Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking,sewing and doing other housework.
Cooking demands(要求)patience and time. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradully(逐渐地)finish his job successfully. His result, a well-cooked dinner will give him much satisfaction and a lot 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 and arouse 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 merely(仅仅地)teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind. And that is more important.
10. Parents in China, according to this passage,______.
A. are too strict with their children
B. are too rich to educate their children
C. have some problems in educating their children correctly
D. are too poor to educate their children
11. Generally speaking, what most parents fail to realize is ______.
A. that their children need to take extra-course activities
B. that the more expensive an education is, the better it is
C. that today's children lack self-respect and self-confidence
D. that their children first need to be a good cook if they want to get good marks in the exams
12. The writer of the passage does not seem to be satisfied with ______.
A. the parents' ideas of educating their children
B. the education system
C. children's skills
D. children's hobbies
13. Doing some cooking at home helps children_____.
A. learn how to serve their parents
B. learn how to become strong and fat
C. benefit from it and prepare themselves for the future
D. make their parents believe that they are clever
14. According to the last paragraph we can conclude that______.
A. broken radios and television sets are useful
B. one's curiosity may be useful for his later life
C. an engineer must fix many broken radios
D. a good student should spend much time repairing radios