出自:新疆广播电视大学-大学英语（二）
【阅读理解】Directions: Read the following passage and the statements that follow. Choose the best answer for each statement from the four choices marked A, B，C and D.
"It hurts me more than you", and “This is for your own good.” These are the statements my mother used to make years ago when I had to learn Latin, clean my room, stay home and do homework.
That was before we entered the permissive period in education in which we decided it was all right not to push our children to achieve their best in school. The schools and the educators made it easy on us. They taught that it was all right to be parents who take a let-alone policy. We stopped making our children do homework. We gave them calculators, turned on the television, left the teaching to the teachers and went on vacation.
Now teachers, faced with children who have been developing at their own pace for the past 15 years, are realizing we’ve made a terrible mistake. One such teacher is Sharon·Klompus who says of her students—“so passive”—and wonders what happened. Nothing was demanded of them, she believes. Television, says Klompus, contributes to children’s passivity. “We’re not training kids to work any more,” says Klompus. “We’re talking about a generation of kids who’ve never been hurt or hungry. They have learned somebody will always do it for them. Instead of saying ‘go look it up’, you tell them the answer. It takes greater energy to say no to a kid.”
Yes, it does. It takes energy and it takes work. It’s time for parents to end their vacation and come back to work. It’s time to take the car away, to turn the TV off, to tell them it hurts you more than them but it’s for their own good. It’s time to start telling them no again.
(1)、Children are becoming more inactive in study because__________ .
A
they watch TV too often
B
they have done too much homework
C
they have to fulfil too many duties
D
teachers are too strict with them
(2)、To such children as described in the passage __________.
A
it is easier to say no than to say yes
B
either is easy to say yes or to say no
C
it is easier to say yes than to say no
D
neither is difficult to say yes nor to say no
(3)、We learn from the passage that the author’s mother used to lay emphasis on___________ .
A
learning Latin
B
natural development
C
discipline
D
education at school
(4)、By “permissive period in education” the author means a time______________ .
A
when children are allowed to do what they wish to
B
when everything can be taught at school
C
when every child can be educated
D
when children are permitted to receive education
(5)、The main idea of the passage is that____________ .
A
parents should leave their children alone
B
kids should have more activities at school
C
it’s time to be more strict with our kids
D
parents should always set a good example to their kids
【阅读理解】Directions: Read the following passage and the statements that follow. Choose the best answer for each statement from the two choices marked A and B.
A Funny Memory in Childhood
Oh God! I think I was about seven and half when my sisters and I pulled this stupid stunt. I remember watching television with them and the show on happened to be our favorite program. All of a sudden we heard my brother, Chris, yelling from the backyard. So we all headed out there to see what happened. When we finally located him, he was in a tree hanging from the highest tree branch. Crying, he explained to us that he had climbed up the tree and couldn.t get down. Then we thought one of us should climb up and get him off, but we couldn.t manage to get him moving down.
It was then my youngest sister, Karol, who was five and a half at the time and suggested we grab a sheet, hold it under the branch on which Chris was hanging, and tell him to drop so we can catch him. My other sister, Yams, who is one year younger than me, peered at me to confirm the idea and I said "Yeah, let.s try that".
So we grabbed a sheet from the closet and went to hold it beneath the tree. The ages holding this blanket were ranging from seven and a half to five and a half, thus the sheet was probably being held up to our waist and also close to touching the ground. But we were confident it could work.
We looked up to Chris and he looked down at us a bit hesitantly. It was then we told him to let go and to fall on his back. Chris looked at me and asked "Are you sure I.ll land on the blanket?" Then, my brother at the age of four had a cute squeaky voice. "Yup!", I told him, "We.re sure!" and he let go.
Now when I think about Chris letting go of that branch, I think of his faith in me and my sisters and I also think how stupid he was to trust us, because when that boy let go he fell right through that sheet and landed right on his stomach. And no matter how tight we held on to the sheet, he still managed to get through.
We were shocked and a bit worried and we looked at the ground where he landed. This tiny seventy pound boy had made a hole right through the sheet and landed. He was positioned like one of those chalk drawings you find after a homicide, with one arm near the head another to the side and the knee bent a bit. We might as well have drawn an outline because he wasn.t moving. So we bent down to check if he was still alive and when we asked him if he was okay he uttered these five words "I still hit the floor!" Poor little man!
