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Education is one of the key, words of our time. A man without an education, many of us believe, is an unfortunate victim of unfortunate circumstances deprived of one of the greatest twentieth-century opportunities. Convinced of the importance of education, modem states ‘invest’, in institutions of learning to get back "interest" in the form of a large group of enlightened young men and women who are potential leaders. Education, with its cycles of instruction so care fully worked out, punctuated by text-books—those purchasable wells of wisdom—what would civilization be like without its benefits?So much is certain: that we would have doctors and preachers, lawyers and defendants, marriages and birth; but our spiritual outlook would be different. We would lay less stress on "facts and figures" and more on a good memory, on applied psychology,, and on the capacity of a man to get along with his fellow-citizens. If our educational system were fashioned after its bookless past we would have the most democratic form of "college" imaginable. Among the people whom we like to call savages all knowledge inherited by tradition is shared by all; it is taught to every member of the tribe so that in this respect everybody is equally, equipped for life.It is the ideal condition of the "equal start" which only our most progressive forms of modem education try to regain. In primitive cultures the obligation to seek and to receive the traditional instruction is binding to all. There are no "illiterates"—if the term can be, applied to peoples without a script while our own compulsory school attendance became law in necessary in 1642, in France in 1806, and in England in 1976, and is still non-existent in a number of "civilized" nations. This shows bow long it was before we deemed it necessary to make sure thin all on knowledge accumulated by the "happy few" during the past centuries.Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means. All are entitled to an equal start. There is none of the hurry which, in our society, often hampers the full development of a growing personality. There, a child grows up under the ever-present attention of his parents; therefore the jungles and the savages know of no "juvenile delinquency". No necessity of making a living away from home results in neglect of children, and no father is confronted with his inability to "buy" an education for his child.1. The best title for this passage is() .2.The word "interest" in paragraph one means ().3.The author seems() .4.The passage implies that ().5.According to the passage, which of the following statement is true?



A.The Significance of Education B.Educational Investment and Its Returns C.Education: A Comparison of Its Past and Its Present D.Education in the Wilderness
问题2:
A.capital profit got back from the investment B.the things young people are interested in C.the well-educated and successful young men and women D.the well-educated young people with leadership potential
问题3:
A.against the education in the very early historic times B.positive about our present educational instruction C.in favor of the educational practice in primitive cultures D.quite happy to see an equal start for everyone
问题4:
A.some families now can hardly afford to send their children to school B.everyone today has an equal opportunity in education C.every, country invests heavily in education D.we are not very certain whether preachers are necessary or not
问题5:
A.One without education today has no opportunities. B.We have not yet decided on our education models. C.Compulsory schooling is legal obligation in several countries now. D.Our spiritual outlook is better now than before.

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