第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36－55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

Many teachers believe that the responsibilities for learning lie in students. If a long reading assignment is given, instructors  36  students to be familiar with the  37  in the reading even if they don't discuss it in class or take an exam. The  38  student is considered to be  39  who is motivated to learn for the 40 of learning, not the one interested only in getting high grades. Sometimes homework is returned  41  brief written comments but without a grade. Even if a grade is not given, the student is  42  for learning the material assigned. When research is 43 , the professor expects the student to take it actively and to complete it with 44  guidance. It is the 45 responsibility to find books, magazines, and articles in the library. Professors do not have the time to explain 46 a university library works; they expect students, 47 graduate students, to be able to exhaust(用尽) the reference 48  in the library. Professors will help students who need it, but  49  that their students should not be 50 dependent on them. In the United States, professors have many other duties 51 teaching, such as administrative(管理的) or research work．52 , the time that a professor can spend with a student outside of class is 53 . If a student has problems with classroom work, the student should either 54 a professor during office hour 55 make an appointment.

36.   A.expect  B.make   C.hope    D.prepare

37.   A.suggestion   B.title     C.headline      D.information

38.   A.poor    B.ideal    C.common      D.disappointed

39.   A.such    B.one      C.any      D.some

40.   A.fun      B.work    C.sake     D.prize

41.   A.by       B.in C.for       D.with

42.   A.criticized     B.asked   C.responsible　      D.dismissed

43.   A.collected     B.distributed   C.assigned      D.finished

44.   A.maximum   B.minimum    C.possible       D.practical

45.   A.student's      B.professor's   C.assistant's     D.librarian's

46.   A.when   B.what    C.why     D.how

47.   A.particularly B.truly    C.obviously    D.rarely

48.   A.selections    B.collections   C.sources D.origins

49.   A.hate     B.dislike  C.like      D.prefer

50.   A.too      B.such     C.much   D.more

51.   A.but      B.except  C.with     D.besides

52.   A.However     B.Therefore    C.Furthermore       D.Otherwise

53.   A.plentiful      B.limited C.irregular      D.enough

54.   A.greet    B.annoy  C.approach     D.turn

55.   A.or     B.and      C.to          D.but

                  To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor; you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasing voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to act what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.

  Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he does not sit still before his class： he stands the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express feelings. Listen to him, and you will hear the loudness, the quality (音色) and the musical note of his voice always changing according to what he is talking about.

  The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn’t mean that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage, for there are very important differences between the teacher’s work and the actor’s. The actor has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand (预先). What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage.

  A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience takes an active part in his play: they ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don’t understand something, they say so. The teacher therefore has to meet the needs of his audience, which is his class. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must invent it as he goes along.

  I have known many teachers who were fine actors in class but were unable to take part in a stage-play because they could not keep strictly to what another had written.

51. What is the text about ?

A. How to become a good teacher.

B. What a good teacher should do outside the classroom.

C. What teachers and actors could learn from each other.

D. The similarities and differences between a teacher’s work and an actor’s.

52. The word “audience” in the fourth paragraph means ____ .

A. students                       B. people who watch a play

C. people who not on the stage      D. people who listen to something

53. A good teacher ____ .

A. knows how to hold the interest of his students

B. must have a good voice

C. knows how to act on the stage 

D. stands or sits still while teaching

54. In what way is a teacher’s work different from an actor’s ?

A. The teacher must learn everything by heart .

B. He knows how to control his voice better than an actor .

C. He has to deal with unexpected situations .

D. He has to use more facial expressions .

55. The main difference between students in class and a theatre audience is that ____.

A. students can move around in the classroom

B. students must keep silent while theatre audience needn’t

C. no memory work is needed for the students

D. the students must take part in their teachers’ plays

 My friend Martin was seriously affected by a strange fever; _____ , he could neither eat nor sleep.

A. after all        B. as a result       C. on the other hand             D. however

 _____ the fact that doctors have warned that smoking causes cancer, people still keep on smoking.

A. Due to       B. Thanks to   C. Because of  D. In spite of

Sports shoes that work out whether their owner has done enough exercise to warrant time in front of the television have been devised in the UK.

The shoes — named Square Eyes — contain an electronic pressure sensor and a tiny computer chip to record how many steps the wearer has taken in a day. A wireless transmitter(传话器) passes the information to a receiver connected to a television, and this decides how much evening viewing time the wearer deserves, based on the day’s efforts.

The design was inspired by a desire to fight against the rapidly ballooning waistlines among British teenagers, says Gillian Swan, who developed Square Eyes as a final year design project at Brunel University to London, UK. “We looked at current issues and childhood overweight really stood out,” she says. “And I wanted to tackle that with my design.”

