Read the following short passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it.
Are parents the best teachers?
Who teaches you to walk? Who teaches you to speak? Your teachers? No, they are not. They are your parents who teach you to do these basic things in your life. So, don’t you think that parents are the best teachers?
Firstly, parents know us very much. They give us life, and I think that we will spend large amount of time with them. So, they know our merit and demerit in details. Meanwhile, they will help us to get rid of our demerit.
Furthermore, parents possessed many experiences. Since they are older than us, they have experienced many things. Sometimes, they are just like our models. And as the saying goes: “Example is better than precept.” So we will unconsciously copy some of our parents’ habits and styles of behavior, i. e. we can learn many things from them.
Finally, parents will teach us everything. Since schoolteachers can just teach us knowledge from the books, our parents can teach us everything. For example, while I learn knitting, cooking and making-up from my mother, I learn fixing leaky faucet from my father. Thanks to him it is not difficult to fix. They are the persons who love me most, so they taught and will teach me everything without reservations. Just as the saying goes: "There is no place like home." And I think there is no teacher like our parents. They are the best teachers in our lives.
I. Write true if the statement is correct and false if not according to the passage.
_______ 1)We learn how to walk from our teachers.
_______ 2)We have learnt speaking after joining the college.
_______ 3) Schoolteachers can just teach us knowledge from the books.
_______ 4)Our parents are younger than us.
_______ 5)Our school teachers know our merit and demerit in details than our parents.
II. Reference Questions: What do the following pronouns refer to?
6)these ..…par.1, line 2: _________________________
7)they .…. Par.1, line 1: _________________________
8)they … ..par.2, line 1: __________________________
9)him …. .par.4, line 3: __________________________
10)it … …par.4, line 3: ____________________________
III. Choose the correct answer for the following questions according to the passage.
_______ 11) ‘merit’, par 2, line 2 means
A. Unimportant B. helpful C. useless D. insignificant
_______ 12) ‘unconsciously’, par 3, line 3 contextually means
A. Knowingly B. unintentionally C. deliberately D. finally
_______13) ‘reservations’ par 4, line 5contextually means:
A. confidences B. hesitations C. gifts D. students
_______ 14) ‘demerit’ par 2, line 2 contextually means:
A. advantage B. disadvantage C. benefit D. privilege
_______ 15) According to the passage, who taught me how to knit, cook and make-up?
A. my schoolteacher B. my father C. my mother D. myself
_______ 16)What is the main idea of paragraph 3?
A.The experience we get from our parents B. The way fathers teach how to fix leaky faucet
C. The love we get from our teachers D. How best schoolteachers are in teaching things than parents
_______ 17)The writer believes that:
A. Teachers are the best educators than parents. C. Students can learn everything by themselves.
B. Parents are the best teachers. D. There is no place like school.
I. Write true if the statement is correct and false if not according to the passage.
1) False
2) False
3) True
4) False
5) False
II. Reference Questions: What do the following pronouns refer to?
6) these ..…par.1, line 2: basic things
7) they .…. Par.1, line 1: parents
8) they … ..par.2, line 1: parents
9) him …. .par.4, line 3: father
10) it … …par.4, line 3: fixing leaky faucet
III. Choose the correct answer for the following questions according to the passage.
11) B. helpful
12) B. unintentionally
13) B. hesitations
14) B. disadvantage
15) C. my mother
16) A. The experience we get from our parents
17) B. Parents are the best teachers.