If parents bring up a child with the aim of turning the child into a genius（天才）, they will cause great damage to him. According to several leading educational experts, this is one of the biggest mistakes that some parents make. Generally, the child will understand very well what the parents expect. and will fall. Unrealistic（不現(xiàn)實(shí)）expectations of the parents can cause great damage to children.
However, if parents are not unrealistic about what they expect their children to do, but are hopeful in a sensible（明智）way, the child may succeed in doing very well—especially if the parents are very supportive（支持的）to their children.
Michael Li is very lucky. He likes music and his parents help him a lot by taking him to concerts and let him attend piano and violin lessons. Although Michael's mother knows very little about music, his father is a good musician. However, he never makes Michael enter music competitions if he is unwilling.
Michael's friend, Winston Chen, however, is not so lucky. Although both his parents are successful musicians, they set too high a standard（水平）for Winston. They want their son to be as successful as they are and so they enter him in every piano competition held. They are very unhappy when he does not win. “When I was your age I used to win every competition I enter.” Winston's father tells him. Winston is always afraid that he will disappoint his parents and now he always quiet and unhappy.
【小題1】The main idea of the passage is _________.

George Wilson had a shop where he sold and repaired watches．

    One day his daughter got married and her husband，James，soon came to work for him．

   “I’ll teach you everything I know about watches．”George told them．

    For the first few weeks，James served the customers，dusted the shelves and learned where everything was in the shop．George was very pleased with him．He worked hard and was polite and helpful to the customers．

    After about six months，James said，“Is there any thing else you want to teach me?”

    “Yes，James，there is，”George said：“It’s time I teach you the secret of our success．”

    “I think I know that，”James said．“You buy watches at one price，and sell them at a higher price．The difference in price is our profit．”

    “That is true，but it is not where we make most of our profit．”George said．

     He picked up a watch from the counter．“What do you think of this watch?”He asked James．

    “That is a cheap watch，”the young man replied．“We don’t make much profit from selling those，perhaps a few dollars each．”

    “That is where you are wrong，young boy．”George said，“Those cheap watches make more profit than any other watch in the shop．”

    “I don’t understand，”James said．

    “Because they are really cheap，they are always breaking，”George told him，“We make our profit from repairing them．”

任務(wù)一：根據(jù)所給的英語(yǔ)解釋，從文章中找出相應(yīng)的單詞。

1．people who buy things from shops                       

2．Something that most people don’t know                   

3．things that people wear on their wrists to tell the time                  

任務(wù)二：用短文中出現(xiàn)的單詞或短語(yǔ)完成下列句子。

4．The father will           when he knows about his son’s progress．

5．Who can tell me the      between the two words“funny”and“interesting”．