Ⅳ.阅读理解
“It hurts me more than you.” and “This is for your own good.” — these are the statements my mother used to make years ago when I had to learn Latin，clean my room，stay home and do homework.
That was before we entered the permissive period in education in which we decided it was all right not to push our children to achieve their best in school. The schools and the educators made it easy for us. They taught that it was all right to be parents who take a letalone policy. We stopped making our children do homework. We gave them calculators, turned on the television，left the teaching to the teachers and went on vacation.
Now teachers, faced with children who have been developing at their own pace for the past 15 years, are realizing we've made a terrible mistake. There is such a teacher called Sharon Klompus who says of her students — “so passive” — and wonders what has happened. Nothing is demanded of them，she believes. “Television，” says Klompus, “contributes to children's passivity. We're talking about a generation of kids who have never been hurt or hungry. They have learned somebody will always do it for them，instead of saying ‘go and look it up’， you tell them the answer. It takes greater energy to say no to a kid.”
Yes，it does. It takes energy and it takes work. It's time for parents to end their vacation and come back to work. It's time to take the car away, to turn the TV off，to tell them it hurts you more than them and it's for their own good. It's time to start telling them no again.
1．Children are becoming more inactive in study because ________.
A．they watch TV too often
B．they have done too much homework
C．they have to fulfill too many duties
D．teachers are too strict with them
答案与解析：A 细节理解题。由第三段中的“‘Television，’ says Klompus, ‘contributes to children's passivity.’”可知答案为A。
2．We learn from the passage that the author's mother used to lay emphasis on ________.
A．learning Latin
B．discipline
C．natural development
D．education at school
答案与解析：B 细节理解题。由第一段中的“...are the statements my mother used to make years ago when I had to learn Latin, clean my room, stay home and do homework.”可知作者的母亲过去是很注重对孩子们“管教”的，故答案为B。discipline表示“教养，管教”。
3．By “permissive period in education” (Para. 2) the author means a time ________.
A．when children are allowed to do what they wish to
B．when everything can be taught at school
C．when every child can be educated
D．when children are permitted to receive education
答案与解析：A 词义猜测题。由第二段中的“...in which we decided it was all right not to push our children to achieve their best in school. The schools and the educators made it easy for us. They taught that it was all right to be parents who take a letalone policy.”可知此题答案为A。
4．The main idea of the passage is that ________.
A．parents should leave their children alone
B．kids should have more activities at school
C．it's time to be more strict with our kids
D．parents should always set a good example to their kids
答案与解析：C 主旨大意题。综观全文，再结合文章尾段的点题句“...it hurts you more than them and it's for their own good. It's time to start telling them no again.”可知此题应选C。
“It hurts me more than you.” and “This is for your own good.” — these are the statements my mother used to make years ago when I had to learn Latin，clean my room，stay home and do homework.
That was before we entered the permissive period in education in which we decided it was all right not to push our children to achieve their best in school. The schools and the educators made it easy for us. They taught that it was all right to be parents who take a letalone policy. We stopped making our children do homework. We gave them calculators, turned on the television，left the teaching to the teachers and went on vacation.
Now teachers, faced with children who have been developing at their own pace for the past 15 years, are realizing we've made a terrible mistake. There is such a teacher called Sharon Klompus who says of her students — “so passive” — and wonders what has happened. Nothing is demanded of them，she believes. “Television，” says Klompus, “contributes to children's passivity. We're talking about a generation of kids who have never been hurt or hungry. They have learned somebody will always do it for them，instead of saying ‘go and look it up’， you tell them the answer. It takes greater energy to say no to a kid.”
Yes，it does. It takes energy and it takes work. It's time for parents to end their vacation and come back to work. It's time to take the car away, to turn the TV off，to tell them it hurts you more than them and it's for their own good. It's time to start telling them no again.
1．Children are becoming more inactive in study because ________.
A．they watch TV too often
B．they have done too much homework
C．they have to fulfill too many duties
D．teachers are too strict with them
答案与解析：A 细节理解题。由第三段中的“‘Television，’ says Klompus, ‘contributes to children's passivity.’”可知答案为A。
2．We learn from the passage that the author's mother used to lay emphasis on ________.
A．learning Latin
B．discipline
C．natural development
D．education at school
答案与解析：B 细节理解题。由第一段中的“...are the statements my mother used to make years ago when I had to learn Latin, clean my room, stay home and do homework.”可知作者的母亲过去是很注重对孩子们“管教”的，故答案为B。discipline表示“教养，管教”。
3．By “permissive period in education” (Para. 2) the author means a time ________.
A．when children are allowed to do what they wish to
B．when everything can be taught at school
C．when every child can be educated
D．when children are permitted to receive education
答案与解析：A 词义猜测题。由第二段中的“...in which we decided it was all right not to push our children to achieve their best in school. The schools and the educators made it easy for us. They taught that it was all right to be parents who take a letalone policy.”可知此题答案为A。
4．The main idea of the passage is that ________.
A．parents should leave their children alone
B．kids should have more activities at school
C．it's time to be more strict with our kids
D．parents should always set a good example to their kids
答案与解析：C 主旨大意题。综观全文，再结合文章尾段的点题句“...it hurts you more than them and it's for their own good. It's time to start telling them no again.”可知此题应选C。
