Question

Chinese are very generous when it comes to educating their children. Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the USA or Australia. They also want their children to take extra courses or activities where they will either learn a musical instrument or ballet, or other classes that will give them a head start in life. 1.

So parents will spend unreasonable a mount of money on education. 2. .

However, what most parents fail to see is that the best education they can give to their children is usually very cheap.

Parents can see that their children’s skills vary. Some children are skilled in some areas while poor in others. 3. .

The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple-choice tests and how to study well, but not teaching them the most important skills; they need to be confident, happy and clever.

Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing other housework.

Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. 4. . It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish his job successfully. The result, a well-cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and a lot of confidence.

Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your children to play with will make him curious and arouse his interest. He will spend hours looking at them, trying to fix them; your child might become an engineer when he grows up. 5. . And that is more important.

A. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is

B.These activities are teaching a child not only to read a book but also to think, to use his mind

C.What most parents fail to realize, though, is that today’s children lack self-respect and self-confidence

D.Even poor couples will buy a computer for their son or daughter

E.The more cost in education, the better the result will be

F.Cooking demands patience and time

G.They made a lot of money by doing business

 

Answer 1

1.A

2.D

3.C

4.F

5.B

【解析】

解題分析：中國人在對他們小孩的教育方面很慷慨，從不考慮錢的多少。然而，大多數(shù)的父母并沒有意識到現(xiàn)在的小孩缺乏自尊心和自信心，父母可以通過教他們實踐技巧，而且教會他們思考，學(xué)會用大腦，這些更重要。

1.】第一段都在講述中國人在對他們小孩的教育方面很慷慨，從不考慮錢的多少。送他們的小孩上最好的學(xué)校甚至出國，甚至讓小孩參與更多的課外活動，因此本段最后總結(jié)中國人一直覺得在孩子教育方面投入的越多，獲益也就越多。選A。

2.】中國的父母在孩子教育方面投入很大。有些花費是不合理的。貧困家庭給孩子買電腦屬于不合理花銷。因此選D。

3.】上一句說到父母能看出孩子擅長的技能是千差萬別的，下一句應(yīng)該是表示轉(zhuǎn)折，然而，大多數(shù)的父母并沒有意識到現(xiàn)在的小孩缺乏自尊心和自信心。選C。

4.】本段在說在家里教孩子做飯能幫助小孩從中受益并且為他們的未來做好準(zhǔn)備。下面在解釋原因，因為做飯要求有耐心和時間，一個好的廚師總是想辦法去提高他的烹飪技術(shù)，所以他就會努力工作，逐漸的成功完成他的工作，到最后一頓出色的午餐將會帶給他滿足感和更大的自信心，選F。

5.前面舉例一些老機器，像壞掉的收音機或者電視機你可以給小孩子玩挖掘他們的好奇心培養(yǎng)他們的興趣。他會花掉很多時間研究它們，嘗試著修理他們，當(dāng)小孩長大后他可能會成為一名工程師。因為這些實踐活動不僅僅教小孩讀書，而且教會他們思考，學(xué)會用大腦，這些更重要。選B。

考點：科教類文章