Lillian Hanson, a college student, expects to graduate in about two years. What makes Mrs. Hanson different from her classmates is her    46    --73 years old.  She has been studying at college, a few courses at a time, for 27 years.

     When Lillian Hanson graduated from high school, she went to the    47    to borrow money for further education. The banker gave her   48    encouragement. He didn't think that a country girl should borrow money to go to college. He thought she should be    49    doing housework or should work on the farm.     50    Lillian Hanson went home and raised a family of nine children instead of going to college.

      Mrs. Hanson    51    forgot the dream of getting higher education. When the children

grown up, she    52    again and succeeded. In the class on her first day, when she introduced herself and    53    why she was there and what her aims were, all the other students   54   give her a warm welcome.

      Mrs. Hanson finds that the   55    part of going back to school at her age is sitting in class long periods of time. However, she often says she will stick to her dream no matter how difficult it is.

1.A. age                             B. interest                      C. accent

2.A. club                             B. school                       C. bank

3.A. much                                     B. no                          C. a little

4.A. at college                        B. at home                      C. in the office

5.A. After                             B. But                           C. So

6.A. never                           B. already                      C. often

7.A. stopped                                   B. tried                         C. refused

8.A. regretted                       B. guessed                     C. explained

9.A. stood up                         B. ran away                     C. broke out

10.A. best                         B. hardest                     C. easiest

People are often killed while c___73______ the road. Most of them are old people and c____74____. Old people are often killed because they are careless. People should look and listen b____75____ they cross the road. A car, a truck or a bus can’t stop very q___76_____ if it is going very fast. It will travel many meters before it s____77_____. Pedestrian(行人)don’t know this. They think that a car can stop right away. It is h___78_____ for a pedestrian to know how fast a car is traveling. The only s____79____way to cross the road is to look at b___80____ ways, right and left. The correct way to cross the road is t___81____ walk quickly when the traffic l__82____ turn green.

My parents had some strange rules when my sister and I were growing up. For example, they never    1   us soda or juice. Our choice was water or iced tea   2   no sugar. My mom’s   3   for it was that she didn’t like kids who only drank sweet drinks, or worse, kids who did not like    4  ! She wanted to teach us to like water or    5   unsweetened drinks that did not come in a bottle. We, on the other hand, wanted to    6   a coke when we ate out. Now I can make my own decisions, but I    7  choose juice or soda. I don’t __ 8___ it. It’s not because I don’t like it. I’m just used to drinking water. Many people    9  to think that a kid needs juice. If the child can’t get it, he or she will secretly buy this kind of drink elsewhere. I found this really    10  , since I was raised    11   no juice or soda, and I didn’t really    12   only having water. Now people    13   kids to make their own choices,    14   I grew up in a family where the children’s opinions were seldom (很少) 15   for, and the parents made the final decisions.

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(詳細(xì)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.
【小題1】People with little education usually ____.

Bend over, take a deep breath and drink some water！This is just one of hundreds of pieces of advice you might get if you have the hiccups（打嗝）.Hiccups are so mysterious(神秘的)．We really don’t know why they start and why they stop．

Everyone has a favorite cure for a case of the hiccups．Some people think that a good scare is necessary to get well．Others eat a little sugar．Still others drink a glass of water with a knife in it．

An American man named Jack O’Leary said that he had hiccupped 160 million times over a period of eight years．He tried 60，000 cures，but none of them worked．Finally he prayed（向…祈禱） to Saint Jude, the saint of Hopeless cases, and his hiccupping stopped immediately．

A British worker didn’t stop his hiccups until eight months later. People from all over the world wrote him letters with suggestions for getting well．He tried them all，but the hiccups continued．Finally，he drank a “secret” mixture(混合物) someone had sent him. By that evening his hiccups were gone．

Why did these cures work for these two men? No one really knows. But people who have studied many cases of hiccups have an idea. Hiccups usually go away if you believe in the cure．

1.        might be the best cure for hiccups.

A．Special pills

B．A spoonful of salt

C．Cold water

D．What you believe in

2.The British worker spent __________ in stopping his hiccups．

A．4 hours

B．2 days

C．8 months

D．8 years

3.What is the main idea of this passage?

A．Different ways to stop hiccups

B．What makes hiccups happen

C．How to get hiccups

D．Jack O‘Leary’s hiccups