2006年普通高等學(xué)校招生全國統(tǒng)一考試英語試題

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第一部分：聽力（共三節(jié)，滿分３０分）

做聽力部分時，請先在試題卷上作答。聽力部分結(jié)束前，你將有兩分鐘的時間將第１至第１７小題的答案轉(zhuǎn)涂到答題卡上，將第１８至第２０小題的答案轉(zhuǎn)寫到答題卡上。

第一節(jié)（共５小題；每小題1. 5分，滿分7. 5分）

聽下面５段對話。每段對話后有一個小題，從題中所給的A、B、C三個選項中選出最佳選項，并標(biāo)在試題卷的相應(yīng)位置。聽完每段對話后，你都有１０秒鐘的時間來回答有關(guān)小題和閱讀下一小題。每段對話僅讀一遍。

例：How much is the shirt?

A. ￡19. 15.???????? B. ￡9. 15.?????????? C. ￡9. 18.

答案是B。

1. Where will the man go for holiday?

A. France.??????????? B. Egypt.????????????? C. Austria.

2. Why did the man make the phone call?

A. His luggage was lost.

B. His plane was late

C. His office was looked

3. How much is a two-term course?

A. 550????????????????? B. 590?????????????????? C. 5120

4. What does the man mean?

A. He will not cook dinner.

B. He isn’t good at cooking fish.

C. He prefers not to cook the fish.

5. When will the man probably get to London?

A. At 8 o’clock.??? B. At 9 o’clock.??? C. At 10 o’clock.

第二節(jié)（共12小題；每小題1. 5分，滿分18分）

聽下面4段對話。每段對話后有幾個小題，從題中所給的A、B、C三個選項中選出最佳選項。并標(biāo)在試題卷的相應(yīng)位置。聽每段對話前，你將有時間閱讀各個小題，每小題5秒鐘；聽完后，各小題將給出5秒鐘的作答時間。每段對話讀兩遍。

聽下面一段對話，回答第6和第7兩個小題。

6. What can we learn from the dialogue?

A. The woman was badly hurt.

B. The car was terribly damaged.

C. The kids were seriously injured.

7. What was the woman thinking about?

A. Getting the car repaired.

B. Selling the damaged car.

C. Buying a second-hand car.

聽下面一段對話，回答第8至第10三個小題。

8. What do we know about the man?

A. He wrote three essays last week.

B. He went to the beach with friends.

C. He drank late at a restaurant every night.

9. What did the woman do on Saturday?

A. She drove with a friend.

B. She watched movies.

C. She played tennis.

10. Which word can best describe the woman last week?

A. Quiet.????????????? B. Enjoyable.???????? C. Unforgettable.

聽下面一段對話，回答第11至第13三個小題。

11. On which day are the tickets available to the man?

A. October 3.??????? B. October 4.??????? C. October 5.

12. How much will the man pay if be book the ticket?

A. ￡35.????????????? B. ￡936.???????????? C. ￡37.

13. What can be inferred about the man?

A. He was angry with the woman.

B. He thought the price was reasonable.

C. He gave up the idea of booking the ticket.

聽下面一段對話，回答第14至第17四個小題。

14. What is the relationship between the two　speakers?

A. Writer and reader.

B. Teacher and student.

C. Interviewer and interviewee.

15. How long did it take Tina to write the story?

A. A whole day.??? B. About two hours.????????????????????????? C. Ninety minutes.

16. What do we know about the story?

A. It’s about Fred.???????????????????????????? B. It’s about a party.???? C. It’s about success.

17. What can we learn about Tina?

A. She has just been back from abroad.

B. She had a party for everyone in her street.

C. She won a writing competition unexpectedly.

第三節(jié)（共３小題；每小題1. 5分，滿分4. 5分）

聽下面一段材料，將第18至第20三個小題的信息補(bǔ)充完整。每小題不超過三個單詞。聽材料前，你將有時間閱各個小題，每小題5秒鐘，聽完后，各小題將給出15秒鐘的作答時間。本段材料讀兩遍。

第二部分：英語知識運(yùn)用（共兩節(jié)，滿分４５分）

第二節(jié)（單詞填空（共１５小題；每小題１分，滿分１５分）

從A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

例：It is generally considered unwise to give a child _____ he or she wants.

