Singing are the pupils of the remote Beau-Roc primary school in Haiti. One of them plays a guitar
made from an empty oil tin. Their headmistress, Emile Jean-Noel, is one of the few women school
principals in the country.
Over 70 % of Haitian population live below the poverty line with inadequate food, water, schools,
or housing. To reduce the hunger that prevents learning and to encourage parents to send their children
to school, meals are provided by the World Food Programme.
"We are so cut off we have many difficulties," comments Emile, adding that finding chalk, school
books and other materials is practically impossible. Emile tries to encourage those around her to make
use of all available resources. Her efforts are bearing fruit. One of her successes was convincing local
women to contribute to their children"s schooling and increase their own income by selling embroidery
(刺绣) and other handicrafts.
Recent political instability has meant that the country has not invested in education for ten years.
Enrolment(入学) is a mere 44 per cent and a little less than a half of those entering primary school finish
it. Less than a third of these go on to secondary school. In rural areas it is not rare to find 17- and
18 year-olds in primary school. Beau-Roc has only 4 teachers for 260 pupils. Emile works constantly
to improve her pupils"environment. Under her direction, a local worker is now constructing a storehouse
for the food delivered regularly by the World Food Programme.
Not only is Emile"s salary too little, but she receives it irregularly. For her, transport is a real headache. She lives five kilometers away and has to take a privately-owned bus, costing more than she can afford.
"The decision to be a rural teacher in Haiti should not be taken lightly", Emile comments. "With all the
sacrifices and risks it requires, only those who are really cut out for teaching should do it." Nevertheless,
Emile loves her job. "I always feel at home with the children and, the parents understand what I"m doing."
B. Poverty and hardship.
C. Politics and children
D. Love and beauty
B. Persuading local women to care about their children"s education.
C. Encouraging those around her to use those available resources.
D. Finding chalk, school books and other materials.
B. unfamiliar with teaching
C. qualified for teaching
D. cautious about teaching
family meal than food. Sociologist Michael Lewis has been studying 50 families to find out just how
much more.
Lewis and his co-workers carried out their study by videotaping the families while they ate ordinary
meals in their own homes. They found that parents with small families talk actively with each other and
their children. But as the number of children gets larger, conversation gives way to the parents"efforts to
control the loud noise they make. That can have an important effect on the children. "In general the more
question-asking the parents do, the higher the children"s IQ scores," Lewis says. "And the more children
there are, the less question-asking there is."
The study also provides an explanation for why middle children often seem to have a harder time in
life than their siblings(兄弟姐妹). Lewis found that in families with three or four children, dinner
conversation is likely to center on the oldest child, who has the most to talk about, and the youngest,
who needs the most attention. "Middle children are invisible." Says Lewis. "When you see someone get
up from the table and walk around during dinner, chances are it"s the middle child." There is, however,
one thing that stops all conversation and prevents anyone from having attention: "When the TV is on,"
Lewis says, "dinner is a non-event."
B. teach parents ways to keep order at the dinner table
C. report on the findings of a study
D. give information about family problems
B. get the least attention from the family
C. are often kept away from the dinner table
D. find it hard to keep up with other children
B. they are busy keeping order at the dinner table
C. they have to pay more attention to younger children
D. they are tired out having prepared food for the whole family
B. why parents should keep good order
C. why children in small families seem to be quiet
D. why middle children seem to have more difficulties in life
B. It is a good idea to have the TV on during dinner.
C. Parents should talk to each of their children frequently.
D. Elder children should help the younger ones at dinner.
exercise more. For women who are middle-aged "or older, experts say an hour of daily exercise
is necessary just to keep weight.
But for most women, fitting in an hour of exercise in an already busy day is difficult, and it is
even impossible. Especially for many women, most hours are already filled with a full-time job
and raising a family. At the end of the tiring day, at least in the U.S., there is little incentive to
prepare a dinner when fast food is so available--and so much more fattening.
Nearly twenty million women in the U.S. have the problem of obesity. The United Nations
report notes that America is one of the countries that have the most obese people in the world
and Mississippi has more overweight women than any other state in the U.S.. The U. S. Center
for Disease Control says the number of overweight women increased by 60% between 2004
and 2009 in America. The World Health Organization says more than one billion women in other
nations are in the same shape.
While there is plenty of advice on how to lose kilograms, a new study is carried out on
middie-aged and older women who keep normal body weight, or BMI (Body Mass Index). "We
found that physical activity was effective in controlling weight only among women who started to gain
weight from a normal BMI ,"I-Min Lee and her colleagues found more exercise did not help.
"Once a woman is obese, there was no relation between physical activity and weight change
among these women, "Lee said. The researchers say the only way that obese women can lose weight
is to simply cut calories.
