Passage 4
British people don’t drink as many tea as they 1. much
used to, but
five per cent of all world exports of the commodity.
The world largest producers of tea are
and the
The quantity of tea is affected by the climate, 4. quality
by the latitude at which it is grown and also by
that part of the tea bush is plucked. In fact, as 5. which
Dominic Beddard, a tea taster, tells us, favour can 6. flavour
even depend on which day the leaf is plucked:
”There are very considerable differences between teas
from the same estate made on different day,” he says. 7. days
Processing tea is a complicated procedure. After
the green leaf has been plucked, it is processed in a
factory. Quickly and carefully, the tea is reduced to 8. slowly
a small brittle particle, which is then dried and looks
like the tea you see in a packet. The tea companies
then rely on tasters as Donimic to value the tea. This 9. 之前加such
has to be done on a day-to-day basis because of
fluctuations in quality. Having to taste up to six
hundred cups of tea a day certainly causes Dominic’s 10. makes
job an unusual one!
Passage 5
Parents can be supportive of suspicions. They
can be helpful to the teacher, or are in need of help 1. be
themselves. Sometimes, I think parents are too hard
to their children. I have seen many parents of this 2. on
kind. I often have the problem of parents coming in
and telling me what they really treat their kids. They 3. how
tell me that they usually stand over their kinds when
they do their homework. They check their work and
make big fuss over the grades. They criticize the kids 4. 之前加“a”
over everything having to do with school. My
response usually is: ”well, you know, he is really a
good kid. He is fine in my class. Maybe you should
not be too strict with them.” 5. him
We want parents to realize the fact that teachers
are professors at working with children. They have 6. professional
observed many children and many parents. Because
of this, and because of their specialized training,
teachers can be realistic about children. Teachers
know whether parents want their children to do well 7. that
and to behave well. But teachers know less what 8. better
children should be able to do at different ages and
stages. They don’t expect the 8-year-olds to do the
work that can only be done by the 12-year-olds.
Parents, in the contrary, often expect their children 9. on
to do what is usually beyond their age and ability.
Obviously, this may make great harm to the 10. do
children’s development.
Passage 6
Thus you experience success as you complete
each chapter. While you have completed the overall 5. have not
goal, you know you have progressed toward it.
although the tremendous amounts of money, time 3. despite
and energy giving over to oral health.
Critics, on the other hand, slam the profession.
It can be conservatively estimated that at least
15 percent of
incompetent, honest, or both, says a former 10. dishonest
All these tokens of success are in a sense merely bribes
provided by another person. Therefore, they can be 10. However/But
effective and useful.
It is not just in academy that children are been pushed 4. being
too far and too fast. Some parents start their preschool
We need to abandon the false notions that we can
create exceptional children by early instruction and
parents.
