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　　It's back-to-school time again. In the morning you wave goodbye, and that _____1_____ evening you're burning the late-night oil in sympathy（同情）. In the race to improve educational standards, _____2_____ are throwing the books at kids. _____3_____ primary school students are complaining of homework _____4_____ What's a well-meaning parent to do?

　　As hard as it may be, sit back and keep cool, experts _____5_____. Though you've got to get them to do it, by _____6_____ too much, or even examining _____7_____ too carefully, you may _____8_____ them from doing it by themselves. “I wouldn't advise a parent to check every _____9_____ exercise,” says psychologist（心理学家）John Rosemond, author of Ending The Tough Hamework. “There's a _____10_____ of understanding for trial and error（错误）. Let your children _____11_____ the grade they are worthy of..”

　　Many experts believe parents should gently look over the work of younger children and ask them to rethink about their _____12_____, but don't want them to feel it has to be _____13_____ That's not to say parents should pay no attention to _____14_____ ——first, they should monitor how much homework their kids _____15_____. Thirty minutes a day in the early elementary（基础） years and an hour in _____16_____ four, five, and six is standard. For junior-high students it should be no _____17_____ than an hour and a half, and two for high-school students. If your child _____18_____ has more homework than this, you may want to check with other _____19_____ and then talk to the teacher about _____20_____ homework.

(1)A.very	B.just	C.right	D.usual
(2)A.officials	B.experts	C.parents	D.schools
(3)A.Also	B.Then	C.Even	D.still
(4)A.tiredness	B.duty	C.mistakes	D.puzzle
(5)A.demand	B.explain	C.persuade	D.suggest
(6)A.worrying	B.helping	C.talking	D.thinking
(7)A.questions	B.standards	C.answers	D.rules
(8)A.interrupt	B.disturb	C.encourage	D.keep
(9)A.single	B.practical	C.simple	D.difficult
(10)A.drop	B.cut	C.lot	D.lack
(11)A.have	B.gather	C.earn	D.reach
(12)A.exercises	B.mistakes	C.achievements	D.tests
(13)A.perfect	3.right	C.better	D.complete
(14)A.grade	B.mistakes	C.examinations	D.homework
(15)A.have	B.make	C.prepare	D.perform
(16)A.classes	B.grades	C.groups	D.terms
(17)A.later	B.sooner	C.more	D.less
(18)A.hardly	B.often	C.seldom	D.always
(19)A.parents	B.teachers	C.subjects	D.schools
(20)A.finishing	B.reducing	C.lowering	D.refusing

Answer 1

答案：A;D;C;D;B;B;C;D;A;D;C;B;A;D;A;B;C;B;A;B
解析：

1．分析语境可知，该空强调与上文“in the morning”同一天的晚上，即正是那个晚上。very作形容词时，意为“正是那个（不是别的）”。 2．将一本本书扔给学生的当然是学校。 3．中学生面临事关日后工作的升学压力，学业负担过重情有可原，但小学生也没有逃过过重的学业负担就令人感到不可思议了。因此该空应填even，表离奇程度后者远甚于前者。 4．小学生抱怨过重的学业负担造成了身心疲惫。 5．上文应为专家们建议的内容。 8．父母因心疼子女而在家庭作业上给子女过多帮助甚至检查修改他们的答案，这样会阻止孩子们自己获取知识。 11．我不建议父母连孩子的每一个练习都要检查，这样孩子们就会缺少核对答案，纠正错误时对这些知识的理解。 13．专家认为父母应稍许看轻孩子的作业，要让他们重新思考自己的错误，但别让他们产生追求完美的压力。 15．这倒不是说父母不该关注子女的作业，首先他们应从侧面了解 孩子们有多少作业。 16．受上文的“the early elementary years”和下文的“junior-high students”制约，这儿的four，five and six指代年级。 17．这儿谈学生的作业限量问题．因此讲话口吻应以作业不超过多少为宜。 20．偶尔一次作业超量算不了什么．但如果总是超过标准，就足以说明学生学业负担过重，此时你可以跟别的家长沟通一下，证实后再跟老师谈减少作业的问题。