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money , parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England , the United
States or Australia . They also want their children to take extra-course activities where they will either
learn a musical instrument or ballet ,or other classes that will give them a head start in life . The Chinese
believe that the more expensive an education is , the better it is . So parents will spend an unreasonable
amount of money on education .Even poor families will buy a computer for their son or daughter .
However , what most parents fail to see is that the best early education they can give their children
is usually very cheap .
Parents can see that their children's skills vary (变化),skilled in some areas while poor in others.
What most parents fail to realize is that today's children lack (缺少) self-respect and self-confidence .
The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple-choice tests
and how to study well , but parents are 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 housewk .
Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life . Cooking needs
patience and time . 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 .His result , a well-cooked
dinner , will give him much satisfaction (满意) and a lot of self-confidence .
Some old machines ,such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play with will make
him curious (好奇的) and arouse (唤起) his interest . He will spend hours looking at them , trying to fix
them ; your child might become an engineer when he grows up . These activities are not only teaching a
child to read a book , but rather to think , to use his mind . And that is more important .
B. are too rich to educate their children
C. have some problems in educating their children correctly
D. are too poor to educate their children
B. have nothing to do with their education
C. may be different
D. have something to do with their marks in the exams
B. the education system
C. children's skills
D. children's hobbies
B. learn how to become strong and fat
C. improve many skills that they will need later in life
D. make their parents make that they are clever
B. one's curiosity may be useful for his later life
C. an engineer must fix many broken radios
D. a good student should spend much time repairing radios
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| BEIJING (AP)-The government is teaching the people "the right way to spit." A college teaches students the right way to sit. Two years before holding the Olympic Games, people across Beijing are on and all-out drive to mind their behavior. Visitors are often surprised to see people in China spit phlegm onto the ground. Changing all that before the 2008 Summer Games is "important in providing a cultural and historical legacy to the world for China," said Beijing city official Zhang Huiguang. "We will work with newspapers, radio stations, TV stations, the Internet and mobile telephones to teach people the right way to spit, said Zhang. Zhang said her office is organizing a "behavioral training" activity that teaches people to line up for buses and turning off mobile phones during meetings. But spitting is the most serious problem. "You have to spit into a piece of paper or a bag, and then put it into a dustbin," she explained. Zhang said her office has organized a small group of volunteers who are going to Beijing's streets to hand out small "spit bags". "Public spitters already face fines up to 50 yuan (about $ 7 Cdn)," Zhang said. Others are taking a softer way. Lu-chin was born near Beijing, married an American and spent 10 years in the U.S. She said her heart sank when she and her family returned to live in her homeland and she saw the spitting, littering and cutting in line. It caused her to start the Pride Institute, a private group that showing the great pleasure of being more polite. "I'm trying to wake up a sense of decency. I know it's there. I saw our beautiful scenery covered with plastic bags. Sometimes I think I'm the first one to see this and say, 'Why do you treat our country like a dustbin?' I'm just trying to wake them up and show them they can stop the bad behavior." Still others are trying to improve things in a far more traditional way. "All of China is looking forward to the Olympics," said Zhang Hui, head of training at the Beijing Courtesy College. "It's really important to improve courtesy before the Games", Zhang said. "Everyone knows how to walk, stand and sit," she said. "But we teach them how to do it in a good way." That means things like sitting, back straight, on the "front one-third" of a chair, she said, "Women sit with their knees and feet together. Men may sit with their feet slightly apart. If you cross your legs, you keep the toe of your lifted foot pointing downward." "Every day we teach the students about Confucius and Laozi. Every country has a basis for its culture." she said. "Confucius and Laozi are our country's basis."
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| 1. Besides (除了) Zhang Huiguang's way to change people's bad behavior, how many other ways have been mentioned in the passage? | |
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| A. Two B. Three C. Four D. Five | |
| 2. What has Zhang Huiguang's office done to teach people good behavior? | |
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| A. They have given spitters 50 yuan's fine. B. They have provided a cultural and historical legacy to the world. C. They have sent volunteers to the streets to give people spit bags. D. They have worked with the media to teach people the right way to spit. |
| 3. Which picture shows the right way to sit? |
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| 4. This passage mainly tells us ________. |
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| A. from spitting to sitting, Beijing goes all out to look good for Olympics B. spitting has really become a serious problem in our country C. foreigners have criticized (批评) us for our bad behavior D. Confucius and Laozi are the basis of Chinese culture |