Question

【題目】D

In recent years, our parenting culture began to send the message that competence（能力） was important for building self-confidence. However, that same parenting culture made a big mistake by telling parents they should tell their children how competent they were. Children can't be convinced that they are competent. Only your children can build their sense of competence.

However, you can do several things to encourage them to develop their own competence. First, you can give them opportunities to gain a sense of competence. You should allow your children to “get their hands dirty” in the daily life and find out what they are capable of.

These daily experiences allow your children to develop specific competencies that will be helpful to them as they grow up. Also, the more individual competencies children develop, the more they will view themselves as globally competent people.

Second, you can be sure that they gain the most value from their experiences. You can direct their focus to the competences that enabled those successes rather than some generic（籠統(tǒng)的） praise of the accomplishment itself. And you can also praise their accomplishments.

A great difficulty for parents is allowing their children to be wrong or do something poorly in the mistaken belief that these experiences will hurt their sense of competence. In fact, whether they do it well isn't important because success isn't really the goal. Instead, the goal is their willingness to keep trying.

Another mistake that parents make is that, after being unsuccessful when their children first try something, they try to correct them so they will succeed the next time they try. That's not to say that you can't lend a hand when they are struggling. But let them take the lead; if they really want your help, they'll ask for it.

【1】The passage is mainly about_____.

A. the arts to praise children

B. the ways to help children develop ability

C. the ways to evaluate children’s ability

D. the proper ways to help children deal with failure

【2】What should parents say to help children gain value from their experiences?

A. Well done!

B.You are the best!

C. You are really careful!

D. You’d better do as I do.

【3】Parents often make a mistake by ______.

A. getting their children’s hands dirty

B. not realizing the harmful effect of failure

C. putting themselves into children’s shoes

D. telling their children how competent they are

【4】How did the writer develop the passage?

A. By asking and answering questions.

B. By introducing different opinions.

C. By listing examples.

D. By giving explanations.

【5】In which section of a newspaper can you find this passage?

A. Education B. Health and Fitness

C. Home and Garden D. Careers

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】C

【3】D

【4】D

【5】A

【解析】能力對樹立自尊很重要，父母應(yīng)該盡其所能使他們的孩子相信他們是多么有能力。但是在如何讓孩子意識到他們是有能力的時候，父母經(jīng)常會犯一些錯誤。在本文中作者對此進(jìn)行了分析并指出了正確的做法。

【1】B主旨大意題。文章開頭提出在教養(yǎng)孩子方面人們?nèi)菀追傅腻e誤，然后在第二段提出you can do several things to encourage them to develop their own competence，接下來詳細(xì)介紹了培養(yǎng)孩子能力的方法，故選B。

【2】C推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第四段內(nèi)容可知作者建議人們要引導(dǎo)孩子關(guān)注那些能使他們成功的能力，而不是僅僅籠統(tǒng)地對他們的成就進(jìn)行評價，故答案選C。

【3】D細(xì)節(jié)理解題。從文章首段that same parenting culture made a big mistake by telling parents they should tell their children how competent they were.可以判斷作者認(rèn)為家長告訴孩子他們是多么有能力這種教養(yǎng)方式是錯誤的，故選D。

【4】D寫作手法題。從文章內(nèi)容可以看出作者在提出如何幫助孩子培養(yǎng)能力這一主旨后，主要通過講解的方式從幾個方面進(jìn)行了說明，由此判斷答案選D。

【5】A 推理判斷題。文章介紹了如何幫助孩子培養(yǎng)能力，由此判斷文章應(yīng)該出現(xiàn)在教育版面，故選A。