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“It hurts me more than you”, and “This is for your owngood”—these are the statements my mother used to make years ago when I had tolearn Latin, clean my room, stay home and do homework.

That was before we entered the permissive periodin education in which we decided it was all right not to push our children toachieve their best in school. The schools and the educators made it easy forus. They taught that it was all right to be parents who take a let-alonepolicy. We stopped making our children do homework. We gave them calculators,turned on the television, left the teaching to the teachers and went onvacation.

Now teachers, faced with children who have beendeveloping at their own pace for the past 15 years, are realizing we’ve made aterrible mistake. One such teacher is Sharon Klompus who says of her students“so passive” and wonders what has happened. Nothing is demanded of them, shebelieves. Television, says Klompus, contributes to children’s passivity. “We’retalking about a generation of kids who’ve never been hurt or hungry. They havelearned somebody will always do it for them, instead of saying ‘go and look itup’, 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’stime for parents to end their vacation and come back to work. It’s time to takethe car away, to turn the TV off, to tell them it hurts you more than them butit’s for their own good. It’s time to start telling them no again.  

1.We learn from the passage that the author’s motherused to lay emphasis on（强调）    .

A．his learninga foreign language

B．his abilityto control behavior

C．his naturaldevelopment

D．his schooleducation

2.According to the author, “the permissive period” inParagraph 2 means a time   .

A．when childrenare allowed to do what they wish to

B．wheneverything can be taught at school

C．when everychild can be educated

D．when childrenare permitted to receive education

3.What is the main idea of the passage?

A．Parentsshould leave their kids alone

B．Kids shouldhave more activities at school.

C．It’s time to be stricter with our kids.

D．Parentsshould set a good example to their kids.

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【答案】

1.B

2.A

3.C

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