第三节：完形填空（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出适合填入对应空白处的最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world. But  21  a few of them are very  22 . English is one of these. Many, many people use it, not only in England and the USA, but in other parts of the world. About 200 million people speak it as their own language. It is difficult to say how many people are learning it as a  23  language. Millions of people are trying to do so.
Is  24  easy or difficult to learn English? Different people may have different  25 . Have you ever  26  the ads of this kind in the newspapers or magazines?
“Learning English in six months, or your  27  back…”“Easy and funny? Our records and tapes  28  you master your English in a month.  29  your first day your  30   will be excellent. Just send…”Of course, it never  31  quite like this.
The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue. We should  32  that we all learned our own language well when we were  33  . If we could learn English in the same way, it would not seem so difficult. Imagine  34  a small child does. He listens to what people say. He tries what he hears. When he is using a language, talking in it, and  35  it all the time, just imagine how much  36  that gets.
So it is  37  to say that learning English is easy, because a good command （掌握；精通）of English  38  upon a lot of practice. And practice needs great effort and  39  much time. Good teachers, records, tapes, books and dictionaries will work.  40 they cannot do the student’s work for him.
21. A. not           B. quite           C. only          D. very
22. A. difficult       B. important       C. necessary      D. easy
23. A. native        B. foreign          C. useful         D. mother
24. A. this          B. that            C. it             D. which
25. A. questions     B. problems        C. ideas          D. answers
26. A. found        B. watched         C. noticed       D. known
27. A. knowledge    B. time            C. money        D. English
28. A. make        B. help             C. let           D. allow
29. A. From        B. On              C. Since         D. After
30. A. spelling      B. grammar         C. English        D. pronunciation
31. A. happened     B. knew            C. seemed        D. felt
32. A. know        B. remember        C. understand    D. think
33. A. students      B. children          C. babies          D. grown-ups
34. A. what         B. which           C. who           D. whose
35. A. using         B. thinking         C. trying          D. practicing
36. A. time          B. money          C. language      D. practice
37. A. hard          B. easy            C. funny         D. silly
38. A. depends       B. tries           C. has           D. takes
39. A. uses          B. takes           C. gets          D. costs
40. A. And          B. But             C. So            D. So