首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The nation already has its soccer moms, hockey moms. But a new brand of pushy parent is suddenly the talk of Middle America: the
The nation already has its soccer moms, hockey moms. But a new brand of pushy parent is suddenly the talk of Middle America: the
admin
2016-11-09
53
问题
The nation already has its soccer moms, hockey moms. But a new brand of pushy parent is suddenly the talk of Middle America: the no-nonsense "Tiger Mother."
Amy Chua, a daughter of Chinese immigrants, coined the phrase in a newspaper article outlining her extraordinarily robust attempts to raise high-achieving kids. Within hours, she had become a media sensation.
Her new book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother shot to number six in the Amazon sales charts. Her article headlined "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior" is the week’s most read article in The Wall Street Journal. It has generated a quarter of a million "likes" and six thousand reader comments, most of them hostile. Her wide publicity in other media has sparked a furious debate over the rights and wrongs of Western parenting.
Chua’s book outlines the hard-line philosophy towards child rearing. It lists "watching TV playing computer games, playing any instrument other than the piano or violin, and "getting any grade less than an A," among the many things children should never be allowed to get away with. If they failed to complete 90 minutes of music practice each night, Chua would set fire to their teddy bears and threaten to donate their dolls houses to a charity store.
In a society which has slipped consistently down the world rankings for academic achievement in recent decades, and as parenting standards have become ever more permissive, Chua’s book
has struck a raw nerve
, setting parents pondering how to discipline a child.
Some call her a borderline child abuser; others say that her "tough love" approach gets results and should be widely copied. Plenty of others say that it advances a dangerous stereotype when America is increasingly suspicious about the rise of China.
Invited onto NBC’s Today program this week, she said that her methods worked: Both girls are "straight A students." In a small concession, she has allowed them to learn tennis.
High suicide rates among Indian and Chinese immigrant children have been blamed on pressure to succeed, and there has been discontent about "Tiger Parenting" from within the Chinese community.
"My first reaction was, ’Is this a joke?’ I kept waiting for the punch line," Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, 44, said. "Her methods are so crude. The humiliations and the shaming. The kids will hear that voice in their heads for the rest of their lives."
The parenting approach adopted by the Tiger Mother can be described as
选项
A、harsh, robust but effective
B、innovative, popular but ineffective
C、cruel, unbearable but prevalent
D、humiliating, abusive but American
答案
A
解析
第四段介绍了“虎妈”的管教子女方式,列举了她禁止孩子做的事,包括看电视、玩计算机游戏、弹钢琴和小提琴以外的乐器和得分低于A。这些做法显然不是美国式的,甚至在中国也不常见,绝对是harsh(严格的)。第二段有robust这个词,其意义是“强硬的”,还有high-achieving(有成就的),倒数第三段有both girls are“straight A students”,这说明其教育方式是有效的。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/iUHO777K
0
研究生英语学位课统考(GET)
相关试题推荐
Whydopeoplealwayswanttogetupanddancewhentheyhearmusic?Theusualexplanationisthatthereissomethingembeddedin
Hereisagreatironyof21stcenturyglobalhealth:whilemanyhundredsofmillionsofpeoplelackadequatefoodasaresultof
Forthepastseveralyears,theSundaynewspapersupplementParadehasfeaturedacolumncalled"AskMarilyn".Peopleareinvite
Shopperswhohaveflockedtoonlinestoresfortheirholidayshoppingarelosingprivacywitheverymouseclick,accordingtoa
Thepayrollregisterconstitutesthetreasurerdepartment’sauthoritytopaytheemployees.Paymentisusuallymadeintheform
InthefirstyearorsoofWebbusiness,mostoftheactionhasrevolvedaroundeffortstotaptheconsumermarket.Morerecentl
Ahackercouldtakecontroloftheentiresystembyimplantinghisowninstructionsinthesoftwareandthenhecouldprogramth
ManyvisitorspraisedthemagnificentarchitectureofthePalace______theForbiddenCity.
OnaSummereveningitis______tohearthejoyfulsoundoftheshepherd’sflutefloatingacrossthevalley.
WhentheAconcentrationofcalciuminthebloodisBtoolow,theparathyroidglandsCbegantoDsecretethehormoneparathormone.
随机试题
电力拖动控制线路故障可分为()几类。
目前许多大型企业已经建立起知识管理体系,它的中心是()
以下治疗药物的注意事项不正确的是
就检察监督程序中检察院的职权下列说法中正确的有:()
保税区内生产企业将进口料件运往非保税区委托加工产品时,生产企业应事先持委托加工合同向保税区海关机构办理进口手续,凭海关核准的进口报关单向保税区海关机构申报运出区外。()
引起机床热变形的内部热源主要有()。
申请设立有限责任公司,需要提交的相关文件包括()。
()能够影响私人投资收益率。
生物学上有一个轰动世界的发现,就是可以把遗传的信息挂在一个叫去氧核糖酸即DNA的高分子化合物的某一段上传下去。这就是把这种高分子人为地变化一下,把一个高分子的某一段遗传信息切下来,接到另一个上面,改变遗传的某一特性或创造新的物种。这样,就有可能打破植物、动
JohnStuartMillarguedinthe19thcenturythatanindividualshouldbefreetodoashepleased,solongashedidnotharman
最新回复
(
0
)