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We send our children to school to prepare them for the time when they will be big and will have to work for themselves.They learn their own language so that they will be able to tell others clearly what they want and what they know,and understand what others tell them.They learn foreign languages in order to be able to understand the people from other countries and make themselves understood.They learn history to know something about human beings they meet every day.What they learn at school is,of course,quite useful,but is that the only reason（原因） why they go to school?

No.There is more in education than just learning facts.We go to school,above all,to learn how to learn,so that when we have left school,we can continue to learn.A man who really knows how to learn will always be successful,because whenever he has to do something new,he will quickly teach himself how to do it in the best way.The uneducated person,on the other hand,is either unable to do something new,or does it badly.So the purpose（目的）of school is not just to teach the students these useful subjects but teach the way to learn.

1.Children are sent to school because       .

2.Why do they learn languages?Because they will       .

3.The sentence“There is more in education than just learning facts”means     .

4.What does an educated person do when he meets something new?He will     .

5.The main idea of the text is that       .

完形填空
Have you ever asked yourself why children go to school? You will probably   1__  they go to learn languages, geography, history, science and all the other subjects. That is quite    2  ,but why do they learn these things?
We send our children to school to    3   them for their future work and life. Nearly everything they study at school has some practical use in their life, but is that the  __4  reason they go to school?
There is    5  in education than just learning facts. We go to school above all to learn how to learn, so when we    6   school we can go on learning. If a man really knows how to learn, he will    7   be successful, because whenever he has to do something new he will quickly teach himself how to do it in the best way. The uneducated person, on the other hand, is ___8   unable to do it or does it badly, so the    9   of school is not just to teach languages, geography, science, etc, but to teach pupils the    10   to learn.

The Turners are American. They are now in Beijing. This is their first visit to China.
They are going to stay in China for three months.  They want to visit some big cities and villages. They hope to learn some Chinese, too.
Mr Turner is a driver. He likes to drive in Beijing. Mrs Turner is a school teacher. She is visiting a city school and a village school. Their daughter is a middle-school student. She meets some Chinese students.
They take a lot of pictures in China. When they are back in America, they are going to show the pictures to their friends. They want the American people to know more about China.
根据短文内容，回答下列问题。
【小题1】Where are the Turners from?
【小题2】What is Mr. Turner?
【小题3】Is Mrs. Turner's daughter a middle-school student?
【小题4】How many people are there in Mr. Turner's family?
【小题5】Why do they take a lot of pictures in China?

根据短文内容，用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，每词限用一次。

Scientists would like to put a huge mirror in space above the earth. It might be sixty miles wide. It would be   【小题1】 to catch the rays of the sun. it would direct the sun’s rays on the earth as a child might do to make sunlight   【小题2】 on the wall with a hand mirror.
Why do they want to do this? The sun’s rays could be   【小题3】  in many ways. They could light up   【小题4】  by night. The warm rays could stop frosts(霜冻) which might come at night and hurt fruit and crops. They could melt（融化)【小题5】 icebergs in the ocean. Perhaps they could change cloud movements and bring rain where it is needed.

—Why do they look so disappointed?
—They look disappointed ____ they can’t go to see Love Me Once More, Mom.