People like Edison Chen because he is young, good-looking and talented.  But some people don’t  46 because he likes to make faces and walks in a strange way.

No matter  47  people think of him, Edison doesn’t care. He likes his own style and his own music . He shows he has more  48 than luck.

  49 November 26 , Edison got one of the Lycra in Style Awards in Shanghai because he has been trying to   50   in music.

Edison first listened to hip-hop music  51 he was nine . He fell in love with it .

Now he’s working hard on making music with some Japanese friends .He wants to bring real hip-hop music to China.

His music tells young people that there’s   52  they can’t do. He also has the courage to himself, from his clothes to his hair. Some people don’t like his way of dressing. 53  say he walks like a gorilla. But he thinks it’s OK. “My  54 show my style , and my songs tell my feelings ,” he said . “If I only listened to others, I may  55  myself.”

The Chinese are very generous when it comes to educating their children. Some parents send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the US or Australia, regardless of how much this costs. Many also want their children to take extra-curriculum activities (课外活动) where they either learn a musical instrument or ballet, or other classes that will give them a better start in life. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is, so parents often spend a large amount of money on education. Even poor parents manage to buy a computer for their son or daughter.
In fact, most parents fail to see that the best education they can give their children is usually very cheap. Parents can see that their children’s skills are different; they will usually be skilled in some areas while poor in others. However, they fail to realize that today’s children are lack (缺乏) of self-respect and self-confidence.
The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take exams and how to study effectively. They are not teaching them the most important skills they need. They do not teach them to be confident, happy and clever.
Parents can help achieve this by teaching their children practical skills like cooking, sewing and 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 finish his job step by step. The result, a well--cooked dinner, will give a child a lot of satisfaction and confidence. All these will help the children step to success in the future.
An old machine such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child as a toy may make him curious and arouse(唤醒) his interest. If he will spend hours looking at it, and try to mend it; your child might become an engineer when he grows up. Such activities do more than teaching a child to read a book. They teach them to think and to use their minds. This is much more important than learning by reading a book.
1．Is the writer satisfied with the Chinese parents’ ideas of educating their children?
2. Put the underlined sentence “the more expensive an education is, the better it is” into Chinese.
3.What are the children lack of today?
4. How is the experience of cooking according to the fifth paragraph?
5.What does the underlined word “They” refer to(所指的是) in the last paragraph?

配对阅读。阅读左栏五则个人的相关信息，然后根据他们的需要在右栏A—G中找出与他们匹配的信息，并在答题卡上将选项涂黑。(有两个多余项)