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Back to School: Why Grit(毅力) Is More Important than Good Grades?
The back-to-school season is upon us, and once again, parents across the country have loaded their kids’ backpacks up with snack packs and school supplies. It’s a good moment to reflect on what else we should be giving our kids as they head off to school.
American parents are feeling particularly anxious about that question this year. The educational process feels more than ever like a race, one that starts in pre-school and doesn’t end until your child is admitted to the perfect college. Most parents are more worried than they need to be about their children’s grades, test scores and IQ. And what we don’t think about enough is how to help our children build their character—how to help them develop skills like perseverance, grit, optimism, conscientiousness, and self-control, which together do more to determine success than S.A.T. scores or I.Q.
There is growing evidence that our anxiety about our children’s school performance may actually be holding them back from learning some of these valuable skills. If you’re concerned only with a child’s G.P.A., then you will likely choose to minimize the challenges the child faces in school. With real challenge comes the risk of real failure. And in a competitive academic environment, the idea of failure can be very scary, to students and parents alike.
But experiencing failure is a critical part of building character. A recent research by a team of psychologists found that adults who had experienced little or no failure growing up were actually less happy and confident than those who had experienced a few significant setbacks in childhood. “Overcoming those obstacles,” the researchers assumed, “could teach effective coping skills, help engage social support networks, create a sense of mastery over past adversity, and foster beliefs in the ability to cope successfully in the future.”
By contrast, when we protect our children from every possible failure—when we call their teachers to get an extension on a paper; when we urge them to choose only those subjects they’re good at—we are denying them those same character-building experiences. As the psychologists Madeline Levine and Dan Kindlon have written, that can lead to difficulties in adolescence and young adulthood, when overprotected young people finally confront real problems on their own and don’t know how to overcome them.
In the classroom and outside of it, American parents need to encourage children to take chances, to challenge themselves, to risk failure. In the meantime, giving our kids room to fail may be one of the best ways we can help them succeed.
Back to School: Why Grit Is More Important than Good Grades? | |
Common phenomena | ◆Parents throughout America(1) their kids’ backpacks up with snacks and school supplies. |
◆Many American parents don’t(2) enough importance to their kids’ character building. | |
The writer’s(3) | ◆Parents should pay more attention to their kids’ character building. |
(4) and research findings | ◆Parents’ anxiety about their kids’ performance may(5) them from learning some valuable skills. |
◆Parents concerned only with a kid’s G.P.A. are (6) to minimize the challenges the child faces. | |
◆Adults who have experienced a few significant setbacks in childhood are (7) and more confident than those who haven’t. | |
◆Denying kids character-building experiences can(8) in difficulties in adolescence and young adulthood. | |
The writer’s suggestions | ◆(9) kids to be risk-takers. |
◆Give kids room to experience(10) . |
答案
小题1:load
小题2:attach
小题3:opinion/view
小题4:Evidence
小题5:prevent/stop/keep/discourage
小题6:likely
小题7:happier
小题8:result
小题9:Encourage
小题10:failure(s)
解析
试题分析:本文叙述了家长应该关注孩子的性格的培养而不是只看重他们的分数,调查发现在童年经历过挫折的成年人比在童年没经历过挫折的人感到更幸福和自信,所以家长给我们的孩子足够的空间经历失败可能是我们可以帮助他们取得成功最好的方法之一。
小题1:根据parents across the country have loaded their kids’ backpacks up with snack packs and school supplies给孩子打包,故用load.
小题2:根据And what we don’t think about enough is how to help our children build their character我们没有足够考虑的是如何帮助孩子建立他们的性格,attach importance to…重视,故用attach.
小题3:根据短文的内容可知这是作者的观点,故用opinion/view.
小题4:根据There is growing evidence that our anxiety about our children’s school performance may actually be holding them back from learning some of these valuable skills.这里提到日益增长的迹象,故用 Evidence.
小题5:根据our anxiety about our children’s school performance may actually be holding them back from learning some of these valuable skills.这里hold +某人+ back from doing阻止某人做某事,故用prevent/stop/keep/discourage.
小题6:根据If you’re concerned only with a child’s G.P.A., then you will likely choose to minimize the challenges the child faces in school. will likely choose to 有可能选择,故用likely.
小题7:根据A recent research by a team of psychologists found that adults who had experienced little or no failure growing up were actually less happy and confident than those who had experienced a few significant setbacks in childhood. 可推知在童年经历过挫折的成年人比在童年没经历过挫折的人感到更幸福和自信,故用happier.
小题8:根据we are denying them those same character-building experiences. As the psychologists Madeline Levine and Dan Kindlon have written, that can lead to difficulties in adolescence and young adulthood, lead to导致; result in导致,故用result.
