Question

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 US 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 unreasonable amount of money on education. Even poor couples will buy computers for their sons or daughters.

However, what most parents fail to see is that the best education they can give to 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 reasons are 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 confidence. These activities are not only teaching a child to work, but rather to think, and to use his mind. And that is more important.

Answer 1

1.Educate Their Children

2.Be generous /Generous

3.Measures/Ways/Approaches/Methods

4.Never care /Don’t care

5.take extra-course activities

6.the better

7.Problems

8.study well

9.confidence

10.Solution/Tip/Advice/Suggestion

【解析】

試題分析:對于孩子的教育問題，中國的父母親都會傾其所有。但作者提議，最好的教育往往是廉價的。需要做的就是讓孩子生活的技能并體會到自信、幸福和快樂。

1.Educate Their Children主旨大意題。本文只要討論中國父母親對孩子教育方面的做法和欠缺。所以文章的題目是：中國父母親怎樣教育孩子。

2.Be generous /Generous細節理解題。根據第一句話Chinese parents are very generous when it comes to educating their children。可知，涉及到教育問題，中國父母親是大方的。

3.Measures/Ways/Approaches/Methods推理判斷題。提出論斷后，緊接著例舉了中國父母親的一些做法。所以Measures/Ways/Approaches/Methods均符合語境。

4.Never care /Don’t care細節理解題。根據句子Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the US or Australia.可得出答案。

5.take extra-course activities細節理解題。根據句子They also want their children to take extra-course activities where they will either learn a musical instrument or ballet,可得出答案。

6.the better細節理解題。根據句子The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is. So parents will spend unreasonable amount of money on education.可得出答案。

7.Problems推理判斷題。第二段，用however轉折，進而指出這樣做存在的問題。用problems。

8.study well細節理解題。根據句子The reasons are that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple-choice tests and how to study well,可得出答案。

9.confidence推理判斷題。根據句子they need to be confident, happy and clever.可知，孩子們需要變得自信、快樂和聰明，這里換了一種問法，需要換成名詞形式。

10.