As the young people in Nanning, we ought to do everything we can ________ our city more beautiful from now on.

A. make   B. made   C. to make        D. will make

完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)

阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意,然后从各题所给的四个选项A、B、C、D中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Your parents have just told you the news???? — you’re moving to a new house. How in the world will you tell your friends?

First, CALM DOWN.  36   a while to ??????catch your breath and let the news sink in before you call your friends. Make   37   you have the whole story before you start telling people.

  38  friends who need to hear the news from you. Think about  39  you’d like to tell them, and when. A face-to-face talk may be the best way to let  40  frie-

nds know, but the phone may be fine for others.   41   after school or on a weekend is good. You don’t want to drop big news like this on your friends during the school day.

HOW SHOULD YOU START? Say something like, “I have some big news I want to share   42   you.” That will prepare your friend for what is going to come. Then say, “I’m    43  .” Tell him as many details as you know,   44   let him know how you feel about it.

Each friend will have a different   45   to the news, so BE PREPARED. Some girls may   46   crying. But some may get   47  , some may get silly, and some may give you the   48    that they don’t care.   49   happens, be sure to talk to your friends if the things they do and say   50   your feelings.

Ask friends not to tell anyone else   51   you say it’s OK. You could say, “Please don’t tell   52   until Monday.” That will give you a   53   to let close friends hear the news from you first.

Ask your parents for help if you need it. A(n)   54   may be able to help you

  55    the right things to say and help you understand your friend’s reactions.

We can achieve knowledge either actively or passively（被动地）. We achieve it actively by direct experience, by testing and proving an idea, or by reasoning.

We achieve knowledge passively by being told by someone else. Most of the learning that takes place in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers or magazines is passive. Conditioned as we are to passive learning, it’s not surprising that we depend on it in our everyday communication with friends and co-workers.

Unfortunately, passive learning has a serious problem. It makes us tend to accept what we are told even when it is little more than hearsay and rumor(谣言).

Did you ever play the game Rumor? It begins when one person writes down a message but doesn’t show it to anyone. Then the person whispers it, word for word, to another person. That person, in turn, whispers it to still another, and so on, through all the people playing the game. The last person writes down the message word for word as he or she hears it. Then the two written statements are compared. Typically, the original message has changed.

That’s what happens in daily life. The simple fact that people repeat a story in their own words changes the story. Then, too, most people listen imperfectly. And many enjoy adding their own creative touch to a story, trying to improve on it, stamping（打上标记）it with their own personal style. Yet those who hear it think they know.

This process is also found among scholars and authors: A statement of opinion by one writer may be re-stated as fact by another, who may in turn be quoted by yet another; and this process may continue, unless it occurs to someone to question the facts on which the original writer based his opinion or to challenge the interpretation he placed upon those facts.

57. According to the passage, passive learning may occur in _______.

A. doing a medical experiment       B. solving a math problem

C. visiting an exhibition             D. doing scientific reasoning

58. The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refers to _____.

A. active learning                                      B. knowledge

C. communication                               D. passive learning

59. The author mentions the game Rumor to show that _____.

A. a message may be changed when being passed on

B. a message should be delivered in different ways

C. people may have problems with their sense of hearing

D. people tend not to believe in what they know as rumor

60. What can we infer from the passage?

A. Active learning is less important.

B. Passive learning may not be reliable.

C. Active learning occurs more frequently.

D. Passive learning is not found among scholars.

     failure can’t be avoided, and participating is    victory

A. a , /                      B. /,a                            C. /,the                      D. the,/

My son came up with the idea      the family get together for a meal every

two weeks．

  A．which    B．that    C．when D．where

Paris is ＿＿＿ most beautiful city，where you can see＿＿＿ famous Eiffel Tower．

A．a；the　     B．a; 不填　         C．the；a　    D．不填；the

Without your help, I _____the exam last term.

A. haven’t passed           B. wouldn’t pass

C. would have failed in       D. failed in

They made their way in the shop _______shoppers.

A. crowded with   B. crowded    C. crowding with     D. was crowded with

Readings of this sort have _____ on the children.

A. an ill effect    B. have a effect   C. a badly effect    D. affect

You may find the answer _____ page 25.

A. at the top of               B. at the top

C. on the top of              D. on the top