Parents' ambition for their children is not wrong if they.
A. force their children into achieving success
B. themselves have been very successful
C. understand and help their children sensibly
D. arrange private lessons for their children
Giải bởi Vietjack
Đáp án C
Giải thích: dựa vào câu “However, if parents are not too unrealistic about what they expect their children to do, but are ambitious in a sensible way, the child may succeed in doing very well - especially if the parents are very supportive of their child.”
Dịch: Tuy nhiên, nếu bố mẹ không quá ảo tưởng về cái mà họ mong đợi từ trẻ, nhưng tham vọng một cách hợp lý, đứa trẻ có lẽ sẽ thành công – đặc biệt nếu bố mẹ ủng hộ chúng.
All people should join hand in protecting the environment _________ we can gain better health.
They see the outdoors as a____________ activity, not a job opportunity.
Read the passage, and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question.
If parents bring up a child with the sole aim of turning the child into a genius, they will cause a disaster. According to several scientists, this is one of the biggest mistakes which ambitious parents make. Generally, the child will be only too aware of what his parents expect, and will fail. Unrealistic parental expectations can cause great damage to children.
However, if parents are not too unrealistic about what they expect their children to do, but are ambitious in a sensible way, the child may succeed in doing very well - especially if the parents are very supportive of their child.
Michael is very lucky. He is crazy about music, and his parents help him a lot by taking him to concerts and arranging private piano and violin lessons for him. They even drive him 50 kilometers twice a week for violin lessons. Michael's mother knows very little about music, but his father plays the trumpet in a large orchestra. However, he never makes Michael enter music competitions if he is unwilling.
Winston, Michael's friend, however, is not so lucky. Both his parents are successful musicians, and they set too high a standard for Winston. They want their son to be as successful as they are and so they enter him for every piano competition held. They are very unhappy when he does not win. Winston is always afraid that he will disappoint his parents and now he always seems quiet and unhappy.
One of the serious mistakes parents can make is to.
Read the following passage and choose the best option for each numbered blank.
Hello! My name is Herman. I live in a big city in Germany and it’s quite exciting! There are lots of things to do. My parents bought a flat near a park where I can ride my bike or (18) _____________ skateboarding. My brother is older than me and I also go to the cinema with him. The city library is a great place. I usually meet my friends there and we do our school (19) _____________ or study together.
Of course living in a big city is not easy. City life can be fast, tiring and stressful. The streets are always (20)_____________and noisy. Because of the cars is polluted sometimes. People are so busy that they (21)_____________have time for their neighbours or friends. But I can’t see myself moving to the (22)_____________. I just love living in the city too much.
My parents bought a flat near a park where I can ride my bike or (18) _____________ skateboarding.
Dublin was a very different place in those days, like a village, not the wonderful________city it is now.
Choose the word which has a different stress pattern from the others.
Find the word which has a different sound in the part underlined
Choose the word which has a different stress pattern from the others.
The city library is a great place. I usually meet my friends there and we do our school (19) _____________ or study together.
Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D
I have ten pictures and eight pieces____________sculpture on exhibition.
The two examples given in the passage illustrate the principle that ____________.
Find the word which has a different sound in the part underlined
