Why does the man come here?
A.To practice English. B.To buy a new recorder. C.To meet the repairman.
Where does the conversation take place?
A.In a plane. B.In a hospital. C.In a restaurant.
翻译句子
1.得知他在这学期后要去欧洲旅行一周， 我预计春节前见不到他了。
2.我建议穿暖和点。
3.他看起来很惊喜，说这是他至今为止收到的最好的礼物。
4.虽然有些数学题十分难， 但是绝大多数都非常简单， 而且我已算出了一些题。
5.当我刚开始使用手机做作业的时候， 我有段时间难以阻止自己在它上面玩游戏。
6.我知道你看书看得快，我认为你应该考虑从图书馆多借两本书。
7.每次读《老人与海》时，我都会对那位老人有更好的理解。(The Old Man and the Sea)
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1.The beauties of the West Lake in spring were beyond his e___________(预期).
2.The suggestion was voted down by large m_________(大多数).
3.We have been friends for a long time, so we are very f________(熟悉) with each other.
4.She waited in her hotel to welcome her children on their a_________(到达) from London.
5.He was very c________(谨慎) for fear that he should be blamed for anything wrong.
6.Several students were i________(受伤) in the car accident.
7.I shall never f________(原谅) myself for failing to help you when you were in danger.
8.The relations between our two countries have improved markedly in every a_______(方面).
9.This argument sounds r________(有道理的), but actually it's incorrect.
10.I get so a_____ ( 吸收)in doing something that I am unaware of things happening round me.
11.I'm afraid I will have no chance to p_______(参加) in the coming contest.
12.The Festival Of Asian Arts& Music will include several live p_______(表演).
13.It is strongly r_______(推荐) that you should see your doctor.
14.I am so glad to know that he has fully r________(康复) from the illness.
15.L_________(幸运地是), I brought my umbrella along, otherwise I would surely get wet.
16.If your action i__________激励) others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
17.As a teenager, we should play a big role in garbage c_________(分类) and garbage recycling.
18.Each time you finish a task you will feel a sense of p________(骄傲) for a job well done.
19.I felt the p_________(压力) of being the first woman in the job.
20.We need to take r______________(责任) for looking after our own health.
For more than six million American children, coming home after school means coming to an empty house. 1. Some may hide. But all of them have something in common. They spend part of each day alone. They are called latchkey children. They are children who look after themselves while their parents work. 2.
Lynette Long was once the headmaster of an elementary school. She said, “We had a school rule against wearing jewelry. A lot of kids had chains around their necks with keys attached. I was constantly telling them to put them inside shirts. There were so many keys. It never came to my mind what they meant.” 3.
She and her husband began talking to the children who had them. They learned of the impact working couples and single parents were having on their children. 4.One in every three latchkey children the Logs talked to reported being scared. Many had nightmares and were worried about their own safety.
The most common way latchkey children deal with their fears is by hiding. 5.
The second is TV. They’ll often play it at high volume. It’s hard to get statistics(情况)on latchkey children, the Longs learned. Most parents are slow to admit they leave their children alone.
A.Slowly, she learned they were house keys.
B.But they don’t mind.
C.Fear is the biggest problem faced by children at home alone.
D.Some deal with the situation by watching TV.
E.Some go to their friends or their relatives.
F.And their bad condition has become a subject of concern.
G.It might be in a shower stall, under a bed or in a closet.
The latest data from the Office for National Statistics shows that one in every 12 kids is living in homes where no one has worked for at least a year. That may be due to unemployment or issues such as sickness or disability that mean they can’t work, and aren’t required to. This is known as being in a “long term workless” family.
The issues faced by children in workless families have very bad influence on their development and education, limiting their future employment prospects, and reducing their opportunities to succeed throughout their lives.
Not only does worklessness reduce family income, it can also damage families’ health and stability, and thus destroy children’s development. This is because many workless families are held back by disadvantages such as debt, drug and alcohol dependency, and by homelessness. Suffering from the family problems, many children face a greater and greater possibility of repeating the poor outcomes of their parents. Government research has shown that children in workless families are almost twice as likely not to reach the expected level at all stages of their education. For example, three-quarters of children from families where no one works failed to reach the expected level at General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE), compared to around half of children in lower-income working families.
So attention should be paid to children in out-of-work homes. Having working parents means a child is more likely to do better at school, to have better health, education and development, and also means they are less likely to fall into crime.
But for some families, worklessness, or not employment, is the norm. They just choose not to work. These families often face huge barriers to getting on with their lives but they take the opportunities offered by the society. Parents’ ability to work is frustrated by issues like low skills or poor mental or physical health, or drug and alcohol dependency, leaving children without the stability they need.
We all want to help workless families with complex problems so that their children can take advantage of the opportunities in Britain. We all want parents to have the chance to go out to earn a living and to enjoy the pleasure of work, so that their children can benefit from the good examples of working parents. In doing so, we should know the need to understand the complex issues that some families face and to develop a new approach to deal with poverty. Because the root causes are not financial. It is about helping families overcome the problems they face so that they can go as far as their talents and hard work will take them. We shouldn’t retreat from acting to deal with disadvantages, because we know the costs of inaction to individuals, communities and society.
1.According to the author, children in workless families may _______.
A.have better performance at school
B.take chances to go out to earn a living
C.be more able to deal with their problems
D.live the same lifestyles that their parents had
2.The underlined word “norm” in the fifth paragraph probably means _______.
A.a huge barrier B.a turning point
C.a typical standard D.an unusual event
3.In the last paragraph the author mainly talked about _______.
A.raising of social welfare
B.solutions to the problems
C.development of the society
D.reforming of the government
4.The main purpose of the passage is to _______.
A.introduce a study on children in workless families
B.appeal to the readers to help children in workless families
C.present a new approach to deal with poverty of workless families
D.compare children’s performances in workless families and low-income ones
