laboratory,Bais and his doctoral student Meredith Biedrzycki set up a study with wild populations of Arabidopsis thaliana.In a series of experiments,young seedlings were exposed to liquid media containing the root secretions from siblings,from strangers,or only their own secretions.The length of the longest lateral (侧面的) root was measured.The exposure of plants to the root secretions of strangers induced (引诱) greater lateral root formation than exposure of plants to sibling secretions.Strangers planted next to each other are often shorter,because so much of their energy is directed at root growth.Because siblings aren’t competing against each other,their roots are often much shallower (浅的).
Biedrzycki did the painstaking laboratory research,observing more than 3,000 plants involved in the study every day for seven continuous days and documenting the root patterns.“Arabidopsis roots are nearly translucent (半透明的) when they are young and were also twisted when I removed them from plates,”Biedrzycki notes.“This manuscript (手稿) is very important for my research since the focus of my thesis project is understanding the biochemical ways behind root secretions.”
The research also may have implications for the home gardener.“Often we’ll put plants in the ground next to each other and when they don’t do well,we blame the local garden center where we bought them or we attribute their failure to a germ,”Bais says.“But maybe there’s more to it than that.”
1.Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?
A.A Great Biology Researcher
B.Plants Recognize Their Siblings
C.Plants’ Roots and Secretions
D.A Research on Plants
2. What encouraged Bais to study the sibling recognition?
A.Sea rocket.
B.Plants’ sensing system.
C.Biedrzycki’s thesis project.
D.Dudley’s study.
3. What does the underlined word “painstaking” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A.Important. B.Adventurous.
C.Careful. D.Hardworking.
4.What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A.The local garden center should be blamed when plants can’t grow well.
B.The local garden center often sells low quality seeds to customers.
C.Plants in the home garden can’t grow well because of the germ and seeds.
D.Competing against strangers,plants in the home garden can’t grow well.
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阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Some kids may assume that college is very much like their strict high school.But actually there are lots of freedom at college:There's much more latitude(回旋余地,自由)in1.(choose) courses to take,
2.students can focus primarily on subjects that interest them.Their schedule will vary widely, 3.. Some days they may have no4.(course) until noon.Most courses may only meet three times a week.These are interesting details that not every youngster is aware 5..
In addition,students will meet many,many new friends.They'll be in a community,6.almost everyone is roughly the same age.Colleges7.(type) feature scores of clubs,sports,and other activities and thus students aren't 8. (like) to be bored.Instead of being out in the working world,they'll be among new friends,9.(take) many courses that interest them and enjoying a rich10.(society) life.
Another compelling(有强烈吸引力的)point is financial. According to the estimated figures,those who have received a college education will make to one's earning power.Obviously a good job today requires at least a college education.
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Many Chinese kids, known as "left-behind" children, hardly ever see their parents, because their parents are migrant workers.
Li Ling, 11, is a left-behind child. Her parents have been working in Zhejiang for 10 years, while she lives with her grandparents in Guangdong. She was reunited with her parents last Spring Festival. As the number of migrant workers in China increases, the number of left-behind children is rising fast. Li is one of the 61. 02 million left-behind children under 17. They account for 37. 7 percent of rural children and 21. 88 percent of all Chinese children
The large number of left-behind children has already become a social issue. If left unsolved, it will cause serious problems, Wang Zhenyao, director of the China Philanthropy Research Institute, told China Daily. The education level of adults supervising(监管) these children is generally not that high. They can only take care of the children's personal safety and daily living, being unable to care for their educational and spiritual needs. Meanwhile, the absence of parental support will make some left-behind children lack self-confidence. They may be slower in physical and emotional growth than their peers. Others may even become "problem youths".
To solve this problem, the government is taking action. For instance, 30 provinces and cities have allowed certain children to attend school and take the college entrance exam in the city where their parents are. However, Wang suggested that the country do more, such as making policies encouraging migrant workers to work in their hometowns. He also said that a well-balanced child welfare system is needed. "These children are the future of the nation, so they deserve our loving care and protection," Wang said.
1.Left-behind kids hardly see their parents because _______.
A. they are poor and in rural areas
B. they are brought up by their grandparents
C. their parents are making a living in other cities
D. their parents don't go back home on Spring Festival
2.Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. Li Ling hasn't seen her parents for about 10 years.
B. Left-behind children have become problem youths.
C. There are 61. 02 million left-behind children in China.
D. Much remains to be done to settle the left-behind kids issue.
3.The purpose of the passage is _______.
A. to criticize the migrant workers who leave their children at home
B. to focus on the present situation of the left-behind children
C. to worry about the present situation of left-behind children
D. to call on the government to educate the migrant workers
4.In which column of a newspaper can we most probably find this passage?
A. Education. B. Society. C. Entertainment. D. Employment.
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Despite the heavy snow outside yesterday, everybody in the company ________ their daily tasks as usual.
A. brought about B. worried about C. cared about D. went about
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Nowadays many parents want to have their kids ____ to as much art and culture as possible.
A.expose | B.exposed | C.exposing | D.to expose |
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