更多"They kept me ( ) for more than an h"的相关试题:
[单项选择]A) More than 70 million. C) More than 2000 million.
B) More than 1000 million. D) More than 6000 million.
[填空题]"It hurts me more than you", and "This is for your own good." These are the
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my mother used to make years ago when I had to learn Latin, clean my room, stay home and do homework.
That was before we entered the
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period in education in which we decided it was all right not to push our children to
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their best in school. The schools and the educators made it easy on us. They taught that it was all right to be parents who take a let-alone
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. We stopped making our children do homework. We gave them calculators, turned on the television, left the teaching to the teachers and went on
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.
Now teachers,
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with children who have been developing at their own pace for the past 15 years, are
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we"ve made a terrible mistake. One such teacher is Sharon Klompus who says of her students—"so passive"—and wonders what happened. Nothing was demanded of them, she believes. Television, says Klompus,
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to children"s passivity. "We"re not training kids to work any more," says Klompus. "We"re talking about a generation of kids who"ve never been hurt or hungry. They have
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somebody will always do it for them. Instead of saying "go look it up", you tell them the answer. It takes greater energy to say "no" to a kid."
Yes, it does. It takes energy and it takes work. It"s time for parents to end their vacation and come back to work. It"s time to take the car away, to turn the TV off, to tell them it hurts you more than them but it"s for their own
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. It"s time to start telling them "no" again.
A. policy B. good C. relief D. contributes
E. statements F. adopts G. learned H. faced
I. realizing J. permissive K. vacation L. profit
M. summarized N. successive O. achieve
[单项选择]A. Less than three hours. B. More than three hours.
C. Less than four hours. D. More than four hours.
[单项选择]Communication orally involves more than reading or talking: gesture, posture, movements may all be()to it.
A. intrinsic
B. coherent
C. appealing
D. submissive
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More than one hundred thousand international students will spend this summer working and traveling in the United States. They are participating in the Summer Work Travel program through the State Department. They receive J-I exchange visitor visas.
The idea is for students to work for up to three months and earn enough money to then spend a month traveling before they return home.
The Exchange Visitor Program, aims to increase global understanding through educational and cultural exchanges.
The Summer Work Travel program has existed for years. This year there are some changes. The State Department recently amended the employment rules. These changes follow a strike last summer by foreign students working at a distribution center for Hershey’s chocolates.
The State Department said the students were put to work for long hours in jobs that provided little or no contact with the outside world. The students complained about having to lift heavy bo
A. to help students improve language proficiency.
B. to send students to work for long hours in jobs.
C. to increase global understanding.
D. to protect U.S. workers.
[填空题]Overprotective parents inhibit more than their kids’ freedom: they may also slow brain growth in an area linked to mental illness. Children whose parents are overprotective or neglectful are believed to be more susceptible to psychiatric disorders—which in turn are associated with defects in part of the prefrontal cortex.
To investigate the link, Kosuke Narita of Gunma University, Japan, scanned the brains of 50 people in their 20s and asked them to fill out a survey about their relationship with their parents during their first 16 years. The researchers used a survey called the Parental Bonding Instrument, an internationally recognized way of measuring children’s relationships with their parents. It asks participants to rate their parents on statements like "Did not want me to grow up", "tried to control everything I did" and "tried to make me feel dependent on her/him". Narita’s team found that those with overprotective parents had less grey matter in a particular area of the