11.Have you ever considered building a better future for your children?The following are some tips for you. Education Going after a career in education is sometimes overlooked.Yet teaching is an important path to creating change.You will educate the young minds responsible for the future.In addition to presenting basic school subjects,you can teach them to be leaders.You can motivate them to want to make a difference themselves. A carcer in education doesn't have to mean teaching in a classroom.You can help them to learn in a way that works for them and be a friend to them as well. Social work As a social worker,you can directly change the lives of children in need as well as advocating(提倡)for services for drug abusers,family-violence survivors,mental-health patients,and more.You will provide them with the necessary resources to succeed and advise them through trauma(精神創(chuàng)傷),unemployment,education difficulties,addiction and poverty. Many social workers are associated with governmental agencies,but there are also jobs in schools.nonprofit organizations and hospitals. Child psychology Studying child psychology may lead to a career option.Psychologists can provide support for children with mental-health problems and give them a place to be open about their feelings. You may wish to become a school psychologist and guide children (and their parents) through the education system while dealing with mental illness or trauma.As a psychologist,you will help your patients find the source of trauma or stress and discover ways of reducing or removing the problem.You may even conduct your own research on new treatment methods.
(1)Which educational concept does the author support?
A.Working with students' group leaders. B.Teaching children according to their interests. C.Keeping teaching children in the classroom. D.Encouraging students to make a change themselves. (2)Who will social workers help most probably?
A.Governmental officials. B.Local business agents. C.Children with education difficulties. D.Women suffering from violence. (3)Which carcer mainly deals with children with mental illness?
12.Children may learn new words better when they learn them in the context of other words they are just learning-according to a new research from the University of East Anglia. Researchers investigated how 18-24-month-olds learn new words - in the context of words they already know well and those they don't.The findings help explain how children learn new words and suggest a new way that parents and careers could help boost language development. Previous research suggests that when children hear a word they do not know and sec an object they have never seen in the context of some objects that they can already name,such as a toy or a ball,they guess that the new word refers to the new thing. Dr.Larissa Samuelson from the university wanted to know of the strength of a child's knowledge of familiar things - how well they know what "cars" or "balls" are,for example-mattered for learning new words and remembering them.They asked 82 children to take part in the study and carry out two experiments among them.And then they got some really surprising findings. "We had expected that a stronger knowledge of familiar words would be better for learning new words,but we found the opposite was true. "Dr Samuelson said. "This new study suggests another way we might be able to help boost children's ability lo remember new word-object links-by teaching them in the context of other things that they are just learning." It seems counterintuitive,but it is perhaps because the less well-known items don't compete with the new words as much.If they learn new words in the context of playing with well-known items such as a ball or book,they don't process the new word as much.
(1)What is the purpose of the new research?
A.To challenge the findings of previous studies. B.To observe the process of children's learning. C.To better understand children's word learning. D.To compare children's different learning styles. (2)What can be inferred from Dr.Samuelson's words?
A.Their findings are out of expectation. B.Their research should focus on children. C.We should be more patient with children. D.We need to provide guidance on learning. (3)What does the underlined word"counterintuitive" mean in the last paragraph?
A.Consistent. B.Encouraging. C.Impractical. D.Unreasonable. (4)What does the text mainly tell us?
A.Less familiar words help children learn better. B.Word-object links contribute to better learning. C.New research finds the secrets of raising children. D.Children learn better with the help of their parents.