Once a child has used up their daily allowance gained through exercise, the television automatically switches off. And further time in front of the TV can only be earned through more steps.

Swan calculated how exercise should translate to television time using the recommended daily amounts of both. Health experts suggest that a child take 12,000 steps each day and watch no more than two hours of television. So, every 100 steps recorded by the Square Eyes shoes equals precisely one minute of TV time.

Existing pedometers （计步器） normally clip onto a belt or slip into a pocket and keep count of steps by measuring sudden movement. Swan says these can be easily tricked into recording steps through shaking. But her shoe has been built to be harder for lazy teenagers to cheat. “It is possible, but it would be a lot of effort,” she says. “That was one of my main design considerations.”

51.According to Swan, the purpose of her design project is to ________.

A.keep a record of the steps of the wearer                

B.deal with overweight among teenagers

C.enable children to resist the temptation of TV

D.prevent children from being tricked by TV programs

52.Which of the following is true of Square Eyes shoes?

A.They regulate a child’s evening TV viewing time.  

B.They determine a child’s daily pocket money.

C.They have raised the hot issue of overweight.

D.They contain information of the receiver.

53.What is stressed（强调）by health experts in their suggestion?

A.The exact number of steps to be taken.

B.The precise number of hours spent on TV.

C.The proper amount of daily exercise and TV time.

D.The way of changing steps into TV watching time.

54.Compared with other similar products, the new design ________.

A.makes it difficult for lazy teenagers to cheat

B.counts the wearer’s steps through shaking

C.records the sudden movement of the wearer

D.sends teenagers’ health data to the receiver

55.Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

A.Smart Shoes Decide on Television Time         B.Smart Shoes Guarantee More Exercise

C.Smart Shoes Measure Time of Exercise          D.Smart Shoes Stop Childhood Overweight

 The audience was ____ very young children so there was a lot of noise while the concert was going on.

   A. consisted in      B. made up for        C. consisted of        D. made up of

While _____ to foreigners, you must try to make yourself _____ by using body language if necessary．

       A．speaking? understand         B．spoken; understand

       C．speaking; understood           D．spoken; understood

 Global warming ________ cause huge climatic changes and possibly a new ice age.

   A. is possible to              B. may possible            C. is likely to                      D. is maybe to

 ―I think it’s too late to apologize to Kate.     

―Never mind. _______. 

A. Good medicine tastes bitter           B. Better late than never

C. All good things come to an end        D. A man becomes learned by asking questions

My teenage son Karl became withdrawn after his father died. As a single parent, I tried to do my best to talk to him, but the more I tried, the more he pulled away. When his report card arrived during his junior year, it said that he had been absent 95 times from classes and had six failing grades for the year. At this rate he would never graduate. I sent him to the school adviser, and I even begged him. Nothing worked.

One night I felt so powerless that I got down on my knees and pleaded for help. “Please God, I can’t do anything more for my son. I’m at the end of my rope. I’m giving the whole thing up to you.” I was at work when I got a phone call. A man introduced himself as the headmaster. “I want to talk to you about Karl’s absences.” Before he could say another word, I choked up and all my disappointment and sadness over Karl came pouring out into the ears of this stranger. “I love my son but I just don’t know what to do. I’ve tried everything to get Karl to go back to school and nothing has worked. It’s out of my hands.” For a moment there was silence on the other end of the line. The headmaster seriously said, “Thank you for your time,” and hung up.

Karl’s next report card showed a marked improvement in his grades. Finally, he even made the honor roll. In his fourth year, I attended a parent-teacher meeting with Karl. I noticed that his teachers were astonished at the way he had turned himself around. On our way home, he said,  “Mum, remember that call from the headmaster last year?” I nodded. “That was me. I thought I’d play a joke but when I heard what you said, it really hit me how much I was hurting you. That’s when I knew I had to make you proud.”

59. By saying “Karl became withdrawn”, the author means that the boy changed entirely and_____.

   A. preferred to stay alone at home            B. lost interest in his studies

   C. refused to talk to others                  D. began to dislike his mother

60. There was silence on the other end of the line because             .

   A. the speaker was too moved to say anything to the mother

   B. the speaker waited for the mother to finish speaking

   C. the speaker didn’t want the mother to recognize his voice

   D. the speaker was unable to interrupt the mother

61. The sentence “... he even made the honor roll” means that             .

   A. he was even on the list to be praised at the parent-teacher meeting

   B. he was even on the list of students who made progress in grades

   C. he was even on the list of students who had turned themselves around

   D. he was even on the list of the best students at school

62. What is the main idea of this passage?

   A. Children in single-parent families often have mental problems.

   B. Mother’s love plays an important role in teenagers’ life.

   C. Being understood by parents is very important to teenagers.

   D. School education doesn’t work without full support from parents.