Question

Chinese parents 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 US 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 unreasonable amount of money on education. Even poor couples will buy computers for their sons or daughters.

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, skilled in some areas while poor in others. What most parents fail to realize though, is that today’s children lack self-respect and self-confidence.

The reasons are 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 housework.

Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking demands 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 and a lot of confidence. These activities are not only teaching a child to work, but rather to think, and to use his mind. And that is more important.

Answer 1

1.Educate Their Children

2.Be generous /Generous

3.Measures/Ways/Approaches/Methods

4.Never care /Don’t care

5.take extra-course activities

6.the better

7.Problems

8.study well

9.confidence

10.Solution/Tip/Advice/Suggestion

【解析】

试题分析:对于孩子的教育问题，中国的父母亲都会倾其所有。但作者提议，最好的教育往往是廉价的。需要做的就是让孩子生活的技能并体会到自信、幸福和快乐。

1.Educate Their Children主旨大意题。本文只要讨论中国父母亲对孩子教育方面的做法和欠缺。所以文章的题目是：中国父母亲怎样教育孩子。

2.Be generous /Generous细节理解题。根据第一句话Chinese parents are very generous when it comes to educating their children。可知，涉及到教育问题，中国父母亲是大方的。

3.Measures/Ways/Approaches/Methods推理判断题。提出论断后，紧接着例举了中国父母亲的一些做法。所以Measures/Ways/Approaches/Methods均符合语境。

4.Never care /Don’t care细节理解题。根据句子Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the US or Australia.可得出答案。

5.take extra-course activities细节理解题。根据句子They also want their children to take extra-course activities where they will either learn a musical instrument or ballet,可得出答案。

6.the better细节理解题。根据句子The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is. So parents will spend unreasonable amount of money on education.可得出答案。

7.Problems推理判断题。第二段，用however转折，进而指出这样做存在的问题。用problems。

8.study well细节理解题。根据句子The reasons are that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple-choice tests and how to study well,可得出答案。

9.confidence推理判断题。根据句子they need to be confident, happy and clever.可知，孩子们需要变得自信、快乐和聪明，这里换了一种问法，需要换成名词形式。

10.