D. Hum away continuously.
5. What is the author's overall attitude toward fridges? A. Critical. C. Objective.
(E) Enemy or Friend
Read the following passage and then choose the most suitable heading from this list for each paragraph of the passage. Note that there is one extra heading.
A. New teachers' opinions of involving parents B. An argument over an assignment C. A conflict (冲突) between imagination and reality D. Difficulties in sharing goals E. The best way to score high F. Proper ways of parental involvement 6. A high school counselor gets a call from a parent protesting the \\parent argued every point in the essay/' recalls the counselor, who soon realized why the mother was so disappointed about the grade. \7. In a survey, 90% of new teachers agreed that involving parents in their children's education is a priority (优先权) at their school, but only 25% described their experience working with parents as \asked to choose the biggest challenge they face, 31% of them quoted involving parents and communicating with them as their top choice. 73% of new teachers said too many parents treat schools and teachers as enemies. 8. At a time when competition is rising and resources are limited, when battles over testing force schools to adjust (调整) their priorities, when cell phones and e-mails speed up the information flow and all kinds of private ghosts and public quarrels slip into the parent-teacher meeting, it's harder for both sides to step back and breathe deeply and look at the goals they share.
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B. Neutral. D. Compromising.
9. Everyone says the parent-teacher meeting should be pleasant, civilized, a kind of dialogue where parents and teachers build partnership (伙伴关系). But what most teachers feel, and certainly what all parents feel, is anxiety and panic.
10. When a teacher asks parents to be partners, he or she doesn't necessarily mean Mom or Dad should be camping in the classroom. Research shows that though students benefit modestly from having parents involved at school, what happens at home matters much more. According to research based on the National Education Longitudinal Study, a sample of nearly 25,000 eighth graders, among four main areas of parental involvement (home discussion, home supervision, school communication, and school participation), home discussion was the most strongly related. Keys
1-5 DCCDA 6-10 BADCF
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