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Duan Jiayang, a 12-year-old student of a primary school in Yinchuan, Ningxia, learns the skills required to take care of vegetable fields.

“I learned how to place the mulch film（地膜）,” he says, “It’s not easy.”

In China, many parents place a heavy focus on their children’s good results, but vocational（职业的）skills have little been cared.

“Some parents do everything for their children,” says Yan Mei, an official with the primary school, adding that many students are short of the basic skills needed in their daily lives. For example, Yan says, some parents would do the school’s general cleaning instead of their children.

Since March last year, the governments have launched a lot of policies, requiring that colleges, middle schools and primary schools pay more attention to teaching students practical skills.

Following these policies, the primary school launched an “agricultural（农业的）class base” on one of its schoolyards. Students plant fruit and vegetables on an area of land about 4,000㎡ in size.

In the days coming up to the May Day holiday, students of various grades at the school worked together in the fields, says school principal Yang Bo. They planted watermelon, carrot and corn. May Day, also known as Labor Day, is celebrated on May 1st in China.

The school hopes that students will understand the food is quite precious so that they will better realize the difficulties that their parents went through.

1．What does Duan Jiayang think of this activity?

A．Boring.

B．Easy.

C．Difficult.

D．Interesting.

2．What do many parents care most in the passage?

A．Children’s life skills.	B．Children’s high marks.
C．Teachers’ skills course.	D．Teachers’ teaching level.

3．Which of the following crops is not mentioned according to the passage?

A．Corn.

B．Watermelon.

C．Carrot.

D．Cabbage.

4．What can students learn from the agricultural class?

A．Students will understand the importance of labor.

B．Students can realize the difficulties their parents went through.

C．Students can learn the basic life skills.

D．All of the above.

5．Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A．Youths Get a Lesson in Life through Skills Course

B．Duan Jiayang, a Hard-working Student

C．Schools Follow the Governments’ Policies

D．Parents Hope for Children’s Good Results in School