【答案】G

【解析】Building on a child's ability to joy,rather than pushing it aside,wouldn't be that hard.It would just require a shift in the education word's mindset(思维模式).

48.【题干】What distinguishes children from adults is their strong ability to derive joy from what they are doing.

【选项】

【答案】D

【解析】The thing that sets children apart from adults is not their ignorance,nor their lack of skills.It's their enormous capacity for joy

49.【题干】Children in America are being treated with shocking cruelty.

【选项】

【答案】A

50.【题干】It is human nature to seek joy in life.

【选项】

【答案】F

【解析】Human lives are governed by the desire to experience joy.

51.【题干】Grown-ups are likely to think that learning to children is what medicine is to patients.

【选项】

【答案】K

【解析】Adults tend to talk about learning as if it were medicine:unpleasant,but necessary and good for you.

52.【题干】Bad school conditions make it all the more important to turn learning into a joyful experience.

【选项】

【答案】L

【解析】The more difficult a child's life circumstances,the more important it is for that child to find joy in his or her classroom.

53.【题干】Adults do not consider children's feelings when it comes to education.

【选项】

【答案】C

【解析】A look at what goes on in most classrooms these days makes it abundantly clear that when people think about education,they are not thinking about what it feels like to be a child,or what makes childhood an important and valuable stage of life in its own right.

54.【题干】Administrators seem to believe that only hard work will lead children to their educational goals.

【选项】

【答案】I

【解析】Many of the assignments and rules teachers come up with,often because they are pressured by their administrators,treat pleasure and joy as the enemies of competence and responsibility.

55.【题干】In the so-called"effective"schools,children are taught self-control under a set of strict rules.

【选项】

【答案】B

【解析】I have visited some of the newer supposedly"effective"schools,where children shout slogans in order to learn self-control or must stand behind their desk when they can't sit still.

56.【题干】To make learning effective,educators have to ensure that children want to learn.

【选项】

【答案】J

【解析】You can force a child to stay in his or her seat,fill out a worksheet,or practice division.But you can't force the child to think carefully,enjoy books,digest complex information,or develop a taste for learning.To make that happen,you have to help the child find pleasure in learning-to see school as a source of joy.

Passage One

Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.

When it's five o'clock,people leave their office.The length of the workday,for many workers,is defined by time.They leave when the clock tells them they're done.