A. however?????????? B. whatever?????????? C. whichever???????? D. whenever

答案是B。

21. The wild flowers looked like a soft orange blanket _____ the desert.

A. covering?????????? B. covered???????????? C. cover??????????????? D. to cover

22. In _____ review off___44___studies, American researchers found that men and women who ate six key foods daily cut the risk of _____ heart?? disease by 76%.

A. a; the??????????????? B. the; a??????????????? C. a; 不填　　　　　D. 不填; a

23. A man cannot smile like a child, _____ a child smiles with is eyes, while a man smiles with his lips alone.

A. so??????????????????? B. but?????????????????? C. and?????????????????? D. for

24. I was giving a talk to a large group of people, the same talk I _____ to half a dozen other groups.

A. was giving??????? B. am giving????????? C. had given????????? D. have given

25. Fred, who had expected how it would go with his daughter, had a great worry _____ his mind.

A. on??????????????????? B. in???????????????????? C. with???????????????? D. at

26. As the busiest woman in Norton, she made _____ her duty to look after all the other people’s affairs in that town.

A. this?????????????????? B. that?????????????????? C. one?????????????????? D. it

27. _____ achievement, last week’s ministerial meeting of the WTO here earned a low, though not failing, grade.

A. In terms of??????? B. In ease of????????? C. As a result of???? D. In face of

28. If you think that treating a woman well means always _____ her permission for things, think again.

A. gets????????????????? B. got?????????????????? C. to get??????????????? D. gutting

29. Although she did not know Boston well, she made her way _____ to the Home Circle Building.

A. easy enough????? B. enough easy????? C. easily enough???? D. enough easily

30. We saw several natives advancing towards our party, and one of them came up to us. _____ we gave some bells and glasses.

A. to which?????????? B. to whom?????????? C. with whom?????? D. with which

31. I had just stepped out of the bathroom and was busily drying myself with a towel _____ I heard the steps.

A. while??????????????? B. when??????????????? C. since??????????????? D. after

32. Some aspects of a pilot’s job _____ be boring, and pilots often _____ work at inconvenient hours.

A. can; have to????? B. may; can?????????? C. have to; may???? D. ought to; must

33. As the twentieth century came to a close, the raw materials for a great national literature were at hand, waiting _____.

A. to use?????????????? B. to be used???????? C. to have used????? D. to be using

34. With his work completed, the businessman stepped back to his seat, feeling pleased _____ be was a man of action.

A. which?????????????? B. that?????????????????? C. what???????????????? D. whether

35. In a room above the store, where a party _____, some workers were busily setting the table.

A. was to be held?? B. has been held???? C. will be held??????? D. is being held

第二節(jié)　完形填空（共20小題;每小題1. 5分，滿分30分）

閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從36~55各題所給的四個選項(A、B、C、D)中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

I returned to Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, after college graduation. I had been there before my mother became a minister.

Two weeks later, I told my mother I was bored. She said. “Here’re the car key. Go and buy some fruit. ” ___36___, I jumped into the car and speeded off.

Seeing me or rather my ___37___, a boy sprang up (跳起來).___38___ to sell his bananas and peanuts. “Banana 300 naira. Peanut 200 naira!”

Looking at his black-striped bananas, I ___39___ to 200 total for the fruit and nuts.

He___40___. I handed him a 500 naira note. He didn’t have ___41___. So I told him not to worry. He was ___42___ and smiled a row of perfect teeth.

When two weeks later, I ___43___ this same boy. I was more aware of my position in Nigerian society. I should ___44___ this country as the son of a ___45___. But it was hard to find pleasure in a place where it was so ___46___ to see a little boy who should have been in school selling fruit.

“What’s up?” I asked. He answered in ___47___ English, “I…I no get money to buy books. ” I took out two 500 naira notes. He looked around ___48___ before sticking his hand into the car ___49___ the bills. One thousand naira means a lot to a family that ___50___ only 50,000 each year.

The next morning, security officers told me, “In this place, when you give a little, people think you’re a fountain of opportunity (機(jī)會). ”

51??? it’s right, but this happens everywhere in the world. I wondered if my little friend had actually used the money for ___52___.

After six months’ work in northern Nigeria, I returned and saw him again standing on the road.

