Imagine a boy from a small village in East Africa. He, since a very early age, has been looking after cattle. At twelve years old he knows more about cattle than most of you. However, he has never been to school. Has this boy had any education?

Education is discovering about ourselves and about the people and things around us. All the people who care about us — our parents, brothers, sisters, friends — are our teachers. In fact, we learn something from everyone we meet. We start learning on the day we were born, not on the first day we go to school. Every day we have new experiences, like finding a bird’s nest, discovering a new street in our neighborhood, making friends with someone we didn’t like before. New experiences are even more fun when we share them with other people.

Encouragement from the people around us enables us to explore things as many as possible. As we grow up, we begin to find out what we are capable of doing. You may be good at cooking, or singing or playing football. You find this out by doing these things. Just thinking about cooking doesn’t tell you whether you are good at it.

We learn so much just living from day to day. So why is school important? Of course you can learn some things better at home than at school, like how to do the shopping, and how to help old or disabled people who can’t do everything for themselves. At school, teachers help us to read and write. With their guidance, we begin to see things in different ways.

The writer takes the African boy as an example to show that _______.

A. African children are very poor.                   B. some children are unlucky.

C. there are many kinds of education.                 D. schools are of great importance.

In the opinion of the writer,       .

A. we have to learn from the people around us.         B. the school is not important at all.

C. only people who care for us can teach us.             D. education takes place everywhere.

One can find out what he / she is good at by     _.

A. what people encourage him/ her to do.       B. the teachings of those he / she meets.

C. thinking about it when growing up.                D. trying and practising things.

The passage tells us that _     .

A. everyone gets education from the day he or she was born.

B. different classes of people receive different kinds of education.

C. the school is absolutely necessary if one wants to understand the world.

D. everyone will find out what he or she is good at.

According to the last paragraph, we know that       .

A. the school is not so important as our living places.

B. the school enables us to understand the world in other ways.

C. the school teaches us things which are useless at home.

D. the school cannot prepare us for our daily lives.

Imagine a boy from a small village in East Africa. He, since a very early age, has been looking after cattle. At twelve years old he knows more about cattle than most of you. However, he has never been to school. Has this boy had any education?
Education is discovering about ourselves and about the people and things around us. All the people who care about us — our parents, brothers, sisters, friends — are our teachers. In fact, we learn something from everyone we meet. We start learning on the day we were born, not on the first day we go to school. Every day we have new experiences, like finding a bird’s nest, discovering a new street in our neighborhood, making friends with someone we didn’t like before. New experiences are even more fun when we share them with other people.
Encouragement from the people around us enables us to explore things as many as possible. As we grow up, we begin to find out what we are capable of doing. You may be good at cooking, or singing or playing football. You find this out by doing these things. Just thinking about cooking doesn’t tell you whether you are good at it.
We learn so much just living from day to day. So why is school important? Of course you can learn some things better at home than at school, like how to do the shopping, and how to help old or disabled people who can’t do everything for themselves. At school, teachers help us to read and write. With their guidance, we begin to see things in different ways.
【小题1】 The writer takes the African boy as an example to show that _______.

A．the school is not so important as our living places.

B．the school enables us to understand the world in other ways.

C．the school teaches us things which are useless at home.

D．the school cannot prepare us for our daily lives.

Imagine a boy from a small village in East Africa. He, since a very early age, has been looking after cattle. At twelve years old he knows more about cattle than most of you. However, he has never been to school. Has this boy had any education?

Education is discovering about ourselves and about the people and things around us. All the people who care about us — our parents, brothers, sisters, friends — are our teachers. In fact, we learn something from everyone we meet. We start learning on the day we were born, not on the first day we go to school. Every day we have new experiences, like finding a bird’s nest, discovering a new street in our neighborhood, making friends with someone we didn’t like before. New experiences are even more fun when we share them with other people.

Encouragement from the people around us enables us to explore things as many as possible. As we grow up, we begin to find out what we are capable of doing. You may be good at cooking, or singing or playing football. You find this out by doing these things. Just thinking about cooking doesn’t tell you whether you are good at it.

We learn so much just living from day to day. So why is school important? Of course you can learn some things better at home than at school, like how to do the shopping, and how to help old or disabled people who can’t do everything for themselves. At school, teachers help us to read and write. With their guidance, we begin to see things in different ways.

1. The writer takes the African boy as an example to show that _______.

A. African children are very poor.             B. some children are unlucky.

C. there are many kinds of education.                   D. schools are of great importance.

2.In the opinion of the writer,       .

A. we have to learn from the people around us.  B. the school is not important at all.

C. only people who care for us can teach us.        D. education takes place everywhere.

3. One can find out what he / she is good at by     _.

A. what people encourage him/ her to do.         B. the teachings of those he / she meets.

C. thinking about it when growing up.           D. trying and practising things.

4. The passage tells us that _     .

A. everyone gets education from the day he or she was born.

B. different classes of people receive different kinds of education.

C. the school is absolutely necessary if one wants to understand the world.

D. everyone will find out what he or she is good at.

5.According to the last paragraph, we know that       .

A. the school is not so important as our living places.

B. the school enables us to understand the world in other ways.

C. the school teaches us things which are useless at home.

D. the school cannot prepare us for our daily lives.

One day, a boy said to a girl, "If I have only one bowl of gruel, I shall give one half to my mother, and the other half to you." The little girl liked the little boy from then on. That year he  was twelve and she was ten.
    Ten years passed. When their village was flooded, he ceaselessly rescued others, including old people, children, the acquainted and the unacquainted, everyone except her in person. After she was rescued by others, somebody asked him, "Since you like her, why didn't you rescue her?" He answered gently, "It's just because I love her that I first rescued others. I would never live alone if she died." So they got married. That year he was twenty two and she was twenty.

Later, the whole country suffered from famine. They also had few in the pot. Finally, only an ounce of noodles were left, and they cooked a bowl of noodles in soup. He was reluctant to eat and let her eat; she was reluctant to eat and let him eat! Three days later, the bowl of noodles went moldy. At that time, he was forty two and she was forty.

Since his grandfather was ever a landlord, he was criticized and denounced in public meetings. During those special years, the "Organization" asked her to "make clear the borderline and distinguish right and wrong", but she said, "I don't know who is the inner enemy, but I do know he is a good man. He loves me and I also love him. That's enough." That year he was fifty two and she was fifty.

Many years passed, he and she began to practice Qigong in order to keep healthy. Because they were transferred to a town, every morning they took a bus to the city center park. When a young man offered his seat to them, each of them wouldn't take the seat because the other had to stand. Therefore, holding the handrail, they leaned each other with content smiles on their faces, and all of other passengers couldn't help standing up. That year he was seventy two and she was seventy.  

She said, "When we were both dead ten years later, I must turn into him and he must turn into me, then he could drink the half bowl of gruel that I give him!"

Seventy years of hardship life interprets this true love!

72.            really touches the author?  

A. Love full of romantic and striking stories

B. Love based on ordinary words and daily affairs     

C. what the hero in the story did to the other    

D. What the heroine in the story did to the other

73. The love story was written___________.

A. centered on the bowl of gruel             B. about a foreign couple  

C. in time order                                     D. to tell his own story

74. The word ______ best explains the underlined word in the 2^nd paragraph.

A. Continuously      B. Carefully      C. Hardly     D. Happily

75. The best title of this story should be_________.

A. A Bowl of Gruel                             B. The Respectable Couple   

C. The Value of true love                     D. A Classic Love Story