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,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Many people go to school for 36 . They learn languages, history, geography, physics, chemistry and mathematics. 37 go to school to learn a skill 38 they can make a living. School education is very important and useful. Yet no one can learn 39 from school. A teacher, no matter how much he 40 , can not teach his students everything they 41 to know. The teacher’s job is to show his students 42 to learn. He teaches 43 how to read and how to think. So much more is to be learned 44 school by the students themselves.
It is always more 45 to study by oneself than to remember some facts or formulas (公式). It is quite 46 to learn a certain fact in history 47 a formula in mathematics. But it is very difficult to 48 a formula in working out a maths problem. Great 49 such as Einstein, Newton and Galileo didn’t get everything from school. But they were 50 successful. They knew 51 to study, they read books that 52 not taught at school. They worked hard all their lives 53 not a single moment. They 54 ask many questions as they read and they did thousands of experiments.
Above all, they knew how to use their 55 .
36. A. education B. educating C. study D. learning
37. A. Other B. Others C. The other D. Another
38. A. such that B. so as to C. so that D. in order
39. A. nothing B. something C. anything D. everything
40. A. understands B. will know C. knows D. knew
41. A. eager B. want C. ask D. wanted
42. A. how B. what C. when D. where
43. A. the teacher B. them C. student D. the student
44. A. at B. inside C. outside D. out
45. A. possible B. important C. impossible D. unimportant
46. A. easy B. uneasy C. difficult D. hard
47. A. but B. and C. or D. other
48. A. learn B. use C. study D. work
49. A. scientists B. teachers C. students D. people
50. A. either B. both C. all D. neither
51. A. what B. which C. this D. why
52. A. is B. were C. will be D. have been
53. A. waste B. wasted C. wasting D. to waste
54. A. could B. should C. might D. would
55. A. cleverness B. thoughts C. hearts D. brains