The snow was now two feet deep, making it difficult, if not impossible, _______ the car out.

  A. getting                 B. get                           C. got                          D. to get

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Your children are so different-they each have very different talents, skills, and personalities, so it can seem natural to give them labels（标签）. For example, one child may be the “smart one” or the “artist” or the “troublemaker”. Although it is easy to                    , you can be hard for your children.

Downsides of Labels

When kids are given negative（消极） labels they often feel that parents don’t expect or want them to change, and they may feel that they should live up to their negative labels. For example:

The “messy child” may see no reason to try to be neat and tidy when his parents have already defined his role in the family.

The “troublemaker” may feel that any attempt to be good will be ignored.

The “wild child” may think that he or she might as well continue to do crazy things

because parents expect it.

Even positive labels can be problematic as children may feel uneasy to meet their parents’ expectations, and often feel uncomfortable that their parents seem to like them more than a brother or sister.

Avoiding Labels

Remember that each child is unique and has the ability to do many things and act in many different ways.

Focus on the positives. For example, if your child, who always seems to be running late, but gets to the dinner on time, be sure to praise him for being on time.

Don’t let children lock themselves into roles-encourage children to try things they are interested in.

Who do you think the passage is mainly written for? (no more than 2 words)

According to the passage, list three negative labels given to children. (no more than 6 words)

Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one?

Avoid focusing children on some particular things only, you’d better encourage them

to do all that they fancy doing.

Fill in the blank with proper words. (no more than 6 words)

Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.

         Mr Jones called while you were out (neither of us knows this man). He

was in          bad temper.

A. 不填；a        B. A；不填       C. The；the        D. A；a

Don’t ______ personal information such as your name， telephone number and address

   until you feel comfortable.

   A. give in                B. give off               C. give out         D. give up

The 2010 World Expo in Shanghai is_____ to any other fair held in China this year.

A. important     B. superior          C. senior         D. significant

The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people’s work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reversed. This seems a discouraging thought. But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better future for work. Universal employment, as its history show, hasn’t meant economic freedom.

Employment became widespread when the enclosures（圈地运动）of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by taking them away from the use of the land, and thus from the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from people’s homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people traveled longer distances to their place of employment until, eventually, many people’s work lost all connection with their home lives and the places in which they lived.

Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. In pre-industrial times, men and women had shared the productive work of the household and village community. Now it became customary for the husband to go out to paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and family to his wife. Tax and benefit regulations still assume this norm（准则）today, and restrict more flexible sharing of work roles between sexes.

It was not only women whose work status suffered. As employment became the dominant form of work, young people and old people were kept out — a problem now, as more teenagers disappointed and annoyed at school and more retired people want to live active lives.

All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some efforts and resources away from the utopian（乌托邦）goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs.

From the passage we can learn that ____.

   A. jobs have existed since human came into being

   B. the industrial age brought jobs to everyone

   C. the industrial age brought the work patterns most people’s work has taken

   D. in the future more and more people could get jobs as the industry is developing

Before the enclosures of the 17^th and 18^th, people lived mainly on ____.

  A. paid work    B. unpaid work    C. taxes and benefits    D. land

Before the industrial age women played ____.

    A. more important roles in making a life            B. less important roles in making a life

    C. roles as weak as after in raising their children     D. roles as important as men in supporting a family

From the passage we can infer that ____.

A. creating jobs for all must be changed         

B. enough jobs must be created by our society

    C. more and more jobs are being created

D. industrial age has made many people unable to live without full-time jobs

The Red Cross is an international organization which cares for people who are in need of help. A man in a Paris hospital who needs blood, a woman in Mexico who was injured in an earthquake, and a family in India that lost their home in a storm may all be aided by the Red Cross.

  The Red Cross exists in almost every country around the world. The world Red Cross organizations are sometimes called the Red Crescent, the Red Mogen Daid, the Sun, and the Red Lion. All of these agencies share a common goal of trying to help people in need.

  The idea of forming an organization to help the sick and wounded during a war started with Jean Henri Dunant. In 1859, he observed how people were suffering on a battlefield in Italy. He wanted to help all the wounded people regardless of which side they were fighting for. The most important result of his work was an international treaty called the Geneva Convention(日内瓦协定). It protects prisoners of war, the sick and wounded, and other citizens during a war.

  The American Red Cross was set up by Clara Barton in 1881. Today the Red Cross in the United States provides a number of services for the public, such as helping people in need, teaching first aid and providing blood.

A good title for this passage is     .

 A. People in Need of Help       B. Safety and Protection

 C. The International Red Cross   D. Forming an Organization to Help People

The word “aided ” in the first paragraph means     .

  A. needed                 B. helped               C. caught               D. protected

The author really tries to make the reader see that this organization     .

  A. costs very little money            B. works in many nations

  C. teaches first aid if necessary        D. is called the Sun

We may draw a conclusion (下结论)that      during a war.

  A. the Red Cross only protects the wounded

  B. the Red Cross only helps prisoners of war

  C. the Red Cross only helps citizens

  D. the Red Cross helps all the people in need no matter which side they are fighting for

When you rewrite the paragraph, I advise you to______ the last sentence as it is rather misleading. 

A. point out    B. make out     C. leave out     D. put out

Do keep the knife _______ the reach of children.

A. away             B. beyond                C. out                   D. with

They believe that there is __________ in the world.

A. no such a car            B. no such car     C. not such cars     D. not such car