小题9:根据American parents need to encourage children to take chances, to challenge themselves, to risk failure. 鼓励孩子抓住机会挑战自己敢于冒险失败,故用Encourage.
小题10:根据giving our kids room to fail may be one of the best ways we can help them succeed.给我们的孩子足够的空间经历失败可能是我们可以帮助他们取得成功最好的方法之一。故用failure(s).
点评:做题时注意表格前的小标题,它通常是段落和表格的主题句,有助于理解文章。理解表格设计,表格一般包括列标题和行标题,通过阅读这些标题和表格里的内容;可迅速了解表格的结构和表格的设计原理。同时也可缩小信息范围,确定考查内容。根据已填的内容来推断所填之词的形式,是单词或词组。填写答案时注意工整对称性,要注意与已填部分的形式保持一致。比如:是-ing都用-ing,是名词都用名词。同时要注意时态、语态、句式等,避免出现错误。“复核”即检查核对初步完成的所要求的任务。通常做法是全部填完后,把文章看一遍,检查所填之词是否符合文章内容,答题是否符合规范,拼写是否正确以及大小写等。
核心考点
试题【请认真阅读短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。每个空格只填一个单词。Back to School: Why Grit(毅力) Is 】;主要考察你对数词等知识点的理解。[详细]
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How to Read a Book
Books can be your best friends. 1 They can introduce you the things you may never see… But do you know how to read them in order to get the fullest enjoyment possible? The following tips should help.
1. Find a book. Look in the library or in one of the large bookstores. You could also ask friends if you could have a book at their book shelves. Search the shelves until you find a book that looks good.Read the first page to see how it reads, and the cover text on the back of the book, if it has any. 2
2. Buy or borrow it and take it home. Do not start to read it until you have the time. 3 And set aside time to do nothing else but read, as it can be, at times, suspenseful(悬疑的), exciting and relaxing.
3. Get comfortable on the couch. Have a lamp behind you, lighting the area where you are reading. Make sure the television is off and that anything else that could distract you has been attended to. 4 __.
4. Start the book by turning the pages and really enjoy it. Do not think about anything else but what you are reading. Put yourself into the action or location in the story. Once you concentrate completely, it will be difficult to put the book down. And remember that reading is not running your eyes over a book. 5 . However, if you need to read the book quickly, then you do not need to pay attention to every word.
A.If you are busy doing other things, you should wait until you have finished them. |
B.Get warm if you are going to be sitting still for a few hours. |
C.If you are already concentrating, then buy it or borrow it. |
D.Try to imagine the story in your head. |
F. You should read it actively and enjoy it completely.
G. Otherwise, you will miss it.
Riding a London subway, a person from China will notice one major difference: In London, commuters (乘车上下班的人) do not look at each other. 小题1: That"s not rudeness— people are just too busy to bother looking.
Busy doing what, you ask? Well, they"re certainly not using the time for a moment of quiet reflection. Nor are they reading a book. 小题2: Today the only acceptable form of book on the London Underground is an e-book.
小题3: Since the launch of the iPhone in 2007, over 40,000-yes, that"s 40,000-"apps" (programs downloaded for the iPhone) have been designed.
Commuters love them because they are the perfect time-filler. One "app",called ishoot, is a game that features tanks. Another one, Tube Exits, tells passengers where to sit on the train to be closest to the exit of their destination. Isteam clouds the iphone screen when you breathe into the microphone. 小题4:
For those without an iPhone, another Apple product, the iPod, may be the distraction of choice. It"s not just teenagers who "plug in" to their music-iPods are a popular way to pass the time for all ages.
And if games, e-books and music aren"t enough to keep you occupied. Then perhaps you would prefer a film? The development of palm DVD technology means many commuters watch their favorite TV show or film on the way to work.
小题5:
A.With this distraction, it’s amazing that people still remember to get off the train. |
B.New technology has replaced quiet habits. |
C.You can then write the “steam” on your phone screen. |
D.Technology is changing the way London commuters spend their traveling time. |
F.Apple must earn a fortune from London commuters.
G.Modern Londoner are fancy victims.
Van Gogh is famous for 小题1: amazing use of color and shape. Born in 1853, he was painting at a time when art was changing. A long time ago, artists tried to make their paintings look real like photographs. 小题2: later on, art became more about the artist’s own ideas. If you see a Van Gogh, it won’t look like the real world. It will look even 小题3: (beautiful).
Some of Van Gogh’s most famous paintings are of natural scenes and flowers, such as Sunflowers. He also painted many wonderful self-portraits (自画像),小题4: brought him a lot of fame. Van Gogh had a great gift for painting; however, he was a 小题5: (trouble) man. At one point, he cut off his own ear.
