Parents are a child’s first teachers. But som...

Parents are a child’s first teachers. But some parents never learned from good examples. In New York City, a nonprofit agency called Covenant House tries to help homeless young mothers become good parents.

The twelve or so teenagers who live at the shelter attend parenting classes four days a week. The class is called Mommy and Me. Teacher Delores Clemens is a mother of five and a grandmother. She teaches basic skills, like how to give a baby a bath and how to dress a baby depending on the season.

She remembers one student who learned from her mother not to pick up a crying baby. The mother said that would only make the child needy and overly demanding. Delores Clemens says, “That’s not true. You have to hold your baby! He is crying for a reason. If you never pick him up, he’s going to keep crying. Pick your baby up. Cuddle your baby. Hug him! And she started to do that. They just want a little cuddling and a little love. And it works!”

Delores Clemens says her students also learn how to be good mothers by letting themselves be mothered. Around three hundred fifty teenage mothers graduate from Covenant House's Mommy and Me class every year.

In class, with her baby son is Natasha．She lived on the streets. She is glad not only for the warmth and shelter of Covenant House. As she told reporter Adam Phillips, she is also glad for the help they offer in seeking a more secure life.

The World Health Organization says the United States has forty-one births for every one thousand girls age fifteen to nineteen. That is higher than other developed countries, as well as some developing ones. By comparison, northern neighbor Canada has fourteen births and southern neighbor Mexico has eighty-two.

1.What is the text mainly about?

2.Covenant Houses’ Mommy and Me class is intended to _____.

3.What can we know about Delores Clemens from the text?

4.According to the World Health Organization, which country has the highest births for girls age fifteen to nineteen?

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Parents are children’s first teachers．But some parents never learned from good examples．In New York City, a nonprofit(不赚钱的) agency called Covenant House tries to help homeless young mothers become good parents．

The twelve or so teenagers who live at the shelter attend parenting classes four days a week．The class is called Mommy and Me．Teacher Delores Clemens is a mother of five children and a grandmother．She teaches basic skills, like how to give a baby a bath and how to dress a baby depending on the season．

She remembers one student who learned from her mother not to pick up a crying baby．The mother said that would only make the child needy and overly demanding．Delores Clemens says, “that's not true．You have to hold your baby! He is crying for a reason．If you never pick him up, he's going to keep crying．Pick your baby up．Cuddle your baby．Hug him! And she started to do that．They just want a little cuddling and a little love．And it works!”

Delores Clemens says her students also learn how to be good mothers by letting themselves be mothered．Around three hundred fifty teenage mothers graduate from Covenant House's Mommy and Me class every year．

In class, with her baby son is Natasha．She lived on the streets．She is glad not only for the warmth and shelter of Covenant House．As she told reporter Adam Phillips, she is also glad for the help they offer in seeking a more secure life．

The World Health Organization says the United States has forty-one births for every one thousand girls age fifteen to nineteen．That is higher than other developed countries, as well as some developing ones．By comparison, northern neighbor Canada has fourteen births and southern neighbor Mexico has eighty-two．

1.What is the text mainly about?

A. Parents who are a child’s first teachers．

B. A class where teens learn mothering and are mothered．

C. A nonprofit agency that offers a more secure life．

D. A kind teacher who help homeless young mothers．

2. Covenant Houses’ Mommy and Me class is intended to _____．

A. help homeless young mothers become good parents

B. provide homeless young mothers with a warm shelter

C. help mothers in New York be good parents

D. teach some parents how to love their children

3.What can we know about Delores Clemens from the text?

A. She has a mother of five and a grandmother．

B. She thinks a crying baby should be picked up and hugged．

C. She teaches advanced skills on how to be good mothers．

D. She is very glad for the warmth and shelter of Covenant House．

4.According to the World Health Organization, which country has the highest births for girls age fifteen to nineteen?

A. Canada　 B. the United States of America

C. Mexico　 D. Britain

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A recent survey show that most students often communicate with our parents. But there are still some think it embarrassing to share their ideas with them. Actually everyone should attach importance to family communication. It can be strengthen the bond of the whole family or bridge the gap between children and parents. Besides, share your personal problems and emotions will greatly help reduce the pressure on you and build up your confidence. As for my family, we had a special dinner together every Saturday evening, over that everyone takes turns to share one problem. Then others try to suggest solutions. In this way the whole family can enjoy every single bit of life. I think my family will stick out the tradition forever.

