《2025年综合素质随堂反馈八年级英语下册译林版常州专版》

四、阅读理解
When Wilbur and Orville Wright finished their flight at Kitty Hawk, Americans celebrated the brotherly bond. The brothers had grown up playing together, they had been in the newspaper business together, and they had built an airplane together. They even said they “thought together”. However, when the Wright brothers said they thought together, what they really meant is that they argued（争论）together. “After long arguments, we often found ourselves in the position of each having been pulled to the other’s side,” Orville thought back. “I don’t think they really got mad,” their mechanic（机械师）remembered, “but they got awfully hot.”
The skill to get hot without getting mad is important in life. But it’s one that few parents teach to their kids. We want to give kids a warm home, so we stop brothers and sisters from quarrelling（争吵）and we have our own arguments behind closed doors. Yet if kids never face disagreement directly, we’ll end up limiting（限制）their creativity（创造力）. As the psychologist Robert Albert put it, the creative person - to - be comes from a family that is one with a “wobble（摇晃）”. Wilbur and Orville Wright came from a wobbly family. The brothers often watched their father Milton Wright fight with school teachers who didn’t like his decision to let his kids miss a half - day of school from time to time to learn on their own.
The Wright brothers weren’t alone. The Beatles fought over instruments and tunes. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak kept arguing while designing the first Apple computer. Brainstorming groups get 16 per cent more ideas when the members criticized（批评）one another. The most creative ideas in Chinese technology companies come from teams that have real disagreement early on.
Children need to learn the value（价值）of thoughtful disagreement. We should teach kids that silence is bad manners. It shows no respect（尊重）to the value of your own ideas and your own voice. It’s a sign of respect to care enough about someone’s idea that you’re willing to challenge it. Good arguments are wobbly: a team or family might rock back and forth but it never tips over. If kids don’t learn to wobble, they never learn to walk; they end up standing still.
(　　　)1. What does the writer say about the Wright brothers?
A. They always took advice from their mechanic.
B. They knew little about the newspaper business.
C. They often held opposite ideas.
D. They had a very bad relationship（关系）.
(　　　)2. What kind of father was Milton Wright?
A. Unusual. B. Generous. C. Hard - working. D. Rude.
(　　　)3. What is the writer’s purpose in writing Paragraph 3?
A. To summarize（总结）the paragraphs above.
B. To add some background information.
C. To introduce a new subject for discussion.
D. To provide more examples to support his idea.
(　　　)4. What is the best title for the text?
A. Commutation with Kids.
B. Uncomfortable Silence Harms（伤害）Kids.
C. Kids, Would You Please Start Fighting?
D. Parents, Would You Please Stop Arguing?

答案： 1-4 CADC