A. made education difficult B. held back learning

　　C. imitated parents D. advanced human skills

　　( )53. What happened before Egyptians discovered calculation?

　　A. Egyptians discovered writing. B. Egyptians started schools.

　　C. Sumerians invented writing. D. Sumerians started schools.

　　( )54. Education became possible only with the development of _______.

　　A. learning B. language C. calculation D. clocks

　B

　　Once a landlord wanted to plant garlic in his fields. He found a group of boys and asked them to do the work for him. At lunch time he did not invite the boys to have lunch with his family. The boys had to sit by the door and have lunch on the ground. The landlord was afraid that other people would see the bad food for the boys. So with a smile on his face he said to them： “Boys， go and eat in the house. This is for you
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r food. If you eat here by the door， the dogs will bite you.” The boys were surprised. But they said nothing and went to eat in the house. The landlord was quite pleased.

　　Supper time came and the boys went into the house again. When they walked past the landlord‘s room， they looked in through the window. What do you think they saw there? They saw a big table with white bread and all kinds of good food on it. The landlord and his family were sitting around the table and eating their dinner. But the food for the boys was bad. The boys were very angry. They wanted to teach the landlord a lesson. So they decided to plant his garlic upside down. And that was what they did the next day.

　　A few days later the garlic was coming out everywhere but not in the landlord‘s fields. The landlord was very surprised and asked the boys why this was so. “The garlic is afraid that the dogs will bite it，” the boys answered.

　　( )55. The landlord asked the boys to come because ________.

　　A. he wanted them to plant garlic for him

　　B. he wanted to invite them to have lunch with his family

　　C. he wanted to tell them to sit by the door

　　D. he wanted them to plant vegetables for him

　　( )56. The landlord asked the boys to eat in the house because _______.

　　A. he was afraid the dog would eat their food

　　B. he was afraid the dog would bite them

　　C. he thought other people would see the bad food for the boys

　　D. he was afraid the boys would play with the dog

　　( )57. The next day the boys planted the landlord‘s garlic upside down because _______.

　　A. they did not know how to plant it

　　B. they wanted to teach the landlord a lesson

　　C. they were afraid the dogs would bite it

　　D. they made a mistake

　　( )58. A few days later the landlord‘s garlic did not come out because ________.

　　A. the garlic was afraid the dogs would bite it

　　B. the boys had planted it upside down

　　C. the boys had not planted it at all

　　D. the boys had not watered it

　　C

　　The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on February 9 it would award its highest honour to Arthur Ashe， the tennis star and human rights fighter who died on February 6 of AIDS. He was 49.

　　The award， called the Olympic Order， is awarded to sportsmen and others for service to the Olympics and its principled.

　　Ashe never participated in the Olympics， but IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch said： “I think he was really a thorough Olympian.”

　　Ashe is the first black man to win Wimbledon and the only black to win the Australian US open titles.

　　Last April 8， he announced he had AIDS， which he got from a blood transfusion during a heart operation in 1983.

　　Ashe often worked for racial equality in and out of sports. He said the happiest moment of his life was not winning Wimbledon， but when Nelson Mandela—South Africa‘s antiapartheid (反種族隔離的) leader—was freed from jail in 1990.

　　A quote from Ashe： “I have good days and bad days. My ratio of good days to bad days is about six to one.”

　　( )59. The underlined word “award” in the first paragraph means “________”。

　　A. send a telegraph B. give a prize

　　C. congratulate somebody D. be in memory of somebody

　　( )60. Arthur Ashe ________.

　　A. won Olympic gold medals in tennis

　　B. took part in several Olympic Games

　　C. was a famous sportsman in the Olympic Games which was held in South Africa

　　D. had not been in any Olympic games

　　( )61. ________ made Ashe happier than anything else.

　　A. Nelson Mandela‘s freedom

　　B. Winning the Australian US open titles