“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 Clomps who says of her students—“so passive” —and wonders what has happened. Nothing is demanded of them, she believes. Television, says Clomps, contributes to children’s passivity. “We’re talking about a generation of kids who’ vet 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 s time to start telling them no again.
【小题1】Children are being more inactive in study because .A．they watch TV too oftenB．they have done too much homeworkC．they have to fulfill too many dutiesD．teachers are too strict with them【小题2】We learn from the passage that the author’s mother used to lay emphasis on .A．learning LatinB．disciplineC．natural developmentD．education at school【小题3】 By “permissive period in education” (L.1, Para.2) the author 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4】The main idea of the passage is that .A．parents should leave their children aloneB．kids should have more activities at schoolC．it’s time to be more strict with our kidsD．parents should always set a good example to their kidsA
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(答案→)A
解析：
本文介绍了父母亲对孩子疏于管理，听之任之对学习带来的负面影响。建议父母严格要求自己的孩子。
【小题1】事实细节题。从 Television, says Clomps, contributes to children passivity (passivity = inactivity)可得出答案。
【小题2】事实细节题。从This is for your own good —these are the statements my mother used to make years ago when I had to learn Latin…(几年前母亲经常说“这是为了你好”来要求我把事情做好)即作者的母亲过去是很注重纪律的，故答案选B。
【小题3】词义理解题。从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 可知此题答案为A。
【小题4】主旨大意题。从文章末尾 it hurts you more than them but it’ s for their own good. It’s s time to start telling them no again可知此题应选C。