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My parents have certainly had their troubles, and as their child I’ll never know how they made it to 38 years of marriage. They loved each other, but they didn’t seem to like each other very much. Dad was too fond of his beer, and he talked down to Mom a lot. When she tried to stand up to him, a fight would unavoidably follow.

It was my dad’s disease that began to change things. The year 1998 was the beginning of a remarkable transformation for my family. My father, Jim Dineen, the always healthy, weightlifting, never-missed-a-day-of-work kind of dad, discovered he had kidney (肾)disease.

The decision to go ahead with a transplant for my father was a long and tough one, mostly because he had liver damage too. One physician’s assistant told him, “According to your file, you’re supposed to be dead.” And for a while, doctors mistakenly thought that he would need not just a kidney transplant, but a liver transplant too. Dad’s future hung in midpoint.

When the donor testing process finally began in the spring of 2003, numerous people, including me, my uncle Tom, and my mom, came back as matches of varying degree. But Mom was the one who insisted on going further. She decided to donate a kidney to my father. She said she was not scared, and it was the right thing to do. We all stepped back in amazement.

At last a date was chosen – November 11, 2003. All of a sudden, the only thing that seemed to matter Dad was telling the world what a wonderful thing Mom was doing for him. A month before the surgery, he sent her birthday flowers with a note that read, “I love you and I love your kidney! Thank you!”

Financially, the disease was upsetting to them. So my sister and I were humbled and surprised when, shortly before his surgery day, Dad handed us a diamond jewelry that we were to give to Mom after the operation. He’d accumulated his spare dollars to buy it.

At the hospital on the day of the transplant, all our relatives and friends gathered in the waiting room and became involved in a mean euchre (尤克牌游戏) tournament. My family has always handled things with a lot of laughter, and even though we were all tense, everybody was taking bets on how long this “change of conduct” would last in my parents.

We would inform Dad that if he chose to act like a real pain on any particular day after the operation, he wasn’t allowed to blame it on PMS just because he’d now have a female kidney.

The surgeries went well, and not long afterward, my sister and I were allowed to go in to visit. Dad was in a great deal of pain but again, all he could talk about was Mom. Was she okay? How was she feeling? Then the nurses let us do something unconventional. As they were wheeling Mom out of recovery room, they rolled her into a separate position to visit Dad. It was strange to see both my parents hooked up to IVs and machines and trying to talk to each other through tears. The nurses allowed us to present the diamond jewelry to Mom so that Dad could watch her open it. Everyone was crying, even the nurses.

As I stood with digital camera in hand, I tried to keep the presence of mind to document the moment. My dad was having a hard time fighting back emotion, and suddenly my parents unexpectedly reached out to hold each other’s hands.

In my nearly 35 years of existence, I’d never seen my parents do that, and I was spellbound. I snapped a picture and later rushed home to make sure I’d captured that enormous, life-defining moment. After so many years of disagreement, it was apparent to me that they finally understood how much each loved the other. 65—70

1.From the first paragraph we can learn that ____________.

A. Dad was fond of drinking                        B. My parents got along well

C. Dad often beat Mom                           D. Mom never obeyed Dad

2.The underlined part “Dad’s future hung in midpoint” in Para.3 suggests that ____________.

A. Dad was bound to die

B. Dad came to a serious moment in his life

C. Dad’s future was decided by doctors

D. Dad faced a tough decision in his life

3.Before the surgery, which of the following words can best describe the feeling of the families?

A. Worried and negative.                     B. Anxious and helpless.

C. Nervous but optimistic.                    D. Relaxed and positive.

4.Which of the following is TRUE according the passage?

A. Dad bought a diamond jewelry to Mom for their wedding anniversary.

B. Dad asked the nurse to visit Mom soon after the operation.

C. Despite a lot of pain, Dad was eager to know Mom’s condition soon after the operation.

D. On the day of the transplant, the families involved in a euchre tournament to relax themselves.

5.What’s in the writer’s photo?

A. Everyone was crying, even the nurses.

B. His parents were trying to talk to each other.

C. Dad watched Mom opening the gift.

D. His parents were holding each other’s hands.

6.What’s the best title for the passage?

