Confucius is the greatest teacher in Chinese history. He was born on (1)S
28th. 511 B.C.in the Kingdom of Lu. in today's Shandong Province. When he was young, he and his mother had a hard (2)l .At the age of fifteen, he began to learn music, and he did well in it.
Then he went on (3)l other subjects. When he was thirty,he (4)b a teacher. He started his own school. He believed everyone should have a chance to get education whether they were (5)r or poor. He had about, 3,000 (6)s and many of them became famous.
Chinese see Confucius as the greatest thinker (7)w had many wise ideas about human nature and behavior. And he is also regarded (8)a the greatest teacher. His most important ideas are about kindness and (9)g manners. He said young people should (10)t care of the old. People should not only always think of themselves, but work for (11)o .His ideas are around in people's everyday life. Today people can still hear the ideas, and they even go far into east (12)a south Asia.
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If your ears are working well, you hear sounds all the time. You can't switch(关掉) your ears off, even when you are asleep.
◆Listening
When you really want to listen to something, you tell brain to focus on that sound. If your ears are healthy and are both working well, they can turn down other sounds while you focus on what you want to hear. If one ear isn't working____________the other, they can't do this as well. If your hearing cells(细胞) have been damaged by too much loud noise or music, what you want to hear can get mixed up and lost in the other sounds around. With healthy ears you can choose what you want to listen to, but you can't choose what you hear.
◆Understanding
Your brain deal with the received sounds and tells you what they mean. Some people have problems understanding what they are hearing because their ears don't work well and they don't hear all the sounds. The brain does not get enough information to understand the messages or may be mixed up.
◆Selective(选择的) hearing
Lots of mums and dads think that kids have this "problem". They think that you select what you are going to hear and what you can't heart!Many mums say that dads do this, too. In fact, this is something we may all do to try and make our lives a bit easier. Some children wrote what they liked to hear and what they didn't like to hear.
(1)What is the passage mainly about?(Please answer within 10 words.)
(2)Please fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words of phrases to complete the sentence.(Please anser within 3 words.)
(3)What does your brain do when you are listening?
(4)Which of the suggestions do you think is the most important for you?Why?
(Please answer within 25 words.)
(5)Translate the underlined sentence in the second paragraph into Chinese. .
Chinese clay art is famous because the clay pieces are so small but they look very (真实的)
Each different part of China has its own special forms of (传统的)art.
Sandy went into her sister's room without k on the door.That made her sister mad.
That British teacher is very h .He always tells us interesting jokes.