16、_______ how to operate the machine, the young man started it like a skilled worker．

A．Instructing                            B．Being instructed

C．Having instructed                D．Having been instructed

15、They had a pleasant chat _______ a cup of the tea．

A．for        B．with       C．during         D．over

14、How long do you think _______ the Microsoft brings out a new product?

A．it will be before                B．will it be until

C．will it be when                    D．it will be that

13、— What do you think of the price of these computers?

— They are at least equal in price to, if not cheaper than, _______ at the other companies．

A．it           B．the ones         C．that        D．ones

12、Ma Yingjiu, chairman of Chinese Kuomintang, expressed to the media his thought _________ the cross-straits would be united in time．

A．where           B．that        C．what           D．which

11、—Tom took away our teacher’s cell phone without being permitted．

— Really? I can’t imagine that he __________ have done such a thing．

A．must        B．may        C．should           D．can

10、Living in the central Australian desert has its problems; _______ obtaining water is not the

least．

A．for which        B．of which           C．in which            D．to which

9、—I think you should phone Jane and say sorry to her．

—_______．It was her fault．

A．No problem               B．After all               C．No way              D．No chance

8、Each of us fails from time to time．If we are wise, we accept these failures as a  1  part of the learning process．But all too often as parents and teachers we disallow this  2  right to our children．

When I see a child  3  to this kind of pressure, I think of Donnie．

    Donnie was my youngest third grader．His  4  of failure kept him from classroom games that other children enjoyed．He  5     answered questions — he might be wrong．

I tried my best to build his  6．But nothing changed until midterm, when Mary Anne, a student teacher, was assigned （安排）to our classroom．

   She was young and pretty, and she loved children．My pupils, Donnie included,7  her．

   One morning, we were working math problems at the chalkboard．Donnie had 8  the problems with painstaking neatness．Pleased with his progress, I 9  the children with Mary Anne and went for art materials．When I returned, Donnie was in 10 ．He’d missed the third problem．

   My student teacher looked at me in despair．Suddenly her face  11．From the desk we shared, she got a container filled with pencils．

   "Look, Donnie," she said, kneeling beside him and gently 12 the tear stained face from his arms．"I’ve got something to13 you．" She removed the pencils, one at a time, and placed them on his desk．

   "See these 14 , Donnie," she continued．"They belong to Mrs. Lindstrom and me．See how the erasers are 15 ? That’s because we make mistakes too．But we erase the mistakes and try again．That’s what you 16  learn to do, too．"

    She kissed him and stood up．"Here," she said, "I’ll leave one of these pencils on 17 desk so you’ll remember that everybody makes mistakes, 18 teachers．" Donnie looked up with love in his eyes and a smile．

    The pencil became Donnie’s  19  possession．That, together with Mary Anne’s frequent encouragement, gradually 20  him that it’s all right to make mistakes — as long as you erase them and try again．

1．A．small                    B．basic                   C．necessary            D．large

2．A．correct                 B．same                   C．important        D．natural

3．A．suffering               B．object                  C．fall                      D．subject

4．A．fear                      B．lesson                 C．chance               D．sense

5．A．always                  B．often                   C．never          D．seldom

6．A．self-protection       B．self-improvement C．self-confidence    D．self-learning

7．A．respected              B．disliked                C．avoided               D．mined

8．A．worked out           B．copied                 C．gone over            D．leaned

9．A．left                       B．offered                C．missed            D．parted

10．A．surprise               B．astonishment        C．anger                  D．tears

11．A．darkened             B．brightened           C．pulled                  D．loosened

12．A．lifting                  B．picking                C．holding                D．pushing

13．A．help                    B．show                  C．reward                D．promise

14．A．pencils                B．mistakes              C．marks                 D．containers

15．A．used                   B．built                    C．worn                  D．damaged

16．A．may                    B．must                   C．will                     D．can

17．A．my                     B．someone’s           C．the teacher’s        D．your

18．A．still                     B．also                     C．even                   D．not

19．A．prized                 B．own                    C．kept                    D．expected

20．A．warned               B．informed             C．persuaded      D．reminded

7、When he thought of the past, my grandfather would sometimes show us photographs of himself at school．They were brown and faded, and it was hard to believe that the blurred figure of the little boy in the short trousers and socks could ever have been Grandfather．Besides, he wore a cap—and the boys in the photographs wore caps pulled so far forward that half of their faces were obscured．When Grandfather asked us to pick him out from the group, we would surely point to the wrong boy．

On one such occasion my younger sister, aged six, burst into tears when Grandfather proudly guided her finger to the right boy．"How could that boy be you?" she cried．"He should have a beard．” We were, of course, all convinced that grandfathers should have beards , preferably white and bushy, like our own grandfather's．

"I was a good scholar ,”Grandfather would say, wagging his beard over the photographs．" I should have been top of the c1ass if I hadn't had to get up at six every morning to milk the cows and chop the wood, and again when I came home from school．”

"But Saturdays? What did you do on Saturdays?"

"Saturdays, if it was fine, I’d be out all day in the fields with the men," replied Grandfather．"And if it was wet, I’d be helping my mother with odd jobs round the house．There wasn't much time for studying．"

We all tried hard to imagine what it would have been like to have been Grandfather getting up at crack of dawn and never, obviously, having a moment for himself．It seemed we had learnt something from what Grandfather had said about his childhood．

1．In the first paragraph of this passage, what the author really tells us is that______．

       A ．his grandfather used to wear short trousers, socks and a cap as well

       B．it was difficult to tell which of the boys in the photographs was Grandfather

       C．he didn't believe Grandfather wore a cap pulled forward when he was at school

       D．it was fun to watch boys in the photographs wearing caps pulled forward

2．The author's sister burst into tears because______________．       

       A．she did not get a chance to pick out Grandfather in the photographs

       B．she was told which was the right boy before she herself could pick him out

       C．other children did not agree with her that Grandfather should have had a beard

       D．she found Grandfather in the photographs did not have a beard

3．When Grandfather said, "I should have been top of the class…．", he meant____________．

       A if he had had more time for studying, he would have been the best in his class

       B．he should have spent more time studying rather than playing ball games

       C．his school days should not have been so hard and miserable

       D．he could have never been the best student even if he had studied still harder

4．In the last paragraph the author said, "We all tried hard to imagine…"because__________．

       A．the figures of the boys in the photographs were small and blurred

       B．the children had never experienced life like that of Grandfather

       C．the photographs Grandfather showed them were brown and faded

       D．Grandfather failed to tell them about his childhood in detail