高考英语阅读理解专项训练（50）A
In bringing up children, every parent watches eagerly the child’s acquisition (习得) of each new skill –the first spoken words, the first independent steps, or the beginning of reading and writing. It is common that parents hurry the child beyond his natural learning rate, but this can set up dangerous feelings of failure and states of worry in the child. This might happen at any stage. A baby might be forced to use a toilet too early, and a young child might be encourages to learn to read before he knows the meaning of the words he reads. On the other hand, though, if a child is left alone too much, or without any learning opportunities, he loses his natural enthusiasm (热情) for life and his desire to find out new things for himself.