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[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]If you took more than your share of the money, you should at once （）by returning the extra.
A. give up
B. make amends
C. feel ashamed
D. get punished
[单项选择]Knowing that you are paid less than your peers has two effects on happiness. The well-known one is negative: a thinner pay packet harms self-esteem. The lesser-known one is called the "tunnel" effect: high incomes for peers are seen as improving your own chances of similar riches, especially if growth, inequality and mobility are high.
A paper co-authored by Felix FitzRoy of the University of St. Andrews and recently presented at the Royal Economic Society in Cambridge separates the two effects using data from household surveys in Germany. Previous work showed that the income of others can have a small, or even positive, overall effect on people’s satisfaction in individual firms in Denmark or in very dynamic economies in transition, such as eastern Europe. But Mr. FitzRoy’s team theorized that older workers, who largely know their lifetime incomes already, will enjoy a much smaller tunnel effect.
The data confirm this hypothesis. The negative effect on reported levels of hap
A. The findings of previous work may be problematic.
B. The two effects of peers’ incomes on happiness cannot be separated.
C. Older workers are not affected by the income of others.
D. Older workers have already known their lifetime incomes.
[单项选择]You should know better than （ ） your little sister at home by herself.
A. to leave
B. leaving
C. to have left
D. left
[填空题]
- A. I appreciate your helping me.
- B. Now that you’ve asked me, I think it’s too short.
- C. If I were you, I’d write about my education first.
- D. If you don’t think it’s any good, please say so.
- E. I’d better tear up the letter and start all over again.
- F. But, unless I miss my guess, you should say something about your family, too.
- G. Just make a few changes, I think, and it will be perfect.
- H. You are welcome.
A: Jack, would you please read the letter of application I’ve just written. (56) I really want to get the job.
B: It looks fine to me. But I have one suggestion.
A: Good ! I’m interested in your advice.
B: (57) You’d better include more information about your work experience.
A: Good idea, Jack. What do you think about the second part
B: (58)
A: You’re right. I’ll change it. How do you feel about the last part of the letter
B: Very good. (59)
A: I agree. <
