14.Forcing children to learn will not improve their development or raise their chances of getting into elite schools,an educator at an international school has warned.
Hong Kong parents like to fill their children's schedules each day with extracurricular lessons,such as piano,swimming and painting.Parents hope the additional skills will help their children stand out in admissions interviews for the top schools.
"It's good to expose your child to possibilities,but it's not good to keep pushing them to try things."said Professor Deborah Eyre,education director of Nord Anglia Education,which opens an international school in Lam Tin."You also want children to think,reflect and develop themselves as individuals."
"We value what parents do.We know that they're trying to do the best for their child.But what's important is that children come to school loving learning and wanting to learn,"Eyre said.
It has been reported that some parents enroll their children in two kindergartens-an English-language one in the morning and another one in Chinese in the afternoon.
"For children,it's important to have good education but'it's also important that they have more informal learning which they do with their family,"Eyre said."If you want your child to have a good vocabulary,you can read and talk to your child.They will learn better with you than they would in a kindergarten."
Eyre,a former director of the UK government's academy for gifted youth,offered the example of Scandinavian countries such as Norway,where children do not formally take part in reading or writing until the age of seven.Rather than negatively affecting their development,it helped them get to know the world.
"Internationally,the educator's role is to introduce some formal learning but also to value play and discovery with young children who are trying to understand the world around them."she said.We need to help them to discover for themselves.
28.What does the word"elite"in Paragraph 1refer to?C
A.Primary. B.High. C.Top. D.Average.
29.What can we know about Hong Kong parents?B
A.They usually adjust the subjects to their children's taste
B.They hope their children have more skills
C.They think it's no good pushing their children to try new things
D.They teach their children how to be independent
30.From Eyre's point of view,how can children have a good vocabulary?A
A.Being exposed to parents'reading and talking.
B.Talking with their peers.
C.Using more new words from an early age.
D.Learning carefully in the kindergarten.
31.What can we know in Norway?D
A.Children have no access to books before the age of seven.
B.The current educational approaches negatively affect children's growth.
C.Play is classified as formal learning.
D.Children are encouraged to understand the world.
分析 本文是一篇科教類閱讀,主要探討了如何才是教育孩子的正確之道.
解答 28-31.CBAD
28題答案:C考查細(xì)節(jié)推理,根據(jù)文章第二段的Parents hope the additional skills will help their children stand out in admissions interviews for the top schools.
父母希望額外的技能能夠幫助他們的孩子在進(jìn)入頂尖學(xué)校的入學(xué)面試中出類拔萃.可知"top"是與第一段的"elite"呼應(yīng),故本題答案為C選項(xiàng).
29題答案:B考查細(xì)節(jié)推理,根據(jù)文章第二段的Hong Kong parents like to fill their children's schedules each day with extracurricular lessons,such as piano,swimming and painting.香港的父母每天喜歡用諸如鋼琴、游泳及繪畫等額外課程塞滿他們孩子的日程.可知本題答案為B選項(xiàng).
30題答案:A考查細(xì)節(jié)推理,根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第三段的If you want your child to have a good vocabulary,you can read and talk to your child.如果你想要孩子詞匯量好,你可以讀書給孩子聽或者是與孩子交流.可知A選項(xiàng)"使孩子暴露于父母的閱讀與交流中"與此表達(dá)一致,故本題答案為A選項(xiàng).
31題答案:D考查細(xì)節(jié)推理,根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第二段的such as Norway,where children do not formally take part in reading or writing until the age of seven.Rather than negatively affecting their development,it helped them get to know the world."…比如,在挪威孩子們直到七歲才正規(guī)地接受閱讀或?qū)懽鳎@樣做并未負(fù)面影響到他們的發(fā)展,而是幫助他們了解世界"可知本題答案為D選項(xiàng).
點(diǎn)評(píng) 本文是一篇科教類閱讀,題目涉及多道細(xì)節(jié)理解題,做題時(shí)結(jié)合原文和題目有針對(duì) 性找出相關(guān)語句進(jìn)行仔細(xì)分析,結(jié)合選項(xiàng)選出正確答案.推理判斷也是要在抓住關(guān)鍵句子的基礎(chǔ)上合理的分析才能得出正確的答案.