Passage 1
    学生上大学的目的各不相同：探索知识，充实自己；改变自身处境，谋求好的社会地位；满足父母的期望…还有人从未认真想过…
    The Purpose of School
    Have you ever asked yourself why children go to school? You will probably say that they go to learn their own language and other languages, arithmetic, geography, geometry, history, science and all the other subjects. That is quite true, but why do they learn these things? And are these things all that they learn at school?
    We send our children to school to prepare them for the time when they will be big and will have to work for themselves.     They learn their own language so that they will be able to tell others clearly what they want and what they know, and understand what others tell them. They learn foreign languages in order to be able to benefit from what people in other countries have written and said, and in order to make people from other countries understand what they themselves mean. They learn arithmetic in order to be able to measure and count things in their daily life, geography in order to know something about the , and history to know something about human beings they meet every day. Nearly everything they study at school has some practical use in their life, but is that the only reason why they go to school?