[单项选择]Though it was raining hard, but the children practiced football on the playground.
A. Though
B. but
C. practiced
D. the

[单项选择]Though it was raining hard, but the children practiced football on the playground.
A. Though B. but C. practiced
B. the

[单项选择][Since] it’s raining [hard] now we [had better] to put off our sports meet [till next week].
A. Since
B. hard
C. had better
D. till next week

[单项选择]It’s raining hard will you give me a （）
A. ride
B. trip
C. travel

[单项选择]It was raining hard, but by the time class was over, the rain（）
A. had stopped
B. stopped
C. was being stopped
D. had been stopping

[填空题]It was raining hard outside and John was _____.

[单项选择]Bringing up children is a hard work，and you are often to blame for any bad behavior of your children．If so，Judith Rich has good news for you．Parents．she argues，have no important long-term effects on the development of the personality of their children. Far more important are their playground friends and neighborhood. Ms. Harris takes to hitting the assumption, which has dominated developmental psychology for almost half a century.
Ms. Harris’s attack on the developmentalists’ "nature" argument looks likely to reinforce doubts that the profession was already having. If parents matter, why is it that two adopted children, reared in the same home, are no more similar in personality than two adopted children reared in separate homes Or that a pair of identical twins, reared in the same home, are no more alike than a pair of identical twins reared in different homes
Difficult as it is to track the precise effects of parental upbringing, it may be harder to measure the exact
A. parents are to blame for any bad behavior of their children
B. parents will affect greatly the children’s life in the long run
C. nature rather than nurture has a significant effect on children’s personality development
D. children’s personality is shaped by their friends and neighbors

[单项选择]If you want children to work hard you must ______ their interests instead of their sense of duty.
A. appeal to
B. look into
C. give rise to
D. go in for

[单项选择]It’s raining hard, will you give me a______
[A] ride [B] trip [C] travel

[单项选择]

Bringing up children is hard work, and you are often to blame for any bad behavior of your children. If so, Judith Rich Harris has good news for you. Parents, she argues, have no important long-term effects on the development of the personality of their children. Far more important are their playground friends and neighborhood companions. Ms. Harris takes to bits the assumption which has dominated developmental psychology for almost half a century.
Ms. Harris’s attack on the developmentalists’ "nurture" argument looks likely to reinforce doubts that the profession was already having. If parents matter, why is it that two adopted children, reared in the same home, are no more similar in personality than two adopted children reared in separate homes Or that a pair of identical twins, reared in the same home, are no more alike than a pair of identical twins reared in different homes
Difficult as it is to track the precise effects of parental upb
A. Parental influence is more important than the influence of the peer groups.
B. To measure the exact influence of the peer group in childhood and adolescence is hard.
C. Children subject to peer group influence often learn how to be honest, hard working, or generous.
D. Peers and parents. have similar influence on a child’s personality development.