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Last year my sixth-grader daughter, Elizabeth, was forced to put up with science. Her education week after
week, contained mindless memorization of big words like "batholith" and "saprophyte" She learned by heart the
achievements of famous scientists who did things like "improved nuclear fu-sion (核聚变)"-never mind that
she hasn't the least idea of what nuclear fusion means. Eliza-beth did very well (she's good at memorizing things ). And now she hates science. My eighth-grad-er son,Ben,also suffered from science education. Week after
week he had to perform lab experiments with answers already known.Ben figured out how to guess the right
answers, so he got good grades. Now he hates science, too.
Science can provide an exciting way to develop children's curiosity. Science education should teach ways
to ask questions and week answers. But my children got the mistaken idea in school than science is difficult
dull and has no relation to their everyday interests.
As a physicist, I am saddened and angered to see "the great science turnoff" I know that science is
important in our lives.Yet studies prove that our schools are turning out millions of graduates who know
almost nothing about and have almost no interest in science. What's gone wrong? Who is to blame?
1. We learn from paragraph 1 that _____.
A. the writer was proud of Elizabeth and Ben
B. both Elizabeth and Ben could become scientists
C. Elizabeth had to learn much about great scientists
D. Ben was good at trying new ideas in lab experiments
2. The writer thinks that in science education we should first _____.
A. get students interested in the subject
B. answer students' questions in delightful ways.
C. smooth out difficulties in lab experiments
D. explain the special terms clearly
3. By writing the text,the author questions _____.
A. the difficulty level of the science texts
B. the way science is taught in school
C. the achievements of famous scientists
D. students' poor records in science classes
