It is difficult for parents of nearly every family to teach their children to be responsible(有责任的)for
housework, but with one of the f
ollowing suggestions, you really can get your children to help at home.
If you give your children the impression that they can never do anything quite right, then they will regard
themselves as unfit or unable persons. Unless children believe they can succeed, they will never become
totally independent.
My daughter Mary's fifth-grade teacher made every child in her class feel special. When students
received less than a perfect test score, she would point out what they had mastered (掌握) and declared
firmly they could learn what they had missed.
You can use the same way when you evaluate(评价)your child's work at home. Don't always scold
and you should give lots of praise instead. Talk about what he has done right, not about what he hasn't
done. If your child completes a difficult task, promise him a Sunday trip or a ball game with Dad.
Learning is a process(过程)of trying and failing and tryin
g and succeeding. If you teach your children
not to fear a mistake of failure, they will learn faster and achieve success at last.
1. The whole passage deals with ________.
A. social education
B. school education
C. family education
D. pre-school education
2. The author thinks that ________.
A. there is no way to get children to help at home
B. the more encouragement and praise you give, the more responsible and helpful children will become
C. it is very difficult to make children responsible for housework
D. children can be forced to help with housework
3. The passage gives us a good suggestion about how to evaluate your child’s work at home. That is to
________.
A. praise his success
B. promise him a trip
C. give him a punishment
D. promise him a ball game
4. The author advises readers to ________.
A. learn from himself, for he has a good way of teaching
B. take pride in Mary's fifth-grade teacher
C. do as what Mary's teacher did in educating children
D. follow Mary's example because she never fails in the test
5. Having read the last paragraph, we can conclude that
A. pride goes before a fall
B. practice makes perfect
C. no pains, no gains
D. failure is the mother of success
