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，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
In a small open courtyard, outside a school building, there were flowers here and there. In the sunshine, a  36  was lying on the grass, reading a book with  37  concentration. Near her, another child was carefully watering the flowers, while a third was  38 with his back against a tree and had a  39  on his knees. He appeared to be drawing or writing something on it. He was _40  in his task, like the first child.
_41  the building, there were pleasant carpeted areas. Many children were busy with their tasks in a variety of  42  , while teachers wandered among them, talking to them,  43  them, and encouraging their efforts.
_44  I watched this scene on a morning in May years ago, it  45  to me that a visitor here would  46  have thought be had entered a formal school. He would have been even more  47  if he had been told that the children he was  48 came from different kinds of academic levels.
That  49 has been staying with me ever since. I have been  50 about some problems. Why in many schools are our children  51 asked to acquire skills in a way  52  from a real-life context(情境)? Why does a  53 school child so often become a defeated school failure?
Developmental psychologist Margaret Donald once said,”  54 of the intellectual framework (知识框架) on which we  55 our teaching is misleading.” In my opinion, a child learns everything in human situation. And if every child could learn in the same way as the children in the school I visited, they would develop better.
36. A. gardener          B. child             C. teacher              D. visitor
37. A. poor            B. little              C. complete             D. slight
38. A. sitting           B. standing           C. sleeping               D. listening
39. A. toy             B. pencil             C. flower               D. notebook
40. A. laid             B. set                C. defeated               D. lost
41. A. Over            B. Above             C. Inside                D. Outside
42. A. ways           B. ideas              C. opinions                 D. views
43. A. referring to      B. smiling at            C. pointing to             D. staring at
44. A. Unless          B. As                   C. Until                 D. Before
45. A. happened        B. went                 C. occurred              D. got
46. A. already        B. never                 C. rather                 D. ever
47. A. satisfied      B. disappointed            C. delighted               D. surprised
48. A. helping      B. teaching                 C. encouraging            D. observing
49. A. scene       B. sign                     C. look              D. semen
50. A. dreaming       B. regretting                C. wondering              D. joking
51. A. seldom     B. hardly                    C. often                      D. badly
52. A. taken      B. prevented               C. learned                   D. separated
53. A. slow      B. lively                      C. lucky                  D. friendly
54. A. Much      B. Any                        C. Little            D. None
55. A. turn      B. feed                       C. draw                      D. base