“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 for 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 has happened. Nothing is demanded of them, she believes. Television, says Klompus, contributes to children’s passivity. “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 and 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 e 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.
【小题1】We learn from the passage that the author’s mother used to lay emphasis on（强调） .A．his learning a foreign languageB．his ability to control behaviorC．his natural developmentD．his school education【小题2】According to the author, “the permissive period” in Paragraph 2 means a time .A．when children are allowed to do what they wish toB．when everything can be taught at schoolC．when every child can be educatedD．when children are permitted to receive education【小题3】What is the main idea of the passage?A．Parents should leave their kids aloneB．Kids should have more activities at school. C．It’s time to be stricter with our kids. D．Parents should set a good example to their kids.B
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(答案→)B
解析：本文讲述了教育方式所产生的不同的变化，现在很多家长在教育孩子方面出现了较大的问题，导致孩子们在自我控制方面有了较大的问题。
【小题1】B 推理题。根据文章第一段“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.说明作者的妈妈强调是作者的自我管理，自我控制的能力，故B正确。
【小题2】A 推理题。根据文章第二段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 for us. They taught that it was all right to be parents who take a let-alone policy.说明“the permissive period”是指孩子什么都不要管，只要做好自己的事情就好了的时期。故A正确。
【小题3】C 主旨大意题。本文主要讲述的就是现在的父母对于孩子过去放松，对孩子的性格产生了不好的影响，我们要对孩子更为严格一点。让他们学会控制自己的行为。故C正确。