高二任务型阅读一.docx

高二英语任务型阅读专练一
A
Parents are important elements in the children’s educational progress. They are capable of being good resources not just for children, but also for schools and teachers.
Parents can help children realize the value of education through their love and support, and most importantly, their encouragement plays an important role in educational success. So parents can be more involved in children’s classroom activities. For example, parents can help out with teaching arts and crafts（工艺美术）to preschoolers and children in grades 1-3. Asking parents to show the children their own talents and impart（传授）the knowledge on the subject they love is a good way to involve the parents in their children’s education. And as a teacher, having someone on call to help you with the cutting and gluing（粘）during a craft class will ensure a less daunting（使人畏缩的）job.
Having parent volunteers around when organizing activities for children is definitely an advantage. Organizing field trips, outings, community services, camps, etc., can be a daunting task when you are the only member responsible for catering to the needs of a large group of children. At such times, asking parent volunteers to help out with the basic requirements makes perfect sense. You can even ask them to stay together with students on camping and field trips or help with community services. And activities which allow them to mix freely with the children will help them understand the needs of the children better.
Asking parent volunteers to keep records of classroom activities, the resources used, etc., is a good way of making good use of them. Ask them to help out with restocking（补充）the materials needed for arts and crafts. You can even ask them to help tune musical instruments, organize the library and the children’s artwork. Make sure that they are comfortable doing the work assigned（布置）to them, after all, you would not want to offend（冒犯）their feelings.
School is considered as a second home, and there is a constant need to conduct research or surveys to find out whether the children are comfortable in school and what they think of it. A better way to do this is to employ parent volunteers to complete the task. Ultimately（最重要地）, the goal of research or surveys is to make the school environment-friendly and home-like. Thus, it makes sense to conduct research or surveys with the help of parent volunteers.
It goes without saying that you ought to thank the parent volunteers for all their help. To conclude, I agree with the saying, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

How parent volunteers can help in classroom activities
Help in teaching arts and crafts
◆Parents can be asked to (1).__________   their talents and knowledge with the children on the subject they love.
◆Parents can help cut and glue in a craft class.
Help in organizing activities
◆Parents can help take (2)._________   for catering to the children’s basic needs during activities.
◆Parents can (3).___________  students on camping and field trips or help with community services.
◆(4)._________mixing with the children in activities can give parents a better
understanding of their children’s needs.
Help in (5)._________ 
classroom
activities,
etc.
◆Parents can help restock what is (6). _________ for arts and crafts.
◆Parents can help tune musical instruments, organize the library and the children’s artwork.
◆Make parents feel it comfortable to do the assignments in order to (7)._________ their feelings being offended.
Help in
(8).________ 
research or surveys
◆Parent volunteers can be employed to help find out the children’s feelings and  (9). __________ about the school.
◆Both research and surveys are  (10). _________ to make the school environment-friendly and home-like.

B
Did you know that falling down is the leading cause of injury death for Americans aged 65 and older?
Each year 35 to 40 percent of older adult Americans fall at least once.
Falling down is not just the result of getting older. Falling can be caused by a variety of circumstances, and many falls can be prevented.
Here are 4 simple steps you can take to significantly reduce your risk of injury from falling down.
Improve Your Body Balance with Exercise to Prevent Falling
● If you don’t have a regular exercise program, start one. Lack of exercise leads to weakness, and that increases your chances of falling.
● Exercises can improve your body balance and flexibility at any age. Try exercises like Yoga and Tai Chi.
● If you are over 50 and haven’t exercised regularly, check with your health care provider about the best type of exercise program for you.
Increase Your Home’s Accessibility and Safety to Reduce Falling Risks
About half of all falls happen at home. To increase accessibility and make your home safer:
● Remove items you might trip over from stairs and places where you walk.
● Remove small throw rugs(易滑地垫)or use double-sided tape to keep rugs from slipping.
● Have grab bars installed next to your toilet, and install grab bars in your tub or shower.
● Improve the lighting in your home.
● Make sure all stairways have handrails and sufficient lighting.
● Wear shoes that give good support and have thin non-slip soles.
You might also consider avoiding lightweight slippers ( especially backless styles), which can reduce your feeling of control.
Prevent Falling : Watch Out for Medication Side Effects
Age can effect the way some medications work in your body, so if you have been taking any over-the-counter medications for a while, it’s important to tell your health care provider. He or she will be able to tell you if they are still safe for you to take.
● Look out for drugs that have side effects including drowsiness(困倦). These side effects can increase your risk of falling . this especially important with over-the-conter cold and flu medications, which can often increase drowsiness.
● And don’t forget herbal remedies(草药). Some remedies increase sleepiness and many react with other types of medication, which could increase your risk of falling down. Be sure to check with your health care provider before trying new medication.
Want to Prevent Falling? Have Your Vision Checked Regularly
Vision problems can increase your chances of falling.
●You may be wearing the wrong glasses that cause vision problems or limit your vision.
●To reduce your risk of falling , have your vision checked by an eye doctor every nyear for early detection and correction of vision problems. If you can’t see something, it’s harder to avoid it, and this increase your risk of falling.

