Imagine a boy from a small village in East Africa. He from a very early age has been looking after cattle.  At twelve years old he knows more about cattle than most of you. However, he has never been to school. Has this boy ever had any education?

     Education is discovering about ourselves and about the people and things around us. All the people who care about us -- our parents, brothers, sisters, friends -- are our teachers. In fact, we learn something from everyone we meet. We start learning on the day we are born, not on the first day we go to school. Every day we have new experiences, like finding a bird's nest, discovering a new street in our neighborhood, making friends with someone we didn't

like before. New experiences are even more fun when we share them with other people.

      Encouragement from the people around us enables us to explore things as much as possible. As we grow up, we begin to find out what we are capable of doing. You may be good at cooking, or singing or playing football. You find this out by doing these things. Just thinking about cooking doesn't tell you if you are good at it.

We learn so much just living from day to day. So why is school important? Of course you can learn some things better at home than at school, like how to do the shopping, and how to help old or disabled people who can' t do everything for themselves. At school, teachers help us to read and write. With their guidance, we begin to see things in different ways.

56. The writer takes the African boy as an example to show that___________

    A. African children are very poor             B. some children are unlucky

    C. education takes many ways                D. schools are of great importance

57. In the eyes of the writer___________

    A. we have to learn from the people around us  B. school is not important at all

    C. only the people caring for us can teach us    D. education takes place everywhere

58. One can find out what he is good at by___________

    A. the encouragement of people around       B. the teachings of those he or she meets

    C. thinking of it when growing up              D. trying and practicing it

59. How does the writer look at the role of school___________

    A. School is not so important as our living places.

    B. School enables us to understand the world in other ways.

    C. School teaches us something useless at home.

    D. School cannot prepare us for our daily lives.

60. The passage tells us that___________

    A. everyone gets education from the day he or she is born

    B. different education trains different classes of people

    C. school is absolutely necessary if one wants to understand the world

    D. everyone will find out what he or she is good at

Many people have described television as a passive activity that is harmful to children’s education. However, there are good and bad ways to watch television. Parents who are interested in using television as a learning tool can actually turn time in front of TV into an educational chance.

Probably the most familiar educational way to use television is to simply watch educational programs. In particular, this means selecting channels and programs specially designed for educational purposes. Along with traditional educational shows for children on public broadcasting channels, cable television now offers kids and adults a wide variety of educational programs, with everything from nature shows to historical events in different countries.

Captioning（说明文字，字幕）, such as “closed captioning” for hearing disabled viewers provides another way for parents to exploit (开发) the educational possibilities of television. One study showed that children who watched captioned TV got great improvement in their vocabulary and oral reading ability. In addition, parents can make any show a learning class by watching television together with children. By actively joining children in the programs that they are watching, parents can help with the development of such skills as predicting and summarizing. In order to develop predicting skills, parents and children could first refer to a program’s description in a viewing guide. After reading the program description and guessing what might happen in the program, parents and children could watch together to see which predictions were correct. And to practice summarizing, after watching a program, parents can turn off the TV and ask what the story was about. This kind of activity helps children develop thinking skills such as arranging events in an order and memorizing information.

Although there will still be plenty of times when children watch TV simply for passive enjoyment, parents can help make at least part of their children’s viewing time a more productive activity. Used intelligently by exploiting the learning chances available through various programs, television can play an instructive role in children’s education.

60. Which activity is NOT suggested in the passage?

A. Predicting and summarizing TV shows.          B. Watching captions on TV.

C. Enjoying films about nature.                         D. Watching shows for homework.

61. We can learn from the last paragraph that _________.

A. children should not use television for passive enjoyment

B. not every minute when a child watches television must be educational

C. some children prefer reading to watching television

D. television offers more learning chances than school

62. Which of the following questions is the major one discussed in the passage?

A. What makes television more interesting than books?

B. Why should schools put television into classrooms?

C. How can parents use television as a teaching tool?

D. Which program can actually make kids smarter?

63. Who do you think this passage is written for?

A. Children.                                                 B. Teachers.

C. Parents.                                                           D. Teachers and parents.

Imagine a boy from a small village in East Africa. He, since a very early age, has been looking after cattle. At twelve years old he knows more about cattle than most of you. However, he has never been to school. Has this boy had any education?

