Question

【題目】Certainly, a well-rounded education is the foundation from which all of us spring forth. I am grateful to the many incredible teachers who have inspired me to do greater things, and have fired my enthusiasm for everlasting learning!

I have also been honored to have the most amazing teachers in all of my children's lives. These are extraordinary people who not only teach our children, but love them, challenge them, and provide an environment where a child learns how to learn.

But, sometimes I wonder if the outline of our educational plan is lacking something. I watched the movie Easy A with my older daughter. The main character's parents were loving, supportive, and built great confidence in their daughter and developed her ability to handle her own problems.

There was a scene where the mother was speaking to the younger child and he announced that he received an "A" on his spelling test. She replied, "That' s great, honey, but everything has spell check these days. " It was funny --- but TRUE ! I don't mean that we shouldn't teach our children how to spell, but maybe some of our time should be spent educating them about the dangers of posting things on Facebook.

Maybe we might want to spend time showing them how real life works - the credit card isn't free money - you will have to pay it back at sometime. Oh, and get this - they charge you for borrowing that money. Perhaps, we should spend some time on interpersonal relationships. I worry that our kids do not know how to relate to one another.

Choosing a career (職業(yè)) is a daunting task. My daughter is in her second year in college and has changed her major twice. It' s not that she didn't know what she wanted to do. What she "wanted to do" and the degree she chose did not match.

I have learned many college students do not know what they want to do because they haven' t seen what it looks like in the real world. Being a journalist in the real world looks very different from writing stories. Maybe if we spent some time exposing them to real life experience - maybe two or three courses m areas of interest in high school that give them a "feel" for what that particular field would look like, they might be better prepared. I do not know the solution, but it seems that it should at least be a topic of discussion.

The underlined word "daunting" in Paragraph 6 probably means_____

A. discouraging B. specific

C. rewarding D. regular

Answer 1

【答案】A

【解析】

試題分析：我們的孩子們接受到很好的教育，但是在現(xiàn)有的教育體系中，我們不能只重視教孩子書(shū)本上的知識(shí)，還應(yīng)該讓孩子多參與社會(huì)實(shí)踐等活動(dòng)。

A 考查詞義猜測(cè)。擇業(yè)是一項(xiàng)艱巨的任務(wù)。我的女兒改了兩次專(zhuān)業(yè)，不是因?yàn)樗�不知道怎么做，而是�?/span>“想做的”和她“能做的”并不完全吻合。discouraging使人沮喪的；specific特殊的；rewarding有益的；regular有規(guī)律的。通過(guò)文章意思分析應(yīng)該是艱難而令人生畏的。所以選A。