. They really have a great time too , designing everything , drawing the blue prints , _________the angles and so on .

A. looking out   B. taking out   C. finding out   D. figuring out    

―What should I do with this passage ?

 ―        the main idea of each paragraph .

    A．Finding out    B．Found out      C．Find out       D．To find out

完形填空（共20小题；每题1.5分，满分30分）

   阅读下面短文，从后面各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项的标号涂黑。

High school seems bigger.There are  36  kids and it’s a totally new environment. It could be a  37  time for new students,  38  ,in fact,it isn’t really that bad.

The first day of course is always terrifying,but,then again,the first day of middle school was probably the  39  .Of course you might get lost during the first few days  40  your classes,but after a while what seems like a large school really isn’t.

One thing that’s really cool about high school is that there are so many more classes that you can  41  .For example,if you like  42  ,there are many art classes.At the same time,there are  43  classes,which you can’t take in middle school  44  photography and psychology(心理学).There are many new things in high school that make it much more  45  .

In high school,you’re able to join more clubs,play more sports,and take part in more  46  ,and at the same time make new friends with kids with the same  47  as you.Also, these activities can give you a  48  to learn something that you might not have had the opportunity to learn in  49  .

High school is different  50  everyone,but there’s one thing that’s  51  .You’re going to have just as much fun here as you  52  before.But having fun isn’t enough though! You’re  53  so you have to be more responsible.Everything changes when you get  54  ,but the changes aren’t that bad.You  55  worry too much about growing up.

.A.less    B.few   C.more  D.many

A.terrible B.popular   C.good  D.worried

A.but  B.and   C.while D.or

A.different    B.same  C.rich  D.difficult

A.attending to B.looking for   C.finding out   D.knowing of

A.take B.join  C.give  D.learn

A.dancing  B.sports    C.art   D.singing

A.other    B.another   C.others    D.the other

A.without  B.like  C.except    D.as

A.fun  B.boring    C.busy  D.tiring

A.activities   B.classes   C.lectures  D.groups

A.customs  B.classes   C.ages  D.interests

A.chance   B.time  C.place D.space

A.your home    B.middle school C.society   D.primary school

A.in   B.from  C.on    D.for

A.sure B.certain   C.doubtful  D.believable

A.did  B.created   C.remembered    D.made

A.taking classes   B.growing up    C.joining activities    D.making friends

A.older    B.cleverer  C.taller    D.wiser

A.can’t   B.mustn’t  C.shouldn’t    D.won’t

“Long time no see” is a very interesting sentence. When I first read this sentence from an American friend’s email, I laughed. I thought it was a perfect example of Chinglish.
Obviously, it is a word-by-word literal translation of the Chinese greetings with a ruled English grammar and structure! Later on, my friend told me that it is a standard American greeting. I was too thrilled to believe her. Her words could not convince me at all. So I did a research on google.com. To my surprise, there are over 60 thousand web pages containing “Long time no see.” This sentence has been widely used in emails, letters, newspapers, movies, books, or any other possible places. Though it is sort of informal, it is part of the language that Americans use daily. Ironically, if you type this phrase in Microsoft Word, the software will tell you that the grammar needs to be corrected.
Nobody knows the origin of this Chinglish sentence. Some people believe that it came from Charlie Chan’s movies. In the 1930s, Hollywood moviemakers successfully created a world wide famous Chinese detective named “Charlie Chan” on wide screens. Detective Chan likes to teach Americans some Chinese wisdom by quoting Confucius. “Long time no see” was his trademark. Soon after Charlie Chan, “Long time no see” became a popular phrase in the real world with thanks to the popularity of these movies.
Some scholars refer to America as a huge pot of stew. All kinds of culture are mixed in the stew together, and they change the color and taste of each other. American Chinese, though a minority ethnic(少数民族的成员) group in the United States, is also contributing some changes to the stew! Language is usually the first thing to be influenced in the mixed stew.
You can have some other examples than adoptions from Chinese, such as pizza from Italian, susi from Japanese, and déjà vu from French etc. There is a long list! Americans do not just simply borrow something from others. They will modify it and make it their own, so you would not be surprised to find a tofu and peanut butter hamburger in a restaurant, or to buy a bottle of iced Chinese green tea with honey in a grocery store. Since Americans appreciate Chinese culture more and more nowadays, I believe more Chinese words will become American English in the future. In this way the American stew keeps adding richness and flavor.
【小题1】The writer himself felt surprised at ______. 

It was a party. I was 18 and it was fresher(大一新生) week. I was at the beginning of a course in English Literature and full of enthusiasm for my subject. She was also 18 and enrolled in a course in physics.
“Your major is of no use to society. What will you do with it when you graduate, other than teach? Plus, you’re going to be poor your whole life,” she said. “You have no soul and your degree is boring. I don’t care how much money you’re going to earn. I’d rather be poor and don’t mind being a teacher. If I love my work I’ll have something far more meaningful than a big bank account!” came the reply.
And so it went, back and forth, neither of us giving the other an inch, each of us stubbornly committed to our prejudice. We were both ignorant, but our ignorance was also society’s ignorance. It had always been that way. Scientists mocked(嘲笑) humanists; humanists laughed at scientists. Back in the 1960s, the physicist-turned novelist C. P. Snow labeled the sciences-humanities divide “a problem of ‘the two cultures’” . He said it was bad for society. The modern world needed well-rounded people.
I think I know better now, but it would have helped if we had been encouraged to think a little more outside our science and arts “boxes”.
That’s why I believe it is healthy that China is beginning a debate on whether it’s wise for young people to have to choose which direction their careers – and lives – will take at such an early age. At the moment, in their second year of high school, students must choose either the sciences or the humanities. After making the choice, they focus their energies on passing the appropriate college entrance exam.
But now, people in China are asking: Is this forced, early decision good for young people or society? Young people need time to explore, to discover where their real talents and interests lie. There are more than just a few middle-aged people out there, stuck in jobs they hate because they made the wrong choice at the wrong time.
And from the point of view of society, isn’t it better for students to delay a while before they decide what to study? Scientists can benefit from learning to develop the critical skills associated with the humanities; students in the humanities, surely, only stand to gain by finding out a little more about science and technology, which are so important to the future of a developing country like China.
With any luck, in the future young people fresh to college will be better informed about the possibilities of education than people of my generation.
【小题1】The author describes what happened at a fresher party to ________.