“Are you in school now?”

He nodded.

A silence fell as we looked at each other, then I ___53___ what he wanted. I held out a 500 naira note. “Take this. ”

He shook his head fiercely and stepped back ___54___ hurt.

“It’s a gift,” I said.

Shaking his head again, he handed me a basket of bananas and peanuts, “I’ve been waiting to___55___these to you. ”

36. A. Encouraged B. Disappointed????? C. Delighted????????? D. Confused

37. A. car????????????? B. mother????????????? C. driver?????????????? D. keys

38. A. willing???????? B. afraid??????????????? C. eager??????????????? D. ashamed

39. A. got down???? B. bargained down C. put down????????? D. look down

40. A. explained???? B. promised?????????? C. agreed????????????? D. admitted

41. A. change??????? B. notes??????????????? C. checks????????????? D. bills

42. A. troubled?????? B. regretful??????????? C. comfortable?????? D. grateful

43. A. ran after????? B. ran into???????????? C. ran over??????????? D. ran to

44. A. protect??????? B. enjoy??????????????? C. help????????????????? D. support

45. A. minister?????? B. headmaster??????? C. manager??????????? D. president

46. A. lucky????????? B. amazing??????????? C. funny?????????????? D. common

47. A. old????????????? B. broken????????????? C. traditional????????? D. modern

48. A. proudly?????? B. madly?????????????? C. curiously?????????? D. nervously

49. A. for????????????? B. with????????????????? C. at???????????????????? D. upon

50. A. spends??????? B. pays???????????????? C. makes?????????????? D. affords

51. A. Possibly????? B. Actually??????????? C. Certainly?????????? D. Fortunately

52. A. joys??????????? B. nuts????????????????? C. books?????????????? D. bananas

53. A. asked????????? B. imagined?????????? C. reminded?????????? D. realized

54. A. when????????? B. as if????????????????? C. even if????????????? D. after

55. A. send??????????? B. provide???????????? C. sell?????????????????? D. give

第三部分：閱讀理解（共20小題；每小題２分，滿分40分）

閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項(A、B、C、D)中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

A

A NATIONWIDE BESTSELLER

It’s likely that everything you learned about. America’s ancient history is wrong.

The new book, 1491, completely changes our understanding of the America’s before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.

DID YOU KNOW?

When Columbus landed there were probably more people in the Americas than there were in Europe.

The peoples of North America had such healthy life-styles that as late as the 19th century they continued to be the tallest people on earth.

Facts have shown that the Americas were populated as long as 33,000 years ago.

4,000 years ago Mesoamerican farmers developed com in a feat (技藝) of genetic engineering that still isn’t completely understood.

COMMENTS ON 1491

“In the tradition of Jared Diamond & John McPhee, a totally new view of pre-Columbian America”

— Richard Rhodes

“Attractively written and really absorbing Charles C. Mann has produced a book that’s part detective story, part epic (史詩) and part tragedy (不幸). He has taken on a vast topic: thousands of years, two huge continents, and cultures. ”

— Charles Matthews, San Jase Mercury News

“Powerful and challenging”

— Alan Taylor, Washington post

“A pleasure to read as well as a wonderful education”

— Howard Zinn

56. On the whole, 1491 is a book mainly about America’s _____.

A. life-styles????????? B. population???????? C. history????????????? D. agriculture

57. Which of the following as NOT TRUE about the comments on the book 1491?

A. It is interesting and instructive.

B. It is attractive and culturally related.

C. It is challenging and revolutionary.

D. It is humorous and persuasive.

58. From this passage, we can learn _____.

A. people settled in the Americas a little earlier than 1942

B. North Americans were the tallest in the 18th century in the world

C. Mesoamerican farmers knew genetic engineering 5,000 years ago

D. the population in the Americas was smaller than that in Europe in 1492

B

For the first time in modern history, less than half of the U. S. adult population now reads literature, according to a recent survey. Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America presents a detailed review of the decline of reading’s role in the nation’s culture.

Reading at Risk is a survey of national fashion in adult literary reading. The data source for Reading at Risk is as reliable and objective (客觀的) as any such survey can be. The key results of the survey are presented in the “Summary”, but the report can be further explained as: literary reading in America is not only declining rapidly among all groups, but the rate of decline has been speeded up, especially among the young. Reading at Risk merely shows a great cultural change that most Americans have already noted — our society’s great turn to electronic media for entertainment and information.

