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The thing that sets children apart from adults is not their ignorance,nor their lack of skills.Rathe...
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The thing that sets children apart from adults is not their ignorance,nor their lack of skills.Rather,it's their enormous capability for joy.A friend told me a story.One day,when she went to get his 6-year-old son from soccer practice,her kid greeted her with a sad face.The teacher had criticized him for not focusing on his soccer drills.The little boy walked out of the schoo1 with his head and shoulders hanging down.He seemed wrapped in sadness.But before reaching the car door,he suddenly stopped,crouching(蹲伏)down to look at something on the sidewalk.“Mom,come here! This is the strangest bug I’ve ever seen.It has ,1ike, a million legs.It’s amazing!”The little face was overflowing with indescribable excitement.
Nowadays,however,when we walk into a classroom,especially in a high school,we’ll be choked by towering books and papers,and hiding behind them are a group of motionless creatures,pens in hand,minds dry,just as the hollow men portrayed by T.S.Eliot.Their pursuit of joy has given way to their hunger for grades.Laughter and happiness are a distant memory for them.
Although joy is an unaffordable luxury in today’s increasingly fierce competition,administrators and teachers need a mindset shift from crushing students with assignments to getting them to take pleasure in productive activities which develop their important qualities,like perseverance and obligation.The assumption that pleasure is the enemy of competence and responsibility makes no sense educationally.
Adults tend to talk about learning as if it were medicine:unpleasant,but necessary and good for you.Why not think of learning as if it were food—something so valuable to humans that they want to experience it as a pleasure?
1.How is Paragraph 1 mainly developed?
A. By describing a procedure. B. By analyzing the process.
C. By giving an example. D. By collecting data.
2.What does the author intend to do in Paragraph 2?
A. Summarize the previous paragraph. B. Provide some advice for the readers.
C. Introduce the main topic for discussion. D. Clarify some puzzling questions.
3.What does the text suggest administrators and teachers do?
A. Stop giving students homework.
B. Involve students in meaningful activities.
C. Supply students with luxuries.
D. Arouse students’fond memories.
4.What is the text mainly about?
A. Joy is the spokesperson for learning. B. Pleasure is the enemy of progress.
C. Education is the paradise for parents. D. Exams are a never-ending war.
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