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“A very disruptive(調皮搗蛋的) six-year-old child kicked my legs and clawed at my hand,” said one teacher. “ I broke up a fight and was kicked between my legs,” said another. Many people have heard stories like this. But the situation is more worrying still and it involves parents.

Every child, regardless of the circumstances into which they are born, has the right to achieve their potential, regardless of their parents’ wealth and class. And we recognize that, as a nation, it is a long way to achieve this goal. But with rights come responsibilities and what worries people is that we are in danger of ignoring the latter.

Far too many children are behaving badly at school, even to the point of being violent to staff. This is terrible enough, but it is hard to be surprised since many children are just mirroring the behaviour of their parents.

My members tell me that parents also come into school often and threaten staff and some staff have been attacked by a pupil’s parents. One father encouraged his child to start a fight on the playground before school started. A primary teacher reported that a parent shouted at him. We need to have a serious and sensible debate about the roles and responsibilities of parents and the support that they can reasonably expect of schools and teachers.

Children will not learn how to behave as social beings if they are stuck in front of the TV for hours every day. They need their parents to show an interest in them and to spend time with them, helping them to play with their peers(同齡人) and to learn the rules of social behavior.

Children are now arriving at school socially undeveloped, increasingly unable to dress themselves, unable to use the toilet properly, unable to hold a knife and fork and unused to eating at a table, Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, writes in today’s Observer. Instead of taking responsibility themselves, too many parents expect teachers to control their children’s behaviour and wellbeing, she adds. Bousted says one mother blamed staff when she discovered that her 16-year-old son was smoking.

We are in danger of becoming a nation of families living separate lives under one roof. The bedroom, once a place to sleep, has become the living space for the young. Spending hours in front of computer screens, on social networking sites or being immersed(沉迷于) in computer games, children and young people spend little time with their parents. Parents are unable to monitor just what their children are watching.

Schools cannot right the wrongs of society and teachers cannot become substitute parents. Both parties need to work together. Parents must be helped and given confidence to take back control. They are responsible for setting boundaries for their children's behaviour and sticking to those boundaries. They are responsible for setting a good example to their children and for devoting that most precious of resources — time — so that children come to school ready and willing to learn.

1.In the opinion of the writer, what problem do people ignore?

A. The violence in the school

B. The study pressure of students.

C. The responsibilities of the students

D. The right to achieve students’ potential.

2.The underlined part in Paragraph 7 means _____.

A. parents care little about children’s life at home

B. parents and children live in their separate rooms

C. children don’t live with their parents in the same house

D. children live a different life from that of parents at home

3.The author’s attitude to the behaviour of parents may be ______.

A. dissatisfied          B. indifferent

C. understanding   D. tolerant

4.From the last paragraph, we can infer that ______.

A. teachers have no responsibility for playing the role of parents

B. schools can’t correct the wrongs that society does to teachers

C. students are responsible for making themselves known in society

D. parents should spend time with children to make them ready to learn

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.C

2.A

3.A

4.D

【解析】

試題分析：文章的主要內容是小孩兒在學校里面的表現差，甚至有暴力的傾向。在學校有時候對老師造成了傷害，其中的一個原因是家庭原因，是受了他們父母的影響。在家里，他們沒有得到應有的教育，他們不會和別人交往，很多的父母把約束控制孩子的責任推給了老師，他們缺少與孩子的溝通教育。孩子把大多數在家的時間花在了單獨相處或者沉溺于電腦游戲上。這是造成孩子沒有得到良好發展的原因。

1.C段落理解題。Every child, regardless of the circumstances into which they are born, has the right to achieve their potential, regardless of their parents’ wealth and class. And we recognize that, as a nation, it is a long way to achieve this goal. But with rights come responsibilities and what worries people is that we are in danger of ignoring the latter.大意為：不管孩子的出生環境怎么樣，也不管父母的財富和等級，每個孩子都有發展潛能的權力，我們已經意識到了這一點，但是在發展權力的同時，伴隨而來的是責任，而我們去忽視了后者，故答案應為C。

2.A細節理解題。One father encouraged his child to start a fight on the playground before school started. A primary teacher reported that a parent shouted at him. We need to have a serious and sensible debate about the roles and responsibilities of parents and the support that they can reasonably expect of schools and teachers.在文中作者列舉了兩個例子，一個父親鼓勵他的孩子在操場上去和別人打架。一對孩子的父母對一位老師訓斥，父母需要擔起他們的責任和角色。由此可以看出作者對父母的表現是不滿意的，故答案應為A。

3.A段落大意題。最后一段的意思為：學校沒有能力去改變社會上的一些錯誤，老師也不能代替父母，雙方需要的是合作。父母要重振他們管理孩子的信心，父母有責任為他們孩子的行為設定一定的界限并且去堅持這個界限。他們也有責任去為孩子樹立一個好的榜樣。為他們的孩子上學學習做好準備。故答案為A。

考點:社會現象類文章的閱讀理解。