Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 31 to 38. Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time. If corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language...
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 31 to 38.
Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time. If corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people’s. In the same way, children learn all the other things they learn to do without being taught – to talk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle – compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we
never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes for himself, let alone correct them. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Soon he becomes dependent on the teacher. Let him do it himself. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what the answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.
If it is a matter of right answers, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such routine work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can’t find the way to get the right answer. Let’s end all this nonsense of grades, exams, and marks. Let us throw them all out, and let the children learn what all educated persons must someday learn, how to measure their own understanding, how to know what they know or do not know.
Let them get on with this job in the way that seems most sensible to them, with our help as school teachers if they ask for it. The idea that there is a body of knowledge to be learnt at school and used for the rest of one’s life is nonsense in a world as complicated and rapidly changing as ours. Anxious parents and teachers say, “But suppose they fail to learn something essential, something they will need to get on in the world?” Don’t worry! If it is essential, they will go out into the world and learn it.
The author fears that children will grow up into adults who are ___________.
A. too critical of themselves
B. unable to use basic skills
C. too independent of others
D. unable to think for themselves
1. If he were(a) alive today, F.Scott Fitzgerald might be surprised(b) to learn that his novel The Great Gatsby having transcended(c) its own age(d) and turned into a timeless classic
--> C: was transcended
2.'Did you see those students cheating during the exam?'- No,but didn't you tell(a) the teacher?' I decided not to tell(b)her because I didn't really think it was my business and no one wants to be a tell tale,does he(c)?. Don't say anything about this to anyone, will you(d)?
--> C: do they
3.The world's rain(a) forests are being(b) cut down at the rate on(c)3000 acres per hour(d)
--> C: of
4. In all(a) human communities, power yields certain(b) advantages and privileges, such as honor, material(c) benefits, and prestigious(d)
-->D: Prestige
5. My neighbor used to say, 'How about helping(a) my carry this?' or 'Give me a hand with this, would(b) you?', but at no time he asked(c) me if i ever needed(d) help with anything
--> B: will
6. Scientists used(a) light spectra identifying(b) the(c) element helium in(d) the sun
--> B: to identify
7. The compute(a) of the passage of the time has always been(b) associated with the movement(c) of celestial(d) bodies
---> A: computation
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