Read with Greater Speed
Do you have difficulty reading in class? If so, a special reading programme that helps match(匹配)sounds with letters could speed up your brain.
At least one out of every five elementary school students in the U. S. has trouble learning to read, even when the students are good at other subjects. The biggest challenge for many of these kids, scientists say, is matching sounds with letters.
Researchers from Yale University(耶鲁大学), U. S. , studied a group of children from New York and Connecticut State. As part of the study, 37 struggling readers received special tutoring.
Every day, instructors worked with them on recognizing how written letters represent units of sound called phonemes(音素). The students also practiced reading aloud and spelling.
By the end of the school year, these children could read faster than before. They also made fewer mistakes, and understood more of what they read than they could earlier in the year.
As part of their study, the researchers used a special machine to take action photos of the students' brains.
The pictures showed an increase in activity in the back of the brain on the left side. This is the same part of the brain that becomes active when good readers read. This activated brain area appears to include a structure(结构)that helps people recognize familiar written words quickly. In lower level readers, this structure remains inactive.
A year later, the brain structure was still working in the students who had gone through the special tutoring, and they continued to do well in reading tests. Another group in the study who went through a more traditional reading programme didn't show the same progress. However, some researchers still doubt the study. They believe that reading without making any noise or linking words to sounds is more efficient.
You know you have to "read between lines." I want to persuade you to do something equally important in the course of your reading. I want to persuade you to" write between the lines. " Unless you do, you are not likely to do the most efficient(效率高的)kind of reading.
I insist that making up a book is not an act of damage but of love.
There are two ways in which one can own a book. The first is the property right you have by buying it, just as you pay for clothes and furniture. But this act of buying is only the first step to possession. Full ownership comes only when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it is by writing in it. A comparison may make the point clear. You buy a piece of beef from the butcher's icebox. But you do not own the beef in the most important sense until you eat it and get it into your blood. I am arguing that books, too, must be absorbed in your blood to do you any good.
There are three kinds of book owners. The first has all the standard sets and bestsellers unread, untouched. The second has a great many books—a few of them read through, most of them dipped into, but all of them as clean and shiny as the day they were bought. The third has a few books every one of them worn, shaken and looseended by continual use, marked from front to back.
Why is making up a book necessary to read it?
First, it keeps you wide awake. In the second place, reading, if it is active, is thinking, and thinking tends to express itself in words, spoken or written. The marked books is usually the thought through the book. Finally, writing helps you remember the thoughts you had, or the thoughts the author expressed.
Is there a better way to get talented employees without hiring underqualified college graduates and paying for extensive training to get them up to the required level? There is. Instead of just complaining that today's graduates are underqualified, your company can invest in education. Find a local college or university that offers a major in your company's field and build a relationship with it. This relationship can take many forms, with different levels of involvement(参与)for both the school and the business.
Starting small is a good idea. Call the college, talk to the appropriate department head, and offer your company's assistance. Offering in the school a chance to train students in your company's software or hardware means that there will be more people trained in the use of these products. This adds to your company's market share and potential employee pool, and enhances its public image. Donations may qualify your company for deduction, which can help its bottom line.
This knowledge swap benefits your company and the school. Your company gets graduates trained in areas it chooses and has a place to send current employees for more training. While your company's corporate image improves, the school gains resources that makes it more attractive to prospective students.
Your company will have access(进入)to inexpensive, bright, motivated labor; a chance to recruit the most qualified college graduates; and a chance to influence those who will work in its industry. Students do not forget what they learn during a good internship(实习)experience. And someday they may be in a position to choose, on behalf of an entire company, between your company's product and a competitor's.
The school benefits, too. The promise of good internships is a great way to recruit(招收)students, because internships give the students a chance to apply the skills they have learned in a practical setting. We all know how much better realworld experience looks on a resume than just educational experience.
From both the business and the educational perspective, relationships between corporations and colleges can be mutually(互相)beneficial. If such partnerships grow in the future, the current gap between the number of technology jobs and the qualified pool of talent to fill them may yet be closed.
I am an elementary school teacher. I think homework should be done by the child and it should take only about half an hour. Parents should write a note if they had to help a lot, and this tells the teacher that the day's lesson needs more review. Some things are more easily learned if they are practiced at home. Students should develop independence and organization. I send home fairly simple homework because I do not wish to see how creative mom, dad, the neighbors and grandma are with large projects…what is this teaching the child? Independence? Creativity?
Many readers are noticing the alarming trend(趋势)to test, test, test. These new tests are not like the ones we remember. They are really difficult and abstract. Besides the usual math problems, third and fourth grade tests now ask about probability (概率), tessellation and flips, slides, turns. Some teachers have had to increase the pace of their instruction to cover all the topics that will appear on the tests, thus, they send home homework that kids may not fully understand or send more homework home so they can, they hope, cover more content faster. It's not a good idea, but the trend of testing has driven teachers to push, push, push. Parents should be concerned about the testing that is such an important issue. I would advise parents to walk to the teacher if they find the homework too hard. Is the child not getting work done at school, or is it simply too much? Some teachers will change the amount of work. And yes, I have been on the other side of the blackboard and had to make my son and daughter do their homework. I was a sticker for not doing it for them.