A. Dad’s disease      B. Mom’s decision       C. The Gift of Life       D. The photo of hands

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For some parents, hitting a child who misbehaves is a common punishment. In fact, they may think that a physical type of punishment is good for children and will teach them to behave in the future.

However, a leading group of child health specialists suggest that the opposite is true. These experts say that hitting is not only ineffective, but may even cause long-term harm to the child. The American Academy of Pediatrics recently changed its policy on physical punishment for a child. Released in October, the academy warns that hitting a child may have long-term effects. These effects include “aggression, brain changes, substance abuse and suicidal behavior in adulthood”. The report admits that not every child who is spanked will have these problems later in life. It makes this observation: “Although many children who were spanked become happy, healthy adults, current evidence suggests that hitting is not necessary and may result in long-term harm.”

In recent years, many American experts have been advising parents against the use of physical punishment. Many other countries have already banned corporeal punishment. Sweden was the first nation to do so in 1966. Earlier studies have shown that corporal punishment can also affect a child’s ability to think and learn. In 2012, a Canadian study found that hitting children can cause long-term developmental damage and may even lower a child’s intelligence test scores. The American Academy of Pediatrics also warns against using strong verbal abuse or shame to discipline a child. These types of punishment can also cause long-term problems for a child. Instead, they suggest other types of punishment that are appropriate for the age of the child.

For younger children, punishment could be taking away a favorite toy. For older children, a parent can limit the time the child spends watching television or playing with computers or electronic games.

1.What can we know according to the experts?

A.Spanking a child is not effective but harmful.

B.Sweden was the first country to spank a child in 1996.

C.The study from Canada found that spanking children can lower children’s grades.

D.Many American experts found spanking a child can cause anti-social behavior.

2.Which of the following best explains “discipline” underlined in paragraph 3?

A.Protect. B.Control. C.Persuade. D.Punish.

3.What does the author intend to say in the last paragraph?

A.We should take away younger children’s favorite toys as punishment.

B.As for older children, we need allow them to watch TV or play games.

C.Different children should be given different ways to punish.

D.It may be ineffective for younger or older children to have punishment.

4.What is the text mainly about?

A.A physical type of punishment.

B.The effects of punishment.

C.Different countries have different types of punishment.

D.How to punish the mischievous children.

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Parents are fighting for their child’s right to rest across the country. Twenty-three elementary schools in Orange County, Florida, have been cutting back on rest, and even canceling it to increase class time.

In a recent Orange County School Board meeting, parents demanded that rest time be carried out in all local schools for all students. Angela Browning, a parent in the area, said that schools’ rest is ranging from zero to 30 minutes per day. “Five-year-olds not getting rest means abuse,” said Browning, whose twins in the second grade benefit from taking a break and learn better.

The main reason for reducing the rest time is Common Core exams including math, language arts and literacy, where the students’ performance often controls teachers’ pay and sometimes teachers may lose their jobs. Many teachers are using that extra 20 minutes that would have been spent on the schools’ scores, everybody is stressful,” said Diana Moore, president of the Orange County Classroom Teachers Association.

The decision of whether reducing rest takes place, and for how long is up to each school’s rule. “Florida law requires that districts provide 900 teaching hours during the school year,” Florida’s Department of Education press secretary Cheryl Etters said in a statement. “Whether test is part of the school day is a decision made by the school board.”

Reducing test also can take away an opportunity for children to learn social skills, according to many experts. “In society, who cares if you have straight A’s and you get a scholarship to Harvard if you lack social skills?” said Mallet, a mother of two children.

1.What will Angela Browning agree with?

A. Kids of five years old had better get more break time.

B. Proper rest time improves children’s learning efficiency.

C. The more rest children have, the higher grades they will get.

D. Elementary schools should limit kids’ rest time to 30 minutes.

2.What drives so many teachers to reduce students’ rest time?

A. Parents’ demand

B. Students’ lack of social skills

C. Students’ bad behavior

D. The link between their pay and school’s scores

3.What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A. Social skills are more important than high scores

B. Whether students get A’s in school is very important

C. Graduates from Harvard can’t find good jobs.

D. Rest time has nothing to do with students’ social skills

4.What’s the main idea of the text?

