For more than six million American
children, coming home after school means coming home to an empty house. They
spend part of each day alone. They are called "latchkey children".
They’re children who look after themselves while their parents work. And
their bad conditions have become a social problem. Lyne Brown was once the headmaster of an elementary school. She said, "A lot of kids had chains around their necks with keys attached.! was constantly telling them to put them inside shirts. There were so many keys, it never came to my mind what they meant. ",slowly, she learned they were house keys. Lyne learned of the impact working couples and single parents were having on their children. She found that Fear is the biggest problem faced by children at home alone. Many had nightmares and were worried about their own safe A. are growing in numbers B. are also found in middle-class neighborhoods C. watch too much television during the day D. suffer problems from being left alone [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]
Passage Three Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It’s being content to listen to the entire, thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond. We often treat communication as if it were a race. It’s almost like our goal to have no time gaps between the conclusion of the sentence of the person we are speaking with and the beginning of our own. My wife and I were recently at a cafe having lunch, eavesdropping(偷听) on the conversations around us. It seemed that no one was really listening to one another, instead they were taking turns not listening to one another. Slowing down your responses and becoming a better listener aids you in becoming a more peaceful person, it takes stress from you. It is very stressful to be sitting at the edge of your seat trying to guess what the person in front of you (or on t A. Become a Better Listener B. Listen to Listen C. How to Listen D. A Real Listener [单项选择]More than three years after moving from Australia to this remote point of England, we are still learning how things have done here.( )
A. More than B. remote C. still D. have done [简答题]More than three million children have health insurance now,and more than two and a half million families________________________(已经摆脱贫困).
[填空题]The museum has collected more than three million objects in every known______.
[填空题]Pentagon. Many have been held for more than three years and the______.
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