At the end of the meeting,it was announced that an agreement_______.

A.has been reached                                           B.had been reached

C.has reached                                                   D.had reached

The committee is discussing the problem right now. It will ______ have been solved by the end of next week.

A. eagerly        B. hopefully       C. immediately      D. gradually

David has won the first prize in singing; he is still very excited now and feels________ desire to go to bed.

A. the most         B. more            C. worse            D. the least

A man is being questioned in relation to the ________ murder last night.

    A. advised         B. attended         C. attempted         D. admitted

---Have you ever seen Peter recently ?

        ---Yes . He _____ me to ask you how you _____ along with your new job these days .

      A. has asked ; have been getting          B. asked ; were getting

      C. often asks ; are getting                D. asked ; are getting

I really wonder ______ he has posted me many parcels _____ we worked together .

        A. how ; after         B. why ; when         C. when ; before     D. why ; since

Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time: if corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit .he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people's. In the same way, children learn to do all the other things: they should learn to do without being taught, such as to walk, run, climb,  whistle, ride a bicycle—compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes and correct them for himself. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to .Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what the  answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.

   If it is a matter of right answer, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such routine（常规）work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can’t find the way to get the right answer .Let the children learn what all educated persons must some day learn ,how to measure their own understanding, how to know what they   know or do not know.

 1 .According to the passage ,the best way for children to learn things is by______

A .listening to skilled people's advice     

B .asking older people many questions.

C .making mistakes and having them corrected 

 D .doing what other people do

 2 .which of the following does the writer think teachers should NOT do?

A. Give children correct answers.        

 B .Allow children to make mistakes.

C .Point out children's mistakes to them.

D. Let children mark their own work.

 3. According to the writer, teachers in school should______

A. allow children to learn from each other

B. point out children's mistakes whenever found

C .correct children's mistakes as soon as possible

D. give children more book knowledge

 4.The passage suggests that learning to speak and learning to ride a bicycle are ____

A. different from learning other skills

B. the same as learning other skills

C. more important than other skills

D. not really important skills

I am willing to have her again ________ our new flat and I _________her that, but it must be up to her own decision.

A. decorating; will tell        B. decorate; will tell          C. decorate; tell       D. decorated; tell

People have planted a great many trees in order to ____wind and sand in the desert.

A. hold down          B. hold up           C. hold back        D. hold out

You have to be a fairly good speaker to ______ listeners’ interest for over an hour.

A. hold        B. make           C. improve          D. receive