A. The government is to order schools to increase rest time.

B. Students expect to get more time to play in school.

C. Parents struggle for the rest right for their kids in school.

D. Teachers’ pay is related to their performance in teaching.

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I always believed that my parents had a good marriage, but just before I, the youngest of four children, turned sixteen, my belief was painfully tested. My father, who used to share in the chores around the house, gradually started becoming downhearted. From the time he came home from his job to the time he went to bed, he hardly spoke a word to my mom or us kids. The strain on my mom and dad’s relationship was very evident. However, I was not prepared for the day that Mom told us that Dad had decided to leave. All that I could think of was that I was going to become a product of a divorced family. It was something I never thought possible, and it grieved me greatly. I kept telling myself that it wasn’t going to happen, and I went totally numb when I knew my dad was really leaving. The night before he left, I stayed up in my room for a long time. I prayed and I cried and I wrote a long letter to my dad. I told him how much I loved him and how much I would miss him. I told him that I was praying for him and wanted him to know that, no matter what, Jesus and I loved him. I told him that I would always and forever be his Krissie...his Noodles. As I folded my note, I stuck in a picture of me with a saying I had always heard: “Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a daddy.”

Early the next morning, as my dad left our house, I sneaked out to the car and slipped my letter into one of his bags.

Two weeks went by with hardly a word from my father. Then, one afternoon, I came home from school to find my mom sitting at the dining room table waiting to talk to me. I could see in her eyes that she had been crying. She told me that Dad had been there and that they had talked for a long time. They decided that there were things that the both of them could and would change and that their marriage was worth saving. Mom then turned her focus to my eyes.

“Kristi, Dad told me that you wrote him a letter. Can I ask what you wrote to him?”

I found it hard to share with my mom what I had written from my heart to my dad. I mumbled a few words and shrugged.

A few days later my dad was back. We never talked about the letter, my dad and I. I guess I always figured that it was something that was a secret between us.

1.What happened to the author’s parents when she was sixteen?

A.They left her alone. B.They got divorced.

C.They shared in the chores together. D.They had a good marriage.

2.What is the meaning of the underlined word “grieved” in Para.1?

A.made sb. Angry B.made sb. delighted

C.made sb. sad D.made sb. greedy

3.What can we learn from the passage?

A.The author handed the letter directly to her father.

B.Her father wrote back to the author when he finished reading the letter.

C.The author’s letter made a difference to her father.

D.The author shared what she wrote with her mother.

4.What might be the best title for the passage?

A.A Promise Kept B.A Letter

C.A Broken Family D.A Great Daddy

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Parents Are Invited

To a Lecture On

Raising a Self-Disciplined Child

Help Your Child Become More

Responsible, Confident, and Lively

Presented by Dr Robert Brooks

Robert Brooks, Ph.D., one of the two authors of Raising a Self-Disciplined Child, is a nationally famous speaker and author. This book presents parents with “ a positive approach to discipline that helps children to develop self-discipline, respect, responsibility and liveliness rather than anger.” Dr Brooks of Harvard Medical School uses real-life stories to discuss such topics as self-respect and family relationships.

Copies of Raising a Self-Disciplined Child, Raising Lively Children, and other books by Dr Brooks will be available for sale and signing following the talk.

Wednesday, January 12 @ 7 PM

Allison Williams Activity Center

Trinity School

4301 Northside Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30327

Call Ms Ginny Perkinson at 404-231-8113 for questions

1.Who is this lecture intended for?

A．Children          B．Robert Brooks      C．Ginny Perkinson    D．Parents

2.This lecture is mainly about how to _____.

A．tell stories         B．sell a book         C．raise children      D．become a writer

3.People can _____ if they have questions about the lecture.

A．visit Dr Goldstein                        B．call 4301-30327

C．call 404-231-8113                       D．visit Mr Williams

4.Raising a Self-Disciplined Child is the name of a ______.

A．book             B．company          C．school            D．newspaper

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The child was invited by her parents to explore the edges(边缘) of the pond. It was a ____ pond, but rich in life. The adults ____ all kinds of tools along.

They began the exploration ____ the mud at pond’s edge. ____ they searched for tracks by various animals, the parents showed their approval of the child’s natural curiosity and ____ her to touch, smell and play in whatever she wanted. They ____ much time happily. Creatures caught temporarily ____ viewing were kept in the plastic containers. The ____ jars held frogs for a few moments viewing. Smaller jars allowed them to ____ larvas (幼虫) which hid around rocks in the pond. Cares were ____ to honor the truth of the life forms. And the child was ____ told that, “Today we are learning from the creatures, and treating them as friends even the ____ and scary-looking ones.” Eventually a standard picnic ____, but it was clear that she had made a friend with ____ on this day.

