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【正文】 ssary for every child to be taught. It is more foolish to believe that unless forced to work children will never learn anything. Learning is an individual and organic processIt es to children because of its relevance to their lives. Forcing children to accept as much as possible what we adults think they must be taught can only harm their intellectua1 development.Suppose this is part of the editorial An Unhealthy Tendency in Children’s Education that you have just read in the China Daily. Contribute an article of about 200words to the China Daily in the form of a letter to the editor, in response to the ideas quoted above. 參考范文 :Dear Sir, I have read your editorial An Unhealthy Tendency in Children’s Education, and I quite get along with the writer39。s views. I39。m also aware that these days many school teachers, together with children39。s parents, try to stuff a child39。s head with as much knowledge as possible which they consider essential without thinking whether the children are interested in it or not.This way of education is really unhealthy and even harmful. School should be a place where children can learn what they most want to know rather than what we adults think they ought to know. We adults can39。t possibly judge what will be most needed for a particular child in ten years or twenty years. One child who chooses to be an artist when he has grown up may recall that drawing was the most important course in his schooling. Another adult who has made himself a great athlete may think that he should have had more physical training when he was a child.A good school should create such environment in which each child follows his curiosity in his own way. Children should be encouraged to do whatever he is interested in. In short, a child should learn everything naturally rather than forcibly. Only in this way will his potential be fully developed and will he achieve a great success in his life.Sincerely yours, (Signature) Michael AllenUSE OF ENGLISH The following article might have been taken from a popular newspaper and has many of the characteristics of reports appearing in this type of newspaper. It deals with the inadequate number of homes and purposebuilt flats for old people many of whom at present have to end their days in unfortable houses or bedsittingrooms without any help or panionship from friends or relatives.This is the first time you have bee aware of this problem, and as a young person with a strong sense of responsibility for others in need, you write a letter to a Radio 39。Postbox39。 programme, hoping that your ideas will be given publicity on the air.Your letter, which will be written in a more formal and conventional style than that of the article, will sum up the ideas expressed there and will include your reactions to these and suggestions about some things that might be done.The beginning of the letter has been written for you. Write another 200 words.Dear Sir,A recent article in the 39。Human Echo39。 has made a deep impression on me as a young person. I should like to refer to the article first before trying to express my own feelings about it. . . .IT39。S NO FUN BEING OLDMost of us have got at least one elderly relativemother, father, greataunt, granny even, still alert and cheerful, with a snug （溫暖）warm home, plenty of helpful neighbors and ourselves to drop in now and then.But how about the other old folks? Those whose children have moved elsewhere, or don39。t care? Perhaps a nobody39。s Mum, who39。s lived alone for years in a dreary old house or a bedsitter, skimping on the butter and the electric fire, with neighbours who39。ve never even realised she39。s there, and too tottery and terrified to go out alone.All right. The local Council do what they can: a cooked dinner brought on weekdays, a home help on two mornings to clear up and do the shopping, a district nurse calling now and then. But most of the time loneliness, depression, a slow decline into doddering helplessness.Put her in an Old People39。s Home. They39。ll look after her.They would if they could. With a garden, a lounge with the telly, good meals, someone to see she39。s all right, and, above all, pany. There are some very cosy Council Old People39。s Homes around.And the flats for the more active, with central heating, a munal restaurant if they don39。t feel like cooking for themselves, a lounge to get together in, a warden to give an eye. Andpany:Just what the old folks needif they can get in. In our town there are two homes taking sixty people together and flats for about a hundred and fifty. And a waiting list of more than a thousand. It may seem unlikely now but it39。s on the cards you39。ll be old one day. Maybe one of the lucky ones with a family to live with or decent neighbours and friends. And maybe alone, cold, even bedridden. With nobody at all to keep you pany.So won39。t it be yourselves you39。ll be helping if you start moving heaven and earth and your local Council to do something more for those who39。ve done their bit for society and now just aren39。t wanted?More old people39。s flats for the active: more homes where the nobody39。s Mums can find a bit of fort and friendship in their last but very unhappy years.Some adviceI. Your letter referring to this article should be more formal in style and far less emotional. Your ideas should be expressed in conventional English and properlyconstructed sentences.2 .Between a third and a half of your reply will be concerned with an objective and clear summary of the contents of the article. The rest should explain your reactions (you might be in sympathy with the ideas expressed in the article or disagree with them) and your suggestions for dealing with the problem of the lonely aged. Your style should be reasonable, practical and matteroffact, though your indignation, regret or disapproval may show through.3. One of the main difficulties will be to express facts, opinions a