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 learn a musical instrument or ballet or other classes which will give them a head start in life. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is. So the 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（不同）, skilled in some areas while poor in others. What most parents fail to realize though, is that today’s children lack (缺乏) 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 aren’t 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 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’s an enjoyable but difficult experiment. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually to 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 children to play with will make him curious and arouse（激起）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 aren’t merely 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 this passage doesn’t seem to be satisfied with_______.

A. the parents’ idea 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（受益）from it and prepare themselves for the future

D. make their parents believe that they are clever

 

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     Surgeons in Spain have successfully carried out the world's first organ transplant (移植) using new stem
cell technology. Some people are calling it the greatest medical breakthrough so far this century.
     But what are stem cells? As we know, most cells in our bodies are designed____ -for example, a liver cell
develops to work in the liver and cannot become a heart cell. But stem cells are different. They are very young
and in the laboratory scientists can grow them into different types of cells.
     Claudia Castillo needed a new windpipe (氣管) after getting a serious disease. Scientists from the University
of Bristol took a donor windpipe, from someone who had recently died. They used strong chemicals to remove
the donor's cells, leaving a tissue scaffold (組 織支架). This was refilled with cells from Ms Castillo's windpipe and stem cells from her bone. After four days the cells had grown sufficiently for the windpipe to be
transplanted into Ms Castillo.
     Currently, transplant patients have to take drugs for the rest of their lives to prevent their bodies rejecting
the new organs. These drugs can have bad side-effects, and do not always prevent rejec tion. But by using
Ms Castillo's own cells, doctors were able to trick her body into thinking the new windpipe was her own organ. Five months on, Claudia Castillo is in perfect health.
     This ground-breaking procedure could be used in other trans- plant operations in the future. Scientists also
believe stem cells might be used to treat Parkinson's disease, heart disease, stroke, ar thritis, burns and so on.
     However, stem cell research is extremely controversial. The most effective stem cells do not come from
adults but from embryos (胚胎) created in laboratories which are just a few days old. Many people have
religious or ethical objections to growing embryos, even if they can be used to cure diseases.
1. What's the best title for the passage? ( Please answer within 8 words. )
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2. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words. ( Please an swer within 8 words. )
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3. Which sentence in the text is the closest in meaning to the fol lowing one? However, Ms
      Castillo's body mistook the new windpipe for her own because doctors put her own cells in it.
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4. What do you think of the stem cell transplant? Why? ( Please answer within 30 words. )
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5. Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 into Chinese.
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