14．Choosing the right dictionary depends on ________you want to use it for.

A．what B．why C．how D．whether

答案　A　[句意：选择合适的词典取决于你想要用它做什么。考查宾语从句，what引导宾语从句，并在从句中充当for的宾语。]

15．________we like a particular piece of news or not，all we have to do is sit in front

of the TV set and "let it happen"．

A．Even if B．Whether

C．However D．No matter

答案　B　[句意：不管我们喜不喜欢一条新闻，我们所能做的只是坐在电视机前，"让它发生"。whether...or...不管......还是......，引导让步状语从句，符合句意。]

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Preparing for Tomorrow

Sixth­grade schoolteacher Ms.Shelton believed in readiness.Students remembered how she walked in on the first day of class and began writing words of eighth­grade on the__16__.They quickly protested that the words were not on their__17__and they couldn't learn them.

Their teacher insisted that the students could and would learn these__18__.She said that she would teach them something that should be given.Ms.Shelton__19__by saying that one of the students in the classroom could go on to__20__，maybe even be president someday，and she wanted to prepare them for that day.

Ms.Shelton spoke those words many years ago.__21__did she know that someday one of her students-Jesse Jackson-would take them__22__.She believed that if they were well prepared，they could__23__high goals.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said，"People only see what they are__24__to see."If that's true，then it is also__25__that they only become what they are prepared to become.And many things in life is just about getting ready.

"I want to be doing something more__26__with my life than what I am doing now，"a young man once said to me.He__27__what he was doing was just not that important.Other people have said things to me such as，"I only__28__I had a meaningful relationship.I'd really like to get a better job，but I just don't see__29__."

You fill in the blanks.What is it you would like to__30__that isn't happening？Perhaps the answer is that you are not yet__31__.Maybe you need more time to prepare before you are truly ready for that which you__32__.

Think of today as another chance to__33__yourself for that exciting future you are looking