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It’s never too early or too late for a parent to become a teacher. In this age of teacher accountability, endless school testing

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问题     It’s never too early or too late for a parent to become a teacher. In this age of teacher accountability, endless school testing, increased pressure and competition, and the proliferation of "educational" toys, too many people forget that success begins at home.
    Freeman A. Hrabowski Ⅲ, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and co-author of Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males and Overcoming the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Young Women, says that in the interviews he and his co-authors conducted, the overwhelming factor in their children’s academic achievement was that parents inspired and envisioned their children’s success. They thought and talked about what would be required to have a .successful child.
    "It just makes such a difference when there’s someone in that house working to relate to that child and inspire that child," Hrabowski says. "These parents (of the high achievers discussed) are really inspirational in their commitment to their children."
    Professor Barbara T. Bowman, one of the faculty founders of Chicago’s Erikson Institute, an independent institution of higher education that prepares child development professionals for leader- ship, says that Black children must learn in two different cultures-the African-American culture in which they live and the mainstream culture on which school and education are based.
    Bowman also says the relationship between children and their parents is critical. "It is the early responsive ness of the caregiver to the infant’s behavior that creates a sense of well-being and optimism that affects the child’s interest in learning," says Bowman, who served as president of the institute from 1994 to last year. "Children who like and want to please the adult learn better what the adult wants them to learn."
    In this day of highly competitive testing and the stress of getting high SAT or ACT scores, it’s important also to avoid pressuring or overexposing your child. Your son or daughter is probably already facing stress at school and on the playground. Your role is to help him or her relieve and manage that stress. Help them to understand that life does not end or begin with a test. And while academic success is important, it’s also important to keep everything in perspective. Failure is a relative term in the grand scheme of things. If your child did poorly on a test, but answered a particularly tough question correctly, stress the positive. On the other hand, if schoolwork comes too easily to your child, find other ways to challenge him or her so they understand that life won’t always be that way.  
Whether a child is interested in learning depends on ______.
选项 A、the content the adult wants the children to learn
B、how pleased the parents are when the children are learning
C、the feedback the parents give to children at an early age
D、the physical health of the children
答案C
解析 细节题；题目中的关键定位词是interested in learning，在原文中我们可以定位到原文的第四段。通过对原文的相关信息“It is the early responsiveness of the caregiver to the infant’s behavior that creates a sense of well-being and optimism that affects the child’s interest in learning”的分析，我们知道我们需要的答案就是这个强调句中被强调的部分，也就是responsiveness这个核心词，即父母在孩子早期对于孩子的行为所给予的反馈。在4个选项中，C选项所表述的feedback和原文的信息是一致的，是我们需要的正确答案。A选项来自原文第四段的最后一句话，B选项和D选项是对原文中的“please”和“well-being”两个词的曲解，请考生体会和比较。
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