Chris is fourteen now and he still bugs us about it, any tree he climbs he gets down on his own and, strangely, he wants to be a fireman when he grows up. Now he can write that he had personal experience about jumping and catching. See, no harm done…
(1)、The author and his sister pulled that stupid stunt just at seven.
Atrue
Bfalse
(2)、Chris had climbed up the tree and couldn.t get down.
Atrue
Bfalse
(3)、The sister Yams made a suggestion that they hold a sheet under the tree to catch Chris.
Atrue
Bfalse
(4)、They managed to help Chris get off the tree successfully.
Atrue
Bfalse
(5)、Chris wants to be a fireman when he grows up partially related to that childhood experience.
Atrue
Bfalse
【阅读理解】Directions: Read the following passage and the statements that follow. Choose the best answer for each statement from the three choices marked A, B, C and D.
A Funny Memory in Childhood
Oh God! I think I was about seven and half when my sisters and I pulled this stupid stunt. I remember watching television with them and the show on happened to be our favorite program. All of a sudden we heard my brother, Chris, yelling from the backyard. So we all headed out there to see what happened. When we finally located him, he was in a tree hanging from the highest tree branch. Crying, he explained to us that he had climbed up the tree and couldn.t get down. Then we thought one of us should climb up and get him off, but we couldn.t manage to get him moving down.
It was then my youngest sister, Karol, who was five and a half at the time and suggested we grab a sheet, hold it under the branch on which Chris was hanging, and tell him to drop so we can catch him. My other sister, Yams, who is one year younger than me, peered at me to confirm the idea and I said "Yeah, let.s try that".
So we grabbed a sheet from the closet and went to hold it beneath the tree. The ages holding this blanket were ranging from seven and a half to five and a half, thus the sheet was probably being held up to our waist and also close to touching the ground. But we were confident it could work.
We looked up to Chris and he looked down at us a bit hesitantly. It was then we told him to let go and to fall on his back. Chris looked at me and asked "Are you sure I.ll land on the blanket?" Then, my brother at the age of four had a cute squeaky voice. "Yup!", I told him, "We.re sure!" and he let go.
Now when I think about Chris letting go of that branch, I think of his faith in me and my sisters and I also think how stupid he was to trust us, because when that boy let go he fell right through that sheet and landed right on his stomach. And no matter how tight we held on to the sheet, he still managed to get through.
We were shocked and a bit worried and we looked at the ground where he landed. This tiny seventy pound boy had made a hole right through the sheet and landed. He was positioned like one of those chalk drawings you find after a homicide, with one arm near the head another to the side and the knee bent a bit. We might as well have drawn an outline because he wasn.t moving. So we bent down to check if he was still alive and when we asked him if he was okay he uttered these five words "I still hit the floor!" Poor little man!
Chris is fourteen now and he still bugs us about it, any tree he climbs he gets down on his own and, strangely, he wants to be a fireman when he grows up. Now he can write that he had personal experience about jumping and catching. See, no harm done…
(1)、When my sisters and I were ________, we heard Chris yelling in the backyard.
Apulling a stupid stunt
Bplaying cards
Crepairing the TV set
Dwatching our favorite program
(2)、After Karol made the suggestion, my sister, Yams, ________.
Alooked at me confirm the idea
Blooked up to the branch
Cpeered at the branch
Dpeered at Karol to confirm the idea
(3)、When we held the sheet beneath the branch, Chris________.
Alet go without any hesitation
Byelled at us nervously
Clooked down at us a bit hesitantly
Dfell on his back
(4)、What is the author’s opinion to Chris’ faith in him and his sisters?
AClever.
BStupid.
CSad.
DGlad.
(5)、Why the author said “no harm done” in the end of the story?
AHis brother Chris had no harm in that stupid stunt.
BThat stupid stunt did no harm to the author.
CThe author himself learnt lessons from that stunt and wants to be a fireman when he grows up.
DHis brother Chris learnt lessons from that stunt and wants to be a fireman when he grows up.