16. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. Professors can set up good social relationship with students outside the classroom.

B. In the classroom, professors should be in a position of authority.

C. Professors may treat their students differently in evaluating school work.

D. If a student has good relationship with a professor, he’ll still have to take an exam.

17. A student must learn to change his behavior and attitude when _____.

A. the professor invites him to have coffee together

B. he is in need of help

C. the professor changes his role

D. the professor gives him extra attention

18. The main subject discussed in the text is “________”.

A. changing relationship B. the teacher-student relationship

C. professors’ authority D. students’ positions

(6)

Are you carrying too much on your back at school? I’m sure lots of children of your age will say “Yes”. Not only the students in China have this problem, but children in the United States also have heavy school bags.

Doctors are starting to worry that younger and younger students are having back and neck problems as a result of school bags being too heavy for them.

“It’s hard for me to go upstairs with my bag because it’s so heavy,” said Rick Hammond, an 11-year-old student in the US.

Rick is among students who have common school bags with two straps(带子) to carry them, but many other students choose rolling(有滚轮的) bags.

But even with rolling bags, getting up stairs and buses is still a problem for children. Many of them have hurt their backs and necks because of the heavy school bags.

But how much is too much? Doctors say students should carry no more than 10% to 15% of their own body weight.

Scott Batch, a back doctor, said children under Grade 4 should stay with 10%. But it is also important that older children don’t stay with over 15%, because their bodies are still growing.

“Children are losing their balance and falling down with their school bags,” he said.

Parents and teachers are starting to tell children to only take home library books they will be reading that night. Some teachers are using pieces of paper or thin workbooks for students to take home.

One of the best answers is, as some children said, to have no homework at all!

19. From the passage we can know that _______.

A. only children in China carry too heavy school bags

B. children in other countries don’t carry too heavy bags

C. both children in China and the US carry too heavy school bags

D. only children in the US carry too heavy school bags

20. Children feel it hard for them to go upstairs because _______.

A. they are too young

B. their school bags are too heavy

C. they don’t know how to go upstairs

D. their parents don’t always go upstairs with them together

21. If a child carries a heavy school bag, _______.

A. his back and neck will be hurt

B. his head and arms will be hurt

C. his hands will be hurt

D. his feet will be hurt

22. According to the doctor, Scott Batch, if a child in Grade 5 weighs(重) about 30 kilos, the school bag he carries should not be over _______.

A. 5 kilos B. 3 kilos C. 5.5 kilos D. 4.5 kilos

23. Some students think the best answer to this problem is that _______.

A. they should have a little homework to do after they get home

B. their teachers had better not ask them to do any homework

C. they should only take home library books they will read that night

D. they should use thin workbooks instead of thick ones

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Are you carrying too much on your back at school? You’re not alone. Back experts in the USA were worried that young students are having back and neck problems because they are carrying too much in their backpacks (schoolbags).

“It hurts my back when I run,” said Beeline Reyes, a student in Virginia. “It’s hard to get up the stairs with my backpack because it’s too heavy.”

Students have to carry heavy backpacks on their backs for a whole week’s study. Beeline is one of them. They have regular backpacks with two straps(带子) to carry them, but a number of students with heavy loads have switched to rolling backpacks. The backpacks have wheels and can roll on the ground.

Shirley Park’s backpack weighs 10 kilos, and she said, “I’ll change to a rolling backpack because I am starting to have back pain.”

How much is too much? Experts say that students should carry no more than 10 to 15 percent of their own body weight. A few students have had a good idea to lighten the load: Less homework.

Doctor’s suggestions:

●Lighten the load. Take home only the books the students need that night.

●Wide straps are better. They can send out weight over your shoulders and be sure to wear backpacks with two straps.

●The heaviest things should be packed closest to the back.

●Bend(弯曲) both knees when you pick up the pack, don’t just bend the waist(腰).

24. The main idea of the text is _______.

A. the problems made by rolling backpacks B. the goodness of backpacks

C. the best backpacks for students D.something about backpacks

25. From what Eglin Reyes and Shirley Park said, we know _______.

A. students have to carry heavy backpacks

B. students have to do homework

C. backpacks with wheels are bad for students

D. students have no time to play because of homework

26. By the words of the experts, it’s better for a student of 40 kilos to carry a backpack of at most _______.

A.10 kilos B. 8 kilos C. 6 kilos D.7 kilos

27. If students follow the doctor’s suggesting, they _______.

A. may do less homework B. may feel their backpacks are lighter

C. can learn how to enjoy them D. will know how to use backpacks

(8)

“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 as all right to be parents who take a let-alone 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. One such teacher is Sharon Klompus who speaks 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've 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 but it's for their own good. It's time to start telling them no again.

28. 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

29. 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

30. By “permissive period in education” (L.1, 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

31. 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

(9)

Education is not an end, but a means to an end. In other words, we do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them. Our purpose is to fit them for life.