Like most English children, I learned foreign languages at 36. When I made my first visit 37 the Unites States, I was 38 I could have a nice easy holiday without any 39 problem. But how 40 I was!

At the American airport, I was looking for a public telephone to 41 my friend Jenny I had 41 . A worker asked if he could 43 me. “Yes,” I said. “I want to give my friend a ring.” “Well, that’s nice. Are you getting married?” he asked. “No,” I answered. “I just want to tell her 44 the phone I have arrived.” “Oh,” he said, “there is a 45 downstairs on the first floor.” “But we’re on the first floor now,” I said. “Well, I don’t know what you are 46 about. Maybe you aren’t feeling too well after your 47,” he said. “You just go and wash up, and you will feel a lot better.” And he went 48 , 49 me wondering where on earth I was: at home we wash up after a 50 to get the cups and plates clean. How can I wash up at an airport?

At last we did 51. She 52 the misunderstanding(误会): American say “to give someone a 53 ”, but we English say “ to give someone a ring”. When we say “to wash your hands”, they say “to wash 54”. And Englishmen start numbering from the floor, so the 55 floor is the second for Americans.

I have been consistently opposed to feeding a baby regularly. As a doctor, mother and scientist in child development, I believe there is nothing to recommend it, from the baby’s point of view.

Mothers, doctors and nurse alike have no idea of where a baby’s blood sugar level lies. All we know is that a low level is harmful to brain development and makes a baby easily annoyed. In this state, the baby is difficult to calm down and sleep is impossible. The baby asks for attention by crying and searching for food with its mouth.

It is not just unkind but also dangerous to say a four-hourly feeding schedule will make a baby satisfied. The first of the experts to advocate a strict clock-watching schedule was Dr Frederic Truby King who was against feeding in the night. I’ve never heard anything so ridiculous. Baby feeding shouldn’t follow a timetable set by the mum. What is important is feeding a baby in the best way, though it may cause some inconvenience in the first few weeks.

Well, at last we have copper-bottomed research that supports demand feeding and points out the weaknesses of strictly timed feeding. The research finds out that babies who are fed on demand do better at school at age 5, 7, 11 and 14, than babies fed according to the clock. By the age of 8, their IQ scores are four to five percent higher than babies fed by a rigid timetable. This research comes from Oxford and Essex University using a sample（样本）of 10,419 children born in the early 1990s, taking account of parental education, family income, a child’s sex and age, the mother’s health and feeding style. These results don’t surprise me. Feeding according to schedule runs the risk of harming the rapidly growing brain by taking no account of sinking blood sugar levels.

I hope this research will put an end to advocating strictly timed baby feeding practices.

1.What does the author think about Dr King?

2.The word copper-bottomed in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to __________.

3.What does the research tell us about feeding a baby on demand?

4.The author supports feeding the baby __________.

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76.The police c_______ him of stealing a car and put him into prison .
77.At last , we can’t help showing m_____to the beggar .
78.A scientist should be a person who has c________about things.
79.The elderly need special care in winter , as they are s______to the sudden change of weather.
80.The examiner will test your a______to drive under normal road conditions.
81.The agency offers practical _______( 指导  ) to people staring their owwn business.
82.My camera can be _______(调节  )to take pictures in cloudy or sunny conditions.   
83.He was ________ (沮丧 ) when he heard the bad news .
84.I felt very disappointed when my repeated request that I join the club was _______( 拒绝  ). 85.According to his _______( 先前的 ) experience in driving cars , he must be very careful when it is snowing.      

At last we reached a lonely village, _______ a beautiful river.

A．in front of it lay                         B．in front of which lay

C．in front of it laid                         D．in front of which lied

At last ,we found ourselves in a pleasant park with trees providing shade and      down to eat our picnic lunch.

       A．sitting                 B．having sat           C．to sit                   D．sat