In a small open courtyard, outside a school building, there were flowers here and there. In the sunshine，a
was lying on the grass，reading a book with
concentration. Near her，another child was carefully watering the flowers, while a third was
with his back against a tree and had a
on his knees. He appeared to be drawing or writing something on it. He was
in his task, like the first child.
the building, there were pleasant carpeted areas. Many children were busy with their tasks in a variety of
while teachers wandered among them, talking to them,
them, and encouraging their efforts.
I watched this scene on a morning in May years ago, it
to me that a visitor here would
have thought he had entered a formal school. He would have been even more
if he had been told that the children he was
came from different kinds of academic levels.
That
has been staying with me ever since. I have been
about some problems. Why in many schools are our children
asked to acquire skills in a way
from a real-life context（情境）? Why does a
school child so often become a defeated school failure?
Developmental psychologist Margaret Donald once said, “
of the intellectual framework (知识框架) on which we
our teaching is misleading.” In my opinion, a child learns everything in human situation. And if every child could learn in the same way as the children in the school I visited, they would develop better.
| 小题1: | | A．gardener | B．child | C．teacher | D．visitor |
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| 小题2: | | A．poor | B．little | C．complete | D．slight |
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| 小题3: | | A．sitting | B．standing | C．sleeping | D．listening |
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| 小题4: | | A．toy | B．pencil | C．flower | D．notebook |
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| 小题5: | | A．laid | B．set | C．defeated | D．lost |
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| 小题6: | | A．Over | B．Above | C．Inside | D．Outside |
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| 小题7: | | A．ways | B．ideas | C．opinions | D．views |
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| 小题8: | | A．referring to | B．smiling at | C．pointing to | D．staring at |
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| 小题9: | | A．Unless | B．As | C．Until | D．Before |
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| 小题10: | | A．happened | B．went | C．occurred | D．got |
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| 小题11: | | A．already | B．never | C．rather | D．ever |
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| 小题12: | | A．satisfied | B．disappointed | C．delighted | D．surprised |
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| 小题13: | | A．helping | B．teaching | C．encouraging | D．observing |
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| 小题14: | | A．scene | B．sign | C．look | D．screen |
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| 小题15: | | A．dreaming | B．regretting | C．wondering | D．joking |
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| 小题16: | | A．seldom | B．hardly | C．often | D．badly |
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| 小题17: | | A．taken | B．prevented | C．learned | D．separated |
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| 小题18: | | A．slow | B．lively | C．lucky | D．friendly |
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| 小题19: | | A．Much | B．Any | C．Little | D．None |
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