Education is discovering about ourselves and about the people and things around us. All the people who care about us — our parents, brothers, sisters, friends — are our teachers. In fact, we learn something from everyone we meet. We start learning on the day we were born, not on the first day we go to school. Every day we have new experiences, like finding a bird’s nest, discovering a new street in our neighborhood, making friends with someone we didn’t like before. New experiences are even more fun when we share them with other people.

Encouragement from the people around us enables us to explore things as many as possible. As we grow up, we begin to find out what we are capable of doing. You may be good at cooking, or singing or playing football. You find this out by doing these things. Just thinking about cooking doesn’t tell you whether you are good at it.

We learn so much just living from day to day. So why is school important? Of course you can learn some things better at home than at school, like how to do the shopping, and how to help old or disabled people who can’t do everything for themselves. At school, teachers help us to read and write. With their guidance, we begin to see things in different ways.

The writer takes the African boy as an example to show that _______.

A. African children are very poor.                   B. some children are unlucky.

C. there are many kinds of education.                 D. schools are of great importance.

In the opinion of the writer,       .

A. we have to learn from the people around us.         B. the school is not important at all.

C. only people who care for us can teach us.             D. education takes place everywhere.

One can find out what he / she is good at by     _.

A. what people encourage him/ her to do.       B. the teachings of those he / she meets.

C. thinking about it when growing up.                D. trying and practising things.

The passage tells us that _     .

A. everyone gets education from the day he or she was born.

B. different classes of people receive different kinds of education.

C. the school is absolutely necessary if one wants to understand the world.

D. everyone will find out what he or she is good at.

According to the last paragraph, we know that       .

A. the school is not so important as our living places.

B. the school enables us to understand the world in other ways.

C. the school teaches us things which are useless at home.

D. the school cannot prepare us for our daily lives.

Imagine a boy from a small village in East Africa. He, since a very early age, has been looking after cattle. At twelve years old he knows more about cattle than most of you. However, he has never been to school. Has this boy had any education?
Education is discovering about ourselves and about the people and things around us. All the people who care about us — our parents, brothers, sisters, friends — are our teachers. In fact, we learn something from everyone we meet. We start learning on the day we were born, not on the first day we go to school. Every day we have new experiences, like finding a bird’s nest, discovering a new street in our neighborhood, making friends with someone we didn’t like before. New experiences are even more fun when we share them with other people.
Encouragement from the people around us enables us to explore things as many as possible. As we grow up, we begin to find out what we are capable of doing. You may be good at cooking, or singing or playing football. You find this out by doing these things. Just thinking about cooking doesn’t tell you whether you are good at it.
We learn so much just living from day to day. So why is school important? Of course you can learn some things better at home than at school, like how to do the shopping, and how to help old or disabled people who can’t do everything for themselves. At school, teachers help us to read and write. With their guidance, we begin to see things in different ways.
【小题1】 The writer takes the African boy as an example to show that _______.

A．the school is not so important as our living places.

B．the school enables us to understand the world in other ways.

C．the school teaches us things which are useless at home.

D．the school cannot prepare us for our daily lives.

Imagine a boy from a small village in East Africa, He from a very early age has been looking after cattle. At twelve years old he knows more about cattle than most of you. However, he has never been to school. Has this boy ever had any education?
Education is discovering about ourselves and about the people and things around us. All the people who care about us — our parents, brothers, sisters, friends — are our teachers. In fact, we learn something from everyone we meet. We start learning on the day we are born, not on the first day" we go to school. Every day we have new experiences, like finding a bird's nest, discovering a new street in our neighborhood, making friends with someone we didn't like before. New experiences are even more fun when we share them with other people.
Encouragement from the people around us enables us to explore things as much as possible. As we grow up, we begin to find out what we are capable of doing. You may be good at cooking, or singing or playing football. You find this out by doing these things. Just thinking about cooking doesn't tell you if you are good at it.
We learn so much just living from day to day. So why is school important? Of course you can learn some things better at home than at school, like how to do the shopping, and how to help old or disabled people who can' t do everything for themselves. At school, teachers help us to read and write. With their guidance, we begin to see things in different ways.
【小题1】 The writer takes the African boy as an example to show that _______.

A．the encouragement of people around	B．the teachings of those he or she meets
C．thinking of it when growing up	D．trying practicing it