To make _______ matters worse, Mr. Burrough lost his job last year. So the family are struggling to make _______ ends meet.

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

To make          matters worse, Mr．Green lost his job last year．So the family are struggling to make        ends meet．

       A．/; the           B．/; /      C．the; /           D．the; the

根据所给提示完成下列句子，每空填写一个单词。（每题1分）
【小题1】The family are all c                   (担心)her safety.
【小题2】Although we hadn’t met for 15 years, I           （辨认）her immediately I saw her in the street.
【小题3】The whole city was                   (成为废墟)after the earthquake.
【小题4】We should have a positive __________ （态度）towards life.
【小题5】Don’t _______ ________(丧失信心) ! You will do it better next time if you work hard.

Many parents who welcome the idea of turning off the TV and spending more time with the family are still worried that without TV they would constantly be on call as entertainers for their children. They remember thinking up all sorts of things to do when they were kids. But their own kids seem different, less resourceful, somehow. When there’s nothing to do, these parents observe regretfully, their kids seem unable to come up with anything to do besides turning on the TV.

    One father, for example, says, “When I was a kid, we were always thinking up things to do, projects and games. We certainly never complained in an annoying way to our parents. ‘I have nothing to do’.” He compares this with his own children today: “They’re simply lazy. If someone doesn’t entertain them, they’ll happily sit there watching TV all day.”

    There is one word for this father’s disappointment: unfair. It is as if he were disappointed in them for not reading Greek though they have never studied the language. He deplores (哀叹) his children’s lack of inventiveness, as if the ability to play were something born that his children are missing. In fact, while the tendency to play is built into the human species, the actual ability to play – to imagine, to invent, to elaborate on reality in a playful way –and the ability to gain fulfillment from it, these are skills that have to be learned and developed.

    Such disappointment, however, is not only unjust, it is also destructive. Sensing their parents’ disappointment, children come to believe that they are, indeed, lacking something, and that this makes them less worthy of admiration and respect. Giving children the opportunity to develop new resources, to enlarge their horizons and discover the pleasure of doing things on their own is, on the other hand, a way to help children develop a confident feeling about themselves as capable and interesting people.

According to many parents, if there’s nothing to do, the children would        .

    A. turn on the TV                           B. complain to their parents

    C. ask their parents to play with them          D. do all of the above

Many parents think that, instead of watching a lot of TV their children should       .

    A. sit silently studying Greek                  B. think up things to entertain themselves

    C. find chances to talk with parents            D. enjoy themselves outdoors

The father often blames their children for not being able to entertain themselves. This is unfair because        .

    A. the children are not really lazy, but there’s nothing for them to do

    B. they do not lack the ability to play

    C. they have to learn and develop their playing ability gradually

    D. the father have done nothing to help the children

When parents show constant disappointment in their children, the children will         .

    A. lose their confidence and respectability

    B. be much more disappointed

    C. refuse to learn new things

    D. discover the pleasures of doing things on their own

What is the author’s main idea?

    A. Today’s children are becoming less capable and independent than before.

    B. Parents should give children more help on how to be creative.

    C. Turning off the TV will help us solve a lot of family problems.

    D. It’s not just for parents and children to complain each other.

根据所给提示完成下列句子，每空填写一个单词。（每题1分）

1.The family are all c                   (担心)her safety.

2.Although we hadn’t met for 15 years, I           （辨认）her immediately I saw her in the street.

3.The whole city was                   (成为废墟)after the earthquake.

4.We should have a positive __________ （态度）towards life.

5.Don’t _______ ________(丧失信心) ! You will do it better next time if you work hard.