Money Matters
Parents should help their children understand money. . So you may start talking about money when your child shows an interest in buying things, candy or toys, for example.
The basic function of money
Explaining the basic function of money by showing how people trade money for goods or services. It's important to show your child how money is traded for the thing he wants to have. If he wants to have a toy, give him the money and let him hand the money to the cashier. . When your child grows a bit older and understands the basic function of money, you can start explaining more complex ways of using money.
Money lessons
Approach money lessons with openness and honesty. . If you must say no to a child's request to spend money, explain, "You have enough toy trucks for now. "Or, if the request is for many different things, say, "You have to make a choice between this toy and that toy."
Begin at the grocery store. Pick out similar brands of a product—a name brand butter and a generic(无商标产品), for example. You can show your child how to make choices between different brands of a product so that you can save money. . If he chooses the cheaper brand, allow him to make another purchase with the money saved. Later, you may explains how the more expensive choice leaves less money for other purchases.
A. Wise decision
B. The value of money
C. Permit the child to choose between them
D. Tell the child why he can—or cannot—have certain things
E. Ask yourself what things that cost money are most important to you
F. Talk about how the money bought the thing after you leave the toy store
G. The best time to teach a child anything about money is when he shows an interest
Once there lived a rich merchant(商人) and a poor shoemaker in the same house. The merchant occupied the second floor,1the shoemaker lived and worked in a small room on the first floor. The shoemaker was one of the2persons on earth. He worked from morning till night, singing merrily. His heart was filled with3, whenever he saw the boots and shoes4. Now the merchant upstairs was so rich that he5knew how much wealth he had. He was always6over his gold and silver coins far into the night. Even in bed his uneasiness(不安) about his riches kept him7. When at last he had been asleep for an hour or two, up came the song of the happy shoemaker, who was an8riser. It continued all day and was a (n)9to the merchant. Day by day the merchant grew more and more tired through want of10. He asked a wise friend of his how he could put an11to the shoemaker's song. "Well, if I were you, I would give the shoemaker a hundred pounds," answered his friend. "You are rich enough to do that, I suppose. Ask for nothing in12. Simply give the money. " The merchant13the advice.
When the shoemaker14the bag that had been sent by the merchant, he was15to find shining coins. "I must hide this from the eyes of my neighbors. If they see it, they will think that I have stolen it," he thought. "I will16it away even from my wife." So he hid the bag of money under the floor. From then on he17his neighbors as much as he could. His wife who had been the best18to him, became troublesome. Now his mind was too much set on the money bag to19to his work with diligence(勤劳). He could not sing merrily now. 20he thought of the money bag, he became uneasy and unhappy.
Lin Hai, a senior middle school student, had a problem recently. He used to get marks of over 120 points on his math tests. during last semester's final exams, his math score was only 90 points. It was a shock. The (puzzle)thing for him was what happened. He kept feeling nervous and frustrated about math during the (follow) month.
Like Lin, many of us have setbacks in life. you would do to deal with these setbacks is important. Would you just let them be and give up? Lin chose to face his problem. His parents and teacher also gave him help. After some hard work he now gets marks 100 and 110 points in his math tests. Although he still isn't at his (origin) level, Lin doesn't panic anymore.
Chen Xing also has a story to tell. As far as she (concern)about situps, which is necessary for the coming PE exam, (be) very difficult. Whoever has to do at least 35 situps in a minute can pass the test. Most of Chen's classmates can do 40. However, Chen could only do 20. (feel) worried, Chen decided (do) something. She did situps for half an hour every day after school. And because of her effort, she did 45 in the test and got passed.
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删除：把多余的词用斜线（/）划掉。
修改：在错的词下面划线，并在改词下面写出修改后的词。
Dear Mom,
Mother's Day is coming. I'm sorry that I am abroad and can't send your flowers, so I'm writing to you. Mom, I know I have never expressed my thank to you before. But on today, at this special time, I just want to tell you loudly: I love you, Mom! Thank you so much by not only giving me life, but also teach me how to be a good person. Thank you for all you had done for me. Mom, though I may ∧often say it, I do love you. Nobody can take your part in my hearts. Whenever I am, I will always love you.
Wishing you good health and much happiness every day!
Your little girl，
Jennifer
1）有目标(考取北大)，有信心。
2）有周密计划，知道每天干什么。
3）有良好的学习习惯，不拖拉，不开夜车。
4）乐于助人，同学和老师都喜欢他。
5）你从他身上学到了许多东西，对你有很大帮助。
注意：
1）不要逐条翻译，可增加细节；根据需要，内容先后可调整。
2）词数：100词左右。
参考词汇：take the first place, be admitted to Peking University (被北京大学录取), the entrance examination, have a detailed plan for his study, have a good habit of…be ready to help others(乐于助人), learn from (从……学习)
