Psychologically there are two dangers to be guarded against in old age. One of these is undue absorption in the past. It does not do to live in memories, in regrets for the old days, or in sadness about friends who are dead. One’’s thoughts must be directed to the future, and to things about which there is something to be done. This is not always easy; one’’s own past is a gradually increasing weight. It is easy to think to oneself that one’’s emotions used to be more active than they are, and one’’s mind more keen. If this is true it should be forgotten, and if it is forgotten it will probably not be true. The other thing to be avoided is clinging tightly to youth in the hope of sucking vigor from its vitality. When your children are grown up they want to live their own lives, and if you continue to be as interested in them as you were when they were young, you are likely to become a burden to them. I do not mean that one should be without interest in them, but one’’s interest should be thoughtful and, if possible, kindly but not unduly emotional. Animals become indifferent to their young as soon as their young can look after themselves, but human beings, owing to the length of early childhood, find this difficult. I think that a successful old age is easiest for those who have strong impersonal interest involving appropriate activities. It is in this sphere mat long experience is really fruitful, and it is in this sphere that the wisdom born of experience can be exercised without being oppressive. It is no use telling grown-up children not to make mistakes, both because they will not believe you, and because mistakes are an essential part of education. But if you are one of those who are incapable of impersonal interest, you may find that your life will be empty unless you concern yourself with your children and grandchildren. In that case you must realize that while you can still render them material services, such as making them an allowance or knitting them sweaters, you must not expect that they will enjoy your company. According to the passage, what attitude should be adopted toward your grown-up children
A. Leave them to live their own life and learn their own lessons.
B. Give them some material help if you can, but not too much.
C. Help them with your wisdom born of experience.
D. Let them live separately.
三、根据以下材料。回答下列题。2008年底.我国网民数从1997年的62万增加到2.98亿,居世界第2位。其中宽带网民数达到2.7亿,手机网民数达到1.2亿。互联网普及率达到22.6%,超过全球平均水平。2008年底,我国互联网的国际出口带宽由1997年的25.4Mbps增长到640286.7Mbps,11年间增长了25207倍。2008年底,我国Ipv4地址数已从2001年底的0.2亿个增加到1.8亿个,全球排名由第9位上升到第3位;域名总数达到1682.6万个。其中国家CN域名在2007年平均每天增长2万个,2008年底已达到1357.2万个。网站数由2000年的26.5万个增长到2008年的287.8万个,年均增长34.7%。2002年,我国的网页数为1.6亿个,2008年网页数达到160.9亿个。2005年,我国电子商务交易额达到12992亿元人民币,相当于国内生产总值的7.1%。到2008年底,我国网络购物用户人数达到7400万,占网民总数的24.8%。2008年底,我国使用网络媒体的网民比例达到78.5%,使用电子邮件的网民比例达到56.8%,使用网上教育的网民比例达到16.5%。拥有博客的网民比例达到54.3%。 下列说法与资料相符的是()。
A. 2005年,我国国内生产总值超过18万亿元人民币
B. 2008年底,全球互联网普及率的平均水平不低于25%
C. 2008年底,我国平均每网站拥有网页数超过6000个
D. 2007年初,我国国家CN域名数已达到627.2万个
Given the lack of fit between gifted students and their schools, it is not surprising that such students often have little good to say about their school experience. In one study of 400 adults who had achieved distinction in all areas of life, researchers found that three-fifths of these individuals either did badly in school or were unhappy in school. Few MacArthur Prize fellows, winners of the MacArthur Award for creative accomplishment, had good things to say about their precollegiate schooling if they had not been placed in advanced programs. Anecdotal (名人轶事的) reports support this. Pablo Picasso, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, Oliver Goldsmith, and William Butler Yeats all disliked school. So did Winston Churchill, who almost failed out of Harrow, an elite British school. About Oliver Goldsmith, one of his teachers remarked, "Never was so dull a boy." Often these children realize that they know more than their teachers, and their teachers often feel that these children are arrogant, inattentive, or unmotivated. Some of these gifted people may have done poorly in school because their gifts were not scholastic. Maybe we can account for Picasso in this way. But most fared poorly in school not because they lacked ability but because they found school unchallenging and consequently lost interest. Yeats described the lack of fit between his mind and school: "Because I had found it difficult to attend to anything less interesting than my own thoughts, I was difficult to teach." As noted earlier, gifted children of all kinds tend to be strong-willed nonconformists, Nonconformity and stubbornness (and Yeats’’s level of arrogance and self-absorption) are likely to lead to conflicts with teachers. When highly gifted students in any domain talk about what was important to the development of their abilities, they are far more likely to mention their families than their schools or teachers. A writing prodigy (神童) studied by David Feldman and Lynn Goldsmith was taught far more about writing by his journalist father than his English teacher. High-IQ children in Australia studied by Miraca Gross had much more positive feelings about their families than their schools. About half of the mathematicians studied by Benjamin Bloom had little good to say about school. They all did well in school and took honors classes when available, and some skipped grades. Pablo Picasso is listed among the many gifted children who________.
A. paid no attention to their teachers in class
B. contradicted their teachers much too often
C. could not cope with their studies at school successfully
D. behaved arrogantly and stubbornly in the presence of their teachers
二、根据下表,回答下列题。 世界部分城市气候状况 城市 国家 地理纬度 海拔(米) 年均温度(度) 最冷月平均温度(度) 最暖月平均温度(度) 年均降水(mm) 最湿月平均降水(mm) 最干月平均降水(mm) 日照最长月平均日照(小时) 日照最短月平均日照(小时) 北京 中国 39°55’N 37 11.8 -4.3/1 25.9/7 578 182/8 2/12 9.3/5 6.1/12 香港 中国 22°20’N 33 22.9 15.8/1 28.8/7 2215 391/8 23/1 7.5/7 3.1/3 鄂木斯克 俄罗斯联邦 55°00’N 85 1.4 -17.3/1 19.7/7 391 61/7 14/2,3 10.4/7 2.0/12 海参崴 俄罗斯联邦 43°10’N 28 4.2 -13.1/1 19.5/8 788 149/8 15/1 7.0/3 3.9/7 东京 日本 35°40’N 6 15.6 5.2/1 27.1/8 1406 185/5 45/1 5.9,5 3.7/9 新德里 印度 28°40’N 216 25.1 14.3/1 33.4/6 790 237/7 9/11.12 7.3/9 5.4/7 加尔各答 印度 22°35’N 10 26.9 20.1/1 30.7/5 1800 411/7 11/1 7.9/4 3.0/7 盂买 印度 18°55’N 11 27.5 24.5/1 30.2/5 2168 682/7 0/1-3 9.6/5 2.4/7 马尼拉 菲律宾 14°35’N 16 27.4 25.6/1 29.5/5 1875 398/8 3/2 8.6/4 4.2/8 胡志明市 越南 10°45’N 10 27.2 25.7/1 29.0/4 1861 303/9 4/2 7.5,2 4.4/7 新加坡 新加坡 1°20’N 17 26.7 25.7/12 27.5/5 2150 304/12 140/6 6.2/2 4.3/11 雅加达 印度尼西亚 6°10’S 8 26.2 25.6/2 273/8 1802 336/1 46/8 7.6/8 4.5/1 注:第6、7、9、10、11、12列中温度、降水和日照指标之后的数字表示特定的月份。 表中海拔高度位居第三的城市,其最湿月平均降水量约占全年平均降水量的( )。
A. 15.6%
B. 17.7%
C. 18.9%
D. 31.5%