It's an annual back-to-school routine. One morning you wave goodbye, and that【C1】______evening you're burning the late-night oil in sympathy. In the race to improve educational standards,【C2】______are throwing the books at kids.【C3】______elementary school students are complaining of homework【C4】______What's a well- meaning parent to do?
As hard as【C5】______may be, sit back and chill, experts advise. Though you've got to get them to do it,【C6】______helping too much, or even examining【C7】______too carefully, you may keep them【C8】______doing it by themselves. "I wouldn't advise a parent to check every【C9】______assignment," says psychologist John Rosemond, author of Ending the Tough Homework. "There's a【C10】______of appreciation for trial and error. Let your children【C11】______the grade they deserve."
Many experts believe parents should gently look over the work of younger children and ask them to rethink their【C12】______But "you don't want them to feel it has to be【C13】______," she says.
That's not to say parents should【C14】______homework--first, they should monitor how much homework their kids【C15】______Thirty minutes a day in the early elementary years and an hour in【C16】______four, five, and six is standard, says Rosemond. For junior-high students it should be "【C17】______more than an hour and a half," and two for high-school students. If your child【C18】______has more homework than this, you may .want to check【C19】______other parents and then talk to the teacher about【C20】______assignment.
【C1】
A. very
B. exact
C. right
D. usual
听力原文: In ancient Greece athletic festivals were very important and had strong religious associations. The Olympic athletic festival, held every four years in honor of Zeus, eventually lost its local character, be came first a national event, and then, after the rules against foreign competitors had been abolished, international. No one knows exactly how far back the Olympic Games go, but some official records date from 776 B. C.
The Games took place in August on the plain by Mount Olympus. Many thousands of spectators gathered from all parts of Greece, but no married woman was admitted even as a spectator. Slaves, women and dishonored people were not allowed to compete. Records show that the evening of the third day was devoted to sacrificial offerings to the heroes of the day, and the fourth day, that of the full moon, was set aside as a holy day. On the sixth and last day, all the victors were crowned with holy garlands of wild olive from a sacred wood. So great was the honor that the winner of the foot race gave his name to the year of his victory. How their results compared with modern standards, we unfortunately have no means of telling.
After an uninterrupted history of almost 1,200 years, the Games were abolished in A.D. 394 be cause of their pagan origin. It was a great many years before there was another such international athletic gathering. The Greek institution was brought back into existence in 1896 and the first small meeting took place in Athens. After the 1908 London Olympics, success was re-established and nations sent their best representatives.
Today, the Games are held in different countries in turn. The Olympics start with the arrival in the stadium of a torch, lighted on Mount Olympus by the sun's rays. It is carried by a succession of runners to the stadium. The torch symbolizes the continuation of the ancient Greek athletic ideals, and it burns throughout the Games until the closing ceremony.
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A. in the seventh century A. D.
B. certainly before 700 B. C.
C. over three thousand years ago
D. a thousand years ago
生产和安装的质量保证模型是指【 】
A. IS09001
B. IS09002
C. IS09003
D. IS09004
By saying "...we're going to look the other way in terms of what our laws are"(Line 2, para. ), Mayor Anderson means " ______".
A. we will turn a blind eye to your illegal status
B. we will examine the laws in a different way
C. there are other ways of enforcing the law
D. the existing laws must not be ignored