2. What is this noise? Tell me what ( ) here.

11. The business is risky. But ( ) , we would be rich.

9. “What’s the matter with that picture on the wall?”“It needs ( ).”

28. He was poor but proud, and ( ) every offer of help.

5. Huang Hong, ( ) father is a taxi driver, studies computer science in the U.S.

8. Although I expected something different, I was still surprised by ( ) he said.

51 Directions: For each blank in the following passage, there are four choices given below and marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is most suitable and mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. The death of a child, ( )51( ) one’s own child, is something the mind can hardly comprehend. It seems to go ( )52( ) nature. The end of a life that is still forming ( )53( ) has just begun is an almost unthinkable cruelty. But it happens. Parents sometimes must witness the illness and death of the children ( )54( ) whom they gave birth. And ( )55( ) will ever fill the empty place that the dead child leaves behind. Parents ( )56( ) to die before their children, which is the natural order of life events. When the situation is reversed and a child dies ( )57( ) the parents it seems wrong. Yet we never know why one person dies and another lives. But we do know ( )58( ) a child is gone, the parents still have a future, as grey and worthless as it may at first seem. Death may take the child, but the love never ( )59( ). The sorrow after a child’s death is one of the longest and hardest type of ( )60( ) to live with. And it takes long to deal with the parents’ own emotions.

1. He went on foot, but he ( ) by bus.

13. The guests were ( ) in the front rows ( ) to the president attentively.

5. Lead ( ) as a material for sculpture since the time of the early Greeks.