Why do I want to go to college No one has ever asked me  （1）  a question. But many times I have asked myself. I have（2）a whole variety of reasons.  （3） important reason is that I want to be a better man.Many things make human beings different  （4）or better than or even superior to animals.One of the most important things is（5）. If I fail to receive higher education, my education.（6） As I want to be a fully  （7）man, I must get a well-rounded education, which good colleges and universities are supposed to （8）. I know one can get educated in many ways, but colleges and universities are（9）the best places to teach me how to educate myself. Only when I am well-educated, will I be a better human being and（10） fit into society.

第（1）空应选择（）

单项选择题In the eighth grade, what the author did before developing proper social behavior was to （）.

A. become serious about her study
B. go to her friend’s house regularly
C. learn from her classmates at school
D. share poems and stories with her friend

单项选择题What would Brownie do when someone was ill in the family（）

A. Look at them sadly.
B. Keep them company.
C. Play games with them.
D. Touch them gently.

单项选择题BCI is a technology that can （）.

A. help to update computer systems
B. link the human brain with computers
C. help the disabled to recover
D. control a person’s thoughts

单项选择题Which of the following is NOT a design feature of human language（）

A. Arbitrariness
B. Displacement
C. Duality
D. Diachronicity

单项选择题All of the following are well-known female writers in 20th-century Britain except （）.

A. George Eliot
B. Iris Jean Murdoch
C. Doris Lessing
D. Muriel Spark

单项选择题Who wrote The American（）

A. Herman Melville
B. Nathaniel Hawthorne
C. Henry James
D. Theodore Dreiser

单项选择题We arrived at work in the morning and found that somebody （）into the office during the night.

A. broke
B. had broken
C. has broken
D. was breaking

单项选择题The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, is an important poetic work by （）.

A. William Langland
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. William Shakespeare
D. Alfred Tennyson

单项选择题The head of the executive branch in New Zealand is （）.

A. the President
B. the Governor-General
C. the British monarch
D. the Prime Minister

单项选择题Please call my secretary to arrange a meeting this afternoon, or （）it is convenient to you.

A. whenever
B. however
C. whichever
D. wherever