–Come on, please give me some ideas about the project.

　 --- Sorry. With so much work _________my mind, I almost break down.

　 A filled　　 B filling　　 C to fill　　　 D being filled

The old machine is _________.

A. of useless　　　　 B. of not use　　　 C. no use　　　　　　 D. of no use

Don’t be too ____ about things you are not supposed to know.

(上海 1998)

　 A. strange 　 　 B. amusing 　　　 　 C. curious 　　　 　 D. conscious

Great attention should be _______to the serious pollution .

A .taken　 B. made　　 C. focused　 D. paid

You can’t imagine what difficulty we had ____ home in the snowstorm.

A.walked B.walk C.to walk D. walking

We can achieve knowledge either actively or passively. We achieve it actively by direct experience, by testing and proving an idea, or by reasoning.

We achieve knowledge passively by being told by someone else. Most of the learning that takes place in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers or magazines is passive. As we are used to passive learning, it’s not surprising that we depend on it in our everyday communication with friends and co-workers.

Unfortunately, passive learning has a serious problem. It makes us tend to accept what we are told even when it is nothing but hearsay and rumor (謠言).

Did you ever play the game Rumor? It begins when one person writes down a message but doesn’t show it to anyone. Then the person whispers it, word for word, to another person. That person, in turn, whispers it to still another, and so on, through all the people playing the game. The last person writes down the message word for word as he or she hears it. Then the two written statements are compared. Typically, the original message has changed.

That’s what happens in daily life. The simple fact that people repeat a story in their own words changes the story. Then, too, most people listen imperfectly. And many enjoy adding their own creative understanding to a story, trying to improve on it, stamping (打上標(biāo)記) it with their own personal style. Yet those who hear it think they know.

This process is also found among scholars and authors: A statement of opinion by one writer may be re-stated as fact by another, who may in turn be quoted by yet another; and this process may continue, unless it occurs to someone to question the facts on which the original writer based his opinion or to challenge the explanation he placed upon those facts.　　 　　

1. According to the passage, passive learning may occur in _______.

A. doing a medical experiment　　　　　　 B. solving a math problem

C. visiting an exhibition　　　　　　　　 　 D. doing scientific reasoning

2. The author mentions the game Rumor to show that _____.

　 A. a message may be changed when being passed on

　 B. a message should be delivered in different ways

　 C. people may have problems with their sense of hearing

　 D. people tend not to believe in what they know as rumor

3. What can we infer from the passage?

　 A. Active learning is less important.

　 B. Passive learning may not be reliable.

　 C. Active learning occurs more frequently.

　 D. Passive learning is not found among scholars.

Only since April 1895, when the government of the Qing Dynasty was forced to sign the

Treaty of Shimonoseki （馬關(guān)條約）, _____ its own name for the area where the Diaoyu Islands _____．

　 A．did Japan have; are being located　 　　　 B．has Japan had; are located

　 C．Japan had; are locating 　　　　　　　 D．had Japan had; locate

—Why do you think the film star is getting less popular?

—I guess the way she wears is　　　 annoys her fans most. 【河南省商丘市第一高級中學(xué)2010-2011學(xué)年第二學(xué)期高三第一次考試卷】【名詞性從句】