Imagine a boy from a small village in East Africa, He from 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 ever 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 are 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 much 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 if 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．African children are very poor
B．some children are unlucky
C．education takes many ways
D．schools are of great importance小题2:In the eyes of the writer .
A．we have to learn from the people around us
B．school is not important at all
C．only the people caring for us can teach us
D．education takes place everywhere小题3:One can find out what he is good at by _.
A．the encouragement of people around
B．the teachings of those he or she meets
C．thinking of it when gro
wing up
D．trying practicing it小题4: How the writer looks at the role of school is that .
A．school is not so important as our living places
B．school enables us to understand the world in other ways
C．school teaches us something useless at home
D．school cannot prepare us for our daily lives小题5: The passage tells us that _ .
A．everyone gets education from the day he or she is born
B．different education trains different classes of people
C．school is absolutely necessary if one wants to understand the world
D．everyone will find out what he or she is good at
