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Any good mystery must eventually uncover a villain, and in a recent documentary, "Who Killed the Electric Car", the filmmakers duly pointed the finger at General Motors. The 5 is not so simple, but there is little doubt that when GM pulled the plug on its EV1 battery-powered car a decade ago, other 6 followed the Giant carmaker’s lead. Yet GM has now 7 its enthusiasm for electric vehicles — or at least for their close cousins, hybrid cars (混合动力汽车). At the upcoming auto show, the company is expected to 8 a prototype that overtakes existing hybrids， 9 Toyota’s Pruis. Today’s hybrids capture energy normally 10 during braking and coasting and use it to power an electric motor that can provide extra bursts of 11 when needed. The Pruis and other hybrids can also run 12 battery power alone at low speeds over short distances, such as in stop-start traffic. But GM’s new car is expected to be a "plug-in" hybrid, which, as its name implied, can be recharged by 13 it into the mains (干线). Together with a big battery pack, this provides a much larger range in all-electric 14 , after which the petrol engine kicks in. GM’s car is expected to go around 50 miles (80 km) in all-electric mode， 15 enough for American commuters, who would need to use the 16 engine on longer trips only. The 17 is that plug-in hybrids need a much larger and more costly battery pack． 18 a Pirus to operate as a plug-in hybrid, as some enthusiasts have done, costs around ＄12,000. GM bosses have hinted that his company planned to put a plug-in into mass 19 . It is an indication of how the pace is 20 in the race to develop more eco-friendly cars. Others are more 21 . Carlos Ghson, the boss of Renault and Nissan, who is 22 for his skepticism towards hybrids, said he still had doubts that hybrid technology is 23 for the mass market, stressing that plug-in hybrids will have to wait until battery technology improves. Toyota has also been 24 about plug-ins, insisting the Pims’ approach is more convenient.
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You know you’re an extreme parent if. "... your child, who does not have a documented learning disability, has more than three tutors." "... you imagine that your child is going to play professional sports even though no coach has predicted this outcome" "... you have your child take 30 practice SAT exams before the actual test." These real-life examples come from Michael Thompson, a psychologist who has seen extreme parenting on the front lines for many years, and who has been called in by schools across the U. S. to guide parents on how to tone it down. Thompson acknowledges that parents want the best for their children. But he warns parents against overestimating their roles in a child’s development, which can lead to extreme behavior and a crooked sense of how the kids are doing. He recalls a mother who challenged her son’s high school guidance counselor after he suggested several colleges based on the student’s academics. When she expressed her disappointment, the guidance counselor explained:"Your son is not in the top half of the class." The mother’s response: "Yes, but nobody told me he was in the bottom half." Extreme parenting is driven by the parent who believes "they are the engine of how their children will turn out," Thompson says. The trouble comes when parents cross the line from healthy involvement to trying to pave a straight line to success. And it’s not always a bright line. About 10 years ago, Psychology Today columnist Hara Estroff Marano began investigating a dramatic rise in depression on college campuses. She spoke to about 400 college counselors. In almost every case she says she heard the same thing: "These kids have no coping skills. They’d been overprotected by parents who were pushing them to achieve-who were shielding them from bumps to have a straight shot at success." This informs Marano’s view of extreme parenting, which involves parents who don’t give their children enough latitude to experience failure. "You know you’re an extreme parent when you take over tasks for your kids," Marano says, "Or you solve their math problems for them. Or you ask them to do something, like tie their shoes, and get impatient, so you end up tying them." Parents overprotected their children with the purpose of giving them______.
Any good mystery must eventually uncover a villain, and in a recent documentary, "Who Killed the Electric Car", the filmmakers duly pointed the finger at General Motors. The 5 is not so simple, but there is little doubt that when GM pulled the plug on its EV1 battery-powered car a decade ago, other 6 followed the Giant carmaker’s lead. Yet GM has now 7 its enthusiasm for electric vehicles — or at least for their close cousins, hybrid cars (混合动力汽车). At the upcoming auto show, the company is expected to 8 a prototype that overtakes existing hybrids， 9 Toyota’s Pruis. Today’s hybrids capture energy normally 10 during braking and coasting and use it to power an electric motor that can provide extra bursts of 11 when needed. The Pruis and other hybrids can also run 12 battery power alone at low speeds over short distances, such as in stop-start traffic. But GM’s new car is expected to be a "plug-in" hybrid, which, as its name implied, can be recharged by 13 it into the mains (干线). Together with a big battery pack, this provides a much larger range in all-electric 14 , after which the petrol engine kicks in. GM’s car is expected to go around 50 miles (80 km) in all-electric mode， 15 enough for American commuters, who would need to use the 16 engine on longer trips only. The 17 is that plug-in hybrids need a much larger and more costly battery pack． 18 a Pirus to operate as a plug-in hybrid, as some enthusiasts have done, costs around ＄12,000. GM bosses have hinted that his company planned to put a plug-in into mass 19 . It is an indication of how the pace is 20 in the race to develop more eco-friendly cars. Others are more 21 . Carlos Ghson, the boss of Renault and Nissan, who is 22 for his skepticism towards hybrids, said he still had doubts that hybrid technology is 23 for the mass market, stressing that plug-in hybrids will have to wait until battery technology improves. Toyota has also been 24 about plug-ins, insisting the Pims’ approach is more convenient.
