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Few people would defend the Victorian attitude on children, but if you were a parent in those days, at least you knew where you stood: children were to be seen and not heard. Freud and his colleagues did away with all that and parents have been puzzled ever since. The child’s happiness is all- important, they say, but what about the parents’ happiness? Modern child-rearing manuals（抚养孩子手册）would never permit cruelty to children .The trouble is you are not allowed even to shout. Who knows what deep psychological(心理的)wounds you might cause? The poor child may never recover from the dreadful experience. So it is the parents that bend over backwards to avoid giving their children complex which a hundred years ago hadn’t even been heard of. Certainly, a child needs love, and a lot of it. But the excessive permissive(纵容) of modern parents is surely doing more harm than good.
Psychologists(心理学家) have succeeded in weakening parents confidence in their own authority. And it hasn’t taken children long to get wind of the fact. In addition to the great modern classics on child care, there are countless articles in magazines and newspapers. With so much advice flying about, mum and dad just don’t know what to do any more. In the end, they do nothing at all. So, from early childhood, the kids are in charge and parents’ lives are regulated according to the needs of their kids. When the little dears develop into teenagers, they take complete control. Lack of authority over the years makes teenagers rebellion against parents all the more violent. If the young people are going to have a party, for example, parents are asked to leave the house. Their presence merely spoils the fun. What else can the poor parents do but obey?
The author says that today’s parents _______.

A．are bombarded with excessive amounts of child-care literature.

B．draw a distinction between permissiveness and carelessness.

C．are only towards children from happy home backgrounds.

D．weigh their children’s knowledge rather than intelligence.

The phrase “get wind of” (Para.2) most likely means _______ .

A．become used to	B．try to avoid
C．realize	D．become puzzled of

Which of the following can be inferred from this passage?

A．Victorian child rearing is a model for parents to follow.

B．Psychologists have much to answer for today’s problems on child care.

C．With the help of so much advice, raising children is easier than ever.

D．Parents like to enjoy the freedom when there is a party in the house.

What’s the main idea of this passage?

A．The excessive permissiveness of today’s parents is harmful to children.

B．Psychologists shouldn’t interfere so much with child care.

C．Parents should hold the Victorian attitudes towards children.

D．Children are too sensitive to be hurt.

“The first and best of victories is for a man to conquer himself; to be conquered by himself is, of all things, the most shameful,” says Plato. Self-control is at the root of all the advantages. Let a man give in to his impulses (冲动) and feelings, and from that moment he gives up his moral (道德上的) freedom.
A single angry word has lost many a friend. When Socrates found in himself any temper or anger, he would check it by speaking low in order to control himself. If you are conscious of being angry, keep your mouth shut so that you can hold back rising anger. Many a person has dropped dead in great anger. Fits of anger bring fits of disease. “Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.” “Keep cool”, says George Herbert, “for fierceness (狂怒) makes error a fault.”
To be angry with a weak man is to prove that you are not strong yourself. “Anger,” says Pythagoras, “brings with folly(愚蠢) and ends with regret.” You must measure the strength of a man by the power of the feelings he conquers, not by the power of those which conquer him.
Self-control is man’s last greatest victory.
If a man lacks self-control he seems to lack everything. Without it he can have no patience, no power to govern himself; he can have no self-confidence, for he will always be controlled by his strongest feeling. If he lacks self-control, the very backbone and nerve of character are lacking also.
What does the reader learn from the first paragraph?

A．The greatest victory for a man is to conquer everything except himself.

B．One’s moral freedom is based on the control of himself.

C．To control oneself is the most difficult in one’s life.

D．If a person is too stubborn, he will feel most shameful.

What is the correct interpretation of “Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad” ?

A．If the gods want to kill you, they make you crazy first.

B．If you always lose your temper, you will soon be finished.

C．If you cannot control yourself, you will become crazy.

D．If you are mad, you will be punished by the gods.

If a man lacks self-control, he lacks all of the following EXCEPT _______.

