Parents （) love makes their children feel confident about themselves.

A.Parents love and take care ofchildren．

B.Parents pass away before childrengrow up．

C.Parents give education tochildren．

What does the scene of Claudia’s father teaching them to kindle the fire symbolize？

A.It symbolizes the good family tie among father and children

B.It symbolizes the love among the family members and the effort the parents make to sustain love

C.It symbolizes the father’s love to keep the family together

D.It symbolizes the father’s kindness

raged, but not forced, to “leave the nest” and begin an independent life.After children leave home they often find social relationship and financial support outside the family.Parents do not arrange marriages for their children,nor do children usually ask permission of their parents to get married.Romantic love is most often the basis for marriage in the United States; young adults meet their future spouses (配偶)through other friends, at jobs, and in organizations and religious institutions.Although children choose their own spouses, they still hope their parents will approve of their choices.

In many families, parents feel that children should make major life decisions by themselves.A parent may try to influence a child to f ollow a particular profession but the child is free to choose another career.Sometimes children do precisely the opposite of what their parents wish in order to assert their independence.A son may deliberately decide not to go into his father’s business because of a fear that he will lose his autonomy in his father’s workplace.This independence from parents is not an indication that parents and children do not love each other.Strong love between parents and children is universal and this is no exception in the American family.Coexisting with such love in the American family are cultural values of self-reliance and independence.

1.The writer discusses the marriage of young adults in order to show that they ().

A.enjoy the freedom of choosing their spouses

B.want to win the permission of their parents

C.have a strong desire to become independent

D.try to challenge the authority of their parents

2.Most young adults in America would get married for the sake of ().

A.love

B.financial concern

C.their parents

D.family background

3.Based on the passage, it can be inferred that ().

A.American young adults are likely to follow the suit of their parents.

B.most American parents never make major decisions for th eir children.

C.American young adults possess cultural values of independence.

D.when a young adult steps into his twenties, he will leave his home permanently.

4.A son is unwilling to work in his father’s business mainly because he ().

A.wishes to make full use of what he has learnt in school

B.wants to prove his independence

C.likes to do the opposite of what his parents approve of

D.tries to show his love for his parents

5.The subject matter of this passage is ().

A.cultural values in the American family

B.marriage arrangements

C.young adult’s pursuit of a career

D.decision making

Encourage free drawing rather than coloring books. Coloring books stop the possibility of self-expression. A child may just enjoy colorful pictures and never learn how to express himself. As an art teacher says，“Children have a very powerful instinct to draw freely and roughly. Such practice makes them learn language easily. ”In fact，a child expresses himself in rough drawing. This is the beginning of literacy and creativity. Also，parents should not teach their kids“how”to draw and they should not make their kids draw realistic pictures to entertain themselves. Experience tells us that such teaching from the parents will discourage children，making them think they can't do it the “right”way.

Competition and rewards should also be avoided in the process of artistic creation. A child's natural instinct to create will disappear if he or she thinks about prize while drawing.

Parents should be role models for their kids. They should not say things like，“I can't draw a straight line. ”Instead，they should learn to say，“I love to create. ”This teaches children that the process of creation is more important than the product. If children see their parents drawing，cooking or building creatively，they will do the same.

Buy a notebook for your child to use every day. This can be a journal for making up stories，writing ideas and drawing pictures. Even the youngest child can use it to draw freely and roughly，expressing himself.

Take your child to places that promote ideas and creativity. Art museums，science centers，libraries and children's museums all are great places to see other people's creativity. That will inspire children to make their own creations and inventions.

Give children choices and free time. Some of the best ideas come from daydreaming and imagining.

In short，parents should allow their kids to have the freedom to invent for themselves. That means not always teaching and commanding.

To develop their artistic creativity，children should be encouraged to______.

A．draw freely and roughly

B．learn to draw realistic pictures

C．know how to draw before they start

D．learn to draw good pictures to get prizes

Encourage free drawing rather than coloring books. Coloring books stop the possibility of self-expression. A child may just enjoy colorful pictures and never learn how to express himself. As an art teacher says，“Children have a very powerful instinct to draw freely and roughly. Such practice makes them learn language easily. ”In fact，a child expresses himself in rough drawing. This is the beginning of literacy and creativity. Also，parents should not teach their kids“how”to draw and they should not make their kids draw realistic pictures to entertain themselves. Experience tells us that such teaching from the parents will discourage children，making them think they can't do it the “right”way.

Competition and rewards should also be avoided in the process of artistic creation. A child's natural instinct to create will disappear if he or she thinks about prize while drawing.

Parents should be role models for their kids. They should not say things like，“I can't draw a straight line. ”Instead，they should learn to say，“I love to create. ”This teaches children that the process of creation is more important than the product. If children see their parents drawing，cooking or building creatively，they will do the same.

Buy a notebook for your child to use every day. This can be a journal for making up stories，writing ideas and drawing pictures. Even the youngest child can use it to draw freely and roughly，expressing himself.

Take your child to places that promote ideas and creativity. Art museums，science centers，libraries and children's museums all are great places to see other people's creativity. That will inspire children to make their own creations and inventions.

Give children choices and free time. Some of the best ideas come from daydreaming and imagining.

In short，parents should allow their kids to have the freedom to invent for themselves. That means not always teaching and commanding.

To develop their artistic creativity，children should be encouraged to______.

