[单项选择]Children who are overprotected by their parents may become （）.
A. hurt    
B. damaged   
C. spoiled    
D. banned

[单项选择] By adopting a few simple techniques, parents who read to their children can greatly increase their children’s language development. It is surprising but true. How parents talk to their children makes a big difference in the children’s language development. If a parent encourages the child to actively respond to what the parent is reading, the child’s language skills increase. A study was done with 30 three-year-old children and their parents. Half of the children participated in the experimental study; the other half acted as the control group. In the experimental group, the parents were given a two-hour training session in which they were taught to ask open-ended questions rather than yes-or-no questions. For example, the parent should ask, "What is the doggie doing " rather than "Is the doggie running away " The parents in the experimental group were also instructed in how to help children find answers, how to suggest alternative possibilities and how to praise correct answe
A. Children who talk a lot are more intelligent.
B. Parents who listen to their children can teach them more.
C. Active children should read more and be given more attention.
D. Verbal ability can easily be developed with proper methods.

[单项选择]Parents who buy the watch may discover that it is one thing for kids to tell time; it's quite another for them to be on time．


A. 给孩子们买表的父母们可能会发现，让孩子们知道时间是一回事，让孩子们准时又是另一回事。
B. 买表的父母们发现让孩子们知道时间是一方面，让他们做事情准时是更重要的另一方面。
C. 买表给孩子的父母们会发现它既能告诉他们时间，也能提醒他们不迟到。
D. 给孩子买表的父母们也许会发现这是让孩子们知道时间的，但也是让他们准时的。

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There was a time when parents who wanted an educational present for their children would buy a typewriter, a globe or an encyclopedia set.
Now those (21) seem hopelessly old-fashioned: this Christmas, there were a lot of (22) computers under the tree. (23) that computers are their key to success, parents are also frantically insisting that children (24) taught to use them on school—as early as possible. The problem for schools is that when it (25) computers, parents don’t always know best. Many schools are (26) parental impatience and are purchasing hardware without (27) educational planning, so they can say, OK, we’ve moved into the computer age. Teachers (28) themselves caught in the middle of the problem — between parent pressure and (29) educational decisions.
Educators do not even agree (30) how computers should be used. A lot of money is going fo
A. High
B. Not every
C. No
D. Any

[单项选择]Children who are over- protected by their parents may become ______.


A. hurt
B. damaged
C. spoiled
D. harmed