B

It is true that people with better education are usually able to get better paying jobs. In other words, they have more chances to choose a good job while people with little or no education don’t. It seems that the purpose of education is to make people get jobs. But this isn’t accepted by all people.

Some people may think that a person should spend the best years of his life to get education only for a way of living. This was probably one of the earliest reasons of education. In fact, if education is just a way of making a living, people don’t need to spend so much time in school. People can get education for a living in a short time. Subjects like history and geography need not be taught to everyone. Even language and mathematics need not be taught in detail (详细地), either. Here it is clear that education is much more than teaching a man to get a way of living.

Education is well-rounded and it is mainly for improving a man. It is not only to teach him to speak, read and write, but also to develop his creative thinking and other abilities. After that, it is to make him a wise man and thankfully enjoy the achievements of human. Education is to make a man lead a better life. Educated people are expected to be able to listen to good music, read good books, watch plays and most of all take an interest in the world.

I would agree that making a good living is an important reason for education, but certainly not the most important or the main reason.

59. People with little education usually ________.

A. spend a long time in school     B. have a good chance to get a job

C. spend the best years to choose jobs   D. have fewer chances to get a good job

60. The earliest education was probably to _______.

A. make a man lead a better life     B. teach a man to write and think

C. make people get a way of living    D. teach people to read good books

61. It is expected that educated people will be able to ________.

A. accept education as a way of living   B. take an interest in the whole world

C. develop their abilities to make plays   D. learn subjects like language and math

62. The passage mainly tells us that ________.

A. education should make a man improve

B. people can get education in a short time

C. people should be able to get better paying jobs

D. all subjects are so important for a way of living

C

My grandfather is an eighty-year-old man. He always complains about how fast things have changed，and he often says that life used to be better.

Families aren’t families the way they used to be. A lot of families have broken down. If husband and wife have problems with their marriage，they no longer stay together. And mothers used to stay at home and take care of  their children，but now not anymore. Everyone is working. No one has time to look after children at home.

And the cars! No one walks anymore;everyone drives. We used to walk five miles to school every day，even in winter. But now we don’t. And in school，the children don’t have to think anymore. In math class，for example，we used to add，subtract(减)，multiply(乘) and divide(除)in our heads. Kids don’t use their heads anymore;instead，they use calculators(计算器).

Most families have computers now. In the past，we didn’t have computers. We didn’t even have lights. My mother used to spend all day cooking in the kitchen. But now less and less people eat home-cooked food anymore.

And people don’t talk to each other anymore. They are too busy to talk ，too busy to eat，too busy to think...

Life used to be simple，but it isn’t anymore.

63. What does the writer’s grandfather think of the life now?

A. He thinks the life is the same as it used to be.

B. He thinks the life now is worse than it used to be.

C. He thinks the life now is better than it used to be.

D. He thinks the life now is very good.

64. What does the underlined word “marriage” mean?

A. 生活   B. 工作    C. 婚姻    D. 家庭

65. What has happened to students these years according to the passage?

A. The students don’t have to think anymore in school.

B. The students use calculators in math class.

C. The students used to walk to school，but now they don’t.

D. All of the above.

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五、完成句子(本大题共5小题，每小题2分，共10分)

根据所给中文意思完成句子，每空限填一词。

66. 合理的饮食对健康很重要。

Proper ___________ is very important for health.

67. 她想在聚会中炫耀一下她的新衣服。

She wanted to ___________ ___________ her new clothes at the party.

68. 教练员要做运动员的榜样。

A coach should act as a ___________ ___________ for his athletes.

69. 他打破窗子逃跑了。

He broke the window and ___________ ___________.

70. 我们不再年轻了。

We are _________ _________ young.

六、补全对话(本大题共5小题，每小题1分，共5分)

A. Who’s broken it?      B. That’s great!

C. I’m afraid he can’t.      D. What’s the matter?

E. He’s good at mending tables and chairs.

Sam: Don’t sit on the chair!

Alice:   71

Sam: Look! One of its legs is broken. It’s dangerous to sit on it.

Alice: Thank you for telling me.    72

Sam: I don’t know.

Alice: Let’s tell our teacher about it. Maybe he can mend it.

Sam:   73   But I can mend it myself.

Alice: Yourself?Have you learned to mend a chair?

Sam: Yes. My father is a worker.   74   And he’s taught me how to do that.

Alice:   75   May I help you with it?

Sam: Certainly. Let’s begin.