[填空题]The children were eagerly _____ to the party.

[单项选择]The children were surprised when the teacher had them（　）their books unexpectedly.
A. closed
B. to close
C. closing
D. close

[单项选择]When they had finished playing, the children were made to （　） all the toys they had taken out.
A. put out
B. put off
C. put up
D. put away

[填空题]In the old days, children were familiar with birth and death as part of life. This is perhaps the first generation of American youngsters who have never been close by during the birth of a baby and have never experienced the death of a family member.
Nowadays when people grow old, we often send them to nursing homes. When they get sick, we transfer them to a hospital, where children are forbidden to visit terminally-ill patients even when those patients are their parents. This deprives (剥夺) the dying patient of significant family members during the last few days of his life and it deprives the children of an experience of death, which is an important learning experience.
Some of my colleagues and I once interviewed and followed approximately 300 terminally-ill patients in order to learn how we could be of best help, not just to them but to the members of their families as well. We were most impressed by the fact that even those patients who were not told of their serious

[单项选择]After the party, the children were allowed to finish off the ___sandwiches and cakes.
A. remained
B. leaving
C. left
D. remaining

[单项选择]

How often one hears children wishing they were grown-ups and old people wishing they were young again. Each age has its pleasures and its pains, and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age gives him without wasting his time in useless regrets.
Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities (责任) to make life difficult. If a child has good parents, he is fed, looked after and loved, whatever he may do. It is impossible that he will ever a gain in his life be given so much without having to do anything in re turn. What’s more, life is always giving new things to the child things that have lost their interest for older people because they are too well-known. But a child has his pains: he is not so free to do what he wishes to do; he is repeatedly (反复地) being told not to do some thing, or being punished for what he has wrongly done.
When a young man starts to earn his own living, he can no longer expect others to pay for his food,
A. only children are interested in life
B. a child is always loved whatever he does
C. life for a child is fairly easy
D. if much is given to a child, he must do something in return