A
Chinese 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 tobe 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, trying 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.
1. Parents in China, according to this passage, _______.
A. are too strict with their children
B. are too rich to educate their children
C. have some problems in educating their children correctly
D. are too poor to educate their children
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
C. children’s skills
D. children’s hobbies
3. Doing some cooking at home helps children ______.
A. learn how to serve their parents
B. learn how to become strong and fat
C. benefit from it and prepare themselves for the future
D. make their parents believe that they are clever
4. According to the last paragraph we can conclude that ______.
A. broken radios and television sets are useful
B. one’s curiosity may be useful for his later life
C. an engineer must fix many broken radios
D. a good student should spend much time repairing radios
【答案】1. C 2. A 3. C 4. B
【解析】
试题分析：文章介绍了中国的父母在孩子教育上有问题，体现在不注重学前教育，上学后又只重视学习，不注重孩子生活技能的培养。其实教会孩子做饭、缝纫、修理等技能不仅帮助孩子培养责任感，建立自信心，还能在技能培养中产生兴趣和好奇感，这对他们今后的生活有很大的影响。
【1题详解】
推理题：阅读第一、二段内容可知中国父母在孩子教育上存有很多问题，如不重视学前教育、送孩子出国留学、给孩子报太多的课外班等。故选C。
【2题详解】
推理题：阅读文章可知作者对家长只注重学习，不注重孩子技能培养的教育方法不满。故选A。
【3题详解】
细节题：根据第六段第一句“Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. ”教会孩子做饭会提高在今后生活中他会需要的许多技能。故选C。
【4题详解】
推理题：阅读最后一段可知兴趣和好奇心是最好的老师，对人们以后的生活有很大影响。故选B。
考点：考查科教类阅读