A．the very backbone and nerve of character

B．the patience and power to control himself

C．strong feelings

D．self-confidence

The author’s main purpose in writing this article is to _______.

A．explain that self-control is the key to success

B．teach people how to control everything in order to make a great success

C．distinguish all kinds of self-control and suggest ways for keeping it

D．advise people not to lose temper so as to make and keep more friends

Manners nowadays in metropolitan cities like London are practically non-existence, it’s nothing for a big, strong schoolboy to elbow an elderly woman aside in the dash for the last remaining seat on the tube or bus, much less stand up and offer his seat to her.
This question of giving up seats in public transport is much argued by young men, who say that, since women have claimed equality, they no longer deserve to be treated with courtesy 礼貌、谦让) and that those who go out to work should take their turn in the rat race like anyone else. Women have never claimed to be physically as strong as men. Even if it is not agreed, however, that young men should stand up for younger women, the fact remains that courtesy should be shown to the old, the sick and the burdened. Are we really so lost to all ideals of unselfishness that we can sit there indifferently reading the paper or a book, saying to ourselves “First come, first severed”, while a grey-haired woman, a mother with a young child stands? Yet this is all too often seen.
Older people, tired and quick-tempered from a day's work, are not angels, either-far from it. Many a brisk argument or an insulting quarrel breaks out as the weary queues push and shove each other to get on buses and tubes. One cannot commend this, of course, but on does feel there is just a little more excuse.
If cities are to remain pleasant places to live in at all, however, it seems imperative（迫切的）, not only that communications in transport should be improved, but also that communication between human beings should be kept smooth and polite. All over cities, it seems that people are too tired and too rushed to be polite. Shop assistant's won't bother to assist, taxi drivers growl at each other as they dash dangerously round corners, bus conductors pull the bell before their desperate passengers have had time to get on or off the bus, and so on and so on. It seems to us that it is up to the young and strong to do their small part to stop such deterioration（恶化）.
What is the writer's opinion concerning courteous manners towards women?

A．Since women have claimed equality, they no longer need to be treated differently from men.

B．It is generally considered old-fashioned for young men to give up their seats to young women.

C．"Lady First" should be universally practiced.

D．Special consideration ought to be shown to them.

According to the passage communication between human beings would not be smoother unless ________.

A．people were more considerate towards each other

B．people were not so tired and quick-tempered

C．women were treated with more courtesy

D．public transport could be improved.

The author probably does NOT agree that in big cities _______.

A．Life will be even worse if no change is made

B．transport conditions are rather poor

C．it’s not uncommon to see people quarrel in public places

D．it’s unreasonable to require the tired people to be polite

The main purpose of the author is to ________.

A．call on people in big cities to pay more attention to politeness

B．blame the schoolboys’ rude behavior towards elderly women on the tube or bus

C．criticize the fast pace of city life

D．tell young men to give their seats to elderly people

How could you describe the tone of this passage?

A．acceptable	B．opponent
C．negative	D．encouraging

Last night was the last game for my eight-year-old son’s soccer team. It was the final quarter. The score was two to one, and my son’s team was in the lead. Parents surrounded the playground, offering encouragement.
With less than ten seconds remaining, the ball suddenly rolled in front of my son’s teammate, Mickey O’Donnell. With “Kick it!” echoing across the playground, Mickey turned around and gave it everything he had. All around me the crowd erupted. O’Donnell had scored!
Then there was silence. Mickey had scored all right, but in the wrong goal, ending the game in a tie. For a moment there was a total hush. You see, Mickey has Down syndrome(综合症) and for him there was no such thing as a wrong goal. All goals were celebrated by a joyous hug from Mickey. He had even been known to hug the opposing players when they scored.
The silence was finally broken when Mickey, his face filled with joy, hugged my son tightly and shouted, “I scored! I scored! Everybody won! Everybody won!” For a moment I held my breath, not sure how my son would react. I need not have worried. I watched, through tears, as my son threw up his hand in the classic high-five salute and started chanting, “Way to go Mickey! Way to go Mickey!” Within moments both teams surrounded Mickey, joining in the chant and congratulating him on his goal.
Later that night, when my daughter asked who had won, I smiled as I replied, “It was a tie. Everybody won.”
The underlined word “hush” in paragraph 3 means ________.

