there tends to be disagreement about what character education is
most parents are not satisfied with the teaching methods adopted in schools
the approach to character education is generally considered different from the approaches to other skills
more and more schools are adopting strategies to improve school attendance
第1题：
Passage Three
Education is not an end, but a means to an end. In other words, we do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them; our purpose is to prepare them for life. As soon as we realize this fact, we will understand that it is very important to choose a system of education which will really prepare children for life. It is not enough just to choose the first system of education one finds, or to continue with one's old system of education without examining it to see whether it is in fact suitable or not.
In many modern countries, it has for some time been fashionable to think that by free education for all—whether rich or poor, clever or stupid—one can solve all the problems of society and build a perfect nation. But we can already see that free education for all is not enough; we find in such countries a far larger number of people with university degrees than there are jobs for them to fill. Because of their degrees, they refuse to do what they consider "low" work; and, in fact, work with the hands is thought to be dirty and shameful in such countries.
But we have only to think a moment to understand that the work of a completely uneducated farmer is far more important than that of a professor. We can live without education, but we will die if we have no food. If no one cleaned our streets and took the rubbish away from our houses, we would have terrible diseases in our towns. In countries where there are no servants because everyone is ashamed to do such work, scientists have to waste much of their time doing housework.
In fact, when we say that all of us must be educated to prepare for life, it means that we must be educated in such a way that, firstly, each of us can do whatever job is suited to his brain and ability, and secondly, we can realize that all jobs are necessary to society, and it is very bad to be ashamed of one's work, or to scorn someone else's. Only such a type of education can be called valuable to society.
44. Education is______.
A. a purpose
B. a means
C. fashionable
D. the first system
第2题：
A、most parents believe reading to be beneficial to children B、efforts to get kids interested in reading have been fruitful
C、most children will turn to reading with TV sets switched off
D、extracurricular activities promote children's intelligence
第3题：
What can we infer from the last paragraph?
[A] Monkeys can be trained to develop social emotions.
[B] Human indignation evolved from an uncertain source.
[C] Animals usually show their feelings openly as humans do.
[D] Cooperation among monkeys remains stable only in the wild.
第4题：
What can we infer from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3?
A．people are far less familiar witn the world of fantasy
B．the world around us could serve as a source of wonder
C．the world of fantasy can be mirrored by a small and lively pond.
D．Modern technology prevents us from developing our sense of wonder
第5题：
We can infer from the passage that in England （ ）
A． many plays are not for young people
B． many young people don’t like theatre
C． people know little about the plan
D． children used to receive good arts education
第6题：
Anything else? ()
A. We provide education relating to depression and anxiety.
B.First, we provide education relating to depression and anxiety.
C. Moreover, we provide education relating to depression and anxiety.
第7题：
in britain，children from the age of 5 to 16_______________.
A. can not receive free education at all.
B. can legally receive partly free education.
C. can not receive free education if their parents are rich.
D. can legally receive completely free education.
第8题：
We can obviously notice that over a period of no practice what has been learned tends to be forgotten from______.
第9题：
What can we infer from the underlineed sentence in Paragraph 3?
A.People are fra less familiar with the world of fantasy.
B.The world around us could serve as a sound of wonder.
C.The world of fantasy can be mirred by a small and lively pond.
D.Modern technology prevents us from developing our sense of wonder.
第10题：
From the fifth paragraph we can infer that
A．the author has never been afraid of changes in his life
B．the author used to believe that changes happened automaticallv
C．the author is still not satisfied with his present situation
D．the author and experienced a period of frustration of his life