If parents bring up a child with the aim of turning the child into a genius（天才）, they will cause great damage to him. According to several leading educational experts, this is one of the biggest mistakes that some parents make. Generally, the child will understand very well what the parents expect. and will fall. Unrealistic（不现实）expectations of the parents can cause great damage to children.

    However, if parents are not unrealistic about what they expect their children to do, but are hopeful in a sensible（明智）way, the child may succeed in doing very well—especially if the parents are very supportive（支持的）to their children.

    Michael Li is very lucky. He likes music and his parents help him a lot by taking him to concerts and let him attend piano and violin lessons. Although Michael's mother knows very little about music, his father is a good musician. However, he never makes Michael enter music competitions if he is unwilling.

    Michael's friend, Winston Chen, however, is not so lucky. Although both his parents are successful musicians, they set too high a standard（水平）for Winston. They want their son to be as successful as they are and so they enter him in every piano competition held. They are very unhappy when he does not win. “When I was your age I used to win every competition I enter.” Winston's father tells him. Winston is always afraid that he will disappoint his parents and now he always quiet and unhappy.

1.The main idea of the passage is _________.

A. how parents should make a child a musician

B. how parents should bring up a child

C. what differences there are between the two boys

D. what aim is easier for a child to reach

2.Winston's parents set so high a standard for him that _______.

A. he has to do his best to win every competition

B. he has made greater progress in music

C. he is afraid he may disappoint them

D. he often wants to kill himself someday

3.It is one of the parents’ worst mistakes if ______.

A. they want their child to be a musician

B. they help their child to win music competition

C. they don't care for their child's education much

D. they make their child try to achieve too much

4. According to the writer's opinion, _________.

A. it's unimportant to let the children develop（=grow）in the way they want

B. sensible parents can train their children to succeed in everything

C. parents should be realistic and supportive to their children

D. unrealistic parents should arrange（安排）private lessons for their children

He eats ______ food, so he is ______ fat.

1. A.
   much too; too much
2. B.
   too much; much too
3. C.
   much too; the many

Good morning, boys and girls. Today I’ll talk about going online.

We know that there are too many Net bars（网吧）around us. The Internet makes our lives interesting. Many of us like going online very much because we can learn how to use the computer. We can learn English and read some newspapers and magazines to know more information around us. It can make us clever in playing computer games. Also when we send e-mails to our friends, they can get them at once. It can help us keep in touch with people from all over the world.

But some students spend too much time in playing computer games and some stay in the Net bars all day and all night. It takes them too much time to chat online so they do worse in their lessons and they don’t study well any more. I think we mustn’t get online when it is time for us to study. We can do it in summer or winter holidays. I think we should get online with our teachers or parents.

At the same time, if we have lots of free time, we can do some activities after school. We usually have activities from 4:50 to 5:50 in the afternoon. We can play basketball or football. We also have some interest groups in school, such as drawing, singing and dancing. We can go to the English corner on Monday afternoon. I hope we can spend more time on our subjects or on such activities that we can learn a lot from and less time on the Internet.

That’s all! Thank you.?????????????

从方框中选择恰当的句子完成下面的对话。（共5分，每小题1分）

A: Hi, Lin Fang. You look unhappy, what’s wrong?

B:     1.   

A: I don’t think that’s a good idea. We aren’t children any longer.

B: That’s right.     2.   

A: Really? My father allows me to make friends with all of my classmates, but my

 mother doesn’t agree with him.

B:     3.    My mother doesn’t let me play computer games when I am free, either.

A: I think she is right. We mustn’t spend too much time playing computer games.    4.   

  He thinks a girl should have long hair.

B: That’s funny. My father always tells me not to ride my bike to school. He thinks it’s too

    dangerous.

A: I don’t think it is, but you should ride slowly. It’s too dangerous to ride fast.

B: You are right.    5.     

A: I think we need to talk to them and make them understand us.

B: You are right.

A.Sometimes our parents don’t understand us.

B.My father doesn’t allow me to go out on Sundays.

C.How kind your father is!

D.My parents don’t allow me to make friends with boys, either.

E.My parents want me to do much homework.

F.I think it’s a good idea.

G.But my father doesn’t allow me to have short hair.