Child: Mom, I'm very sorry, really. I didn't mean to hurt you.Mom: It's OK. ______. Do beh

lowing dialogue by blackening the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.

A. What happened？

B. Nice to meet you.

C. please take it easy.

D. No trouble at all.

E. Coffee, please.

F. I forgive you.

G. But he panned to.

H. Can I have the bill？

56. Tom: Hello, first let me introduce myself. I'm Tom Hall, I am in charge of MAP Advertising.

Tony: ______, I' m Tony Blair.

57. Student A: I am very grateful to you for taking so much trouble to explain the best way of getting there.

Student B: ______.

58. Child: Mom, I'm very sorry, really. I didn't mean to hurt you.

Mom: It's OK. ______. Do behave yourself next time!

59. Guest: Waiter! ______, please？

Waiter: Yes, sir. Here is the bill. The total is 200 yuan.

60. Doctor: ______？ You don't look well.

Patient: I broke my left leg when climbing the mountain yesterday.

Tony. Mom, I'll be 12 next week. May I have a birthday party？

Mom: ______.

A. I think so.

B. With pleasure.

C. Please take it easy.

D. Yes, but why？

E. Sure you can.

F. It's very kind of you!

G. Never mind.

H. Not too bad.

一Go and say sorry to your Mom, Dave.

--I'd like to, but I'm afraid she won't be happy with my().

A.requests

B.excuses

C.apologies

D.regrets

love My Children , I Hate My Life, " is arousing much chatternothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience. Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness : instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition. Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard, Senior writes that " the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight. "

The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. There are also stories about newly adoptiveand newly singlemom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual "Jennifer Aniston is pregnant" news. Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.

In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing？ It doesn't seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the childless. Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn't have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.

Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock. According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all. No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it, raising a kid on their "own" (read; with round-the-clock help) is a piece of cake.

It's hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous; most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut. But it's interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren't in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting " the Rachel" might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.

Jennifer Senior suggests in her article that raising a child can bring______.

A．temporary delight.

B．enjoyment in progress.

C．happiness in retrospect.

D．lasting reward.

ller was a parent saying, “Your child is bullying my child, and I want it stopped!” the bully’s parent replied, “You must have the wrong number. My child is a little angel.”

A trillion phone calls later, the conversation is the same. When children are teased or tyrannized, the parental impulse is to grab the phone and rant. But these days, as studies in the U.S.show bullying on the rise and parental supervision on the decline, researchers who study bullying say that calling moms and dads is more futile than ever. Such calls often lead to playground recriminations and don’t really teach our kids any lessons about how to navigate the world and resolve conflicts.

When you call parents, you want them to “extract the cruelty” from their bullying children, says Laura Kavesh, a child psychologist in Evanston, Illinois. “But many parents are blown away by the idea of their child being cruel. They won’t believe it.” In a recent police-department survey in Oak Harbor, Washington, 89% of local high school students said they had engaged in bullying behavior. Yet only 18% of parents thought their children would act as bullies.

In a new U.S.PTA survey, 5% of parents support contacting other parents to deal with bullying. But many educators warn that those conversations can be misinterpreted, causing tempers to flare. Instead, they say, parents should get objective outsiders, like principals, to mediate.

Meanwhile, if you get a call from a parent who is angry about your child’s bullying, listen without getting defensive. That’s what Laura McHugh of Castro Valley, California, did when a caller told her that her then 13-year-old son had spit in another boy’s food. Her son had confessed, but the victim’s mom “wanted to make sure my son hadn’t given her son a nasty disease,” says McHugh, who apologized and promised to get her son tested for AIDS and other diseases. She knew the chance of contracting any disease this way was remote, but her promise calmed the mother and showed McHugh’s son that his bad behaviour was being taken seriously. McHugh, founder of Parents Coach Kids, a group that teaches parenting skills, sent the mom the test results. All were negative.

Remember: once you make a call, you might not like what you hear. If you have an itchy dialing finger, resist temptation. Put it in your pocket.

第11题：The word “bullying” probably means _____.

［A］ frightening and hurting ［B］ teasing ［C］ behaving like a tyrant ［D］ laughing at

I'm very much obliged to you ______ the information.

A．on

B．for

C．with

D．of

Mom used to be very busy at that time and had to put me ______ the care of my grandma.

A．for

B．at

C．on

D．in

But for his help I ______ (finish) my work. So I'm very appreciative of him.

to turn the tables on those who don't think it's possible to be middle-class, conservative, educated and still be truly black. Once, during an abortion debate, a woman in the audience angrily told James she was so middle-class she didn't have a clue about real African American life. "If you understood what these women go through," the woman said, "you would realize that abortion is their only choice."

James then asked the woman to consider a poor black mother on welfare. She already has four children and an alcoholic husband who has all but abandoned the family. Now she discovers another child is on the way. "How would you counsel that woman？" asked James.

"Have an abortion," the woman responded. "That child would have a very poor quality of life."

"I have a vested interest in your answer," James said. "The woman I described was my mother. I was the fifth of six children born into poverty. And, in case you're interested, the quality of my life is just fine!"

Kay James ______.

A．is not a black

B．is a poor black mother

C．has five brothers and sisters

D．has a hard life

I'm very sorry to have ______ you with so many questions on such an occasion.

A．interfered

B．offended

C．impressed

D．bothered