Many people go to school for an education. 1 learn languages, history, geography, physics, chemistry and maths. Others go to school to learn a skill so that they can 2 a living. School 3 is very important and useful. Yet no one can learn everything from school. A teacher, no matter how much he 4 , can not teach his students everything they 5 to know. The teacher's job is to show his students how to read and how to 6 . So much more is to be learned 7 school by the students themselves.

　　It is always more important to know how to study by 8 than to memorize(熟记)some facts or formula(公式). It is 9 quite easy to learn a 10 fact in history or a formula in mathematics. But it is very difficult to use a formula in 11 out a maths problem. Great scientists, such as Einstein, Newton and Galileo, didn't learn many things from school. But they were all so 12 that they invented so many things for mankind.

　　The 13 for their success is that they knew how to study. They read books that were not 14 at school. They worked hard all their lives, wasting not a single moment. They would ask many questions as they read and they did thousands of 15 .

　　1. A. Students B. They C. We D. People

　　2. A. make B. do C. have D. get

　　3. A. education B. degree C. lesson D. task

　　4. A. teaches B. knows C. learns D. practises

　　5. A. manage B. expect C. fail D. want

　　6. A. study B. play C. think D. work

　　7. A. From B. in C. within D. outside

　　8. A. heart B. students C. us D. oneself

　　9. A. not B. actually C. seldom D. known

　　10.A. real B. true C. certain D. great

　　11. A. setting B. working C. making D. doing

　　12. A. famous B. popular C. successful D. modest

　　13. A. experiment B. reason C. result D. way

　　14. A. kept B. showed C. expressed D. taught

　　15. A. duties B. jobs C. experiments D. records

　　名师点评

　　本文讲述了自主学习的重要性。也就是说对于学生而言应该学会如何学习才是更重要的。而对于教师而言，不仅要教学生文化知识，更应教会他们如何学习，正所谓“授之以鱼，不如授之以渔”。