a parent can ask if it can be stored or given away. Be warned though the child will always say he / she wants it then! A talk with relatives and friends may also help. Lyn is
the mother of four-year-old Jessie, and we like her way. A small set of shelves in her child’s room holds the toys and books that are the current (at present) favorites. When it seems to her that her daughter is tired of these toys, they put them away in a box together and select some other toys from a cupboard in another room. . The box of old toys goes into the cupboard. When her child says she is “bored”, they also get something
from her cupboard----it may be something she has had for some time but because she
hasn’t seen it for a while it is almost like a new toy.
Some favorite toys stay out all the time, and there is collection of dolls which sits in the corner, but in this way Lyn has found that she has fewer toys to put away at the
end of the day and her daughter always has something “fresh” to play with.
46. Steve interrupted his mother several times because________.
A. he felt uninterested in his toys C. he didn’t have enough toys to play with
B. he disliked his mother’s guest D. he hoped his mother would play with him
47.According to the therapist, children often complain that they have nothing to play with because ______.
A. they can’t play alone for a long time.
B. they are too young to play with so many toys
C. they are too lazy to pick out their favorites
D. they lack the ability to value too many things at a time.
48. Which is the following can be used in the place of “jumble”?
A. simple choice B. mixture in disorder C. ordinary appearance D. same shape
49. Which is the advice given to parents in the text?
A. Buy fewer toys for their children
B. Form good habits for their children
C. Spare some time to play with their children
D. Put some toys away without telling their children
50. The passage may be taken from _______.
A. An ad B. A magazine C. A story D. A newspaper
C
Popeye the Sailor first became a popular cartoon in the 1930s. The sailor in that cartoon ate lots of spinach(菠菜) to make him strong. People watched him, and they began to buy and eat a lot more spinach. Popeye helped sell 33percent more spinach than before! Spinach became a necessary part of many people’s diets. Even some children who hated the taste began to eat the vegetable.
Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong, but this is not true. Spinach does not have any more iron than any other green vegetable.
People only thought spinach had a lot of iron because the people who studied the food made a mistake. In the 1890s, a group of people studied what was inside vegetables. This group said that spinach had ten times more iron than it did. The group wrote the number wrong, and everyone accepted it.
Today, we know that the little iron there is in spinach can not make a difference in how strong a person is. However, spinach does have something else which the body needs---folic acid.
It is interesting to point out that folic acid can help make a person strong. Maybe it was really the folic acid that made Popeye strong all along.
51.The best title for this reading passage is _______.
A. Popeye the Sailor B. The truth about spinach
C. A mistake with numbers D. Folic acid makes you strong
52. Why did many people eat spinach after they saw Popeye the Sailor?
A. They thought spinach made them strong B. They thought Popeye was funny.
C. Spinach had a lot of iron. D. People liked folic acid
53. According to the research group, people thought that spinach ____.
A. made Popeye strong B. was a green vegetable
C. had less iron than other green vegetables D. had more iron than other green vegetables.
54. The reading passage says that perhaps Popeye got his strength from___.
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