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1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 574(无答案)一、Part I Writing (30 minutes)1 For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Should Parents Accompany Their Children Studying? You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.1越来越多的家长选择陪读2有人认为家长陪读利大于弊,也有人持相反观点3我的观点Should Parents Acc
2、ompany Their Children Studying?二、Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions attached to the passage. For questions 1-4, mark:Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the
3、information given in the passage;N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.1 The Only Child: Revealing the MythsThose without siblings hear these stereotypes all the time: That they are spoiled, disa
4、greeable, and cant function because their parents do everything for them. Wonder what onlies Steve Jobs, Betty White and Shaquille ONeal would say about that? Today, 20 percent of children under 18 are onlies, according to the U. S. Census. And, due to varied reasons including delays in marriage and
5、 having children, families with one child now outnumber those with two children, says social psychologist Susan Newman.Its a conversation I have most weeksif not most days. This time.it happens when my 2-year-old daughter and I are buying milk at the supermarket. The cashiers fawn over her pink chee
6、ks, and then I endure the usual dialogue:“Your first?“Yup. “Another one coming soon?“Nopeit might be just this one. “Youll have more. Youll see. “I offer no retort,but if I did,Id start by asking these young minimum-wage earners to consider the following:The U. S. Department of Agriculture reports t
7、hat the average child in the U. S. costs his or her parents about $ 286,050before college. Those costs have risen during the recession. Its a surprise to me these days if anyone can manage a second kidforget about a third.Since I celebrated my 35th birthday, I have to ask myself not when, but if. “
8、The recession has dramatically reshaped womens childbearing desires,“says Larry Finer,the director of domestic policy at the Guttmacher Institute, a leading reproductive health research organization. The institute found that 64% of women polled said that with the economy the way it is,they couldnt a
9、fford to have a baby now. Forty-four percent said they plan to reduce or delay their childbearingagain,because of the economy. This happens during financial meltdowns:The Great Depression saw single-child families jump at 23% .Since the early 60s, according to the National Center for Health Statisti
10、cs, single-child families have almost doubled in number,to about 1 in 5and thats from before the markets crashed.The deep-rooted dislike to stopping at one mainly amounts to a century-old public relations issue. Single children are perceived as spoiled, selfish, solitary discomfort. No parents want
11、that for their kid. Since the 1970s, however, studies devoted to understanding the personality characteristics of only children have debunked that idea. I, for one, was happy without siblings. A few ex-boyfriends aside, people seem to think I turned out just fine. So why do we still worry that there
12、s something wrong with just one?The Lonely Only?The image of the lonely only was the work of one man, Granville Stanley Hall. About 120 years ago, Hall established one of the first American psychology research labs. But what he is most known for tdday is supervising the 1896 study “ Of Peculiar and
13、Exceptional Children“ , which described a series of only-child oddballs as permanent misfits. For decades, academics and advice columnists alike spreaded his conclusion that an only child could not be expected to go through life with the same capacity for adjustment that children with siblings posse
14、ssed.No one has done more to disprove Halls stereotype than Toni Falbo, a professor of educational psychology and sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, Falbo began investigating the only-child experience in the 1970s,both in the U. S. and in China,drawing on the experience of tens of thous
15、ands of subjects. Twenty-five years ago, she and colleague Denise Polit conducted a meta-analysis of 115 studies of only children from 1925 onward that considered developmental outcomes of adjustment,character, sociability, achievement and intelligence.Generally,those studies showed that singletons
16、arent measurably different from other kidsexcept that they,along with firstborns and people who have only one sibling,score higher in measures of intelligence and achievement. Of course, part of the reason we assume only children are spoiled is that whatever parents have to give, the only child gets
17、 it all. The argument Judith Blake makes in Family Size and Achievement as to why onlies are higher achievers across socioeconomic lines can be stated simply: Theres no “ dilution of resources“, as she terms it, between siblings. No matter their income or occupation,parents of only children have mor
18、e time,energy and money to invest in their kid.But in that case, is there truth to the stereotype that theyre overindulged? In Austin, I seek out psychologist Carl Pickhardt,who tells me, “Theres no question that only children are highly indulged and highly protected. “But that doesnt mean the stere
19、otype is true,he says. “Youve been given more attention and nurturing to develop yourself. But thats not the same thing as being selfish. On balance,that level of parental involvement is a good thing. All that attention is the energy for your self-esteem and achievement. “But,he adds,“everything is
20、double-edged. And everything is formative. “Will It Make Us Happier?As parents,we tend to ask ourselves two questions when we talk about having more children. First, will it make our kid happier? And then,will it make us happier? A 2007 survey found that at a rate of 3 to 1,people believe the main p
21、urpose of marriage is the “mutual happiness and fulfillment“ of adults rather than the “ bearing and raising of children“. There must be some balance between the joy our kids give us and the sacrifices we make to care for them.“ Most people are saying, I cant divide myself anymore,“ says social psyc
22、hologist Susan Newman. Before technology made the office a 24-hour presence, we actually spent less time actively parenting, she explains. “We no longer send a child out to play for three hours and have those three hours to ourselves, “she says. “Now you take them to the next practice,the next class
23、. Weve been consumed by our children. But were moving back slowly to parents wanting to have a life too. And people are realizing thats simply easier with one. “As I enter what my obstetrician (产科医师) calls advanced maternal age,its a choice my husband and I need to make soon. How we determine our ha
24、ppiness and our daughters will be based on the love we feel for her and the realitiesboth joyful and tryingof what a larger family would mean.If we end up having no other children,well have to be mindful to raise her to be part of something bigger than just us three. But must we share DNA to do that
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