I have been consistently opposed to feeding a baby regularly. As a doctor, mother and scientist in child development I believe there is nothing to recommend it, from the baby's point of view.
Mothers, doctors and nurse alike have no idea of where a baby's blood sugar level lies. All we know is that a low level is harmful to brain development and makes a baby easily annoyed. In this state, the baby is difficult to calm down and sleep is impossible. The baby asks for attention by crying and searching for food with its mouth.
It is not just unkind but also dangerous to say a four-hourly feeding schedule will make a baby satisfied. The first of the experts to advocate a strict clock-watching schedule was Dr Frederic Truby King who was against feeding in the night. I've never heard anything so ridiculous. Baby feeding shouldn't follow a timetable set by the mum. What is important is feeding a baby in the best way, though it may cause some inconvenience in the first few weeks.
Well, at last we have copper-bottomed research that supports demand feeding and points out the weaknesses of strictly timed feeding . The research finds out that babies who are fed on demand do better at school at age 5, 7 , 11 and 14, than babies fed according to the clock. By the age of 8, their IQ（智商）scores are four to five percent higher than babies fed by a rigid timetable. This research comes from Oxford and Essex University using a sample（样本）of 10,419 children born in the early 1990s,taking account of parental education, family income, a child's sex and age, the mother's health and feeling style. These results don't surprise me. Feeling according to schedule runs the risk of harming the rapidly growing brain by taking no account of sinking blood sugar levels.
I hope this research will put an end to advocating strictly timed baby feeling practices.
1.What does the author think about Dr King?
A．He is strict
B．He is unkind
C．He has the wrong idea.
D．He sets a timetable for mothers
2.The word copper-bottomed in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _________
A．basic B．reliable C．surprising D．interesting
3.What does the research tell us about feeling a baby on demand?
A．The baby will sleep well.
B．The baby will have its brain harmed.
C．The baby will have a low blood sugar level.
D．The baby will grow to be wiser by the age of 8.
4.The author supports feeling the baby_______.
A．in the night
B．every four hours
C．whenever it wants food
D．according to its blood sugar level
A boy was walking home from school when he saw a large, tempting （诱人的）apple on one of the branches of an apple tree hanging out over a tall fence. The boy wasn’t much of a fruit-eater, 36 a bar of chocolate if given the choice, 37 , as they say, the forbidden fruit can be tempting. Seeing the apple, the boy wanted it. The more he looked at it, the 38 he felt and the more he wanted that apple.
He stood on tiptoe(脚尖)， 39 as high as he could , but even as his tallest 40 he was unable to touch it. He began to 41 up and down , as high as he could, at the 42 of each jump stretching his arms to get the apple . Still it remained out of 43 .
Not giving up , he thought , if only he had something to 44 on . His school bag wouldn’t give enough height and he didn’t want to 45 the things inside , like his lunch box , pencil case , and Gameboy . Looking 46 , he hoped he might find an old box , a rock , or , 47 luck , even a ladder , but it was a tidy neighborhood and there was nothing he could use .
He had tired everything he could think to do . 48 seeing any other choices , he gave up and started to walk 49 . At first he felt angry and disappointed thinking about how hungry he had become from his 50 , and how he really wanted that apple . The more he 51 like this , the more unhappy he became.
52 ,the boy of our story was a pretty smart guy, even if he couldn’t always get what get he wanted .He started to say to himself ,“This isn’t 53 .I don’t have the apple and I’m feeling miserable as well. There’s 54 more I can do to get the apple ---that is unchangeable---but we are supposed to be able to 55 our feelings. If that’s the case, what can I do to feel better?”
1. A．preferring B．offering C．receiving D．allowing
2.A. so B. then C. but D or
3. A．sadder B．angrier C．hungrier D．tastier
4. A．expanding B．stretching C．swinging D．pulling
5. A． strength B．length C． range D．height
6. A．jump B．look C．walk D．glance
7. A． tip B．stage C．top D． level
8.A hope B. hand C. sight D. reach
9. A．put B．stand C．get D． hold
10. A．break B．shake C．take D． strike
11. A．up B．forward C．down D．around
12. A．for B．with C．on D．of
13. A．After B．Through C．Without D．Upon
14. A．back B． away C．up D．down
15. A．wishes B． beliefs C．efforts D．goals
16. A．thought B． imagined C．tried D．claimed
17. A．Therefore B．However C．Moreover D．Otherwise
18. A．skilful B．cheerful C．harmful D．helpful
19. A．something B．anything C．everything D．nothing
20. A．change B．express C．forget D．describe
We missed our train, and ________ the next train was delayed, ________ we had to wait for another two hours.
A．on top of that; so B．as a result; thus
C．what was worse; therefore D．apart from that; then
－I’ll come to see your performance at 9:00 tomorrow morning.
－I’m sorry, by then my performance ______ and I _______ reporters in the meeting room.
A．will end; will meet B．will have ended; will be meeting
C．will be ended; am going to meet D．is to end; will be meeting
－You seem to know little about Yancheng Middle School. Aren’t you a teacher here?
－No, but I ________.
A．hope to B．hope that C．hope it D．hope to be
Never should we forget the war and sufferings ________ caused to the people.
A．it B．which C．that D．what
