【正文】 r correct it unless he was made to. Soon he bees dependent (依賴 ) on the teacher. “Let him do it himself ’’ Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants to. What this word says is to give a chance to solve their problems by themselves, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not. If it is a matter of right answers, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him he answer book, Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such tiring work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can not find the way to get the right answer. Let’s end all this nonsense of grades, exams and marks. Let us throw them all out, and let the children learn what all educated persons must some day learn, how to measure their own understanding, how to know what they know or do not know. 1. According to passage, which is the best way for children to learn things? A. By copying what other people do. B. By making mistakes and having them corrected. C. By listening to explanations from skilled people. D. By asking a great many questions. 2. What does the author think teachers should NOT do? A. They give children correct answers. B. They point out children’s mistakes to them. C. They allow children to mark their own work. D. They encourage children to copy from another. 3. The passage suggests that learning to speak and learning to ride a bicycle are _______________. A. Not really important skills B. More important than other skills C. Different from learning other skills D. Almost the same as learning other skills 4. Exams, grades and marks should be not rid of because children’s progress should only be decided by _____________. A. Educated persons B. The children themselves C. Teachers D. Parents 5. How can children learn more things? A. They should do as their parents ask them to do. B. They should learn to judge their own work. C. They should like every things taught by their parents. D. They should do their homework every day. (D) I’m Joan Croft. I have to say that I came into nursing by chance （機(jī)會） . I didn’t really like my first job, which was office work. I was a secretary. It was all right－ but that’s just about all you can say about it. I stayed in the same place with the same people around me all day and every day. Then I became a singer, which I enjoyed very much, but after a while the singing group broke up （解散） and I had to start looking for something else. Some girls have wanted to be nurses ever since they were children, but it never entered my head until I saw an advertisement （廣告） in a paper. I wrote in and thought, “Oh, well, I’ll give it a try. ”O(jiān)ne thing I liked about it was going away from home. The training itself is very interesting and most of it is just on the wards （病房） , so that you very quickly begin nursing real patients. I lived in the nurses’home when I arrived and I had my own room, which was very nice. I like nursing more than I ever thought I would. I’ll always carry on nursing. I’ve got a boyfriend who is a doctor so I hope to get married sometime, but wherever I live there’s sure to be a hospital in the place and there’s always a job for a nurse. 1. What was Joan’s first job? 2. Why didn’t Joan like her first job? 3. Why didn’t Joan go on with her second job? 4. How did Joan find out the information about the nursing j