Immigrant children are often highly motivated and have ambitious parents. And these clever, knowledge-hungry youngsters often achieve higher results than the rest of the classmates.

In 1954, the United States opened its borders to an immigrant from Syria. His son, Steve Jobs, became one of the most creative entrepreneurs（企业家）.In the current refugee crisis, that might look like a fairy tale, but it is not that unbelievable.

While immigrant youngsters might face cultural, social and economic disadvantages, the top 10% of 15- year-old students with an immigrant background in the United States did just as well as the top 10% without an immigrant background, as measured by Pisa, an international test.

In fact, when considering social background, these high-achieving immigrant teenagers were almost a school year ahead.

This doesn't only happen in the United States. In 13out of the 37 countries with comparable data, including the United Kingdom, the top 10% of immigrants were at least 10 points ahead of the non-immigrant students in Pisa, after considering social background.

These highly motivated students, managing to overcome the double disadvantages of poverty and an immigrant background, have the potential（潜力）to make exceptional contributions to their host countries.

On average across all countries, top performing immigrants and non-immigrants reached similar levels of performance on the Pisa mathematics test. Many immigrants seem determined to make the most of any opportunity that arises. Their children also seem ready to take on an academic challenge. Alongside the Pisa are questions about students' willingness to try to solve more complex problems. First-generation immigrants, including in the UK, are more likely than average to want to stretch themselves and try to answer more difficult problems.

The OECD's research shows that in most cases immigrant students and their parents hold an ambition to win the matches, and in some cases they go beyond the expectations of families in their host country. For example, parents of immigrant students in Belgium, Germany and Hungary are more likely to expect that their children will go to university and get a degree than parents of students without an immigrant background.

【小题1】Why is Steve Jobs referred as an example？

A．To criticize the policy of the United States.

B．To prove immigrant children caused all the refugee crisis.

C．To agree that immigrant children could get along well with others.

D．To show immigrant children could make better achievements than those in their native countries.

【小题2】According to the passage, cultural, social and economic disadvantages in immigrant youngsters

A．are all the questions from Pisa

B．exist only in the United Kingdom

C．are objective factors for the children to face

D．make the children hard to catch up with their classmates

【小题3】What does the underlined words "stretch themselves" in Paragraph 7 mean?

A．Make themselves longer by pulling.

B．Extend their knowledge or ability.

C．Occupy a large area.

D．Show off themselves.

【小题4】What can be inferred from the OECD's research?

A．All the parents hope for their children's achievements.

B．Parents play an important role in their children's getting over the difficulty in study.

C．Parents' cleverness results in their children's achievements.

D．Immigrant children's achievements result from a strong drive for success.

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Many of the students feel strong against the rule, arguing that the mobile had become a necessary part of our life. They also consider that a must for us to get relaxing from our busy studies.
When it comes to me, like some other students, I hold the different opinion. While a mobile can help us get some relief, without it we can be more devoted to our studies, but spare more time to communicate with those around us. Therefore, I believe in this school rule is of great beneficial to every student.

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Li Hua

The Hunan Satellite TV(HNTV) show “Where are we going, Dad?” is a big hit. Many famous stars brought their children to a strange village alone, and they had to spend 72 hours with their children there. The program fully showed us a modern version of the “how to be a good father”. As the young parents today are too busy to take care of their children, this new form of “Lost on the way” played by nanny Daddy and cute kids triggered（触发）a lot of people’s emotional resonance（共鸣）. Both the kids and their parents will find that their hearts are being drawn closer. But this kind of feeling has just proved that there is a big spiritual barrier between the modern parents and children.
The TV shows like “Children are hard to support!”, “Where are we going, Dad?”, “hot mom” and “cute kids” are becoming more and more popular. All of these show the new parents’ confusion in children’s education and the appeal for the balance between career and family.
In real life, on the one hand the young parents feel helpless because they are too busy to accompany their children under the pressures of work and life; on the other hand they continue to do so. The data collected by HNTV shows that nearly two-thirds of their audience are female, among whom 36% are aged from 25 to 34.We can imagine such a scene that one evening a young mother is watching the show with her young children, while her husband is still at work or trapped in socializing, or maybe is just playing computer games in the bedroom. The story of a child without the company of father is still going on. In fact, it is sometimes the same to mothers. In a modern family, it is often the old who take the responsibility of raising a child. The participation of mother in the children’s education is also very low.
It is just this kind of confusion where the parents have gone in the modern family education, and where the parents will guide their children to go that “Where are we going，Dad?” shows us. If a child wants to grow up healthily and safely into a modern citizen with independent personality and free spirit, it is very important for him or her to follow the parents who serve as their first teacher. Maybe this is the real reason why such kind of TV programs could get hot. The truth is that children will go where their parents go; and society will go where the children go.
【小题1】In raising a child in modern society, parents should ________.

A．play computer games with their children

B．keep their children at home to avoid socializing

C．balance well between family and career

D．break down the barrier between children and teachers

【小题2】Which of the following can be inferred in the passage?

A．Parents shouldn’t entirely leave the education of children to the old.

B．36% of the audience of the program are female aged from 25-34.

C．The program shows us the confusion where the parents and children will go to play.

D．In a modern family it is often mothers who are responsible for raising a child.

【小题3】Which one is the best title of the passage?

A．Confusion Behind “Where are we going, dad?”

B．Modern Education is Important

C．Nanny Daddy and Cute Kids

D．New problems in Modern Children’s Education

【小题4】What attitude towards modern family education does the author express in the second paragraph?

A．Proud.	B．Worried.
C．Optimistic.	D．Indifferent.

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Right since my childhood，I have always been encouraged by my parents. They have stressed the 【小题1】（important）of being a good human. Both my parents were doctors，【小题2】 I was sure they would have expected me 【小题3】（become）a doctor. But my parents gave me the freedom to choose football 【小题4】 my career.

They often told me that 【小题5】 was not the career but your attitude（态度）to it that influenced you. In fact，I knew a lot of my friends，【小题6】  were not allowed to do what they liked，but I was a 【小题7】（luck）child. Today，when I am a father of two lovely kids，I always fall back on my parents' teaching when it comes to 【小题8】（teach）them. I know what difference my parents 【小题9】（make）to my life in the past，so I now try and do the same to my kids. Of course，it is a different generation，but yes，I am a better father because of my own father. I also 【小题10】（deep）admire（饮佩）my mom because of the way she balanced her career，home and kids.