一个同学总结自己学习经验时这样说：努力非常重要，“要努力，但是不能用蛮力、不动脑，复制别人的学习方法，不从自己的实际出发是不行的，要在努力中掺入对自己的认识。”这告诉我们要（    ）

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    My name is Tom Brown. I am an English boy. (1) I am twelve. I am a middle school student. From Monday to Friday I am very busy. We have six classes a day. At school, I like doing sports, (2) like playing basketball, tennis and soccer. So my favorite subject is P.E.. Mr. White is my P.E. teacher. He is very cool. After school, our P.E. teacher plays games with us. We students all like him. (3) I don't like math because it is too difficult for me. (4) But my math teacher Ms Smith says it is interesting and useful. So I must work hard on it.