The Western world has always been divided into two types of people―the cool and the uncool. It is a __36__ that starts in school. The cool kids are good at sports. They are __37__ with the opposite sex. They are good-looking and people want to __38__ their style. They can do their homework but they don’t _39_ a big effort. That would not be cool.

      The uncool kids are in __40__ corner of the playground. They are very bright, but they don’t have great __41__ skills and they are __42__ at sports. When they are not programming computers or doing calculus(微積分) in their heads, they are reading comic books and watching shows __43__ the “XFiles”. They are __44__ as the geeks.

      Here’s the geeks. The geeks are talking over(占上風(fēng)). Make friends with them now __45__ they will put virus(病毒) in your computer and __46__ your maths homework to ruin. Geeks might not be popular at school, yet they do pass their examinations, and they might not be too popular at university, but __47__ good degrees.

      The most important __48__ of the 21st century, computers and IT, has been at least partly created by geeks. Geek heroes like Bill Gates __49__ others to follow their examples. Being a good is a way of earning good money. And the creation of the Internet gave them a __50__ of their own to work and play in making them a global force. __51__, the effect of the geeks __52__ popular culture has started a new trend(趨勢). It is now cool to be __53__. Geek culture is becoming an important part of general popular culture, in which what you know is more important than __54__ you look like.

      But there are also __55__. Geeks were often bullied(欺侮) or laughed at in school. Now a geek may be your boss. Perhaps it is time for punishment.

He failed the mid-term exam and only then ______ how much time he had wasted.

   A. he realized              B. did he realize          

   C. he had realized       D. had he realized

After a day’s hard work, he returned home, _______.

   A. hungry and tired      B. felt hungry and tiring

   C. hungry and tiring     D. felt hungry and tire

Peace-loving people don’t want _____ another war in Iraq.

   A. there couldn’t be      B. there be

   C. there being                D. there to be

I gave him a warning, ______ he, to my disappointment, turned a deaf ear.

   A. of which                B. at which                 C. to which                      D. to it

----Where _____ Margaret have put the empty bottles?

---- She ______ them away. They must be somewhere.

   A. Must, can’t throw                                  B. can, can’t throw

   C. could, must have throw                            D. can, can’t have thrown

Every boy and every girl ______ to respect the old.

   A. will be                    B. has supposed          C. are supposed                D. is supposed

 He gave me a piece of advice that I _____ give up my career.

   A. not                        B. will not                   C. may not                       D. don’t

Pay attention to _______ road sign while driving in _____ European country.

   A. a; an                      B. the; an                    C. the; a                          D. a; the

I don’t think she knew anything about it, _______?

   A. doesn’t she             B. does she                 C. did she                         D. do I