Various experiments have been carried out to         the proper way to raise children．

   A make             B fight              C．work             D．seek

I’m terribly sorry to turn you down this time, but I promise I will _________ to you next time.

A. pick it up　　                B. make it up                 C. turn it up　　               D. set it up

Never care, dear. Even ___ you started a bit earlier, the result would still not be quite different.

A. have          B. have had       C. had            D. had had

It is a great gift for him and the whole family ___,

A. as well as   B. also    C. as good    D. as well

Who did the famous actress, Nicole Kidman, as well as the director, ___ the prince to the

 concert which would be held in the open air?

 A.has invited        B.has invite                  C.have invite                D.have invited

Beijing plans to build more Olympic Games sites in universities____ resources after the Games ____.

I will never understand how it __________ that you were an hour late on such a short journey.

A. was happened    B. came about   C. took the place    D. came out

The house was very quiet when I got home. All my family        to bed

   A. have gone     B. were going      C. had gone      D. would go

 33. His suggestion will be _____ to us.

  A. of helpful             B. very help           C. of great benefit         D. of very use

Most painters discover a style(風(fēng)格) of painting that suits them and stick to that, especially if people admire their pictures. But Picasso, the great Spanish painter, was like a man who had not yet found his own particular style of painting. He kept on struggling to find the perfect expression till his death in 1973.

Some of Picasso's paintings are rich, soft coloured and beautiful. Others are ugly and cruel and strange. But such paintings allow us to imagine things for ourselves. They force us to say to ourselves, “What does he see that makes him paint like that?” And we begin to look beneath(在…之下) the surface of the things we see. w.w.w.k.&s.5*u.c.#om

Picasso painted thousands of pictures in different styles. Sometimes he painted the natural look of things. Sometimes he seemed to break them apart and throw the pieces in our faces. He showed us what the mind knows as well as what the eye sees. At the age of 90 he remained as curious about the world as he had been when he was young. That is why people have called him “the youngest painter in the world”.

56. In the passage the writer wants to tell us _________.

A. about some pictures which have different styles

B. about Picasso's style of painting

C. it is not easy for a painter to find his own style

D. that Picasso had not found his own particular style

57. The ugly, cruel and strange paintings by Picasso _________.

A. make us try to notice something latent(潛在的) in the things

B. allow us to ask questions about them

C. force us to question anything we see

D. cause us to think what Picasso saw was different from what we see

58. The sentence“sometimes he seemed to break them apart and throw the pieces in our faces” means _________.

A. sometimes he tore his pictures into pieces

B. he broke something he was painting and threw them away

C. sometimes he showed some broken pictures to others

D. things in some of his pictures seemed to be in disorder

59. Why have people called Picasso “the youngest painter in the world”?

A. Because he looked young when he was old.

B. Because he observed things with the eye and the mind.

C. Because he never stopped painting even when he was old.

D. Because he never gave up looking for something new.

60. What do you suppose the writer thinks of Picasso's paintings?

A. He doesn't understand some of them.

B. He thinks some of them are valuable, some are not.

C. He admires them, including the ugly ones.

D. He doesn't like some of them, but he admires the painter.