2022-2023学年英语周报九年级第21期答案及试题

阅读理解：Competition is everywhere

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Competition is everywhere. It teaches us how to survive in a stressful world.

How many of us have seen young boys weeping because their teams didn't win an inter-school tourmament? How many of us have seen young teenagers cheat just to win? These are the effects of unhealthy competition.

When it comes to encouraging healthy competition among children, the first thing is to set goals for them to stick to. 

Since children may be easily affected by wrong ideas from popular media and the Internet, it's up to you to develop the right kind of spirit in them. Team spirit will help them grow into human beings who aren't easily annoyed by small losses or too excited by victories.So give them examples where family members refused to cheat to win.

When they take an exam, don't ask about how much they expect to score; instead, ask what they wrote about. If your son played a football match at school, don't ask him whether his team won or lost; ask him how many runs he sore and encourage him to score higher next time instead. When you let your children know that you're more interested in how they performed rather than whether they lost or won, they will surely try to better themselves