Life skills,unfortunately,is an abstract and broad term for the abilities one would need for full participation in everyday life. So recently,I did a casual survey among my friends. I asked how they would determine whether an individual has,say,good social skills.
One said the language of such individuals would be grammatically correct and they would express their ideas clearly. Another said good eye contact was important. Yet another added to the list the ability to get along with people,not to take things personally and the ability to help others.
If most adults have difficulty defining the positive behaviours that are necessary to life skills,how do we know if students have acquired them the way I can describe on a report card?
Marlaine Paulsen Cover,founder of Parenting 2.0,has done just that.
Cover created a communication tool called the Life Skills Report Card (LSRC) . Similar in format to academic report cards,the LSRC divides life skills into five primary categories: personal care,organisation,respect for self and others,communication,and social. Sub-categories on the LSRC include: sleep,exercise,spirit'safety,time utilization,finances,ownership in problems and conflicts,altruism (無私) , and environmental consciousness.
She found that societies around the globe routinely supported children's active learning for music,sports,and academics. When it came to life skills,however,the popular perspective (觀念) was simply “children learn what they live”.
“Yet when children are poor in certain life skills,society is quick to pass a whole person judgment,” Cover says.
Life skills are necessary,because — to quote Scottish poet and novelist Robert Louis Stevenson — uto be what we are,and to become what we are capable of becoming,that is the only end of life”.
32. Why does the author raise the questions in Paragraph 1 ?
A. To present different ideas.
B. To expect reasonable answers.
C. To express his disappointment.
D. To introduce points for discussion.
33. How did the author feel about the result of the survey?
A. It was practical. B. It was worrying.
C. It was convincing. D. It was predictable.
34. What do we know about Cover's LSRC?
A. It has been widely used at schools.
B. It strongly emphasizes personal care.
C. It aims to change people's ideas about life skills.
D. It has something in common with academic report cards.
35. Cover''s words show that people tend to.
A. ignore the importance of life skills
B. encourage children's active learning
C. compare academic skills with life skills
D. look down upon children with poor life skills
(社會(huì))
本文是議論文：文幸討論了教給孩子生存技能的重要
32. D.寫作手法題。作者在文中探討的主題是生 存技能，所以第一段所提的問題就是為了引起 人們的思考，引出本文要討論的話題。
33. B.推理判斷題。根據(jù)第藏段If most adults have difficulty defining the positive behaviours that are necessary to life skills,how do we know if students have acquired them the way I can describe on a report card?可知，作者調(diào)査完發(fā)規(guī) 大家的說法不一,為此感到擔(dān)憂，因?yàn)樨踩硕?搞不清什么是生存技能時(shí)，我們?cè)趺茨茉O(shè)計(jì)出 教授、評(píng)價(jià)孩手們的生存技能的報(bào)告單呢？
34. D.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第五段的Similar in format to academic report cards 可知，二者在整 體設(shè)計(jì)上較為相似。
35. A.推理判斷題.根據(jù)倒數(shù)第三段的When it came to life skills,however,the popular perspective wis simply “children learn what they live”和倒數(shù)第二段可知，Cover認(rèn)為人們沒有 認(rèn)識(shí)到生存技能的重要性。
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