第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
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What is it about maths, anyway? Why is it that a 36 who would rather die than 37 they found reading difficult at school will happily say he is brain-dead when it 38 to numbers?
“I was 39 at maths at school,” they say. “still am. Can’t 40 up to save my life. My little girl takes after 41 . Thinks take-aways are something to do with fish and chips. Ha-ha!” Oh, how we all laugh.
But how many of us remember it being 42 at the time? How many of us remember the blind panic of the Monday morning maths test when the 43 we could hope for was a miracle(奇迹) to make the numbers we 44 without thinking as answers somehow 45 the questions?
On the face of it, today’s children can 46 be considered happier and more satisfied. They have a daily numeracy lesson 47 to improving their maths skills. But if that sounds like hell to you, you may 48 find that your child surprises you by actually quite 49 it.
One of the 50 is that over the last ten years or so, there has been a 51 in the way maths is taught. And many of those who teach it feel it’s been a 52 for the better. There’s generally much more emphasis now on 53 arithmetic, getting children used to doing calculations without forever having a pen in one hand and a calculator in the other. Often the first question a teacher will ask is: can you do this in your 54 ? And if they can, they do.
The whole approach is more 55 , the goal to get children understanding numbers, not just putting them through the uninteresting process of learning something by repeating it until they remember it.
36 A. teacher B. parent C. pupil D. teenager
37 A. understand B. admit C. observe D. pretend
38 A. add B. relate C. es D. reject
39 A. good B. expert C. special D. rubbish
40 A. add B. make C. look D. pick
41 A. stranger B. me C. herself D. somebody
42 A. funny B. easy C. attractive D. remote
43 A. worst B. prize C. best D. surprising
44 A. missed B. lost C. found D. chose
45 A. get B. foresee C. fit D. evaluate
46 A. however B. frequently C. mostly D. hardly
47 A. suggested B. devoted C. intended D. adapted
48 A. well B. sometimes C. seldom D. extremely
49 A. enjoying B. hating C. objecting D. mastering
50 A. consequences B. reasons C. findings D. incidents
51 A. mistake B. program C. policy D. revolution
52 A. preparation B. reputation C. requirement D. change
53 A. difficult B. general C. mental D. basic
54 A. class B. head C. textbook D. own
55 A. logical B. unbelievable C. direct D. conservative36-40 BBCDA 41-45 BACDC 46-50 DBAAB 51-55 DDCBA
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