[填空题]
Growing up without a father around can present a lot of
challenges to a girl. Quite apart from the behaviour problems and lower academic
achievement that can accompany father absence, there are also potential
consequences for sexual behaviour and relationships later in life: Daughters who
grow up without a father in their home are more likely to reach puberty earlier,
have sex earlier and are more likely to get divorced.
Dr Lynda
Boothroyd and Professor David Perrett at St Andrews University asked
webrecruited volunteers to rate the appearance of the faces of three groups of
women: those whose parents had a good relationship as they were growing tip,
those whose father was absent, and those whose parents stayed together but had a
poor relationship.
66. __________.
So why should separated or
warring parents be associated with masculinity in daughters One theory is that
stress during childhood could raise cortisol levels, and there is
[简答题]Music to My Ears
As a boy growing up in Shenyang, China, I practiced the piano six hours a day. I loved the instrument. My mother, Xiulan Zhou, taught me to read notes, and my father, Guoren Lang, concertmaster of a local folk orchestra, showed me how to control the keys. At first I played on Chinese keyboards-cheap, but the best we could afford. Later my parents bought me a Swedish piano, but I broke half the strings on it Playing Tchaikovsky (柴科夫斯基). That’s when my parents and my teacher decided I was too much for such an instrument—and for our hometown. To be a serious musician, I would have to move to Beijing, one of our cultural capitals. I was just eight years old then.
My father, who played the erhu, a two-stringed instrument, knew that life wouldn’t be easy. Millions of pianists in China were competing for fame. "You need fortune," my father said. "If you don’t work, no fortune comes." "But music is still music," he added, "and it exists to make us happy."<
