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Our correspondent is not convinced that it gives them any academic advantage.
My threeyearold son and I went shopping for his school uniform. As he stood in the changing room,
swamped by even the smallest trousers, several people commented that he looked too young to start
school. I couldn"t agree more. Scarcely will he have blown out the candles on his fourth birthday cake
when I"ll be waving him off at the school gates. The poor little man still puts his pants on back to front and
thinks baby pigs come out of eggs. How is he going to cope with literacy and numeracy hours, let alone
the horrors of school toilets?
Yes, I am an overanxious mother but I surely can"t be the only person who feels that British children
start school far too young. A research suggests that channelling children into formal learning structures at
such a young age breeds a sense of failure and disaffection that will dog them throughout their school
career.
The law states that the statutory school starting age for children in the UK is the term after a child"s
fifth birthday, but it is common practice in England and Wales to admit children to reception class at the
beginning of the year in which they become 5, which means that most children start school at the age of
4. The latest government figures indicate that around 80 percent of children enter school before their fifth
birthday.
By comparison, children in France, Portugal, Belgium start school at 6, while the school starting
age in many Scandinavian countries is 7. This is the starting age in Finland, where students recently beat
those from 39 other countries to come out tops in maths, science and reading.
1. When her son is going to enter primary school, the writer feels very ________.
A. excited
B. worried
C. surprised
D. puzzled
2. In the UK, it is stated in the law that children should start school at the age of ________.
A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7
3. Which of the following is probably the best title of the passage?
A. Do our children start school too young?
B. Students starting school too young may cause problems
C. Young students may lead to failure
D. The age of starting school in some countries
4. What worries the writer is that her child ________.
A. can"t even look after himself
B. can"t dress himself
C. has some childish thoughts
D. has little ability in writing and reading
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试题【阅读理解 Compared with their continental counterparts, children in the UK star】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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__1__, began doing so when her daughter, Tracy, was 4. She __2__ to Tracy that there were
many children whose parents couldn"t afford to buy them toys, and she might want to __3__ the toys,
and clothes she was "too big for", and put them in a bag. Tracy was __4__ to do this task, and they
drove to a shelter __5__ by a local church. Tracy carried the __6__ in. __7__ Tracy became older,
they would carry out this tradition a few times a year.
These activities showed Tracy that her mom was involved in helping the poor, but __8__, gave
her a chance to become involved. Sometimes, Tracy had a second thought about some toys she had
prepared to donate and decided to keep a few of them for herself. This is fine. __9__ children are
willing to give up some of their things, they are on the right 10 .
Getting your children involved doesn"t 11 much time and effort. Grace and Kal"s children attended
a local public 12 that had a shelter. Once a week, both of them brought two 13 of food to
school for the shelter. Every member of the 14 worked there a few hours once a month. One evening
the family 15 dinner there, and the meal 16 canned peach. Many years has passed and their
younger daughter 17 recalls how good it made her feel when she was 4 and saw the 18 eating her
peaches. Today, all three kids continue to be active 19 . 20 their parents.
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| Poor listening skills form an obstacle to effective communication. A study by Dr. Paul Panklin at a university found that 9 percent of communication time is devoted to writing, 16 percent to reading, 30 percent to speaking and 45 percent to listening. We spend more time listening than we do in any other form of communication. However, most of us don"t pay much attention to it. Research indicates that normal listening results in a 50percent retention immediately after a 10minute presentation, which then declines to only about 25 percent after 48 hours. Extension Specialist Bob Linda says the average person will hear 7. 5 minutes of a onehour presentation and will forget half of that. One reason we listen so poorly is that our minds work much faster than our mouths. The average person thinks 600-700 words per minute but speaks at a rate of about 125. His listeners" minds are occupied with hearing only onefifth of the time he is speaking. The listeners may consider and react to what is being said during the other fourfifths of the time, or become absorbed in coming up with his response, or think other thoughts and miss the rest of what is being said. If we really listen, we may be forced to accept a different perspective of reality. Most of us have a firmly developed view of reality that we do not want to change. Carl Rogers, the psychiatrist, points out that if you are really willing to listen to another, to enter his private world and see reality as he sees it, you run the risk of being changed. "This risk of being changed is one of the most frightening prospects most of us can face. " 1. From the passage, we can learn that listening ______. A. always forms a barrier to our communication B. occupies the largest part in communication C. will take the place of other ways of communication D. is a difficult skill to master 2. The underlined word "retention" in the 3rd paragraph means "________". A. attention B. presentation C. memory D. occupation 3. In normal listening, the reason why an average person can only keep half of what the speaker says in mind is that ________. A. half of that will be forgotten B. our mouths work much more slowly than our minds C. most of us pay little attention to it D. he is afraid of being changed 4. According to Carl Rogers, ________. A. we should let listeners enter our private world B. the opinions of the speakers may affect us if we listen to them willingly C. we shouldn"t make us changed while listening D. it is wrong that we don"t want to change while listening | |||||||||||||||||
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| Many language learners think their pronunciation is good enough because their teacher doesn"t correct them too often or because other students can __1__ them. Pronunciation is the area which is __2__ the least attention to in language learning. Working on each student"s pronunciation in class is just __3__. Also, the students who are __4__ at pronunciation may be afraid that it will embarrass their classmates if they help __5__ their mistakes. If you believe your pronunciation is good enough to __6__ because it is good enough for your teacher and other students, you may be __7__ when you actually go to a foreign country. One of my friends was the best student in his __8__ class in Poland. When he went to America, he found Americans didn"t understand what he said. Your pronunciation may still be quite different from that of a native speaker. If this is the __9__, other people will find it __10__ to understand what you"re saying and will not be comfortable with you. __11__, don"t think you can communicate in a foreign language until you"ve tested your skills on real native speakers. __12__ for native or nearnative pronunciation so that people you talk to can communicate with you __13__. In order to achieve this goal, there"s __14__ that you will need to start thinking about pronunciation and __15__ time on it. | |||||||||||||||||
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