Due to the increasing number of violent acts produced in schools all over the world, more and more parents prefer to have their children educated at home rather than at school. This way they can assure their safety and well-being. Teachers and school representatives are trying to improve the situation in schools by increasing the number of the persons charged with the safety of the students.
The main reason for violent acts are the films and cartoons that fill the children’s time. They want to do everything. They watch on TV and never think of the results, and they may hurt a classmate or a teacher.
On the other hand, parents are not fully satisfied with the children’s results obtained in classes and they consider private classes would have better results.
When a teacher has to watch 30 students in class he can’t probably see what each of them is doing, how he is writing, or if he understands the explanations. At home the teacher can explain in detail everything the child doesn’t understand as many times as he considers proper.
And many times, the child grows fond of the teacher at home, who becomes his best friend, and who helps him whenever he needs someone to talk to. 
However, the best solution would be a mixture between the education received at school and that at home, because school makes children communicate and socialize. Keeping a child at home for fear that something bad might happen to him only makes the child’s character weak and prevents him from knowing what real life is. Staying in a glass bowl only does harm to the child.
All in all, schools have been created to help children, not to harm them, so it’s best to keep children in these special places, where they learn, laugh, have fun and make new friends.
小題1:The writer’s purpose in writing the text is to      .
A．teach parents the ways to keep theft children safe
B．show solutions to developing children’s character
C．explain the main reason for violence acts in schools
D．a(chǎn)nalyze an education problem and give opinions.
小題2:What does “a glass bowl” in the passage refer to?
A．A toy that can be used for entertainment．
B．A safe and comfortable environment．
C．An object that is made of crystal．
D．A setback that is hard to overcome．
小題3:We can infer from the passage that      .
A．violent TV programs have bad effects on children’ behavior
B．the teacher at home is more patient than the teacher at school
C．children today are weak from lack of sense of right and wrong
D．there are too many students in class for a teacher to teach

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:A

試題分析：本文講述了家庭教育和學(xué)校教育都存在的弊端，分析了具體的原因，并給出了自己的意見。
小題1:D 主旨大意題。本文分析了家庭教育和學(xué)校教育都存在的問題，并發(fā)表了自己的觀點。故D正確。
小題2:B 推理題。根據(jù)前句Keeping a child at home for fear that something bad might happen to him only makes the child’s character weak and prevents him from knowing what real life is. Staying in a glass bowl only does harm to the child.說明就因為害怕孩子受傷而把孩子留在家里，這對孩子的發(fā)展是有害處的。故B項正確。
小題3:A 推斷題。根據(jù)文章第二段第一行The main reason for violent acts are the films and cartoons that fill the children’s time.說明電視和動畫片對孩子的影響很大。故A正確。
點評：本文是關(guān)于教育的話題，測試考生在閱讀基礎(chǔ)上的邏輯推理能力，要求考生根據(jù)文章所述事件的邏輯關(guān)系，對未說明的趨勢或結(jié)局作出合理的推斷；或根據(jù)作者所闡述的觀點理論，對文章未涉及的現(xiàn)象、事例給以解釋。考生首先要仔細(xì)閱讀短文，完整了解信息，準(zhǔn)確把握作者觀點。
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