Imagine a boy from a small village in East Africa. He, since a very early age, has been lo

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】In the opinion of the writer, .A．the school is not important at all.B．we have to learn from the people around us.C．education takes place everywhere.D．only people who care for us can teach us.【小题2】One can find out what he / she is good at by _.A．what people encourage him/ her to do. B．trying and practising things. C．thinking about it when growing up. D．he teachings of those he / she meets.【小题3】The passage tells us that _ .A．different classes of people receive different kinds of education.B．everyone gets education from the day he or she was born.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.【小题4】According to the last paragraph, we know that .A．the school enables us to understand the world in other ways.B．the school is not so important as our living places.C．the school teaches us things which are useless at home.D．the school cannot prepare us for our daily lives.C

(答案→)C 解析：这篇文章主要讲了每个人从出生那天起，就开始接受教育，学校能够让学生用其它的方式了解世界。【小题1】细节题：根据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.可知依作者来看，教育发生在每一个地方，故选C。【小题2】细节题：根据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.可知一个人通过尝试和练习发现自己擅长什么，故选B。【小题3】主旨题： 通过阅读文章内容，可知这篇文章主要讲了每个人从出生那天起，就开始接受教育，故选B。【小题4】推断题：根据At school, teachers help us to read and write. With their guidance, we begin to see things in different ways.可知最后一个自然段，我们知道学校能够让学生用其它的方式了解世界，故选A。

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