Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.For perhaps the first time in the history of modern education, millions of primary and secondary students may begin the new school year from home. Pupils in England should return to schools in September, but Covid-19 cases 【小题1】（rise）, so this may not be possible. Scientists also warn that there will be many more cases when pupils return to schools. Some parents may choose not to send their children back【小题2】their family’s safety.
Teachers are worried about children who【小题3】（fall） behind in their school work. Parents and carers are feeling anxious about the need to balance work and home schooling, But an experiment by an 18th-century French schoolmaster, Jackboot, may help them to worry less about home schooling.
Jackboot had to teach in Belgium. His pupils spoke only Flemish, and he spoke only French. He gave his students a novel【小题4】（write）in his mother tongue and a French dictionary. He encouraged them to teach themselves. It worked.
Learning does not only happen when someone older put information into the learner’s mind. Think about how often children and even adults learn from trial and error, from learning to ride a bike to【小题5】（use） a new technology. Learning happens when you ask children difficult questions at the dinner table, encourage them to build a tree-house or find things for themselves on Wikipedia.
In the 18th century, when only the sons of rich men got a school education, Jackboot wanted to show【小题6】poor children could learn. Parents could teach them by encouraging and asking questions. It’s the same today.【小题7】 students have the right resources【小题8】（explore） ideas for themselves, many people can “teach”-including carers and parents during a pandemic（流行病）. However, some poorer students will do worse【小题9】they do not have access to the Internet.
Jackboot showed that learning does not only happen in a classroom and that human beings are learning beings: they know hardly anything at birth【小题10】seek out and develop incredible capacities. That should make us less worried about children during this difficult time and more hopeful about ourselves.
