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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-school 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.

(4)    and research 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. are (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)    .

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1.We should try to ______ (使结合) work with pleasure.

2.He __________（分析）the food and found that it contained poison.

3.A British club arranged for high school students to go to places where there are lost           __________ (文明).

4.The Normans, a French-speaking people who defeated England made               __________ (贡献) to the development of the new type of English.

5.Socrates’ way of _______(接近) the truth is now called the Socratic Method.

6.The children _________(恐慌) when they realized they were lost.

7.I don’t know his password, so I can’t have a________ to his computer.

8.His lie was so touching that many of his friends f__________ for it.

9.These words have similar meanings. I really have difficulty d_____one from another.

10.U________, his computer crashed the moment it was most needed.

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1.However, by the latter half of the14th century, English ________(come) into widespread use among all classes in England.

2.There’re nearly 400 different types of sharks, but only about 30 types are known _______(attack) human beings.

3.The next morning Mrs Brown found the poor man _________(lie) in the street, dead.

4.He is the only one of the students who_______(be) the winner of scholarship for 3 years.

5.When it comes to ________(bring) up children, some people say  strict control produces well-behaved children.

高中学习任务繁重，因此同学们对于参加学校活动有着不同的看法，请以“Taking Part in School Activities”为题，根据下表提示，并结合自己的见闻，用英语写一篇150词左右的短文（开头已写好，不计入总词数）。

                      Taking Part in School Activities

The study burden tends to be heavier and heavier for high school students. So they hold different views about whether they should take part in school activities.

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The professor has ______ 11-year-old boy who has______ gift for dancing.

A．a; a              B．an; the            C．an; a             D．the; 不填

The cost of renting a house in central Yuxi is higher than ______ in any other area of the city.

A．that              B．this              C．it                D．one

— John, don’t waste any time and there’s only 25 minutes left before the train leaves.

— Don’t worry, mum. I think I can ______ it.

A．manage           B．make             C．do               D．achieve

Bear in ______ that tomorrow is our dear mother’s birthday.

A．mind             B．head             C．memory          D．heart

— Is Nie’er Library ______ to ordinary people?

— Of course.

A．accessible         B．available          C．reasonable        D．adjustable

She will stop showing off if no notice ______ of her.

A．has taken         B．takes             C．will be taken       D．is taken