It may not be as easy as you think to build a foundation for your child of family values. Often we believe that our child will pick up on our values if they live in the same home. While they may pick up many of our values, parents need to remember they are not the only influence in their child’s life. These outside values often compete with family values for your child’s attention. If we do not make a conscious effort to instill our values into our children, they may not get instilled at all.

I wish I had learned that lesson a little earlier. I thought if I lived my values for my children they would pick them up and make their own. Sometimes this happened and sometimes it didn’t. I often see twenty-something “kids” who have no faith in many of the values of their family in favor of the values of their friends. Children will often pick up the negative you show quicker than the positive, so the positive things need extra focus to set them.

Some of the influences your children face every day include their church, their school, their friends, any clubs or sporting groups they are part of and more. Kids spend many hours a day at school and with their friends. Sometimes in the business of life, we suppose our children will obtain that foundation we want for them.

Instilling a foundation of family values to sustain(维持) your child requires more than living it in front of them. That is important, but building up your child with this important foundation must become intentional.

That means we plan times to gather as a family. We plan activities together that show the values we want to pass on. We talk about our values; we live our values; we discuss the values of others and how they differ from ours; we constantly look for opportunities and make our own opportunities to share these values in word or deed with our children.

Family values give our children a foundation to build upon. It helps them know they are loved and gives them a sense of belongings. Upon this sure foundation, they can spread their wings and grow to become parents who share these same values with their own children.

29. The underlined word “instill our values into” in the 1st paragraph probably means “______”.

A. get our ideas out of B. impress our ideas on

C. collect our ideas for D. force our ideas upon

30. We can learn from the passage that children ______.

A. sustain their family values easily B. will hold their family values with age

C. often discuss family values of others D. accept negative values more quickly

31. Family values can be passed on if ______.

A. we live with our children B. parents show positive things

C. parents foster them intentionally D. we plan times to gather with other families

32. The passage mainly tells us about ______.

A. the importance and the way to pick up family values

B. a lesson the writer learned in educating his(her) kids

C. the influences the children face while growing up

D. some negative and positive family values

D

There’s a “culture of walking and texting” on the Utah Valley University campus, according to conversations with students, but that’s not the main reason Matt Bambrough, the creative director at UVU, came up with an idea to paint a “texting lane” on a staircase leading up to the Wellness Center.

According to Bambrough, it’s first and foremost a design project—the texting lane was a tongue-in-cheek(戏谑)reference to the college-wide epidemic(流行)of kids walking around with their faces buried in their iPhones.

“You have 18–24-year-olds walking down the hall with smart phones. You’re almost bound to run into someone somewhere; it’s something we’re dealing with in this day and age,” Bambrough said. “But preventing collisions isn’t the reason we did it—we did it to arouse the students’ attention. It’s meant to be there for people to look at and enjoy.”

Still, when talking to Utah Valley students, it sounds like texting and walking can be quite the annoyance.

Robbie Poffenberger, an assistant news editor at the UVU Review, said that most collisions he witnesses aren’t human-on-human; rather, it’s generally human-on-inanimate-object. “They walk into barriers—chairs on the side of the hallway, or railings,” Poffenberger said, “I’m sure they’re fairly embarrassed.”

33. What do we learn about the “texting lane” from the text?

A. It is a special campus culture in Utah Valley University.

B. It is used to encourage the campus culture.

C. It is painted on a staircase leading to everywhere.

D. It is popular with students in universities.

34. According to Bambrough, ______.

A. the “texting lane” is to attract students’ attention

B. we don’t have to face the problem in this age

C. what they did is to prevent the collisions D. students enjoy looking at each other

35. What would most students run into from what Robbie said?

A. Students in the same direction. B. Teachers opposite to them.

C. Barriers on campus. D. Grass on campus.