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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.  
The suggestion given in the last paragraph is ______.
选项 A、to emphasize the importance of success for children
B、to avoid pressuring the children too much
C、to challenge the children as much as possible
D、to use the positive effect of pressure
答案B
解析 段落主旨题；题目明确指向最后一段，要求我们对最后一段给出的建议进行归纳。在段落的第一句话就出现了对于建议的归纳，“avoid pressuring or overexposing your child”就是这个段落围绕的中心。误选B选项的考生对于“while academic success is important，it’s also important to…”这样的表达的误解，这样的让步从句要表达的重点内容在后面，而不是while所带的部分。C选项把原文的“if schoolwork comes too easily to your child， find other ways to challenge him or her"这样的意思扩大了范围，选项中“as much as possible”的表述是不准确的。D选项对于原文“stress the positive”所表达的“要强调积极的一面”这样的含义进行了曲解。
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