完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36－55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Many people go to school for  36 . They learn languages, history, geography, physics, chemistry and mathematics.  37  go to school to learn a skill  38 they can make a living. School education is very important and useful. Yet no one can learn  39 from school. A teacher, no matter how much he  40 , can not teach his students everything they  41  to know. The teacher’s job is to show his students  42  to learn. He teaches  43 how to read and how to think. So much more is to be learned  44  school by the students themselves.
It is always more  45  to study by oneself than to remember some facts or formulas (公式). It is quite  46  to learn a certain fact in history  47  a formula in mathematics. But it is very difficult to  48  a formula in working out a maths problem. Great  49  such as Einstein, Newton and Galileo didn’t get everything from school. But they were  50  successful. They knew  51  to study, they read books that  52 not taught at school. They worked hard all their lives  53  not a single moment. They  54  ask many questions as they read and they did thousands of experiments.
Above all, they knew how to use their  55  .  
36. A. education  B. educating      C. study     D. learning
37. A. Other      B. Others    C. The other      D. Another
38. A. such that   B. so as to         C. so that    D. in order
39. A. nothing    B. something      C. anything        D. everything
40. A. understands   B. will know   C. knows     D. knew
41. A. eager        B. want      C. ask        D. wanted
42. A. how         B. what      C. when     D. where
43. A. the teacher  B. them     C. student    D. the student
44. A. at      B. inside     C. outside    D. out
45. A. possible    B. important       C. impossible      D. unimportant
46. A. easy         B. uneasy          C. difficult        D. hard
47. A. but                 B. and       C. or         D. other
48. A. learn       B. use        C. study     D. work
49. A. scientists  B. teachers         C. students         D. people
50. A. either       B. both       C. all         D. neither
51. A. what        B. which           C. this        D. why
52. A. is      B. were      C. will be          D. have been
53. A. waste       B. wasted          C. wasting         D. to waste
54. A. could       B. should    C. might     D. would
55. A. cleverness        B. thoughts        C. hearts     D. brains