The Children and Family Research Center, located in Illinois, is an independent research organization to promote public child welfare research activities. The following are our 2018 research briefs.
The Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol（CERAP）
Tamara L. Fuller
CERAP is a safety assessment protocol（协议）used in child protection investigations and child services in Illinois. It is designed to evaluate the potential harm to a child and take quick action to protect children. Workers use the protocol to help focus their decision-making to determine whether a child is safe with their family, and decide what action to take to assure the child’s safety.
10 Things to Know about Child Welfare System
Catherine, Michael, and Steve
In March 2018, researchers Michael and Steve partnered with professor Catherine to present a webinar（在线研讨会）titled 10 Things to Know about Child Welfare System, focused on explaining the child welfare system. Topics included process of making a hotline call, ways to support families who have experienced childhood sufferings.
Highlights from the Child Death Review Team Annual Report
Steve and Tamara
This research brief focuses on the findings from the most recent CDRT annual report on child deaths in Illinois in 2016, presenting summary information about child deaths in Illinois by age, manner of death, and category of death, as well as recommendations to prevent child deaths.
Promoting Widespread Improvement in Practice
Ted Cross and Irit
This article by CFRC’s psychologist（心理学家）Ted Cross and Dr. Irit explores the contribution of psychology to child protection and suggests opportunities for psychology to contribute more, choosing 3 selected areas. Across these areas, psychology has contributed both to the knowledge base and to available assessment and intervention（干预）methods.
1.Which event aims at determining the safety of children within the family?
A. Promoting Widespread Improvement in Practice
B. 10 Things to Know about Child Welfare System
C. The Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol
D. Highlights from the Child Death Review Team Annual Report
2.Who wrote a report about prevention of child deaths?
A. Steve and Tamara. B. Catherine, Michael, and Steve.
C. Tamara L. Fuller. D. Ted Cross and Irit.
3.Which of the following deals with child protection in a psychological way?
A. Highlights from the Child Death Review Team Annual Report
B. 10 Things to Know about Child Welfare System
C. The Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol
D. Promoting Widespread Improvement in Practice
假如你是李华，你的英国朋友Linda最近在中国学习。她在信中向你诉说了她的困扰:不适应新的学习环境，想家，感到焦虑。请你给她写一封信。内容包括:
1.表示理解并给与安慰。 2.提出建议并给出理由。
要求:1.词数100左右；2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
参考词汇:homesick 想家的
Dear Linda,
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Yours,
Li Hua
注意:请在错的词下画一横线，然后在横线下写出修改后的答案。
1.He devoted himself to create a peaceful world.
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2.We were sleeping upstairs while the earthquake happened .
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3.We are all fond of Charlie’s early films, that we think are more interesting.
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4.This is the first time that I had been away from my family for such long time.
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5.My parents insisted that I spoke English at home .
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
A young man and an old man were waiting for a bus. They sat next to each other. “What’s that in your bag?” asked the young man. “Gold.” answered the old man. The young man could not believe his own ears. Then he began to think about how 1. (get) the money. The old man was very tired and 2. seemed that he could hardly keep his eyes open. After a while the old man 3.(lie) down on the chair and fell 4.(sleep). The young man took 5. big bag quietly. But when he was just about to run away, he found a corner of his fur coat was under the man’s body. Several times he tried to pull it out, 6. he couldn’t make it. At last he took off his coat, 7.(think) that the gold in the bag must cost far more than his fur coat. Then the young man ran out of the station 8.(quick), until he reached a place 9. he thought the old man could not find him. He opened the bag but he just found many small stones in it. Then he ran back to the station only to find that the old man was 10.(go).
1.Norman Bethune worked s________ in China as a doctor and saved many Chinese soldiers.
2.There were twenty miners t________ underground in the accident. (使陷入困境)
3.My brother is very ________ — if he says he’ll do something, he’ll do it. (可靠的)
4.Luckily, the little girl was r________ just minutes before the house fell down.
5.When an animal is under a________ , it can run away or fight back.(进攻)
In a small open courtyard, outside a school building, there were flowers here and there. In the sunshine，a ______ was lying on the grass，reading a book with ______ attention. Near her，another child was carefully watering the flowers, while a third was ______ with his back against a tree and had a ______ on his knees. He appeared to be drawing or writing something on it. He was ______ in his task, like the first child.
____ the building, there were pleasant carpeted areas. Many children were busy with their tasks in a variety of ways，______ teachers wandered among them, talking to them，______ them, and encouraging their efforts.
____ I watched this scene on a morning in May years ago, it ______ me that a visitor here ______ never have thought he had entered a formal school. He would have been even more ______ if he had been told that the children he was ______ came from different kinds of academic（学业） levels.
That ______ has been staying with me ever since. I have been ______ about some problems. Why in many schools are our children often asked to learn skills in a way ______ from a real-life context（情境）? Why does a lively school child so ______ become a defeated school failure?
Developmental psychologist（心理学家）Margaret Donald once said, “Much of the intellectual framework (知识框架) on which we ______ our teaching is misleading.” In my opinion, a child learns everything in human ______. And if every child could learn in the same way as the children in the school ______ I visited years ago，they would develop better.
1.A. gardener B. child C. teacher D. visitor
2.A. poor B. little C. full D. slight
3.A. sitting B. standing C. Sleeping D. listening
4.A. toy B. pencil C. flower D. notebook
5.A. settled B. set C. defeated D. lost
6.A. Over B. Above C. Inside D. Outside
7.A. during B. while C. until D. even if
8.A. referring to B. pointing to C. smiling at D. staring at
9.A. As B. Unless C. Until D. Before
10.A. came up with B. thought about C. attacked D. hit
11.A. could B. should C. must D. need
12.A. satisfied B. surprised C. pleased D. disappointed
13.A. helping B. spotting C. seeking D. watching
14.A. scene B. sign C. look D. view
15.A. dreaming B. regretting C. wondering D. joking
16.A. taken B. prevented C. learned D. separated
17.A. often B. hardly C. seldom D. badly
18.A. feed B. base C. turn D. discover
19.A. race B. position C. situation D. case
20.A. when B. which C. to which D. in which
