Many people go to school for an education. 1 learn languages, history, geography, physics, chemistry and maths. Others go to school to learn a skill so that they can 2 a living. School 3 is very important and useful. Yet no one can learn everything from school. A teacher, no matter how much he 4 , can not teach his students everything they 5 to know. The teachers job is to show his students how to read and how to 6 . So much more is to be learned 7 school by the students themselves.
It is always more important to know how to study by 8 than to memorize(熟记)some facts or formula(公式). It is 9 quite easy to learn a 10 fact in history or a formula in mathematics. But it is very difficult to use a formula in 11 out a maths problem. Great scientists, such as Einstein, Newton and Galileo, didnt learn many things from school. But they were all so 12 that they invented so many things for mankind.
The 13 for their success is that they knew how to study. They read books that were not 14 at school. They worked hard all their lives, wasting not a single moment. They would ask many questions as they read and they did thousands of 15 .
1. A. Students B. They C. We D. People
2. A. make B. do C. have D. get
3. A. education B. degree C. lesson D. task
4. A. teaches B. knows C. learns D. practises
5. A. manage B. expect C. fail D. want
6. A. study B. play C. think D. work
7. A. From B. in C. within D. outside
8. A. heart B. students C. us D. oneself
9. A. not B. actually C. seldom D. known
10.A. real B. true C. certain D. great
11. A. setting B. working C. making D. doing
12. A. famous B. popular C. successful D. modest
13. A. experiment B. reason C. result D. way
14. A. kept B. showed C. expressed D. taught
15. A. duties B. jobs C. experiments D. records
名师点评
本文讲述了自主学习的重要性。也就是说对于学生而言应该学会如何学习才是更重要的。而对于教师而言，不仅要教学生文化知识，更应教会他们如何学习，正所谓授之以鱼，不如授之以渔。
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1. B。they指上句中的many people。
2. A。make a living意思是谋生。这里表示学一门技术来谋生。
3. A。school education 意为学校教育。
4. B。意思是不管他懂多少。
5. D。表示学生想知道的东西 。
6. C。老师不仅教学生文化知识，更应该教会学生如何思考。
7. D。指应该更多的从校外获取知识。
8. D。study by oneself自学。
9. B。actually副词，事实上。actually easy 表示真的很简单。
10. C。certain这里指某一个，固定的。
11. B。work out意思是解出。
12. C。上述的这些人都很成功。
13. B。reason和for搭配，表示的原因。
14. D。被动语态,表示学校不教的书。意思是他们获取了很多课外知识。
15. B。这些科学家都做了很多实验。