Any good mystery must eventually uncover a villain, and in a recent documentary, "Who Killed the Electric Car", the filmmakers duly pointed the finger at General Motors. The 5 is not so simple, but there is little doubt that when GM pulled the plug on its EV1 battery-powered car a decade ago, other 6 followed the Giant carmaker’s lead. Yet GM has now 7 its enthusiasm for electric vehicles — or at least for their close cousins, hybrid cars (混合动力汽车). At the upcoming auto show, the company is expected to 8 a prototype that overtakes existing hybrids， 9 Toyota’s Pruis. Today’s hybrids capture energy normally 10 during braking and coasting and use it to power an electric motor that can provide extra bursts of 11 when needed. The Pruis and other hybrids can also run 12 battery power alone at low speeds over short distances, such as in stop-start traffic. But GM’s new car is expected to be a "plug-in" hybrid, which, as its name implied, can be recharged by 13 it into the mains (干线). Together with a big battery pack, this provides a much larger range in all-electric 14 , after which the petrol engine kicks in. GM’s car is expected to go around 50 miles (80 km) in all-electric mode， 15 enough for American commuters, who would need to use the 16 engine on longer trips only. The 17 is that plug-in hybrids need a much larger and more costly battery pack． 18 a Pirus to operate as a plug-in hybrid, as some enthusiasts have done, costs around ＄12,000. GM bosses have hinted that his company planned to put a plug-in into mass 19 . It is an indication of how the pace is 20 in the race to develop more eco-friendly cars. Others are more 21 . Carlos Ghson, the boss of Renault and Nissan, who is 22 for his skepticism towards hybrids, said he still had doubts that hybrid technology is 23 for the mass market, stressing that plug-in hybrids will have to wait until battery technology improves. Toyota has also been 24 about plug-ins, insisting the Pims’ approach is more convenient.
A problem more specific to schools themselves is pervasive student passivity—a lack of active participation in learning. This problem is commonly found in both public and private schools and all grade levels. Many students do not perceive the opportunities provided by schooling as a privilege, but rather as a series of hurdles that are mechanically cleared in pursuit of credentials (文凭) that may open doors later in life. Students are bored and much of the pervasive passivity of American students is caused by the educational system. During this century, expanding state and federal governments favored large regional schools as more efficient means of supervising educational curricula and ensuring uniformity. Schools today, therefore, reflect the high level of bureaucratic organization found throughout American society. Such rigid and impersonal organization can negatively affect administrators, teachers, and students, and this bureaucratic educational system fosters five serious problems. First, bureaucratic uniformity ignores the cultural variation within count less local communities. It takes schools out of the local community and places them under the control of outside "specialists" who may have little under standing of the everyday lives of students. Second, bureaucratic schools define success by numerical ratings of performance. School officials focus on attendance rates, dropout rates, and achievement scores. They overlook dimensions of schooling that are difficult to quantify, such as the creativity of students and energy and enthusiasm of teachers. Such bureaucratic school systems tend to define an adequate education in terms of the number of days per year that students are inside a school building rather than the school’s contribution to students’ personal development. Third, bureaucratic schools have rigid expectations of all students. For example, fifteen-year-olds are expected to be in the tenth grade, eleven-grade students are expected to score at a certain level on a standardized verbal achievement test. The high school diploma thus rewards a student for going through the proper sequence of educational activities in the proper amount of time. Rarely are exceptionally bright and motivated students allowed to graduate early. Likewise, the system demands that students who have learned little in school graduate with their class. Fourth, the school’s bureaucratic division of labor requires specialized personnel. High-school students learn English from one teacher, receive guidance from another, and are coached in sports by others. No school official comes to know the "full" student as a complex human being. Students experience this division of labor as a continual shuffling among rigidly divided fifty-minute period throughout the school day. Fifth, the highly bureaucratic school system gives students little responsibility for their own learning. Similarly, teachers have little latitude in what and how they teach their classes; they dare not accelerate learning for fear of disrupting "the system." Standardized policies dictating what is to be taught and how long the teaching should be taken render teachers as passive and un- imaginative as their students. In this passage the author points out that bureaucracy in American schools not only discourages initiative and creativity on the part of students, but also ______.
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