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Chinese are very gener
ous when it comes to educating their children . Not caring about the money,
parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England , the United States or
Australia . 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 the 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 har
d 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.
1. Parents in China , according to this passage , .
A. are too strict with their children
B. are too rich to educate their children
C. have some problems in educating their children correctly
D. are too poor to educate their children
2. Generally speaking , children's skills .
A. come from their parents
B. have nothing to do with their education
C. may be different
D. have something to do with their marks in the exams
3. 
The write of this passage doesn't seem to be satisfied with .
A. the parents' idea of educating their children
B. the education system
C. children's skills
D. children's hobbies
4. Doing some cooking at home helps children .
A. learn how to serve their parents
B. learn how to become strong and fat
C. benefit from it and prepare themselves for the future
D. make their parents believe that they are clever
5. According to the last paragraph , we can conclude that .
A. broken radios and television sets are useful
B. one's curiosity may be useful for his later life
C. an engineer must fix many broken radios
D. a good student should spend much time repairing radios
