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  3. It’s an annual back-to-school routine. One morning you wave goodbye, and that(1)_____ evening you’re burning the late-night oil

It’s an annual back-to-school routine. One morning you wave goodbye, and that(1)_____ evening you’re burning the late-night oil

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问题     It’s an annual back-to-school routine. One morning you wave goodbye, and that(1)_____ evening you’re burning the late-night oil in sympathy. In the race to improve educational standards,(2)_____ are throwing the books at kids.(3)_____ elementary school students are complaining of homework(4)_____. What’s a well-meaning parent to do?
    As hard as(5)_____ may be, sit back and chill, experts advise. Though you’ve got to get them to do it,(6)_____ helping too much, or even examining(7)_____ too carefully, you may keep them (8)_____ doing it by themselves. "I wouldn’t advise a parent to check every(9)_____ assignment," says John Rosemond, author of Ending the Tough Homework. There’s a(10)_____ of appreciation for trial and error. Let your children(11)_____ the grade they deserve.
    Many experts believe parents should gently look over the work of younger children and ask them to rethink their(12)______. But "you don’t want them to feel it has to be(13)______," she says.
    That’s not to say parents should(14)_____ homework—first, they should monitor how much homework their kids(15)______. Thirty minutes a day in the early elementary years and an hour in(16)_____ four, five, and six is standard, says Rosemond. For junior-high students it should be "(17)_____ more than an hour and a half," and two for high school students. If your child(18)_____ has more homework than this, you may want to check(19)_____ other parents and then talk to the teacher about(20)_____ assignments.
(20)
选项 A、finishing
B、lowering
C、reducing
D、declining
答案C
解析 因为作业太多，所以应该要求“减少(reduce)”。finish“完成”和lower“降下”不与homework搭配；decline表示“下降”时为不及物动词．后不能带宾语。
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