55．I must a________ for not being able to meet you at the airport on time.

54．She felt g________ about leaving her sick child and going to work.

53. The main idea of the passage is that ______.

　 　　A. people can learn a lot from their failures.

　 　　B. it is worthwhile to spend money on an old building

　 　　C. people should not judge things by their appearance

　 　　D. creative people can make the best of what they have

52. It can be inferred from the passage that Yocum and Bell _____.

　 　　A. benefited a lot from pulling down the roof

　 　　B. turned more old buildings into art galleries

　 　　C. got inspiration from decorating their old building

　 　　D. paid more attention to the outside of the art gallery

51. Working on the old building, Yocum and Bell _______.

　 　　A. pulled rubbish out through the roof

　 　　B. removed the skylights from the bathroom

　 　　C. presentd a slow-motion show in an art gallery

　 　　D. built a kitchen at the back part of the old buiding

50. Yocum bought the old building because _____.

　 　　A. it was a bargain to him

　 　　B. it was still in good condition

　 　　C. it was located in the city center

　 　　D. it looked attractive from the outside

49. According to the passage, it is _______ for most young architects in big cities to work in a building of their own.

　　 　　A. easy　　　　　 B. unnecessary　　　 C. unrealistic　　　 D. common

48. Which of following is NOT true according to the passage?

　　 A. People with high IQ are likely to gain knowledge quickly.

　　 B. At work EQ gets you hired easily and IQ gets you promoted.

　　 C. Having a high IQ will help us in some ways but having a high EQ might help us even more.

　　 D. People’s EQ could be raised much more than their IQ.

(C)

　 Most young architects-particularly those in big cities- can only dream about working in a building of their own. And making that dream come true often means finding a building no one else seems to want, which is exactly what happened to David Yocum and his parter, Brain Bell. Their building is a former automobile electrical-parts film in Atlanta. Form the outside, it looks too old, even something horrible, but open the door and you are in a wide, open courtyard, lined on three sides with rusting(生锈的)walls.

In 2000, Yocum and Bell found this building in the city’s West End. Built in 1947, the structure had been abandoned years earlier and the roof of the main building had fallen down. But the price was right, so Yocum bought it. He spent eight months of his off-hours on demolition(排除), pulling rubbish out through the roof, because it was too dangerous to go inside the building. The demolition was hard work, but it gave him time to think about what he wanted to do, and “to treasure what was there- the walls, the rust, the light.” Yocum said. “Every season, more paint falls off the walls and more rust develops. It’s like an art installation(装置) in there-a slow-motion show.”

Since the back building had been constructed without windows, an all-glass front was added to the building to give it a view of the courtyard, and skylights were installed in the roof. The back of the building is a working area and a living room for Yocum and his wife. A sort of buffer(缓冲) zone between the front and the back contains a bathroom, a kitchen and a mechanical room, and the walls that separate these zones have openings that allow views through to the front of the studio and the courtyard beyond.

Yocum and Bell, who have just completed an art gallery for the city, feel that the experience from the decoration of their building, focusing on the inside rather than the outside, has influenced their work. It has also given these architects a chance to show how they can make more out of less.

47. It can be inferred that predicting future successes, ______.

　　 A. a person’s brainpower might actually matter less than a person’s character

　　 B. a person’s IQ might be more important than a person’s EQ

　　 C. IQ plays an important role as well as EQ

　　 D. both IQ and EQ are the key points that should be considered

46. Which of the following can’t be used to describe the people with a high level of EQ?

　　 A. They are positive, communicative, pleasant and supportive.

　　 B. They are optimistic and untroubled by difficulties.

　　 C. They are impatient and show little care towards others.

　　 D. They may be very successful in business.