A．cheer.

B．cry

C．laughter

D．silence

What did the author worry about when Mickey scored and hugged his son?

A．The result of the match would fail his son.

B．His son would shout at Mickey for his goal.

C．Mickey would again hug the opposing players.

D．His son would understand Mickey’s wrong goal.

It can be inferred from the passage that _____.

A．both teams liked and respected Mickey

B．both teams were thankful to Mickey for his goal

C．Mickey didn’t mind though his goal was wrong

D．Mickey was a kind-hearted boy and hoped everybody won

The purpose of the author in writing the passage is _____.

A．to tell a joke to make readers laugh

B．to suggest we should not mind losing

C．to show enjoying a game is more than winning a game

D．to present his son’s fine qualities of understanding others

Connecting with Patients
Dr. Paris often treats several generations of a family over many years. “He’s seen us through two births, one operation, multiple earaches, a broken wrist and a recovery from a serious traffic crash,” says Jill Farrow, a 43-year-old lawyer whose first visit to Dr. Paris was as a teenager. During the birth of her younger son, Farrow began bleeding badly. Dr. Paris managed to solve the problem in a delicate procedure. “Twenty years ago, she probably would have died,” he says. Today, when he performs school sports physical examinations for the Farrow boys, 10 and 11, he is always reminded that lives are changed forever by doctors just doing their jobs.
To be a mix of country doc and somewhat adventurer, the 55-year-old family physician moved to Hailey after completing his residency（医生实习期）. He hoped to practice medicine there and ski at nearby Sun Valley. Unfortunately, the only job opening was for an emergency-room doctor in Missoula, Montana, 300 miles away. Dr. Paris took it. "I'd ski all day and then drive all night to be in Missoula for a 48-hour shift," he recalls. "I'm lucky to be alive." Knowing he couldn't keep up with his eight-hour commute（通勤）, he began taking flying lessons.
In 1981, Dr. Paris joined a small medical practice in Hailey, a former mining town with a population at the time of 2,109. As Hailey grew in the shadow of Sun Valley's booming popularity, Dr. Paris's own practice expanded to seven physicians, including his wife, Kathryn Woods, who is also a family doctor. They met in 1986 at a certification exam in Denver when, in a room full of men in stodgy suits, Woods arrived wearing a Lycra biking outfit and carrying the front wheel of her bicycle (which she couldn't lock up outside). Dr. Paris asked her out on the spot. In 1989, they married.
What Jill Farrow says is to indicate ________.

A．how weak the bodies of her family

B．how hard it is to be a doctor

C．how brilliant the physician’s skill is

D．how easy it is to deal with such problems

Dr. Paris often reminds himself that ________.

A．lives of people should not always stay the same

B．people can rely on themselves to change their life

C．doctors should change their own life

D．it is the duty of a doctor to heal the patients

Why did Dr. Paris move to Hailey?

A．Because he can be a doctor and an adventurer there.

B．Because he has to finish his residency there.

C．Because his children are fond of skiing at nearby Sun Valley.

D．Because he has to be an emergency-room doctor there.

We can infer the doctor got married probably at the age of ________.

A．27.

B．37.

C．17.

D．47.

This passage is intended to ________.

A．introduce Dr. Paris

B．praise the doctor’s excellent medical art

C．describe the doctor’s adventurous experience

D．tell the doctor’s love affairs

A．To attend a club meeting．	B．To walk her dog
C．To see her doctor．	D．To play tennis with her friends．

A．to phone the police station	B．to catch the badly hurt burglar
C．to dress up for the meeting	D．to wait for her dog to be cured