Parents play a very important role in children’s development, but that doesn’t mean that parents should spend all their money in educating their children. Or else, it would be unfair to them. However, some modern Chinese parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the United States or Australia without caring about the money. They also want their children to take extra-course activities where they will learn a musical instrument or ballet or other classes which will give them a head start in life. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is. So the parents will spend an unreasonable amount of money on education. Even poor couples will buy a computer for their son or daughter.
However, what most parents fail to see is that the best early education they can give their children is usually very cheap.
Parents can see that their children’s skills vary, skilled in some areas while poor in others. What most parents fail to realize though, is that today’s children lack self-respect and self-confidence.
The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple-choice tests and how to study well, but parents aren’t teaching them the most important skills they need to be confident, happy and clever.
Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing housework.
Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking demands patience and time. It’s an enjoyable but difficult experiment. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually to 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 children 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 aren’t merely teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind. And that is more important.
【小题1】According to this passage, there are some problems with _________.

A．the Chinese children’s skills

B．the education system of China

C．the Chinese parents’ idea of educating their children

D．the Chinese children’s hobbies

【小题2】The writer of this passage seems to agree that parents in China _______.

A．are too strict with their children

B．are too rich to educate their children

C．are too poor to educate their children

D．have some problems in educating their children correctly

【小题3】We can conclude that cooking at home helps children_________.

A．benefit from it and prepare themselves for the future

B．learn how to become strong and fat

C．learn how to serve their parents

D．make their parents believe that they are clever

【小题4】The last paragraph shows that_________.

A．broken radios and television sets are useful

B．an engineer must fix many broken radios

C．one’s curiosity may be useful for his later life

D．a good student should spend much time repairing radios

Electric bicycles are now playing 【小题1】 important role in the daily life of many students of Yushan No.1 Middle School. 【小题2】fact, they seem to have become a necessary and important part of their school life. By【小题3】(give) them rapid transportation, electric bicycles have freed some students from having accommodation on campus. This, in some way, helps to relieve the school of the 【小题4】 (grow) of its dormitories(寝室). For many families, electric bicycles are also very 【小题5】 (help). They have made 【小题6】 possible for parents to send their children to the school in a relatively shorter time.
【小题7】, the use of electric bicycles has also led to some problems. When the teenage students have the use of the bicycles, their parents can’t keep an eye on【小题8】. Some students don’t follow traffics rules at all. There is a 【小题9】(great) danger if a student shows off by speeding or after drinking alcohol. Too many electric bicycles are parked around the campus, 【小题10】affects the traffic and the image of our school as well.

下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在该漏字符号下写上该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（ \ ）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该横线下写上修改后的词。
注意：1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2、只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
The other day I happened to meet a young America student in our school. It was the first time that I have met a foreigner, so I went up immediately and greeted him with English. He told me that he was a college student travel in China and he liked China very much. I volunteered to show him around the school. He was deep impressed with the Chinese buildings and was busy taking the photos all the time. He said never had he seen so beautiful buildings. After that, they went boating on the BingXi River and had a wonderful time. I was very glad to have such a good chance to practicing my spoken English.

今年暑假，一批来自国外的中学生将来中国参加在玉山一中举行的数学奥林匹克赛，届时，他们将吃、住在玉山。假设你是高二年级的学生李明，有意邀请一位学生在你家入住，现向学校总负责老师张老师写一封英文信，内容如下:
1．介绍你本人及家庭情况;    2．陈述你申请的理由; 3．希望得到这个机会。
注意:1. 词数100左右, 开头和结尾已经写好, 不计入总词数;
2. 可以适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯。
Dear sir,
I am Li Hua. I’m writing to__________________________________________________________________
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Looking forward to your early reply.
Yours,
Li Hua