【问题】 Directions: Read the following passage and the statements that follow. Choose the best answer for eachstatement from the four choices marked A, BC and D."lt hurts me more than you" , and “This is for your own good. These are the statements my motherused t

Directions: Read the following passage and the statements that follow. Choose the best answer for eachstatement from the four choices marked A, BC and D."lt hurts me more than you" , and “This is for your own good. These are the statements my motherused 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 topush our children to achieve their best in school. The schools and the educators made it easy on us. Theytaught that it was all right to be parents who take a let-alone policy. We stopped making our children dohomework. We gave them calculators, turned on the television, left the teaching to the teachers and wenton vacation.Now teachers, faced with children who have been developing at their own pace for the past 15 vears. arerealizing we’ve made a terrible mistake. One such teacher is Sharonklompus 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 moresaysKlompus.“We’re talking about a generation of kids who. ve never been hurt or hungry. They havelearned somebody will always do it for them. lnstead of saying.go look it up’ , you tell them the answer. lttakes greater energy to say no to a kid."Yes, it does. lt takes energy and it takes work. lt’s time for parents to end their vacation and come back towork. lt.s time to take the car away, to turn the TV off, to tell them it hurts you more than them but it’ s fortheir own good. lt. s time to start telling them no again.Children are becoming more inactive in study becauseA. they watch TV too oftenB)B. they have done too much homeworkc) C. they have to fulfil too many dutiesD) D. teachers are too strict with them

正确答案:A

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