How to Reduce Your Risk of Injury from Falling
(1) __________
Detailed suggestions
Make your body (2) _________with exercise
●Try exercise (3) __________ like Yoga and Ta Chi.
●Make clear which is the best type of exercise program for you in advance.
Increase your home’s accessibility and safety
●Remove items that might cause you to (4) __________
●(5) ___________ items that will support you when needed.
●Improve the lighting in and out of your room.
●Wear non-slip shoes.
Be (6) ____________of medication side effects
●Do check with your health care provider to ensure your
(7) ___________ of taking any over-the –counter medications, (8) __________ you have taken them or not .
Protect your vision carefully
●Don’t (9) ___________the wrong glasses that damage your vision.
●Have your vision checked regularly to detect and correct your (10)___________ vision problems.

C
Back to School: Why Grit(毅力) Is More Important than Good Grades?
The back-to-school season is upon us, and once again, parents across the country have loaded their kids’ backpacks up with snack packs and school supplies. It’s a good moment to reflect on what else we should be giving our kids as they head off to school.
American parents are feeling particularly anxious about that question this year. The educational process feels more than ever like a race, one that starts in pre-preschool and doesn’t end until your child is admitted to the perfect college. Most parents are more worried than they need to be about their children’s grades, test scores and IQ. And what we don’t think about enough is how to help our children build their character—how to help them develop skills like perseverance, grit, optimism, conscientiousness, and self-control, which together do more to determine success than S.A.T. scores or I.Q.
There is growing evidence that our anxiety about our children’s school performance may actually be holding them back from learning some of these valuable skills. If you’re concerned only with a child’s G.P.A., then you will likely choose to minimize the challenges the child faces in school. With real challenge comes the risk of real failure. And in a competitive academic environment, the idea of failure can be very scary, to students and parents alike.
But experiencing failure is a critical part of building character. A recent research by a team of psychologists found that adults who had experienced little or no failure growing up were actually less happy and confident than those who had experienced a few significant setbacks in childhood. “Overcoming those obstacles,” the researchers assumed, “could teach effective coping skills, help engage social support networks, create a sense of mastery over past adversity, and foster beliefs in the ability to cope successfully in the future.”
By contrast, when we protect our children from every possible failure—when we call their teachers to get an extension on a paper; when we urge them to choose only those subjects they’re good at—we are denying them those same character-building experiences. As the psychologists Madeline Levine and Dan Kindlon have written, that can lead to difficulties in adolescence and young adulthood, when overprotected young people finally confront real problems on their own and don’t know how to overcome them.
In the classroom and outside of it, American parents need to encourage children to take chances, to challenge themselves, to risk failure. In the meantime, giving our kids room to fail may be one of the best ways we can help them succeed.

Back to School: Why Grit Is More Important than Good Grades?
Common phenomena
◆Parents throughout America(1) ____________ their kids’ backpacks up with snacks and school supplies.
◆Many American parents don’t(2) _________ enough importance to their kids’ character building.
The writer’s(3) __________
◆Parents should pay more attention to their kids’ character building.

Evidence and (4) ___________ findings
◆Parents’ anxiety about their kids’ performance may
(5) __________ them from learning some valuable skills.
◆Parents concerned only with a kid’s G.P.A. have a
(6) _________to minimize the challenges the child faces.
◆Adults who have experienced a few significant setbacks in childhood are (7) ____________ and more confident than those who haven’t.
◆Denying kids character-building experiences can (8)____________ in difficulties in adolescence and young adulthood.
The writer’s suggestions
◆(9) __________kids to be risk-takers.
◆Give kids room to experience(10) __________ .

高二英语任务型专练一
A
1.share     2.responsibilities    3. accompany      4.Freely      5. recording 
6. needed/ required  7. prevent  8. Conducting/doning    9.opinions  10. meant/intended
B.
1. Steps/Measures/Ways 2. balance 3. regularly 4. fall/slip 5. Install
6. careful 7. safety 8. whether 9. wear 10. potential
C
1. load 2. attach 3. opinion/view 4. research 5. prevent/stop/keep/discourage
6. tendency 7. happier 8. result 9. Encourage 10.failure(s)