Chinese are very generous in 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 and Australia. They also want their children to take extra-course activities such as musical instrument learning or ballet classes, or other classes. They think these will give them a good future. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is. So parents will spend much unreasonable money on education. Even poor parents will buy a computer for their son or daughter.

However, most parents don’t understand that the best early education they can give their children is usually very cheap.

Parents can see that their children are very good in some areas while poor in others. Parents can also see some children are good at these skills and others do well in others. Most parents don’t realize that today’s children lack self-respect and self-confidence.

The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take tests and how to study well, but parents are not teaching them the most important skills that they need are to be confident, happy and clever.

Parents can achieve this by teaching 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 needs 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 finish his job successfully. His result, a well-cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and lots of self-confidence. 

Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play with, will make him curious(好奇的) and improve 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 are not only teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind. And that is more important.

1.We know from this passage parents in China         .

A．are too strict with their children

B．are too rich to educate their children

C．are too poor to educate their children

D．have some problems in educating their children correctly

2.We learn from the passage that        .

A．the cheaper an education is, the better it is

B．children today should learn difficult skills

C．practical skills are helpful to children’s growth

D．school education can’t meet parents’ expectations

3.Doing some cooking at home helps children        .

A．benefit (有益于) from it and prepare themselves for the future

B．learn how to serve their parents

C．learn how to become strong and fat

D．make their parents believe that they are clever

4.What is the main idea of the last paragraph?

A．Broken things are useful for children

B．Interest is necessary for everything

C．Learning to think is very important.

D．Using hands helps improve thinking ability

Mozart was born on January 27th, 1756 and died on December 15th, 1791.When he was young, he often had lessons with his elder sisters. He played the piano very beautifully and he could write music, too. His father took him through many different countries and he played music for lots of people in those places. But some people didn’t believe that a little boy could write such beautiful music. They asked him to stay in a room by himself for a week. And somebody watched the room all the time. In that week, Mozart finished a new piece of music. After that, people believed that he could write beautiful music by himself. Mozart died when he was still a young man. During his short life, he studied music and taught music, and played music and wrote music. Though(虽然) working so hard, he could not support himself. Often he had to borrow money from his friends. But his music made other people happy, too.

66. According to this passage, we know that Mozart____________________.

A. played music and wrote music             B. never played music

C. played music but never played for others  D. never played or wrote music

67. Mozart died when he was _________________years old.

A.40                 B .45               C.35            D.34

68. Which of the following is not true?

 A. His music made himself happy.           B. Mozart’s music made other people happy.

C. Mozart often lent money to his friends.      D. Mozart could write beautiful music.

69. Why did people ask him to stay in a room?

A. Because they wanted to teach him to write music.

B. Because Mozart liked to stay in the room.

C. Because his father left him in the room.

D. Because they didn’t believe he could write beautiful music alone.

70. Mozart could not support himself because _______________.

  A. he worked hard                        B. he spent all his money buying a piano

  C. he was very rich                       D. he was very poor

阅读理解

　　A young man goes home by train one day. He doesn't have much money. He gives his has coins to a beggar(乞丐). But then he sees another(另一个) one, and he forgets he has no money. He asks the beggar to have lunch(午饭) with him. And the beggar is very happy. So they go into a small restaurant(餐馆) and have a good lunch. At the end of lunch the man can't pay the bill(买单). The beggar has to pay the bill.

　　The young man is very sorry about this, so he says to the beggar, “Come home with me in a taxi, my friend, and I can give you back the money for lunch.” “Oh,no!” says the beggar quickly. “I have to (不得不) pay for your taxi home, too !”

(1)From the story ,we can guess the “coin” is ________ .

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(2)The young man has his lunch ________ .

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(3)The young man asks the second beggar to lunch because ________ .

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A. he has no money to pay for the taxi

B. he doesn't want to pay for the taxi

C. he doesn't want to help him

D. he wants to pay for the money for lunch

(4)The beggar doesn't want to go home with him by taxi because ________ .

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A. he doesn't want to pay for the taxi

B. he has no money to pay for the taxi

C. he doesn't want to get back the money for lunch

D. he wants to pay for the money for lunch

(5)They young man is ________ .

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