Imagine a boy from a small village in East Africa. He, since 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 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 were 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 exp
lore things as many 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 whether 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．there are many kinds of education.
D．schools are of great importance.小题2:In the opinion of the writer, .
A．we have to learn from the people around us.
B．the school is not important at all.
C．only people who care for us can teach us.
D．education takes place everywhere.小题3: One can find out what he / she is good at by _.
A．what people encourage him/ her to do.
B．the teachings of those he / she meets.
C．thinking about it when growing up.
D．trying and practising things.小题4: The passage tells us that _ .
A．everyone gets education from the day he or she was born.
B．different classes of people receive different kinds of education.
C．the school is absolutely necessary if one wants to understand the world.
D．everyone will find out what he or she is good at.小题5:According to the last paragraph, we know that .
A．the school is not so important as our living places.
B．the school
enables us to understand the world in other ways.
C．the school teaches us things which are useless at home.
D．the school cannot prepare us for our daily lives.
