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[单项选择]Helicopter Moms vs. Free-Range KidsWould you let your fourth-grader ride public transportation without an adult Probably not. Still, when Lenore Skenazy, a columnist for the New York Sun, wrote about letting her son take the subway alone to get back to "Long story short:my son got home from a department store on the Upper East Side, she didn’t expect to get hit with a wave of criticism from readers.
“Long story short: My son got home, overjoyed with independence,” Skenazy wrote on April 4 in the New York Sun. “Long story longer: Half the people I’ve told this episode to now want to turn on in for child abuse. As if keeping kids under lock and key and cell phone and careful watch is the right way to rear kids. It’s not. It’s debilitating (使虚弱)—for us and for them.”
Online message boards were soon full of people both applauding and condemning Skenazy’s decision to let her son go it alone. She wound up defending herself on CNN (accompanied by her son) and on popular blogs like the
A. was afraid that he might get lost
B. enjoyed having the independence
C. was only too pleased to take the risk
D. thought he was an exceptional child
[填空题]Bess:
Do you stifle your anger Or do you let it explode In either case, anger may be your hidden dieting problem.
If you smile when a co-worker steals your ideas—than spend the evening digging into a bag of chips—you’re not really fat and happy. You’re secretly angry.
Break-free strategy: Anger needs to be evaluated. If the cause of your anger is relatively unimportant and there is nothing you can do to change the circumstances or the outcome, let it go. It may just save you a few unwanted pounds. Take a ten-minute break when you fell ravenous. Review what happened in the past 10 to 12 hours to upset you. Did your spouse hurt your feeling Were you playing martyr again Could you deal with your rage in less fattening ways by exercising, perhaps, or discussing the situation with a friend
Ned:
Since white wine is fat-free and has only about 100 calories a glass, it’s tempting to have a glass or two with a low fat dinner. But according to a
[单项选择]You can’t afford to let the situation get worse. You must take _________to put it right.
A. decisions
B. directions
C. sides
D. steps
[简答题]We must insist that you would let us know when you intend to deliver the goods.
[单项选择]It is very （） of you to let us know you were going to be late. Otherwise, we（）on time.
A. considerate...wouldn’t have begun
B. inconsiderate...would have begun
C. considerable...wouldn’t have begun
D. inconsiderable...wouldn’t begin
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