Van Gogh is now one of the world’s most famous artists. But he died at the age of 37, alone and poor. Almost 小题6: knew or cared about his art at that time. Although he was a great genius, he suffered 小题7: (great). Some say that his madness was 小题8: he paid for his art.
Actually, if Van Gogh 小题9:(die) at the age of twenty, no one would have connected him with failure or mental illness. Instead he would have been remembered by those close to him 小题10: a dutiful son .
A. Not named yet: baby, female
It’s a small grey cat with long hair and deep blue eyes. It is very friendly and can get along well with dogs. I can’t keep it because I have too many pets, but I can’t just let it go outside. If you are looking for a cat, please let me know. And I will send it to you, but you’ll have to pay my travel fees.
B. Brooke: orange and white, young, female
She’s a shy cat and likes to be alone at first. Once she gets familiar with you, she is very sweet and loves to be in your lap and play with you. She also loves to talk. The owner shouldn’t be a smoker. For free.
C. Sammi Hammi: adult, male
Sammi Hammi, a blue and gold bird, is looking for his forever home. He loves dogs and likes to sing and dance. He will take your ear off while you cook! He loves delicious food and he is a great boy who loves attention. The new owner will have to pay an adoption fee and for his cage.
D. Buster: black and white, young, male
He will be the sweetest cat you will ever meet. He likes to play and gets along well with other pets. Anyone who gets this guy will love him! For free.
E. Zoey: American Bulldog, adult, female
My dog Zoey is three years old and is very outgoing. She loves the outdoors and she loves kids. She is good at looking after other dogs. She also likes being around people. I need to find her a good home. I would like someone with children and other dogs to take her. For free.
F. Rebel and Maverick: young, male
Both Rebel and Maverick will be 2 years old soon. They’re wonderful dogs, but I can no longer keep them for some reasons. They love children. A home with children would be the best. They also get along well with other animals. The most suitable place for them is a home with a yard because they love to be outside. 600 dollars.
阅读以下人员的信息,然后为他们选择合适的宠物:
小题1:Alice and her 10-year-old twin sons live in a house with a big yard. She’s looking for some pets to play with the boys. A pair of dogs is preferred. Money isn’t a problem.
小题2:Tom, 63 years old, has no children. His wife died last year and he’s very lonely. He would like to have a pet that he can talk to. He used to be a cook and loves birds very much, but he doesn’t like cats.
小题3:Bruce has a dog and he’s looking for another pet. It must be male and be able to get along well with his dog. Also, the pet has to be free.
小题4:Neil plans to find a female pet for his daughter. She loves orange and white cats. There are no smokers in the family. Free pets are preferred.
小题5:Max is looking for an adult dog to join his family. He has 3 children and two baby dogs. He hopes the new pet can help look after the baby dogs and play with his children.
Any car accident is frightening, but an accident in which your vehicle is thrown into the water, with you trapped inside, is absolutely terrifying. 1 However, most deaths result from panic, without a plan or understanding what is happening to the car in the water. By adopting a brace (支撑) position, acting decisively and getting out fast, you can save yourself from a sinking vehicle.
Brace yourself for impact (撞击力). As soon as you"re aware that you"re going off the road and into a body of water, adopt a brace position. The impact could set off the airbag system in your vehicle, so you should place both hands on the steering wheel in the "ten and two" position.
Undo your seatbelt. 2 Untie the children, starting with the oldest first. Forget the cell phone call. Your car isn"t going to wait for you to make the call.
3 Leave the door alone at this stage and concentrate on the window. A car"s electrical system should work for up to three minutes in water, so try the method of opening it electronically first. Many people don"t think about the window as an escape option either because of panic or misinformation about doors and sinking.
Break the window. If you aren"t able to open the window, or it only opens halfway, you"ll need to break it with an object or your foot. It may feel counter-intuitive (有悖常理的) to let water into the car. 4
Escape when the car has equalized. If it has reached the dramatic stage where the car cabin has been filled with water and it has become balanced, you must move quickly and effectively to ensure your survival. 5 While there is still air in the car, take slow, deep breaths and focus on what you"re doing.
A. Open the window as soon as you hit the water.
B. Surviving a sinking car is not as difficult as you think.
C. It takes 60 to 120 seconds for a car to fill up with water usually.
D. Such accidents are particularly dangerous to the risk of drowning.
E. In conclusion, if you know what to do in the water, you will be safe.
F. This is the first thing to attend to, yet it often gets forgotten in the panic.
G. But the sooner the window is open, the sooner you can escape directly through it.
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