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I can still remember it as if it happened yesterday. I was a college freshman and had stayed up most of the night before laughing and talking with friends. Now just before my first class of the day my eyelids were feeling heavier and heavier and my head was drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a pillow. A few minutes’ nap time before class couldn’t hurt, I thought.
Boom! I lifted my head immediately and my eyes opened wider than saucers. I looked around with my heart beating quickly trying to find the cause of the noise. My young professor was looking back at me with a mischievous, boyish smile on his face. He had intentionally dropped the pile of textbooks he was carrying onto my desk. “Good morning !” he said, still smiling. “I’m glad to see everyone is awake. Now let’s get started.”
For the next hour I wasn’t sleepy at all. It wasn’t from the shock of my professor’s textbook alarm clock either. Instead, it was from the attractive discussion he led. With knowledge and good humor, he made the material come alive. His insights were full of both wisdom and loving kindness. And the enthusiasm and joy that he taught with were contagious（有感染力的）. I left the classroom not only wide awake, but a little smarter and a little better as well.
I learned something far more important than not sleeping in class that day too. I learned that if you are going to do something in this life, do it well, do it with joy, and make it an expression of your love. What a glorious place this world would be if all of us did our work joyously and well ! What a beautiful world we could create if every doctor, teacher, musician, cook, waitress, poet, miner, farmer, and laborer made their work an expression of their love ! Don’t sleepwalk your way through life then. Wake up! Let your love fill your work and your soul. Life is too short not to live it well.
24. What did the author want to do just before his first class of the day?
A. Talk with his friends.                B. Take a short sleep.
    C. Get his eyes examined.              D. Stay away from the class.
25. The underlined word “mischievous” in Paragraph 2 probably means “________”.
    A. naughty        B. tricky      C. sensitive          D. dishonest
26. What else did the author learn that day?
    A. Students should not sleep in class but respect their teachers.
    B. Everyone should love his job and sleepwalk his way through life.
    C. Life is too limited to make your work an expression of your love.
    D. People from all walks of life should do their jobs with wisdom and love.
27. What can be inferred from this passage?
    A. The professor often kept his students sharp by using a textbook alarm.
    B. The author was attracted by the professor’s great wisdom and enthusiasm.
    C. The author left the two-hour period not only wide awake, but a little smarter.
    D. Though the author was frightened awake, he was not clear-headed in the class.
 

C
 
 
“Tiger Mother” parenting raises media storm. A new book written by a self-described Chinese descent(血统)on her super-strict parenting—Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother has raised media storm and fierce debates in the U．S.
    Amy Chua is a Yale Law School professor and the mother of two teenage girls. She is the daughter of immigrants of Chinese descent. In the Chinese culture，the tiger symbolizes strength and power. In her book Ms.Chua writes about how she demanded excellence from her daughters. For example，her daughters，Sophia and Louisa，were never allowed to attend a sleep-over，be in a school play，watch TV or play computer games. They couldn’t choose their own after-class activities or get any grade less than an A．They had to play piano or violin—and no other musical instruments. She writes that if a Chinese child gets a B—which she says” would never happen”—there would be a screaming，hairtearing explosion”．She describes making her 7-year-old daughter play a piano piece perfectly—yelling and not letting her leave the bench even to use the bathroom—until it was.
      Many people have criticized Chua. Some say her parenting methods were abusive. She even admits that her husband，who is not Chinese，objects to her parenting style. But she says that was the way her parents raised her and her three sisters.
       Stacy DeBroff，who has written four books about parenting，says Amy Chua’s parenting style is not limited to Chinese families. She says it represents a traditional way of parenting among immigrants seeking a better future for their children. But she also sees a risk. When children have no time to be social or to follow their own interests，they might not develop other skills that they need to succeed in life. Stacy DeBroff advised parents not to just repeat the way they were raised.
      Alison Lo，an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Washington’s Bothell campus said，“I don’t think Amy is advocating a best practice of parenting style，or that success and achievements are critical yardsticks(衡量标准)of a good life. But I can imagine how strong her daughters’ college applications are going to be. For many parents whose dreams are seeing their kids graduating from a competitive university，Amy is sharing with the readers that it is achievable by persistent，dedicated parental guidance，”Lo said in an interview with Julie Muhlstein，a columnist with the US-based Heraldnet.com.“In that sense，a young adult’s giftedness can be born，or made，”Lo continued.
28．According to the passage，which is TRUE of Amy Chua?
    A．She is an easy-going woman.
    B．She is an assistant professor.
    C．She is a demanding parent.
    D．She is a cruel teacher.
29．Which of the following are Sophia and Louisa allowed to do?
    A．Playing the piano.
    B．Playing the guitar.
    C．Dating with boys.
    D．Getting an A minus.
30．Stacy DeBroff advised parents to________.
    A．seek a better future for their children
    B．develop their own style of parenting
    C．be strict with their children
     D．follow Amy Chua’s parenting style
31．Alison Lo concluded that________.
    A．persistent，dedicated parental guidance is the best parenting style
    B．parents should respect children’s personalities
    C．a gifted child was born with talent
    D．a teenager can be raised to be talent by strict parenting
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