B. Paying all attention to their jobs.
C. Having no interest in exercising.
D. Being too busy to find spare time.
B. the problem of woman obesity worldwide is serious
C. many organizations are built to care about fat women
D. America has more overweight women than any other country
B. Keep busy all day long and do a lot of exercise.
C. Find a high energy costing and tiring job.
D. Sleep less, eating less and exercising more.
B. make people put on weight
C. make people keep weight
D. keep people busy
Parents should help their children understand money.__1___So you may start. talking about money
when your child shows an interest in buying things , candy or toys , for example.
l. The basic function of money
Being explaining the basic function of money by showing how people trade money for goods or
services. It"s important to show your child how money is traded for the thing he wants to have. If he
wants to have a toy, give him the money and let him hand the money to the cashier.__2___ When your
child grows a bit older and understands the basic function of money , you can start explaining more
complex ways of using money.
2. Money lessons
Approach money lessons with openness and honesty. ___3___ If you must say no to a child"s
request to spend money, explain, " You have enough toy trucks for now. " Or, if the request is for many
different things, say, " You have to make a choice between this toy and that toy. "
3.___4____
Begin at the grocery store. Pick out similar brands of a product-a name brand butter and a generic
(无商标产品 ) , for example. You can show your child how to make choices between
different brands of a product so that you can save money. ___5___ If he chooses the cheaper brand,
allow him to make another purchase with the money saved. Later, you may explains how the more
expensive choice leaves less money for other purchases.
A. Wise decision.
B. The value of money.
C. Permit the child why he can or cannot have certain things.
D. Talk yourself what things that cost money are most important to you.
E. Ask yourself what things that cost money are most important to you.
F. Talk about how the money bought the thing after you leave the toy store.
G. The best time to teach a child anything about money is when he shows an interest.
when it comes to money. The findings , the first in a series of reports from NatWest that has started a
five-year research project into teenagers and money, are particularly worrying as this generation of young
people is likely to be burdened with greater debts than any before.
University tuition fees (学费) are currently capped at £3 , 000 annually, but this will be reviewed
next year and the govemment is under enormous pressure to raise the ceiling.
In the research, the teenagers were presented with the terms of four different loans but 76 percent
failed to identify the cheapest. The young people also predicted that they would be eaming on average
£31,000 by the age of 25, although the average salary for those aged 22 to 29 is just £17 ,815. The
teenagers expected to be in debt when they finished university or training, although half said that they
assumed the debts would be less than £10 , 000. Average debts for graduates are £12 ,363.
Stephen Moir, head of community investment at the Royal Bank of Scotland Group which owns
NatWest, said, "The more exposed young people are to financial issues, and the younger they become
aware of them, the more likely they are to become responsible, forward-planning adults who manage
their finances confidently and effectively. "
Ministers are deeply concemed about the financial pressures on teenagers and young people because
of student loans and rising housing costs. They have just introduced new lessons in how to manage
debts. Nikki Fairweather, aged 15 , from St Helens, said that she had benefited from lessons on
personal finance, but admitted that she still had a lot to learn about money.
B. University tuition fees in England have been rising.
C. Teenagers tend to overestimate their future eamings.
D. The students" payback ability has become a major issue.
B. to improve the school facilities
C. to increase the upper limit of the tuition
D. to lift the school building roofs
B. should learn to manage their finances well
C. should maintain a positive attitude when facing loans
D. benefit a lot from lessons on personal finance
B. Teenagers in Britain are heavily burdened with debts.
C. Financial planning is a required course at college.
D. Young people should become responsible adults.
classes so early in the morning. It may not be that the students who nod off at their desks are lazy. And
it may not be that their parents have failed to enforce (确保) bedtime. Instead, it may be that biologically
these sleepyhead students aren"t used to the early hour.
" Maybe these kids are being asked to rise at the wrong time for their bodies, " says Mary Carskadon,
a professor looking at problems of adolescent (青春期的) sleep at Brown"s School of Medicine.
Carskadon is trying to understand more about the effects of early school time in adolescents. And , at
a more basic level, she and her team are trying to learn more about how the biological changes of
adolescence affect sleep needs and patterns.
Carskadon says her work suggests that adolescents may need more sleep than they did at childhood ,
no less,as commonly thought.
Sleep patterns change during adolescence, as any parent of an adolescent can prove. Most
adolescents prefer to stay up later at night and sleep later in the morning. But it"s not just a matter of choice-their bodies are going through a change of sleep patterns.
All of this makes the transfer from middle school to high school-which may start one hour earlier in
the morning-all the more difficult , Carskadon says. With their increased need for sleep and their
biological clocks set on the "sleep late , rise late" pattern, adolescents are up against difficulties when it
comes to trying to be up by 5 0r 6 a. m. for a 7 : 30 a. m. first bell. A short sleep on a desktop may be
their bodies" way of saying,"l need a timeout. "
B. it is biologically difficult for students to rise early
C. students work so late at night that they can"t get up early
D. students are so lazy that they don"t like to go to school early
A. turn around
B. agree with others
C. fall asleep
D. refuse to work
B. Adolescents have to choose their sleep patterns.
C. Adolescents sleep better than they did at childhood.
D. Adolescents need more sleep than they used to.
B. Problems in adolescent learning.
C. Adolescent sleep difficulties.
D. Changes in adolescent sleep needs and patterns.
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