第一部分：阅读理解（共两节；满分40分）
第一节 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，共30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳答案。
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Why should I teach my children history? That sounds like a stupid question to even ask. But, as I hear different home schooling teachers discuss history, I get the idea that there may be different reasons for teaching history. Let me briefly explain the three good reasons for studying history and two bad reasons for studying history.
The major reason I see for studying history is that we can learn from the past. I am convinced that the world would be a much better place if more people understood the successes and failures of the past and the things that made these successes and failures. However, as the unfortunately true statement goes "the one thing we seem to
