题目内容：

In a small open courtyard, outside a school building, there were flowers here and there. In the sunshine，a ______ was lying on the grass，reading a book with ______ attention. Near her，another child was carefully watering the flowers, while a third was ______ with his back against a tree and had a ______ on his knees. He appeared to be drawing or writing something on it. He was ______ in his task, like the first child.

____ the building, there were pleasant carpeted areas. Many children were busy with their tasks in a variety of ways，______ teachers wandered among them, talking to them，______ them, and encouraging their efforts.

____ I watched this scene on a morning in May years ago, it ______ me that a visitor here ______ never have thought he had entered a formal school. He would have been even more ______ if he had been told that the children he was ______ came from different kinds of academic（学业） levels.

That ______ has been staying with me ever since. I have been ______ about some problems. Why in many schools are our children often asked to learn skills in a way ______ from a real-life context（情境）? Why does a lively        school child so ______ become a defeated school failure?

Developmental psychologist（心理学家）Margaret Donald once said, “Much of the intellectual framework (知识框架) on which we ______ our teaching is misleading.” In my opinion, a child learns everything in human ______. And if every child could learn in the same way as the children in the school ______ I visited years ago，they would develop better.

1.A. gardener    B. child    C. teacher    D. visitor

2.A. poor    B. little    C. full    D. slight

3.A. sitting    B. standing    C. Sleeping    D. listening

4.A. toy    B. pencil    C. flower    D. notebook

5.A. settled    B. set    C. defeated    D. lost

6.A. Over    B. Above    C. Inside    D. Outside

7.A. during    B. while    C. until    D. even if

8.A. referring to    B. pointing to    C. smiling at    D. staring at

9.A. As    B. Unless    C. Until    D. Before

10.A. came up with    B. thought about    C. attacked    D. hit

11.A. could    B. should    C. must    D. need

12.A. satisfied    B. surprised    C. pleased    D. disappointed

13.A. helping    B. spotting    C. seeking    D. watching

14.A. scene    B. sign    C. look    D. view

15.A. dreaming    B. regretting    C. wondering    D. joking

16.A. taken    B. prevented    C. learned    D. separated

17.A. often    B. hardly    C. seldom    D. badly

18.A. feed    B. base    C. turn    D. discover

19.A. race    B. position    C. situation    D. case

20.A. when    B. which    C. to which    D. in which