Ted, my little brother, is in Grade One. Last Friday he came back from school with a letter. The letter was from his teacher. 'I got a red flower today. Could you please sign签字 this note?' he said to Mum. The note showed that he had been talking in class.
Ted hardly gets top scores in his school work. The best he gets is 'OK', but often he gets 'You can do better than this.' Mum knows what it means. She tells me 'You can do better than this' means 'Extremely bad' in China.
In the USA, teachers never say anything too bad about their students, even if the students are trouble in class or not working hard enough. The worst they might say is 'Please be nicer tomorrow'. Many parents are satisfied with对---满意 a B-grade for each subject.
But things in Chinese schools are quite different. Parents have high expectations for their children. I sometimes felt that my second-grade cousin spent more time on homework than I did when I was a 6th grader in the USA! Yet his parents and teachers didn't think he worked hard enough.
Is it too strict in China? Or is it not strict enough in the USA? Maybe both are true.
小题1:Why did Ted come home with .a letter last Friday ?A．Because the teacher wanted to visit his mother.B．Because he did something wrong.C．Because the teacher was happy with his progress.D．Because the teacher thought he was too lazy.小题2:If a student in the USA gets 'OK' in his school work, it means.A．he gets top scoresB．he gets medium scoresC．he gets extremely bad scoresD．he gets the worst scores小题3:American parents will bewhen their children get a B-grade in their school.A．excitedB．sadC．angryD．happy小题4:The underlined words 'high expectations' in this passage means.A．很高的待遇B．很多的自由C．很高的期望D．很多的关爱小题5:The writer mainly wants to tell us.A．the differences between Chinese education and American educationB．Chinese students are better than American studentsC．American parents are not strict enough with their childrenD．what the best way to educate children is