3、It has been said that today children interrupt their education to go to school.The difference between schooling and education implied by this remark is important.

Education is much more open-ended and all-inclusive than schooling.Education knows not limits.It can take place anywhere, whether in the shower or on the job, whether in a kitchen or on a tractor.It includes both the formal learning that take place in schools and the whole universe of informal learning.The agent (doer) of education can vary from respected grandparent to the people arguing about politics on the radio, from a child to a famous scientist.A chance conversation with a stranger may lead a person to discover how little is known of other religions.People receive education from infancy on.Education, then, is a very broad, inclusive term.It is a lifelong process, a process that starts long before the start of school, and one that should be a necessary part of one's entire life.

Schooling, on the other hand, is a specific, formalized process, whose general pattern varies little from one setting to the next.Throughout a country, children arrive at school at about the same time, take the assigned seats, are taught by an adult, use similar textbooks, do homework, take exams, and so on.The pieces of reality that are to be learned, whether they are the alphabet or an understanding of the workings of government, have been limited by the subjects being taught.For example, high school students know that they are not likely to find out in their classes the truth about political problems in their society or what the newest film makers are experimenting with.There are clear and undoubted conditions surrounding the formalized process of schooling.

1.The passage is organized by        

A.giving examples of different schools

B.telling a story about excellent teachers

C.listening and discussing several education problems

D.telling the difference between the meanings of two related words

2.Which of the following statements does the passage support? 

A.Education systems need to be changed as soon as possible.

B.Without formal education, people won't be able to read and write.

C.Going to school is only part of how people become educated.

D.Schooling is of no use because students do similar things every day.

3.What does the writer mean by using the expression "children interrupt their education to go to school" ?  

A.All of life is an education.

B.Learning takes place everywhere.

C.Education is totally ruined by schooling.

   D.Schooling prevents people from discovering new things.

4.The underlined phrase "for example" introduces a sentence        . 

A.that helps to find out some similar textbooks

B.that brings about the bad results of schooling

C.that shows the unknown workings of government

D.that gives examples of the limits of classroom subjects

5.The main idea of this passage is        

A.The best schools teach a variety of subjects

B.Education and schooling are quite different experiences

C.The more years students go to school the better their education is

D.Students benefit from schools, which require long hours and homework

38、Alfred Korzybski believes that all human beings lead a kind of double life. First, people live in an internal (内在的) world of ideas, feelings, etc. The happenings in this world are patterns of events in the human nervous system . Secondly , people live in a world outside their skins, the external(外在的)world of “reality”. The happenings in this world are patterns of events best known to science.

The first world, the patterns of events inside our skins, Korzybski called the INTEN- SIONAL areA.The second, the patterns of events outside our skins, he called the EXTEN- SIONAL area . Think for a moment about the two worlds in which you live. Look , for example, at the following diagram:

INTENSIONAL PATTERNS           EXTENSIONAL PATTERNS

“cat”                             An object we call “cat”.

The word "cat ".                        A pattern of physical and

The image of this cat.                    chemical events best

Ideas about cats.                        known to science.

Feelings about cats.

Physical tensions aroused

by the cat: the urge to

pick it up, to kick it, etc.

Thinking along these lines , Alfred Korzybski began to see what was wrong with the great number of people: they confused intensional events with extensional “reality”. He believed that too many people mistake the events in their own nervous systems for events in the outside world . When they get lost in a strange city , more often than not they are angry at the map they use. In fact, it’s the maps of words in their heads that are to blame.

1.According to Alfred Korzybski, we human beings live in__________.

    A.the world of ideas

    B.the world of reality

    C.either the world of ideas or that of reality

    D.both the world of ideas and that of reality

2.The INTENSIONAL area in the passage refers to the patterns of events__________.

       A.outside our skins                                  B.best known to science

       C.in the human nervous system          D.in the external world of reality

3.Which of the following belongs to EXTENSIONAL pattern?

       A.A computer on the shelf.               B.A computer is useful.

C.I like the computer.                    D.I want to buy the computer.

4.According to what Alfred Korzybski states in the last paragraph, you get lost because of _  .   

    A.the map you bring with you             B.the maps of words in your head

       C.the reality world before you                  D.the strange city you visit

 

 

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