Boys and girls, never forget that you educate your
selves. Schools, books and teachers are help, but you have to do the work. Only by persevering, industrious efforts can you become well educated
There are two objects in education: first, to develop yourself; second, to gain knowledge. To develop yourself is to strengthen and cultivate your whole being: to improve your memory and reasoning powers; to learn to think and judge correctly; in short, to have yourmind grow, so that you will be better able to do your work in life.
You develop yourself by acquiring an education, thinking about, and using it, for ducation is the food to make your mind grow. To gain knowledge is to leam tacts and methods which will be of use to you in life
There are four sources from which to derive education: from your own observation, from your experience, from the conversation of others, and from study. You can leam much without books and teachers
When you visit a manufactory, examine the machinery; try to leam how the power applied at one point moves levers and wheel until it reaches the part that dose the work Wherever work is going on, be sure to learm how it is done. Study into causes and result. The steam engine came from the boy Watt's watching a boiling teakettle, and thinking about it.
Listen to conversation, you can leam something useful from every one. Every one can teach the best-educated man something. Ask people to tell you of what they have seen and known. Never be ashamed to ask about what you do not understand. A leaned man was asked how he had acquired such a vast amount of knowledge. "By asking information of every one,he answered.
To educate yourself, you must read, study, observer, reflect, reason, and think. Keep your eyes open, and your mind at work.
1. The most appropriate title for this passage would be ().
A、Measures of Developing Oneself
B、Objects in Education
C、Self-education
D、spend time and try hard
2.According to the passage, to develop oneself is all of the following except().
A、having a better memory
B、enhance your reasoning abilities
C、improving the ability to judge correctly
D、acquiring an education
3.According to the passage, which of the following statements is true().
A、To improve yourself is to have your mind grow.
B、You can become well educated only by observing
C、You can only get information through books and teachers
4.It can be inferred from the passage that().
A、formal education is less important than self-education
B、thinking is much more important than knowledge in developing yourself
C、schools and teachers are unnecessary in developing yourself
D、in order to be well educated, you have to spend time and try hard
5.According to the author, a mature mind will enable you to ().
A、learn without books and teachers
B、gain knowledge
C、acquire an education
D、work better in your life
1、C解析:Boys and girls, never forget that you educate yourselves.孩子们,别忘了你们是自学成才的。2、D解析:To develop yourself is to strengthen and cultivate your whole being: to improve your memory and reasoning powers; to learn to think and judge .发展自己就是加强和培养你的整体:提高你的记忆力和推理能力;学会思考和判断。3、A解析:first, to develop yourself; second, to gain knowledge. To develop yourself is to strengthen and cultivate your whole being: to improve your memory and reasoning powers; to learn to think and judge correctly; in short, to have yourmind grow.第一,发展自己;第二,获得知识。发展自己就是加强和培养你的整体:提高你的记忆力和推理能力;学会正确地思考和判断;简而言之,让你的思想成长。4、D解析:Only by persevering, industrious efforts can you become well educated.只有坚持不懈,勤奋努力,你才能成为受过良好教育的人。5、D解析:in short, to have yourmind grow, so that you will be better able to do your work in life.总之,让你的思想成长,这样你就能更好地做你的工作。