If  38  has no interest in his work or study,   39  can he do well? I  40  this from one of my classmates. He is  41  the countryside. His parents are farmers. Though he  42  biology, he chose “international business.” He  43  to live a life which is different from  44  of his parents.

In the end, he found he wasn’t  45  in doing business. He found all the subjects to be  46  .   47  this wouldn’t have happened if he had chosen his major according to his own interests.

Choosing a major in university  48  decide one’s whole life. Majors  49  are not “hot” today may become the “hot” major of tomorrow. Choosing your major according to your own  50  is the best way to succeed.

31. A. person        B. way        C. teacher         D. result

32. A. give up       B. pick up      C. take up         D. make up

33. A. places        B. subjects      C. areas          D. schools

34. A. for examples   B. such as      C. as to           D. as well as

35. A. works        B. majors       C. features        D. museums

36. A. Only a few    B. Quite a few   C. Perhaps few     D. The few

37. A. number       B. power       C. level           D. degree

38. A. that          B. those        C. one            D. ones

39. A. why         B. where       C. how           D. when

40. A. suggested     B. guessed      C. searched        D. learned

41. A. above        B. off          C. in             D. from

42. A. studies      B. likes        C. learns        D. fails

43. A. wants       B. starts        C. refuses        D. stops

44. A. what        B. that         C. which        D. one

45. A. rich         B. clever       C. interested     D. easy

46. A. lovely       B. valuable     C. simple        D. tiresome

47. A. So          B. Then        C. Just then      D. Maybe

48. A. does        B. does not      C. will          D. can often

49. A. what        B. in which     C. which        D. when

50. A. interests     B. experiences   C. mind         D. skill

第三部分：阅读理解(共20小题：每小题2分，满分40分)

阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，

并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Education is not an end, but a means to an end. In other words, we don’t educate children only for the purpose of educating them. Our purpose is to fit them for life. In some modern countries, it has for some time been fashionable to think that by free education for all—whether rich or poor, clever or stupid-one can solve all the problems of society and build a perfect nation.　But we can already see that free education for all is not enough. We find in some countries a far larger number of people with university degrees; they refuse to do what they think “low” work, and in fact, work with hands is thought to be dirty and shameful in such countries. But we have only to think a moment to understand that the work of a completely uneducated farmer is far more important than that of a professor. We can live without education, but we die if we have no food.If no one cleaned our streets and took the rubbish away from our houses,we should get terrible disease in our towns…

In fact, when we say that all of us must be educated to fit us for life, it means that we must have education in such a way: Firstly, each of us can do whatever work suited to his brains and ability and secondly, we can realize that all jobs are necessary to society and that it is very bad to be ashamed of one’s work. Only such a type of education can be considered valuable to society.

51. The writer of the passage thinks that________.

A. education can settle most of the world’s problems

B. free education for all probably leads to a perfect world

C. free education won’t help to solve social problems

D. all the social problems can’t be solved by education

52. The writer wants to prove that________.

A. our society needs all kinds of jobs  B. our society needs free education for all

C. a farmer is more important than a professor

D. people with university degrees refuse to do what they think “low” work

53. The purpose of education is________.

A. to choose a system of education  B. to prepare children mainly for their future work

C. to let everyone receive education fit for him

D. to build a perfect world

54. The passage tells us about________of education.

A. the means  B. the systems   C. the value           D. the types

B

Most of the scientists worked with microscopes, telescopes or some kinds of laboratory equipment. They did experiments in order to solve the problems they were working on, or find the answers they were looking for.

Albert Einstein was a different kind of scientist. He was a theoretical physicist. He did not do experiments to prove his theory. He just wrote a lot of mathematical formulas(数学公式).

Some of Einstein’s theories were so far ahead of the time that they could not be tested until years later when better scientific instruments and equipment had been invented. For instance, one theory pointed out the existence of a certain star that nobody had ever seen.He could draw the conclusion from his famous Theory of Relativity. Finally Einstein’s theory proved to be correct.

Albert Einstein gave the world many new mathematical formulas that helped explain the laws of the universe. No one in history has done so much as Einstein to help us understand such mysterious things as light, energy, motion, gravity, space and time.

55. The passage seems to tell us mainly that________.

A. most of the scientists work with some kinds of laboratory equipment

B. without certain equipment scientists can not solve the problems they are working on

C. Albert Einstein was a scientist who worked in a much different way from other scientists

D. Albert Einstein helped us understand a lot of mysterious things in the universe

56. Einstein’s theory could not be proved at that time because________.

A. he only wrote mathematical formulas  B.other scientists were not good enough

C. there was not good enough scientific equipment

D. his theory was about mysterious things in the universe

57. Einstein knew a certain star existed in the universe________.

A. according to his Theory of Relativity? B. by doing a number of experiments

C. because he saw it one night by accident  D. with the help of a powerful telescope

58. The last paragraph suggests that________.

A. Einstein thought of many new mathematical formulas

B. Einstein made great contributions to the world

C. nobody else can help us understand the world better

D. the laws of the universe are not easily explained