More often than not, parents are drawn into outdoor ____ in a fashion that treat the natural offerings of a site ____ as a setting. Parks become a place to use playground ____ , have social gatherings and play team sports like volleyball or badminton. ____ there are priceless chances for studying nature’s ____ in nearly all these settings. The parents ____ above were not naturalists but they somehow knew that nature held gifts that would benefit their child’s life.

1.A. clean　　 B. joyful　　 C. broad　　 D. simple

2.A. showed　　 B. brought　　 C. gathered　　 D. spread

3.A. finding　　 B. making　　 C. using　　 D. hiding

4.A. After　　 B. If　　 C. Since　　 D. As

5.A. encouraged　　 B. forced　　 C. persuaded　　 D. begged

6.A. prepared　　 B. spent　　 C. missed　　 D. offered

7.A. for　　 B. in　　 C. under　　 D. through

8.A. precious　　 B. pretty　　 C. large　　 D. new

9.A. search　　 B. notice　　 C. see　　 D. watch

10.A. taken　　 B. fetched　　 C. caught　　 D. carried

11.A. usually　　 B. frequently　　 C. hardly　　 D. partly

12.A. strange　　 B. pleasant　　 C. ordinary　　 D. general

13.A. turned off　　 B. turned over　　 C. took off　　 D. took over

14.A. edge　　 B. mud　　 C. nature　　 D. jar

15.A. activities　　 B. accidents　　 C. discussions　　 D. exercises

16.A. nearly　　 B. only　　 C. also　　 D. seldom

17.A. tool　　 B. equipment　　 C. device　　 D. subject

18.A. Thus　　 B. So　　 C. Yet　　 D. Then

19.A. loneliness　　 B. friendliness　　 C. quietness　　 D. richness

20.A. created　　 B. compared　　 C. mentioned　　 D. recommended

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Parents are often amazed at how fast their child grows and develops. New research has determined that the ability to quantify may develop much sooner than most parents realize.

Kristy Vanmarle, professor of the University of Missouri, has determined that contrary to what previous studies have shown, infants（婴儿）are able to quantify substances（物质）—like sand or water—as early as 10 months. As long as the difference between the two substances is large enough, infants will choose the larger amount, especially when it comes to food.

With the assistance of her team researchers, Vanmarle tested the quantifying skills of babies by presenting them with two cups: one containing a small amount of food, and one containing a larger amount. Consistently, the babies chose the larger amount.

“Several studies throughout the last 15 years have shown that infants are very good at telling how many objects they see; however, infants don’t seem to count things like water or sand,” Vanmarle said. “What we’re saying is that they can quantify substances; it’s just much harder. The infants can see how much food goes into each cup and compare that in their memories. They decide which amount is larger, and they almost always select the larger one.”

“This information further refutes（驳斥）the long-held idea that babies know nothing of the world,” Vanmarle said.

“Since psychologists have begun studying infants with sensitive measures, we’ve discovered a lot of early abilities. I think for parents, it should be exciting to know that there’s somebody in there that has some fundamental and basic knowledge of the world, and that knowledge is guiding their development,” Vanmarle said.

In the future, Vanmarle says this kind of study could be linked to a child’s progress in math-related skills, although programs marketed to increase those abilities, such as “Baby Einstein,” still have mixed reviews when it comes to academic study.

1. The quantifying ability refers to the ability to ________.

A. choose between different substances  B. describe the quantity of something

C. get much knowledge of the world    D. obtain math-related skills

2. What is mainly talked about in Paragraph 4?

A. The process of doing research.   B. The final choice of infants.

C. The scientific findings.         D. The observation of infants’ behavior.

3. Babies choose the larger amount of food ________.

A. through their natural abilities  B. with the help of parents

C. on personal preference           D. by saying numbers

4.We can learn from the text that ________.

A. some parents don’t care about their kids

B. scholars disagree on baby-training programs

C. little research has been done on infants

D. people used to think the world is known to babies

5.What’s the best title of the text?

A. Unique Quantifying Methods   B. Amazing Baby-training Ideas

C. Early Human Abilities         D. Breakthrough in Baby Studies

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