题型:阅读选择 题类: 难易度:普通
广东省广州市华南师大附中2024-2025 学年九年级上学期学业评价(一) 英语试题
I always told my children that they were smart all the time. Especially in the first years of their life, they learned skills and language so quickly. I had a particularly clear memory of watching my son work out how to play a Lego toy and I told him," You' re a such architectural(建筑的) genius. Mom is proud of you."
But some research suggests that we should not tell our children they' re" smart" when they do important things. When I first heard about it, I disagreed. But after doing some research, I gradually agreed. It all goes back to" growth mindset", which means that you can change your abilities through hard work and strategies(策略). Compared to a" growth mindset", a" fixed mindset" is the idea that your abilities are inborn and can't be changed. When we praise our children for being" smart" based on success, like solving a problem or doing well on a test. we' re encouraging them to believe that if they do poorly or make mistakes, they' re not smart.
And it's not just what we say about our children's success that matters — it's how we tolerate(容忍) their failures. A study led by a scientist named Kyle shows if parents think that failure is shameful, their children are more likely to be derailed by mistakes. For example, Dr. Kyle explains, your children may have difficulty in solving math problems and you may say something like" Not everyone needs to be good at numbers" as a way to comfort them. But what you' re really doing is suggesting that their math abilities are already set, and can't be changed.
Whatever you say to your kids, it's about getting them comfortable with failures. Here are some tips from Dr. Kyle. One way is to praise kids' hard work instead of their intelligence. As Dr. Kyle pointed out, if we praise a kid for a school project he finished in five minutes, he would know our praise is empty. Instead, we can ask him questions about how he did it, which can help us know how to praise future hard work. Also, we can talk about our mistakes. We don't have to hide our negative(消极的) feelings. If we point out our missteps and explain how we insisted, our children can learn to do the same.
"How do you get to school?" This question often gets an answer like "By bus", "By car" or "On foot". But not always. There are children in many different parts of the world who, every day, have to go on a difficult journey to get to school. They travel for kilometres on foot, or by boat, bicycle, donkey (驴) or train. They cross deserts (沙漠), mountains, rivers, snow and ice. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}
To get to school on time, some children in Indonesia have to cross a dangerous bridge.{#blank#}2{#/blank#} Then they walk many more kilometres through the forest to their school in Banten.
{#blank#}3{#/blank#} He has to ride it with his friends for over an hour through a desert in the very dry area of northeast Brazil. Their school is in a tiny village. Very few people live there.
Some children live in houses along Chetl, a road in Delhi, India. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} Every morning they walk along the railway to get to their school, 40 minutes away.
Why do the children do this? Do their parents make them do it? The answer, in many cases, is no.{#blank#}5{#/blank#} They hope to get a job to make money so that they can help their families. And this is why rivers, deserts or any form of danger won't stop them from reaching school.
A. It is ten metres above a rushing river. B. Children in many countries do this and more. C. For them, going to school means a better future. D. Their homes are near a busy and dangerous railway. E. The children like to go to school instead of staying at home. F. A 6-year- old boy Fabricio rides his donkey to school every morning. |
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