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The thing that sets children apart from adults is not their ignorance, nor their lack of skills.Rather, it's their enormous capability for joy.A friend told me a story.One day, when she went to get his 6yearold son from soccer practice, her kid greeted her with a sad face.The teacher had criticized him for not focusing on his soccer drills.The little boy walked out of the school with his head and shoulders hanging down.He seemed wrapped in sadness.But before reaching the car door, he suddenly stopped, crouching (蹲伏) down to look at something on the sidewalk.“Mom, come here! This is the strangest bug I've ever seen.It has, like, a million legs.It's amazing！” The little face was overflowing with indescribable excitement.
Nowadays, however, when we walk into a classroom, especially in a high school, we'll be choked by towering books and papers, and hiding behind them are a group of motionless creatures, pens in hand, minds dry, just as the hollow men portrayed by T．S.Eliot.Their pursuit of joy has given way to their hunger for grades.Laughter and happiness are a distant memory for them.
Although joy is an unaffordable luxury in today's increasingly fierce competition, administrators and teachers need a mindset shift from crushing students with assignments to getting them to take pleasure in productive activities which develop their important qualities, like perseverance and obligation.The assumption that pleasure is the enemy of competence and responsibility makes no sense educationally.
Adults tend to talk about learning as if it were medicine: unpleasant, but necessary and good for you.Why not think of learning as if it were food — something so valuable to humans that they want to experience it as a pleasure?
语篇解读：本文是一篇议论文。文章论述了孩子和成年人最大的区别在于孩子可以迅速地得到快乐。而现在的教育体系让孩子们失去了快乐，笑声和快乐早已经成为回忆。
1．How is Paragraph 1 mainly developed?
A．By describing a procedure.
B．By analyzing the process.
C．By giving an example.
D．By collecting data.
解析：选C 写作手法题。根据第一段后半部分可知，作者通过列举一个孩子迅速从悲伤的情绪中恢复过来，变得非常高兴的事情告诉我们孩子和成年人最大的差别在于孩子可以迅速地快乐起来。故选C。
2．What does the author intend to do in Paragraph 2?
A．Summarize the previous paragraph.
B．Provide some advice for the readers.
C．Introduce the main topic for discussion.
D．Clarify some puzzling questions.
解析：选C 推理判断题。根据第二段可知，作者告诉我们现在的孩子学习压力太大，学习让他们失去了很多快乐。这是文章要讨论的话题，所以本段的目的是引出本文要讨论的话题，故选C。
3．What does the text suggest administrators and teachers do?
A．Stop giving students homework.
B．Involve students in meaningful activities.
C．Supply students with luxuries.
D．Arouse students' fond memories.
解析：选B 推理判断题。根据第三段第一句可知，管理者和老师们应该让学生参与有意义的活动，从中培养各种能力。故选B。
4．What is the text mainly about?
A．Joy is the spokesperson for learning.
B．Pleasure is the enemy of progress.
C．Education is the paradise for parents.
D．Exams are a neverending war.
解析：选A 主旨大意题。文章论述了孩子和成年人最大的区别在于孩子可以迅速地得到快乐。而现在的教育体系让孩子们失去了快乐，笑声和快乐早已经成为了回忆。作者认为管理者和老师应该改变教育方法，让孩子们在学习中得到快乐同时也发展自己的能力。故选A。
