高三英语上学期第十四周周练试题

横峰中学高三英语第十四周周练

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“Helicopter parenting” describes a style of raising children where parents are overprotective and do too much. The term describes parents who hover over their kids at home and on the playground like a helicopter. Today, modern technology allows these helicopter parents to hover from even faraway places. They can give their children directions at any moment from anywhere.

Julie Lythcott-haims wrote a book titled How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kids for success. In her book, she gives readers a closer look at this parenting style. She also explains why parents should stop it.

Julie Lythcott-Haims says she experienced the effects of helicopter parenting first-hand when she worked as dean of first-year students at Standford University. The incoming students, or freshmen, she says, were very smart and accomplished on paper. But many were unable to take care of themselves. “They were turning t o parents constantly for guidance, for problem-solving, to have them make the choice about something.”

Lythcott-Haims warns this kind of parenting has many short-term wins but long-term costs that harm the child. She uses an area common to most children--a playground. Lythcott-Haims suggests letting your child get a littl e hurt.

“If you do your child’s homework, it will be perfect. That is what she calls th e short-term win. The long-term cost is that your child may not feel capable. And he does not become a determined learner, meaning he will give up easily when faced with a difficult problem to solve.” So what can parents do if they want to beak the overparenting “helicopter” cycle? Reading Julie’s book, you can follow some ways to stop hovering over your children. In a word, when kids have all the skills to take care of themselves, they will be prepared for adulthood.

28. The underlined words “hover over” in Paragraph 1 probably mean “________”.

A. deal with

B. fly over

C. stare at

D. circle around

29. What do the “helicopter parents ” believe?

A. Short-term wins can harm the kids.

B. Getting protection from parents is necessary.

C. Trying to make decisions should be valued.

D. Learning from failure is helping kids.

30. What should parents do for their children based o n Julie’s study?

A. Encourage them to do what they can do.

B. Help them grow with parents’ protection.

C. Guide them in doing as parents do or say.

D. Prevent them from playing on a playground.

31. What would be the best title for the text?

A. How to Break the Ov erparenting Cycle

B. How to Help Adults with Their Problems

C. Helicopter Parenting Is Well Worth Trying

D. Helping Children Too Much Is Hurting Them

B

They swim lovely along the shore, look ing for underwater greens to feed on. But these days, along Florida’s western coast, something is mixing with the seas grass that manatees like to eat. And it’s making them sick --- even killing them.

It’s a poisono us form of algae, usually called “red tide” because of its color. Algae are plant-like organisms (微生物) that live mainly in water. Most are harmless, but not red tide. When it gets mixed in with the grass and the manatees eat it, they get so sick that they can’t even swim.

“They’re basically paralyzed (瘫痪的), and they become unconscious, ” said Virgini a Edmonds, an animal care manager. Manatees are mammals and they need to surface often to breathe in air. If a manatee is paralyzed, it can’t swim and will drown.

As of Monday, the current red tide outbreak has killed at least 174 manatees since the begi nning of this year. That has already beaten Florida’s record-high number for manatee deaths in a single year --- and we still have nearly nine months to go!

The experts aren’t sure when the red tide outbreak will end. So many more manatees are