Question

It may not be as easy as you think to build a foundation for your child of family values. Often we believe that our child will pick up on our values if they live in the same home. While they may pick up many of our values, parents need to remember they are not the only influence in their child’s life. These outside values often compete with family values for your child’s attention. If we do not make a conscious effort to instill our values into our children, they may not get instilled at all.

   I wish I had learned that lesson a little earlier. I thought if I lived my values for my children they would pick them up and make their own. Sometimes this happened and sometimes it didn’t. I often see twenty-something “kids” who have no faith in many of the values of their family in favor of the values of their friends. Children will often pick up the negative you show quicker than the positive, so the positive things need extra focus to set them.

Some of the influences your children face every day include their church, their school, their friends, any clubs or sporting groups they are part of and more. Kids spend many hours a day at school and with their friends. Sometimes in the business of life, we suppose our children will obtain that foundation we want for them.

Instilling a foundation of family values to sustain(维持) your child requires more than living it in front of them. That is important, but building up your child with this important foundation must become intentional.

That means we plan times to gather as a family. We plan activities together that show the values we want to pass on. We talk about our values; we live our values; we discuss the values of others and how they differ from ours; we constantly look for opportunities and make our own opportunities to share these values in word or deed with our children.

Family values give our children a foundation to build upon. It helps them know they are loved and gives them a sense of belongings. Upon this sure foundation, they can spread their wings and grow to become parents who share these same values with their own children.

1.The underlined word “instill our values into” in the 1^st paragraph probably means “______”.

A. get our ideas out of                  B. impress our ideas on

C. collect our ideas for                  D. force our ideas upon

2.We can learn from the passage that children ______.

A. sustain their family values easily    

B. will hold their family values with age

C. often discuss family values of others  

D. accept negative values more quickly

3.Family values can be passed on if ______.

A. we live with our children 

B. parents show positive things

C. parents foster them intentionally 

D. we plan times to gather with other families

4.The passage mainly tells us about ______.

A. the importance and the way to pick up family values

B. a lesson the writer learned in educating his(her) kids

C. the influences the children face while growing up

D. some negative and positive family values

Answer

1.B

2.D

3.C

4.A

【解析】

试题分析：本文讲述了给孩子灌输家庭价值观的重要性及如何灌输的方法。

1.B猜测词义题。此处指如果我们不有意识地努力把价值观灌输给孩子，他们就不会知道。划线词语指把我们的价值观灌输给…，和B项同义，故选B.

2.D推理判断题。根据第二段最后Children will often pick up the negative you show quicker than the positive, so the positive things need extra focus to set them.可知孩子们接受负面价值观比正面的更快，所以更要灌输正确的价值观。故选D.

3.C推理判断题。根据第四段building up your child with this important foundation must become intentional.和第五段的具体方法可知，父母要有意培养孩子正确的价值观才能使价值观传递下去，故选C.

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考点：考查社会生活类短文阅读。

【名师点睛】

主旨大意题的解题思路与应试技巧

做这类题时常用略读法。快速阅读文章找出各个段落的主题句。把各个段落的主题句联系起来着眼于全文结构安排，了解文章的重心，就能概括出文章的中心。文章的标题是中心思想最精炼的表达形式，选择的标题意义范围要能涵盖全文，不能太大也不能太小。命题者在出这类题时，常常利用生活常识编造干扰项，把文中的细节当主旨，利用局部信息编造干扰项，编制超出文章范围的标题或不能涵盖文章中心意义的标题来考查考生的理解程度，考生要特别留意。

概括主旨的方法是：先看首尾或各段开头再看全文找主题句，若无明显主题句，就通过关键词句来概括(如议论文中寻找表达作者观点态度的词句，记叙文寻找概括情节和中心的动词或反映人物特点的形容词。) 。文中出现两种或两种以上的不同观点时，务必牢记作者的观点才是体现全文中心的。此时，要注意一些转折词，如but, yet, however, although, in spite of, by contrast, on the contrary等。当文章中表示相反的观点时，往往用到这些词。答题时要弄清哪个是作者的观点，排除迷惑性信息，准确归纳主旨大意。