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 United States 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 an unreasonable amount of money on education. Even poor couples will buy a computer for their son or daughter.
However, what most parents fail to see is that the best early education they can give 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 problem is 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 self-confidence.
Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play with will make him curious and arouse his interest. He will spend hours looking at them,tying to fix them ,your child might become an engineer when he grows up. These activities are not only teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind. And that is more important.
【小題1】Parents in China according to this passage    .

A．a(chǎn)re too strict with their children
B．a(chǎn)re too rich to educate their children
C．have some problems in educating their children correctly
D．have no problems in educating their children strictly
【小題2】The writer of the passage does not seem to be satisfied with    .
A．the parents’ ideas of educating their children
B．the education system of the school
C．children’s skills in cooking at home
D．children’s hobbies in the classroom
【小題3】Doing some cooking at home helps children    .
A．learn how to serve their parents
B．learn how to become strong and fat
C．get a lot from it and prepare themselves for the future
D．make their parents believe that they are clever
【小題4】According to the last paragraph we can conclude that    .
A．broken radios and television sets are useful
B．one’s interest and curiosity may be useful for his later life
C．a(chǎn)n engineer must fix many broken radios
D．a(chǎn) good student should spend much time repairing radios


【小題1】C
【小題2】A
【小題3】C
【小題4】B

解析試題分析：文章介紹了中國(guó)的父母在孩子教育上有問(wèn)題，體現(xiàn)在不注重學(xué)前教育，上學(xué)后又只重視學(xué)習(xí)，不注重孩子生活技能的培養(yǎng)。其實(shí)教會(huì)孩子做飯、縫紉、修理等技能不僅幫助孩子培養(yǎng)責(zé)任感，建立自信心，還能在技能培養(yǎng)中產(chǎn)生興趣和好奇感，這對(duì)他們今后的生活有很大的影響。
【小題1】推理題：閱讀第一、二段內(nèi)容可知中國(guó)父母在孩子教育上存有很多問(wèn)題，如不重視學(xué)前教育、送孩子出國(guó)留學(xué)、給孩子報(bào)太多的課外班等。故選C。
【小題2】推理題：閱讀文章可知作者對(duì)家長(zhǎng)只注重學(xué)習(xí)，不注重孩子技能培養(yǎng)的教育方法不滿。故選A。
【小題3】細(xì)節(jié)題：根據(jù)第六段第一句“Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. ”教會(huì)孩子做飯會(huì)提高在今后生活中他會(huì)需要的許多技能。故選C。
【小題4】推理題：閱讀最后一段可知興趣和好奇心是最好的老師，對(duì)人們以后的生活有很大影響。故選B。
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