Question

请认真阅读短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。每个空格只填一个单词。

Back to School: Why Grit(毅力) Is More Important than Good Grades?

The back-to-school season is upon us, and once again, parents across the country have loaded their kids’ backpacks up with snack packs and school supplies. It’s a good moment to reflect on what else we should be giving our kids as they head off to school.

American parents are feeling particularly anxious about that question this year. The educational process feels more than ever like a race, one that starts in pre-school and doesn’t end until your child is admitted to the perfect college. Most parents are more worried than they need to be about their children’s grades, test scores and IQ. And what we don’t think about enough is how to help our children build their character—how to help them develop skills like perseverance, grit, optimism, conscientiousness, and self-control, which together do more to determine success than S.A.T. scores or I.Q.

There is growing evidence that our anxiety about our children’s school performance may actually be holding them back from learning some of these valuable skills. If you’re concerned only with a child’s G.P.A., then you will likely choose to minimize the challenges the child faces in school. With real challenge comes the risk of real failure. And in a competitive academic environment, the idea of failure can be very scary, to students and parents alike.

But experiencing failure is a critical part of building character. A recent research by a team of psychologists found that adults who had experienced little or no failure growing up were actually less happy and confident than those who had experienced a few significant setbacks in childhood. “Overcoming those obstacles,” the researchers assumed, “could teach effective coping skills, help engage social support networks, create a sense of mastery over past adversity, and foster beliefs in the ability to cope successfully in the future.”

By contrast, when we protect our children from every possible failure—when we call their teachers to get an extension on a paper; when we urge them to choose only those subjects they’re good at—we are denying them those same character-building experiences. As the psychologists Madeline Levine and Dan Kindlon have written, that can lead to difficulties in adolescence and young adulthood, when overprotected young people finally confront real problems on their own and don’t know how to overcome them.

In the classroom and outside of it, American parents need to encourage children to take chances, to challenge themselves, to risk failure. In the meantime, giving our kids room to fail may be one of the best ways we can help them succeed.

       Back to School: Why Grit Is More Important than Good Grades?

Common phenomena       ◆Parents throughout America(1)     their kids’ backpacks up with snacks and school supplies.

                       ◆Many American parents don’t(2)    enough importance to their kids’ character building.

The writer’s(3)             ◆Parents should pay more attention to their kids’ character building.

(4)    and research findings   ◆Parents’ anxiety about their kids’ performance may(5)                        them from learning some valuable skills.

                       ◆Parents concerned only with a kid’s G.P.A. are (6)    to minimize the challenges the child faces.

                       ◆Adults who have experienced a few significant setbacks in childhood are (7)    and more confident than those who haven’t.

                       ◆Denying kids character-building experiences can(8)    in difficulties in adolescence and young adulthood.

The writer’s suggestions    ◆(9)    kids to be risk-takers.

                       ◆Give kids room to experience(10)    .

Answer

 load

 attach

 opinion/view

 Evidence

 prevent/stop/keep/discourage

 likely

 happier

 result

 Encourage

 failure(s)

【解析】

试题分析：本文叙述了家长应该关注孩子的性格的培养而不是只看重他们的分数，调查发现在童年经历过挫折的成年人比在童年没经历过挫折的人感到更幸福和自信，所以家长给我们的孩子足够的空间经历失败可能是我们可以帮助他们取得成功最好的方法之一。

 根据parents across the country have loaded their kids’ backpacks up with snack packs and school supplies给孩子打包，故用load.

 根据And what we don’t think about enough is how to help our children build their character我们没有足够考虑的是如何帮助孩子建立他们的性格，attach importance to…重视，故用attach.

 根据短文的内容可知这是作者的观点，故用opinion/view.

 根据There is growing evidence that our anxiety about our children’s school performance may actually be holding them back from learning some of these valuable skills.这里提到日益增长的迹象，故用 Evidence.

 根据our anxiety about our children’s school performance may actually be holding them back from learning some of these valuable skills.这里hold +某人+ back from doing阻止某人做某事，故用prevent/stop/keep/discourage.

 根据If you’re concerned only with a child’s G.P.A., then you will likely choose to minimize the challenges the child faces in school. will likely choose to 有可能选择，故用likely.

 根据A recent research by a team of psychologists found that adults who had experienced little or no failure growing up were actually less happy and confident than those who had experienced a few significant setbacks in childhood. 可推知在童年经历过挫折的成年人比在童年没经历过挫折的人感到更幸福和自信，故用happier.

 根据we are denying them those same character-building experiences. As the psychologists Madeline Levine and Dan Kindlon have written, that can lead to difficulties in adolescence and young adulthood, lead to导致； result in导致，故用result.

 根据American parents need to encourage children to take chances, to challenge themselves, to risk failure. 鼓励孩子抓住机会挑战自己敢于冒险失败，故用Encourage.

 根据giving our kids room to fail may be one of the best ways we can help them succeed.给我们的孩子足够的空间经历失败可能是我们可以帮助他们取得成功最好的方法之一。故用failure(s).

考点：任务型阅读。