A parent with a child carrying a musical instrument or a drawing board walking along a Beijing subway platform or street is a familiar sight on weekends. They are on the way to training schools.
Education of their child has become the most important responsibility of parents who were sent to rural areas for "re-education" during the "Cultural Revolution" from 1966 to 1976.
They lost the chance for university education and now hope their children can receive a better education than they did. As a result, these people now in their forties expose their lime children to early training so that they can enter a prestigious school.
The parents imagine a road to success: from excellent primary and middle schools to an elite university and then to a good job. On average, they may spend about 100 yuan a month on their child’s education.
And what results have these parents obtained
Most of them feel that the large investment
A. 250.
B. 25.
C. 10.
D. 3.
In bringing up children, every parent watches eagerly the child’s learning of each new skill -- the first spoken words, the first independent steps, or the beginning of reading and writing. It is often tempting to hurry the child beyond his natural learning rate, but this can set up dangerous feeling of failure and states of worry in the child. This might happen at any stages. A baby might be forced to use a toilet too early, a young child might be encouraged to learn to read before he knows the meaning of words he reads. On the other hand, though, if a child is left alone too much, or without any learning opportunities, he loses his natural enthusiasm for life and his desire to find out new things for himself.
Parents vary greatly in their degree of strictness towards their children. Some may be especially strict in money matters, and others are severe over times of coming home at night or punctuality for meals. In general, the controls imposed represent th
A. should encourage them to read before they know the meaning of the words they read
B. should not expect too much of them
C. should neither push them too hard nor leave them on their own
D. should create as many learning opportunities as possible
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