Reading a book requires a degree of active attention and devotion. Indeed, reading itself is a progressive skill that depends on years of education and practice. On the contrary, most electronic media such as television, recordings, and radio make fewer demands on their audiences, and indeed require no more than passive participation. While oral culture has a rich reality and electronic media offer the considerable advantage of variety, print culture affords irreplaceable forms of focused and thought than make various communications and views possible. The decline in reading, therefore, equals a larger retreat (減少) from participation in public and cultural life.

What is to be done? There is surely no single solution to the present problem, just as there is no single cause. The important thing now is to understand that America can no longer take active and devoted reading for granted.

Reading is not a timeless, common ability. As more Americans love thus ability. out nation becomes less informed, active, and independent minded. These are not qualities that a free, inventive, or productive society can afford to love.

59. The main purpose of the survey is to ____.

A. focus on the role of electronic media and reading

B. show that American young people read less and less

C. give a report of the national fashion of literary reading

D. review that less that half of the population now reads literature

60. According to the passage, reading _____.

A. requires less attention and devotion

B. demands no more than passive participation

C. limits various communications and views

D. means active participation in public and cultural life

61. The underlined phrase “cultural change” in Paragraph 2 refers to the change _____.

A. from oral culture to electronic media

B. from print culture to electronic to electronic media

C. from electronic media to oral

D. from electronic media to print culture

62. The author of the passage _____.

A. misunderstands oral culture

B. doubts the Americans to read more

C. encourages the Americans to read more

D. agrees to the solution to present problem in reading

C

The coyote (叢林狼), that clever animal of wide-open space. has come to the nation’s capital. In fact, coyotes have spread to every comer of the United States, changing their behaviors to fit new environments and causing researchers to deal with a troublesome new kind of creature: the city coyote.

The coyote originally lived in the middle of the continent. One of its most obvious characters is its smartness, which has made the animal a notorious（臭名昭著的）pest. Hunters trapped, shot and poisoned more than a million coyotes in the 1900s. It’s still one of America’s most hunted animals. Yet the coyote has survived. How has the coyote shown this extraordinary ability?” I guess if you wanted to use one word, it’d be ‘plasticity’. ” says Erie Gese, an expert at Utah State University. Coyotes can live alone, in pairs, or in large packs like wolves, hunt at night or during the day, occupy a small region or an area up to___40___square miles, and live on all sorts of food, from lizards（蜥蜴）and shoes, to ants and melons.

Unbelievably people helped coyotes increase when they killed most of the wolves in the United States. The spreading of coyotes into city areas, though, is recent. They travel at night, crossing sidewalks and bridges. running along roads and ducking into culverts (鉆入洞）and underpasses. No one knows why coyotes are moving into cities, but experts explain that cleverer, more human-tolerant (不怕人的) coyotes are teaching urban survival skills to new generations.

Occasionally, coyotes might attack human beings. There have been about 160 attacks on people in recent years Therefore, people have been consistently told not feed coyotes or leave pet food unsecured. That, plus a large trapping program in the neighborhood, has cur down on the coyote population.

63. The underlined word “plasticity” in Paragraph 2refers to _____.

A. the ability to fit the environment?????? B. notorious smartness

C. hunting ability D. being human-tolerant

64. The aim of the passage is to _____.

A. tell people how to fight against coyotes

B. tell us why the coyote is the most hunted animal

C. supply the reason why the coyote is a kind of notorious pest

D. explain how the coyote has spread to and survived in cities

65. According to the passage, coyote _____.

A. originally lived in the west of the continent

B. sleep dung the day but look for food at night

C. are teaching survival skills to there younger generations

D. suffered a population decrease because people killed wolves

66. According to the passage, to cut down on the coyote population, people are advised to _____.

A. leave pct food secured??????????????????? B. keep coyotes in small regions

C. force coyotes to live alone????????????? D. avoid using trapping programs

D

The discovery of a dwarfed (矮個的)” human being” who lived in Flores. Indonesia. up to 18,000 years ago is changing the way we think about the human family. This “Flores Human” was three foot tall and her brain was smaller than that lf the average chimp (黑猩猩), yet she and her relatives apparently lived fully human lives. They seem to have made tools, worked together to find food and cook it, and perhaps even hurried their dead with ceremony.

