初中英语新目标八年级下讲解版05

[13:31.69]“许多人正习惯于由父母安排事情做。
[14:35.65]When they leave home,they don't know what to do with themselves."
[14:41.15]当他们离开家的时候，不知道自己做什么。”
[14:46.65]The answer,she says,is for parents to take the middle road.
[14:54.34]对于答案，她说父母们应采取中庸策略。
[15:02.03]Children need organized activities
[15:03.68]青少年需要有组织的活动，
[15:05.33]but they also need time and freedom to play or time to just sit and think.
[15:24.20]但也需要时间和自由玩或者坐下来思考。
[15:43.07]3 Match the words and expressions with their meanings.
[15:48.68]把单词与其解释用线连起来，
[15:54.28]Then make sentences with the words and expressions.
[15:56.00]然后用这些单词和短语造句子。
[15:57.73]genius
[15:58.69]天才
[15:59.66]f.someone who is very intelligent
[16:06.18]聪明的人
[16:12.70]exhaustion
[16:13.95]疲惫
[16:15.20]c.so tired that you can't do anything
[16:18.81]太累了，你什么都做不了
[16:22.41]pressure
[16:24.66]压力
[16:26.91]g.stressed because you are too busy
[16:28.92]感到很紧张，因为你太忙了
[16:30.93]psychiatrist
[16:33.38]心理医生
[16:35.84]h.a doctor who studies how people think
[16:37.96]研究人们心理的医生
[16:40.07]independent
[16:41.22]独立的
[16:42.37]a.you can do it by yourself
[16:43.59] 你能自己做
[16:44.80]drop off
[16:47.45]将某人载到某处
[16:50.10]b.take someone somewhere
[16:51.06]把某人带到某处
[16:52.01]take the middle road
[16:53.12]走中庸之道
[16:54.23]d.do less of one thing and more of another
[16:56.19]不要走极端
[16:58.15]4 Read the article and complete the sentences.
[17:01.31]阅读文章，填入下面句子中所缺的词语。
[17:04.47]1.Dee Know in London knows all about the pressure on kids at a young age.
[17:12.20]Parets compare how many parties their children attend.
[17:26.80]2.Terri Apter says once children leas home,
[17:32.81]they might find it difficult to be____.
[17:38.21]3.Cathy Hagner's sons play____and____.
[17:46.52]She has to take her daughter to____.
[17:51.61]4.Doctor say children are showing sings of____and____.
[18:12.41]5.Children really need time to___and____.
[18:21.50]Children really need time and___to____.
[19:41.62]Family life suffers from activities
[19:45.93]Life for Cathy Hagner and her three children is very busy.
[19:52.04]Their school days and her job are busy enough,
[19:56.84]but after that,
[19:58.96]Cathy still has to take the two boys from football to basketball.
[20:04.45]Then she has to drop off her daughter at piano lessons.
[20:10.27]The tired family doesn't get home until 7p.m.
[20:15.29]There is a little time for a quick supper before homework.
[20:22.34]The Hagners are take many American and british parents
[20:27.43]whose children are always running a race.
[20:31.27]Parents take their children from activity
[20:35.22]to activity to prepare them for their future.
[20:39.24]It seems that rasing a genius is more important raising a happy child.
[20:46.43]Doctors acroos the country
[20:50.00]say many children are suffering from exhaustion and stress.
[20:55.65]Teachers are teaching exhausted kids in the classrooms.
[21:02.12]Most children attend after-school clubs.
[21:08.63]Activities include sports,language learning,
[21:13.33]music,and math classes(sometimes for children as young as four.)
[21:20.54]It isn't anything new.
[21:22.68]There have always been pushy parents.
[21:26.21]But now they puh their children a lot more.
[21:31.07]Mothers see their children's friends doing a lot of things
[21:35.09]and they feel their own children should do the same.
[21:39.24]Dee Knox,a mother of three in London,
[21:44.26]knows all about such pressure.
[21:47.03]"I know a lot of families
[21:49.93]where competition starts from a very young age,"she says.
[21:54.84]When their children are young,
[21:57.74]mothers start to compare how many parties their children go to.
[22:02.47]Then at five kids begin sports or music lessons.
[22:08.34]It's just crazy.
[22:10.02]Terri Apter,a psychiatrist who studies 18-year-olds,
[22:16.70]says young adults may find it hard to be independent.
[22:21.41]"A lot of them are used to having their time filled up by their parents.