请认真阅读下列短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词(注意:每个空格只填一个单词)
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 (课外的) activities where they 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 often spend unreasonable amount of money on education. Even poor couples buy a computer for their son or daughter.
However, what most parents fail to see is that the best education they can give their children is usually very cheap. Parents can see that their children's skills vary; they will usually be 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 effectively. They are not teaching them the most important skills they need 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 gradually finish his job successfully. The result, a well-cooked dinner, will give a child a lot of satisfaction and confidence.
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 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 teach a child to read a book; but rather they teach them to think, and to use their minds. This is much more important than learning by reading a book.
| Title |
How Chinese Parents Should Educate Their |
practice |
Being generous with Sending them to the Taking extra curriculum activities in order to start in life. |
| Bad results |
Children's lack of |
| Suggested |
Teaching their children practical skills, which are the most important. Cooking. Sewing. Other housework. Repairing a |
| Good results |
To make the children hardworking and confident. To enable them to think and to use their |
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Wang Hai,
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Hopefully you will keep an on it. _______
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nglish learners._______
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All the best.
Yours,
Li Hua
It’s great to receive your email. Now I’d like to tell you something
took place in my school yesterday. In the afternoon, we_
h______ a growing-up ceremony for our coming 18-year-old_
birthday. For _______ start we made an oath that
agrown-ups we should have a sense of duty for our society
from now on. Then we sho
wed our tto our parents_
who had gone through hardships to ___ us up and_
teachers who have been educating us(耐心地). And our
teachers also
gave us cards(表达) their good wishes to
us. Finally, we put on w__________ performances, singing and
dancing. We learned a lot from the _________(活动). I think it’s
very important for us. I will remember the day in my life
Until recently daydreaming was viewed as a waste of time. Or it __________(consider) an unhealthy escape from real life and its duties. But now some people are taking a fresh look at daydreaming. Some think it may be a very ______
____ (health) thing to do. Some researchers are finding that daydreaming may be important to mental health. Daydreaming, they tell us ,____
___(be) a good means of relaxation. But its benefits go beyond this. A number of psychologists have conducted experiments and have reached some
(surprise) conclusions.
Dr. Joan T. Freyberg has concluded that daydreaming contributes to intellectual growth. It also improves (concentrate),attention span, and the ability _____
____ (get) along with others. Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser believed that much of his success was due to the positive use of daydreaming. Florence Nightingale dreamed of becoming a nurse. The young Thomas Edison pictured
as an inventor. For these notable persons, it appears
their daydreams came true. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick offered this advice: “Hold a picture of yourself… in your mind’s eye, ____
______will drew you toward success. Picture yourself
(vivid) as defeated and that alone will make victory impossible.
Former Chinese athlete, Jin Jing, made her 16(appear) in the National Stadium, 17(carry) Paralympic torch during the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games on September 6.
But now she’s back in the Bird’s Nest, and this time she’s not competing, or carrying a flame, 18working for the media. Jin said that she was a little regretful for not being able to participate 19the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games.
Born in 1981, Jin 20(raise) in a common wage-earning family in Hefei, Anhui Province. Jin had part of her right leg amputated in 1989 because 21a malignant tumor on her ankle. She then became a member of she Shanghai Wheelchair Fencing Team on July 13, 2001, the same day Beijing was selected as 22host city for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
After an incident in Paris, 23she was part of the Torch Relay and a protestor tried to take away the torch from her while she protected the Olympic Torch with her body, she became 24(know) as the “Smiling Angel in a Wheelchair”.
Now she is still smiling, but this time from the 25side of the camera, as she watches Chinese athletes won another gold medal.
Charlie Chaplin developed his own manner of acting, the one that was to become world-famous. He wore a small black hat, very wide trousers, a moustache and carried a stick that he swung in the air he walked. During his first year, Chaplin acted in 35 films, many of
he wrote and directed himself. Chaplin’s earliest films were
(silence), because the equipment for adding sound to films had not yet been developed.
The (develop) of films with sound became a problem for Chaplin, as he was uncertain about
(make) films with dialogue. Instead, he continued to make films without dialogue, but he added music. Chaplin’s later films, _
, were not well received. He made only six films
1940 and 1966 and only
first of these is still popular today. Before he died in 1977, he _
(honour) in a number of ways for
contributions to the film industry.