Once the ideal child was seen and not heard. But the times and the culture have changed.More and more often a child is seen on national television and heard roaring round the world.Sons and daughters have become the projection of their parents’ dreams and the repository oftheir hopes. We’re moving, in a cultural sense, in the direction of having every kid be a star.Pushed by the parents to achieve or treated like tiny adults, some of today’s children are payingthe price.
The once-seen-everywhere cafeteria tray, with so many glasses of soda, juice and milk lined up across the top, could soon join the typewriter as a campus relic. Scores of colleges and universities across the country are shelving the trays in hopes of conserving water, cutting food waste and saving money. Some even believe trayless cafeterias could help avoid the dreaded "freshman 15"—the number of pounds supposedly gained in the first year on campus.
The Sustainable Endowments Institute (可持续捐助研究院), a research organization that tracks environmental practices at the 300 colleges and universities with the largest endowments, said that 126 of them had reduced use of trays, some of them getting rid of trays only in certain dining halls, and some introducing, for example, "trayless Tuesdays". Such moves are often part of a larger push to embrace environmentalism that includes hiring sustainability coordinators, introducing solar panels, disposing dinin
A. Belongings kept by others.
B. Traces left behind.
C. Popular and necessary items.
D. Symbols and special features.
| Text 3 A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in identically the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as sacred texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual circumstances of the time and the individual child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better. A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or arousing his sadistic impulses. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often guilty of cruelty than those who have not. Aggressive, destructive, sadistic impulses every child has and, in the whole, their symbolic verbal discharge seems to be A. repeated without variation B. treated with reverence C. adapted by the parent D. set in the present [单项选择]
Increasingly, the development of tourism is seen to have an effect on the environment. Erosion is one problem. The steps and stones of major popular sites like Shakespeares birthplace or Stonehenge are literally being worn away by millions of foreign feet. The remedy in the case of Britain’ s best known prehistoric monument has been to use railings to keep visitors at a distance. Such measures can hardly be adopted in the house of the Bard, however, where tourists want to enter the actual building. 我来回答: 提交
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