A．draw freely and roughly

B．learn to draw realistic pictures

C．know how to draw before they start

D．learn to draw good pictures to get prizes

The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. There are also stories about newly adoptiveand newly singlemom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual "Jennifer Aniston is pregnant" news. Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.

In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing？ It doesn't seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the childless. Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn't have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.

Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock. According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all. No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it, raising a kid on their "own" (read; with round-the-clock help) is a piece of cake.

It's hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous; most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut. But it's interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren't in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting " the Rachel" might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.

Jennifer Senior suggests in her article that raising a child can bring______.

A．temporary delight.

B．enjoyment in progress.

C．happiness in retrospect.

D．lasting reward.

while Yoshio studies electrical engineering.They clearly love each other very deeply,but，says Yoshio，“We didn’t marry for love in the Western sense.We got married in the time honored Japanese way.Our parents arranged our marriage through a matchmaker.In Japan we believe that marriage is something that affects the whole family，not just the young couple concerned.So we think it is very important to match people according to their social background, education and so on. Matchmakers are usually middle aged women who keep lists of suitable young people with information about their families，education and interests.When our parents thought it was time for us to get married they went to a local matchmaker and asked her for some suggestions.We discussed the details and looked at the photos she sent, and then our parents asked her to arrange a ‘marriage interview’ for the two of us.”

A Japanese marriage interview is held in a public place，such as a hotel or restaurant,and is attended by the boy and the girl，their parents and the matchmaker.Information about the couple and their families is exchanged over a cup of tea and a meal.Then the boy and the girl are left alone for a short time to know each other.When they return home they have to tell the matchmaker whether they want to meet again or not.If both of them want a second meeting， the matchmaker arranges it，and after that they can decide whether to carry on the courtship themselves.Here Hiromi said with a gentle smile，“Not so long ago，the girl could never refuse to go out again with a boy who liked her,but now she can. I thought

Yoshio was really nice，so I didn’t refuse.”

Yoshio continued：“When our parents realized we were serious about each other, they started to make arrangements for our wedding.My family paid the ‘Yuino’money to Hiromi’s.This money is to help pay for the wedding ceremony and for setting up house afterwards.We also gave her family a beautiful ornament to put in the best room of their house，so everyone knew that Hiromi was going to marry. Six months after our first meeting we were married.A traditional Japanese wedding is a wonderful ceremony,and our traditional custom of arranged marriage has given me a wonderful wife.”

1. The Japanese think marriage is important because()

(A). it is expensive to hire a matchmaker

(B). it is time consuming to match people

(C). it concerns the couple and their families as well

(D). it is hard to get the approval of the couples parents

2. After a marriage interview,the second meeting will be decided by()

(A). the boys parents

(B). the matchmaker

(C). the young couple

(D). the girls parents

3. It is implied in the second paragraph that()

(A). a good hotel can bring about a good marriage

(B). men used to be dominant in choosing a partner

(C). women played a leading role in choosing a partner

(D). a marriage interview settles all marriage arrangements

4. Yoshio thinks that the traditional Japanese marriage is()

(A). costly

(B). satisfying

(C). complex

(D). outdated

5. This passage is mainly about()

(A). the process of an arranged Japanese marriage

(B). a wedding ceremony in a Japanese fashion

(C). conventional marriage and modern marriage

(D). the role of matchmakers in arranging marriages

Parents are encouraged to be role models for their kids because______.

A．parents love to create

B．parents can draw straight lines

C．children tend to follow their parents' examples

D．children like the product of their parents' creativity

Dr. Robert Coles, an internationally famous doctor, is the world&39;s top expert on the influence of money on children. He haswriTitten awell-received book on the subject, The Privileged Ones, and his research shows that too much money in the family can cause as many problems as too little. Obviously there are certain advantagesto being rich，," says the 53-year-old doctor, such as better health, education and future work expectation. But most important is the quality of family-life. Money can&39;t buy love."

It can buy a lot of other things, though, and that&39;s where the trouble starts. Rich kids have so much to choose from that they often become confused. Their parents&39;over favoring can make them spoiled. They tend to travel more than other children, from home to home and country to country, which often makesthem feel restless. "

But privileged children do have a better senseof their positions in the world ； ." adds Mr. Coles, "and they are more self-assured."

Today&39;s rich parents perhaps have realized that their riches can be more of a burden than a favor to their children. So their priority is to ensure that their families are as rich in love as they are in money.

According to the passage,children of rich families ______.

A.enjoy traveling

B.can buy love

C.usually commit suicide

D.are not always happy

Dr. Robert Coles believes that______ .A.being rich hasas many advantagesas being poor

B.rich children often get too little entertainment

C.rich children sometimes can't enjoy the thing they aremost in needof

D.rich children aren'tgiven enough things

Which of the following statementsis NOT TRUE according to the passage？A.It is love that is always lacking in rich and poor families alike.

B.Silver spoonscan sometimes leave abitter taste.

C.Money can't buy everything.

D.Rich children are often confused becausethey have so much to choosefrom.

The expression “silver spoons” in Paragraph1 means_____ .A.very expensive spoons

B.rich people

C.wealth

D.spoonsmade of silver

This article is written mainly to tell readersthat .A.the rich are more likely to do away with themselves

B.money can bring alot of things, including love

C.life is always happy for children of rich parents

D.rich parentsshould realize what is important in the family is love rather than money

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