The 12－year－old boy’s goal is to specialize ______ Western history in the future.A.onB

A.let alone

B.may well

C.all but

D.along with

that parents want their children to do well and to behave well. The teachers want this, either. But they know what __10__children should be able to do at different ages and stages.They expect 8-year-old work and behavior. from 8-year-olds and 12-year-old work and behavior. from 12-year-olds.

(阅读理解题)A few years ago I was shopping with a friend and his 12-year-old daughter in downtown San Francisco. A street musician, whom my friend happened to know from his own musician days, was playing the saxophone (萨克斯管) on a street corner. His name was Clifford, and he had attracted a large crowd with his performance. After he finished, my friend introduced him to me and his daughter. Clifford asked her if she played any instrument. When she replied that she was taking trumpet (小号) lessons and played in her junior high school band, he said, “That is fine, little lady. Learn your instrument well and you can play anything.” Somehow these simple yet wise words struck me as appropriate not only for a trumpet player but also for a reader. If you learn to read well, you can read anything you want—not just newspapers and magazines, but more difficult material like philosophy, file criticism, military history—whatever interests you as your confidence grows. You would not be limited in any way. If you have the vocabulary—or at least a good dictionary near at hand—you can pick up a book, concentrate on it, and make sense of the author's words. In the United States, reading instruction often ends at elementary school, so students sometimes have difficulty as they progress through school. They must take their assignments armed only with their elementary school reading skills. The result, too often, is frustration and loss of confidence. And the assigned reading in your college courses will be even greater than they were in high school. Developing Reading Skills is designed to accomplish several tasks to show you the skills that will enable you to read with greater comprehension, to help you cope with reading assignments with confidence, and to teach you to become an active reader.

(1).The author develops his point by starting with ______.

A、an example

B、an accident

C、a statement

D、a contrast

(2).Which of the following statements is implied in Paragraph 1？

A、Clifford was good at playing the saxophone

B、The author’s friend was once a street musician

C、The 12-year-old girl played the trumpet very poorly

D、Clifford was a good music teacher

(3).How does the author think about Clifford’s words？

A、humorous, correct, simple

B、ridiculous, incorrect, ludicrous

C、wise, plain, correct

D、stupid, useless, incorrect

(4).With good reading skills, you can ______.

A、understand anything you read with few difficulties

B、work out the author's meaning if only you concentrate on the book

C、understand what you read with the help of a good dictionary

D、concentrate on whatever you read

(5).It can be inferred from the last paragraph that Developing Reading skills ______.

A、is directed to elementary school students

B、centers around vocabulary building skills

C、offers elementary reading skills

D、aims at helping students read better

A.In contrast, children on the Pacific island of Tonga, studied by Helen Morton, are regularly beaten by their parents and older siblings.They are seen as being closer to mad people than adults because they lack the highly prized quality of social competence (or poto as the Tongans call it).

B.There’s a tendency to view children in the UK, and in the Western world in general, as incompetent and dependent.But this isn’t the case throughout the world.

C.He has written how a Yanamamö girl is expected to help her mother from a young age and by the age of ten will be running a house.By the age of 12 or 13 she is probably married and will have started to have babies.

D.While Westerners might take exception to eight-year-old girls working or to 12-yEar-old girls marrying, within their own communities such activities are seen as a normal and positive part of childhood.

A.Today, children have few responsibilities, their lives are characterized by play not work, school not paid labor, family rather than public life and consumption instead of production.

B.In contrast, children on the Pacific island of Tonga, studied by Helen Morton, are regularly beaten by their parents and older siblings.They are seen as being closer to mad people than adults because they lack the highly prized quality of social competence (or poto as the Tongans call it).

C.Today, a four year old who can tie his or her shoes is impressive.In colonial times, four-year-old girls knitted stockings and mittens and could produce intricate embroidery: At age six they spun wool.

D.While Westerners might take exception to eight-year-old girls working or to 12-year-old girls marrying, within their own communities such activities are seen as a normal and positive part of childhood.

A.did the boy rush

B.rushed the boy

C.the boy rushed

D.the boy did rush

A: Who is the boy？ B: He is a student.()

A.I'm a boy

B.He's a boy

C.She's a boy