Young adults ________ older people are more likely
to prefer pop songs.
A) other than B) more than C) less than D) rather than
to prefer pop songs.
A) other than B) more than C) less than D) rather than
What is the main idea of the first paragraph?
A.Many young Americans will never be able to pay off their debts.
B.Credit cards play an increasingly important role in college life.
C.Credit cards are doing more harm than student loans.
D.The American credit card system is under criticism.
In these activities, it is important to remember that the young teens have【C14】______attention spans. A variety of activities should be organized【C15】______participants can remain active as long as they want and then go on to【C16】______else without feeling gusty and without letting the other participants【C17】______. This does not mean that adults must accept irresponsibility.【C18】______they can help students acquire a sense of commitment by【C19】______for roles that are within their【C20】______and their attention spans and by having clearly stated rules.
【C1】
A.thought
B.idea
C.opinion
D.advice
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
Children who watch violent television shows are at an increased risk of aggression and violent behavior. as they become young adults. That's based on a fifteen-year study published in the current issue of the research journal Developmental Psychology.
Back in the late 1970's when this study began, among the top rated shows were 'Chafiie's Angels' and 'The Six Million Dollar Man'. These were the TV shows that many of the 557 children in Raul Huseman's study were watching when they were six to ten years old. By today's standards these shows may not seem that violent, but there was a significant amount of on-screen physical violence in them. Huseman, from the University of Michigan, analyzed the types and amounts of violence in these shows and also collected other information on the kids about their home life, their friends, their school life, and importantly their levels of aggressive behavior, tike who was getting into fights, who was pushing and shoving (猛推) others, who was stealing things.
Now fast-forward 15 years: Raul Huseman was able to track down over 80% of the boys and girls from the original study. He re-interviewed them, now in their mid-twenties, and talked to their spouses (配偶) and close friends and checked their criminal records. "We found that those children back then, when they were 6, 7, 8 or 8, 9, 10, who had been watching more media violence had grown up to be more aggressive young adults as compared to the young adults who had been just as aggressive in childhood but had not watched as much violent television."
"Most at-risk children are children who watch a steady diet of violent television shows, identify with the aggressors, who sometimes the heroes and the lead-characters in those shows, and who perceive the violence as being realistic and a model for how to act in real life."
The conclusion of the fifteen-year study is that ______.
A.children born in the 1970s would display more violent behavior. than other children
B.children who like to push and shove others when fighting would develop violent behavior. quickly
C.young adults are the group of people who are most influenced by violent TV
D.young people who watched violent TV shows in childhood tend to become aggressive
We have found that there is major obstacle that parents need to overcome in connection with TV viewing. Surprisingly enough, we are going to advocate that parents act rudely—at least as fat' as the TV set is concerned. Most of us have been socialized all our lives with the warning "Don' t interrupt when someone else is speaking." Yet our ancestors never imagined a mechanical visitor sitting in the middle of our home who talks without stop and never allows the listener an opportunity to put a word in edgewise.
During our research, we found upon questioning parents that they usually reacted to TV content they disliked or disagreed with by remaining silent. This brings to mind an old saying that parents might well be advised to consider, "Silence gives consent."
We advocate loud reactions and exclamations of disapproval when something is presented on TV which is in opposition to the family' s values or offends them in any way. Similarly, when a program is in accordance with the family' s views, parents should approve of its content and applaud loudly. There is much that Shakespearean audiences of old could teach us in regard to such spontaneous, public reactions. Silence is misleading to our children.
This process of direct intervention vocal approval or disapproval of TV content—is highly effective with young children, because they ant curious, lemming rapidly and ready to place a great deal of confidence in the information and attitudes of their parents and other significant adults, such as teachers. For teenagers indirect intervention is recommended, because this group is more resistant to adult statements and does not like to be "Iectured." Indirect intervention is the practice of making comments about TV to other members of the family, but in such a way that teenager is sure to overhear the comments.
Our research shows that through such parental comments of approval or disapproval, adults can dramatically influence the information their children receive and retain from watching TV.
We may infer from the first paragraph that parents______.
A.find that their children like to watch those sex or violence TV programs
B.hope that school or society can do something to control bad TV programs
C.feel that they can exert some influences on their children at home only
D.realize that there is a generation gap between them and their children
First, the teacher s personality should be lively and attractive. This does not rule out people who are plain-looking, or even ugly, because many such people have great personal charm. But it does rule out such types as the over-excitable, sad, cold, and frustrated.
Secondly, it is not merely desirable but essential for a teacher to have a genuine capacity for sympathy, a capacity to understand the minds and feelings of other people, especially, since most teachers are school teachers, the minds and feelings of children. Closely related with this is the capacity to be tolerant not, indeed, of what is wrong, but of the weaknesses and immaturity of human nature which induce people, and again
especially children, to make mistakes.
Thirdly, I hold it essential for a teacher to be both intellectually and morally honest. This means that he will be aware of his intellectual strengths and limitations, and will have thought about and decided upon the moral principles by which his life shall be guided. There is no contradiction in my going on to say that a teacher should be a bit of an actor. That is part of the technique of teaching, which demands that every now and then a teacher should be able to put on an act to enliven a lesson, correct a fault, or award praise. Children, especially young children, live in a world that is rather larger than life.
