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Usually it is the children, not the parents, who are unwilling to spend thei

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问题     Usually it is the children, not the parents, who are unwilling to spend their evenings practising spelling and learning times tables. But a Canadian couple have just won a legal battle to(1)_____ their offspring from homework after(2)_____ arguing there is no clear evidence it(3)_____ academic performance.
    Shelli and Tom Milley, two lawyers from Calgary, Alberta, launched their highly(4)_____ case after years of struggling to make their three (5)_____ children do school work out of the classroom.
    After waging a long(6)_____ with their eldest son over his homework, they decided to do things (7)_____ with their youngest two. And being lawyers, they decided to make it official.
    It took two years to(8)_____ the Milleys’ Differentiated Homework Plan, which(9)_____ their youngest two children will never have to do homework again at their(10)_____ school. The two-page plan, signed by the children, parents and teachers, states that "homework will not be used as a(11)_____ of evaluation for the children".(12)_____, the pupils promise to get their work done in class, to come to school prepared, and to(13)_____ for tests.
    Two years ago, Shelli began collecting studies (14)_____ homework, most of which suggest that, (15)_____ for younger grades, there is no clear (16)_____ between work at home and school performance. Working with the staff at St Brigid Elementary/Junior High School, she formed a homework committee. When no firm changes(17)_____ from the committee, the couple began negotiating the(18)_____ document that decided the matter.
    "We think it’s a parent’s(19)_____ to choose what’s in our children’s best(20)_____," said Shelli. "But we’re thankful the school did the right thing." [br] (5)
选项 A、lazy
B、obedient
C、reluctant
D、ignorant
答案 C
解析 由空格前的struggling“斗争”，可以看出小孩子并不乐意做作业，因此选reluctant“不情愿的”。小孩不愿意做作业并不等同于懒惰，因此排除lazy。obedient“服从的”；ignorant“无知的”。
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