When my daughter was in the fifth grade, she came home from school almost every

When my daughter was in the fifth grade, she came homefrom school almost every night with three or more hours of homework. It was myduty to help her get it done. One night she worked until midnight doing herhomework.

I felt annoyed, but I didn’t want the teacher to thinkI was lazy. So I never complained. I wasn’t sure, but it seemed to me that fivehours of homework was a bit too much for a fifth grade student.

Later, I found out that parents and educators havediscussed about homework for more than a century. Parents who like morehomework want to give their children every advantage to succeed in today’sworld. Some educators see homework as a way to help students perform better intests.

Other parents dislike the recent trend toward morehomework. They don’t want to stay up until midnight helping their children.They would prefer to spend their time going to the park or reading some reallygood books with their children. Added to the opposition(反对)are those who say that homework increases the gap(差距)between the rich and the poor. That’s because middleclass families do better when it comes to helping their children with theirhomework.

So, who is right? Is homework an enemy or a help?According to experts, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

1.The author thought that her daughter’s homework_________.

A．was toodifficult

B．was too muchto finish

C．was done morecarefully than other students’

D．could be doneas long as she helped her daughter

2.The author never complained to the teacher because_________.

A．she was tooangry to talk with the teacher.

B．she did notlike complaining.

C．she wasafraid of being thought lazy by the teacher.

D．her daughterwould be annoyed if she complained.

3.In the last paragraph, experts __________.

A．think middleschool students should do lots of homework.

B．haven’t come up with any idea to solve this problem.

C．thinkhomework should be given, but not too much.

D．support theidea that homework is good for students.

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【答案】

1.B

2.C

3.C

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