A teacher must be capable of infinite patience. This, I may say, is largely a matter of self-discipline and self-training, for we are none of us born like that.
Finally, I think a teacher should have the kind of mind which always wants to go on learning. Teaching is a job at which one will never be perfect; there is always something more to learn about it. There are three principal objects of study: the subjects which the teacher is teaching; the methods by which the subjects can best be taught to the particular pupils in the classes he is teaching; and by far the most important the children, young people, or adults to whom the subjects are to be taught. The two fundamental principles of British education today are that education is education of the whole person, and that it is best acquired through full and active co-operation between two persons, the teacher and the learner.
S1. Plain-looking teachers can also be admired by their students if they have
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S2. The author says it is S2 that teachers be sympathetic with their students.
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S3. A teacher should be tolerant because humans tend to have
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and to be
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S4. A teacher who is S4 will be able to make his lessons more lively.
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S5. How can a teacher acquire infinite patience?
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S6. Since teaching is a job no one can be perfect at, it is necessary for teachers to keep improving their knowledge of the subjects they teach and their
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S7. Teachers most important object of study is
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S8. Education cannot be best acquired without S8 between the teacher and the learner
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1.The writer did not feel comfortable at the evening school because__________ .
A. he found it difficult to make friends with his classmates
B. he had to walk a long distance to the evening school
C. he could not put his heart into reading books after he was caught in the rain
D. all of the above
2. Which of the following has more probably been discussed in the paragraph above this passage?_______
A. The writer's unhappy childhood.
B. The poor teaching quality of the writer's school.
C. The writer's leaving school against his teachers' advice.
D. Whether it was worth leaving school for job training.
3.After he won some prizes and awards for literature, a young woman from a TV company().
A、wanted to make his success known to the public
B、came to make friends with him
C、invited him to make a speech
D、came to tell him that he had become a very important person
4.Which of the following is NOT true? ________
A. His parents worried that he would have no future if he returned to school.
B. His parents worried that he would leave school again.
C. It was difficult for one who studied literature to get a job.
D. His parents did not want him to continue his education.
5.After his success, the writer______________
A. decided to get a good job
B. decided to continue his studies in literature at the evening school
C. decided to return to the school he had left
D. began to feel very important and proud
shot and killed 12 other students and a teacher before taking their own lives.The massacre was the largest in the history of this nation.This type of crime didn't exist 10 years ago.
Americans should stop acting surprised that these shooting happen in "nicer" neighborhoods.That's the only place they happen.None of the recent school massacres took place at an inner-city campus; they all occurred in smaller towns or suburbs.These killers haven't been from impoverished or extremely violent families.They don't appear to have been picked on(挨骂受罚) any worse than kids have been for generations.They chose alienation and destruction,and they found the tools to carry out their hate-filled plan.
Do not blame schools for these massacres.Schools simply take what they are sent.Question the killers' parents.The parents are supposed to teach their children respect and empathy for others' lives.Parents should help their offspring learn to handle taunt or conflict without resorting to violence.
All concerned adults should take a youth's threat to shoot someone as seriously as airport security guards take jokes about bombs.Students must be encouraged to tell teachers if a classmate threatens or jokes about violence.Administrators at schools around the country need to emphasize they will take such reports seriously,and that they will not identify any student who comes forward with such a report.
More gun regulations probably won't stop these shootings,but gun owners and sellers must take more responsibility for keeping weapons away from young people.Gun owners should keep their guns unloaded,locked up and hidden away.Most car owners don't leave their keys in the car even when they park in their own garage; gun owners should be at least as careful with weapons.
The federal government can't solve this problem.Schools alone can't solve it.More guns won't solve it.Americans must consciously create a culture that makes violence unacceptable.Parents need to stop allowing their children's minds to be polluted with violence.News media need to show more restraint and thought about how and what they report.
The Colorado massacre is a national tragedy.More's the pity if Americans do not stop,reflect and vow to make it the last school massacre.
1.One common feature of all the recent school massacres is that ______.
A) they have all been carefully planned by hateful youngsters
B) the killers have all failed to passed their exams
C) they all occur in places that appear to be all right
D) the killers are all from disadvantaged families
2.Children are less likely to become killers if ______.
A) their parents succeed in teaching them respect and empathy for others' lives
B) they study hard in school and get high scores
C) teachers stop telling meaningless jokes in class
D) they follow the rules set by administrators at schools around the country
3.Who does the author think should take the main responsibility for campus shootings
A) School authorities.
B) The federal government.
C) News media.
D) The killers' parents.
4.What is the most effective way to prevent school massacre from happening again
A) Reinforcing stricter laws and regulations.
B) Introducing security guards onto campus.
C) Creating a culture that makes violence unacceptable.
D) Keeping weapons away from young people.
5.From the passage we can infer that ______.
A) there were a lot of school massacres in inner-cities 10 years ago
B) many people turn a blind eye to school massacre
C) a youth's joke about violence is often ignored by other people
D) most gun owners like to leave their guns in their cars
A.learn
B.acquire
C.accept
D.make
A、make up
B、make good use of
C、take care of
D、look up to