It was a major surprise to find tools associated with the new human family member. The tools are like those formerly seen only with European fossils (化石) from our own species; Homo sapiens (智人)；and the oldest of them were made? 94,000years ago. Homo sapiens is thought to have arrived in the island about 40,000 years ago,much too late to be responsible for the tools. If this tiny human made the tools, them the inside structure (結(jié)構(gòu)) of its brain must have been more like our own than a chimp’s,despite being just a third the size of ours.

This “new human” was suspected to be a dwarfed ranch of Homo erectus (直立人). When creatures are separated in regions with rare resources but few enemies, being big is a disadvantage, and evolution tends to shrink them, a process known as island dwarfing. Could natural selection make a human smaller while keeping — even improving — mental ability?Quite possibly, believes Christopher Wills of the University of California.

Has the “Flores Human” even shown the ability of language? “I find it difficult to imagine that people could make tools, use fire, and kill large animals without fairly advanced communication. ”? Wills says. Did “Flores Human” possess the basic components of human culture — such as the burying of the dead with ceremony? Emiliano Bruner of the Italian Institute points out that Indonesia’s hot, wet environment is bad for fossilization. It is reasonable to assume, he says, that the 18,000-year-old bones of the most complete Flores woman were well-preserved because she was buried with special care.

67. According to the passage, “Flores Human” _____.

A. lived a partly human life

B. was a branch of Homo sapiens

C. used tools before Homo sapiens arrived

D. had a brain as a common chimp’s

68. The underlined part “this tiny human” in Paragraph 2 refers to _____.

A. a chimp??????????? B. Flores Human

C. Homo sapiens??? D. Homo sapiens

69. This passage mainly talks about _____.

A. the tools made by “Flores Human”

B. the language used by “Flores Human”

C. the evolution of “Flores Human”

D. the major surprising findings about “Flores Human”

70. According to the passage, it is believed that “Flores Human” _____.

A. was dwarfed by its enemies

B. could use language

C. left a lot of fossils in hot and wet environment

D. reached Flores 40,000 years ago

E

Susan Sontag (1933 — 2004) was one of the most noticeable figures in the world of literature. For more than___40___years she made it morally necessary to know everything — to read every book worth reading, to see every movie worth seeing. When she was still in her early 30s, publishing essays in such important magazines as Partisan Review, she appeared as the symbol of American culture life, trying hard to follow every new development in literature, film and art. With great effort and serious judgment, Sontag walked at the latest edges of world culture.

Seriousness was one of Sontag’s lifelong watchwords (格言), but at a time when the barriers between the well-educated and the poor-educated were obvious, she argued for a true openness to the pleasure of pop culture. In “Notes Camp”, the 1964 essay that first made her name,she explained what was then a little-known set of difficult understandings, through which she could not have been more famous. “Notes on Camp”, she wrote, represents “a victory of ‘form’ over ‘content’, ‘beauty’ over ‘morals’”.

By conviction（信念）she was a sensualist（感覺論者）, but by nature she was a moralist （倫理學(xué)者）, and in the works she published in the 1970s and 1980s, it was the latter side of her that came forward. In illness as Metaphor —published in 1978, after she suffered cancer—she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a special problem of repressed personalities（被壓抑的性格）, a concept that effectively blamed the victim for the disease. In fact, re-examining old positions was her lifelong habit.

In America, her story of a 19th century Polish actress who set up a perfect society in California, won the National Book Award in 2000. But it was as a tireless, all-purpose cultural view that she made her lasting fame. “Sometimes,” she once said, “I feel that, in the end, all I am really defending …is the idea of seriousness, of true seriousness. ” And in the end, she made us take it seriously too.

