Israel shares the values of education with China.But there is a world of difference between the way Israeli parents treat their children and we do.Israeli parents do not mollycoddle their children.Instead，they encourage them to learn how to live independently.In contrast，Chinese parents go to extremes，allowing their children to do whatever they like to do and punishing them severely the next for committing a “mistake”．

　　The global study should make us swing into action and help our students to throw open their young minds to imagination and creativity.It is time our education officials and educators asked themselves what they should do to let our children's imagination and creativity blossom.

　　【语篇解读】　中国学生很少有机会发挥他们的想像力。本文针对这种现象作了一份调查。

　　16．Based on the passage，the creativity of the Chinese students ranks ________ among the 21 countries.

　　A．the 5th

　　B．the 17th

　　C．the 21st

　　D．the 1st

　　解析：细节理解题。由文章第二段的The survey covering 21 countries...in creativity，they were fifth from the bottom.可知，中国学生的创造力位于21个国家的倒数第五位，即第17位。

　　答案：B

　　17．Why is the imagination of the Chinese students so poor?

　　A．Their parents often improve their educational ways.

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