-- Have you been to the Great Wall?
-- Perhaps not in my memory. _______, it might have been during my early childhood.
A. If any B. If ever C. If once D. If not
It can’t be denied that the Diaoyu Islands are _______ part of China and what some Japanese have done recently is actually a defence against _______ Chinese people.
A. a; / B. a; the C. the; / D. /; the
手机和我们的生活越来越密切,让我们的联系变得更加方便,可有人认为手机并不利于真正的交流。校报英文版正在开展征文活动,发起对这一话题的讨论,你认为手机对人与人之间沟通的影响是利大于弊还是弊大于利?请你以“Mobile phones, good or bad for communication?”为题写篇短文向校报投稿,表达你的看法。
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Once kids hit the teenage years, parenting becomes more difficult than ever. Establishing effective house rules is one of the best ways to educate teenagers. House rules must respect teenagers’ desire to be independent and make sure they behave responsibly.
How can effective house rules be established?
First of all, get your teenager to take part in making the rules, which can help keep them motivated to follow them. Ask their opinion about what sorts of things they think are important when creating the rules and try to include some of their ideas.
When creating the list of rules, don’t list every single rule imaginable. Instead, try to limit it to the ten most important rules. I’ve seen some parents come up with several pages of rules which turn out to be more like a rule book rather than a list. Remember, it is important to make the list easy to remember and to be a basic guide.
Then, it is important that you write out the list of rules and hang them in a prominent (显眼的) location. Keeping the rules on the refrigerator or displayed somewhere where everyone can see them is a good reminder. Revise the rules whenever there’s a need, not very frequently though.
Explain clearly in advance what negative consequences will be in store when a rule gets broken. But ensure that none of your consequences are equal to abusive parenting. For example, take off the rule that says — “if you don’t get home by 11 at night, make arrangements to stay elsewhere until morning”. Let helping with small household chores like cleaning up their own rooms serve as consequences for disobeying rules.
Following these tips on establishing effective house rules accompanied by constant positive reinforcement (执行) will help improve your teenager’s behavior. Hope you can direct your teenager to become a responsible and independent person with the help of house rules!
Establishing house rules for1.__________
Requirements for house rules |
They must respect teenagers’ desire to be independent and 2._____________ teenagers behave responsibly. |
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3.________ on how to establish effective house rules |
4.________ teenagers in making the rules |
Ask their opinions Include their ideas |
Keeping the house rules simple
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Avoid 5._______ every single rule Limit the list to the most important rules |
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Creating a 6.______ list of rules |
Put it up somewhere visible to 7.______ your teenager of the rules Make the rules revised when necessary |
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Giving a clear 8.____________ of the consequences |
Don’t abuse children if they 9.________ rules |
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Conclusion |
Your teenager’s behavior will be 10.____________ with the help of effective house rules. |
All across California, honeybees are flying away from their hives(蜂箱) and dying. Empty hives are causing a lot of worry about some important food crops.
Bees give us a lot more than delicious honey. They are pollinators(授粉者)—they enable plants to produce the fruits and nuts we enjoy by carrying pollen from one plant or flower to the next. The wind pollinates oats, corn, and wheat, but many other plants (like apple and cherry trees and melon vines) depend on insects, bats, and birds. In the U.S., millions and millions of bees kept by human beekeepers fly around doing a lot of this important work for food crops. “Bees are worth protecting because their work adds so much to our diet,” says Dr. Jeff Pettis of the Bee Research Laboratory.
California’s almond (杏仁) crop alone depends on about half the bees in the country. But now the almond crop and many others could be in trouble with so many bees dying.
Researchers at government and university labs all over the country are trying to figure out why so many bees are dying. However, bees are hard to study. Most die away from the hive, so researchers don’t have dead bodies to examine. And when researchers return to a hive after two weeks, about half the bees they studied on their first visit will be dead, replaced by new ones in the natural life cycle of bees. “It isn’t like studying a large animal like a cow that doesn’t move around much and is easy to find out in the cow field,” says Pettis.
Researchers have some ideas about what could be affecting bee health. They could be sick from poisons widely used to kill insects, or they might not be getting enough good food to stay strong. Also, tiny insects called mites feed on bees. “A virus or bacteria could also be doing the killing.” explains Pettis.
1.What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?
A. The wind helps pollinate.
B. Bees are important in food crops.
C. Bees give us a lot of delicious honey.
D. Cherry trees are pollinated by bees.
2.Bees are hard to study because ____________.
A. they move around too much
B. new bees soon replace all the bees studied by researchers
C. they are too tiny
D. they never return to hives
3.What could cause so many bees to die?
A. Poisons to kill birds. B. Eating too much.
C. Large insects. D. Some virus.
4.What can we learn from the article?
A. A large number of bees have died in the hive.
B. Without bees, some foods would disappear from our diet.
C. Only researchers in California want to know what kills bees.
D. Large animals are easier to study than tiny insects.
XI’AN – China has introduced various emergency responses and long-term measures against air pollution in the central and eastern regions.
The air quality index (AQI) for Xi’an reached 500 on Wednesday afternoon, at the top of the AQI scale, according to the national air quality monitoring website. Xi’an weather forecasters predict the smog (雾霾) will continue for the next week and air pollution may worsen.
“I have to keep buying masks for my family,” said Liu, buying masks at a pharmacy (药店) near her home in downtown Xi’an. “This is the only thing we can do to protect ourselves.”
On Wednesday, a city government emergency response plan was put into action, suspending all construction and taking at least 50 percent of government vehicles off the road. Power plants must limit their output and reduce emissions.
Nearly half the country, more than 100 cities in 20 provinces, has suffered from smog since last December. Many have taken action, including experimenting with artificial methods to reduce smog, limiting vehicle use and fining polluters.
Assessments based on GDP alone were abandoned last month and more emphasis has been put on public well-being and the environment. Whether the move will be effective in forcing local governments consider environmental issues over economic growth remains to be seen. Environmental protection professionals are doubtful about the immediacy of the effects of these measures.
Xiao Hang, an urban researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said it took London 50 years to lose the moniker (绰号) “foggy London town”, and Los Angeles still struggles to control its photochemical (光化学) smog. “We can’t ignore environmental problems during the development process and China has a long way to go,” he said.
1.What would be the best title for the article?
A. AQI for Xi’an reached 500
B. Smog crisis tries the limits of people’s patience
C. Smoggy Chinese cities to clear the air
D. Dust masks become hot sellers
2.The underlined word “suspending” in Paragraph 4 can be replaced by ________.
A. encouraging B. stopping C. continuing D. expanding
3.We can infer from the article that _________.
A. China is the only country suffering from smog
B. environmental professionals believe the air quality will soon be improved with these measures
C. assessments based on GDP alone were harmful to environmental protection
D. Xi’an was the most polluted city in China
4.What Xiao Hang said indicates _____________.
A. London still has serious air pollution after 50 years of effort
B. the development of China is more important
C. solving environmental problems requires great effort
D. it’s normal for China to have environmental problems