71. The underlined sentence in paragraph 1 means Sontag _____.

A. was a symbol of American cultural life

B. developed world literature, film and art

C. published many essays about world culture

D. kept pace with the newest development of world culture

72. She first won her name through _____.

A. her story of a Polish actress

B. her book illness as Metaphor

C. publishing essays in magazines like partisan Review

D. her explanation of a set of difficult understandings

73. According to the passage, Susan Sontag _____.

A. was a sensualist as well as a moralist

B. looked down upon the pop culture

C. thought content was more important than form

D. blamed the victim of cancer for being repressed

74. As for Susan Sontag’s lifelong habit, she _____.

A. misunderstood the idea of seriousness

B. re-examined old positions

C. argued for an openness to pop culture

D. preferred morals to beauty

75. Susan Sontag’s lasting fame was made upon _____.

A. a tireless, all-purpose cultural view

B. her lifelong watchword: seriousness

C. publishing books on morals

D. enjoying books worth reading and movies worth seeing

第四部分：書面表達(dá)（共兩節(jié)，滿分10分）

第一節(jié)? 填空（共10小題：每小題1分，滿分10分）

閱讀短文，根據(jù)所讀內(nèi)容在文后76~85的空格里填上適當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~或短語，并將答案轉(zhuǎn)席寫到答題卡上。

注意：每空不超過3個單詞。

Quality after-school programs are designed to improve academic performance, decrease youth crimes and other high-risk be4haviors, and help young people grow into healthy, successful adults.

The effect of quality after-school programs on academic performance is clear. Studies show that students who take part in such programs show better work habits, higher rates of homework completion, improved grades, and higher scores on achievement tests. They also have fewer absences and are less likely to blame. After-school programs also influence high-risk teen behavior. Various studies show decreased rates of crime, drug use, and teen sex among youth who join in well-run after-school programs when compared to similar youth who do not. Finally, after-school p0rograms play an important role in supporting the following fields of development, mental development and social development. Thus, one can safely say that after-school programming is an effective method to help young people become contributing members of society.

Although there is enough proof from both small and large assessments that after-school programs can make a positive difference, it is important to note that not all programs are equal. First, dosage （時量）matters — young people who attend the most hours over the most years benefit more than members who attend less often or over a shorter period of time. Next, after-school programs make a bigger difference for those students who need help most and have the fewest choices. Finally, program qualities matter. After-school programs work best when they create unique opportunities for youth. They should provide opportunities, skill building meaningful involvement（參與）, expression suggestion, service, and work. Staff characteristics make an important difference in the quality of a program. The adults should treat youth as partners, create safe and fair environment, encourage personalized（個性化的）involvement, and actively create learning opportunities. In short, although after-school programs have promising future, how they are designed and run matters.

第二節(jié)? 寫作（滿分25分）

請根據(jù)下面的英文短詩，展開適當(dāng)?shù)南胂?，寫一篇短文?/p>

標(biāo)題為：My Teacher Mr. Moore

There’s a teacher Mr. Moore,Who is lovely and thirty-four.Always encouraging us to try,He leads us to a world of “why”.We all admire him more and more.

注意：

1. 不得照抄短詩原文。

2. 必須結(jié)合短詩的內(nèi)容，發(fā)揮想象，適當(dāng)展開。

3. 必須突出短詩的主題，結(jié)構(gòu)完整，語意連貫。

4. 短文不能寫成詩歌形式。

5. 詞數(shù)：120左右。

《2006湖南高考真題(英語)》參考答案

1-5 AABCB????????? 6-10 BCAAB????????? 11-15 ABCCB

16-17 CC??????????? 18. new hands?????? 19. Writing and typing??? 20. fun

21-25 ACDCA????? 26-30 DADCB?????? 31-35 BABBA

36-40 CACBC????? 41-45 ADBBA??????? 46-50 DBDAC

51-55 ACDBD

56-58 CDB??????????? 59-62：CDBC

63-66 ADCA????????? 67-70：CBDB

71-75 DDABA

76-85（見圖表）

One possible version：

Of all my teachers, Mr. Moore is the one who impresses me most. Though he is 34, he looks very young for his age. And he’s one of the most popular teachers in our school.

Compared with other teachers, Mr. Moore pays more attention to his way of teaching. He tries various ways to make his classes lively and interesting. In his opinion, we should not only know “what”, but also understand “why”. So, instead of giving us answers immediately, he encourages us to think by ourselves whenever he puts forward questions. With his help, we’ve learned how to analyze and settle problems. What a wonderful world of “why” he leads us to!

He is such a learned person that we all admire him very much.