15. C。句意表示“同样如此，身体虚弱就不会思维敏捷”。

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A lady once wrote a long story. She sent it to a famous editor. After __1__ weeks the editor __2__ the story to her. The lady was __3__. She worte back to the editor:

“Dear Sir,

Yesterday you sent back a story of mine. __4__ do you know that the story is not good? You did not read it. __5__ I sent you the story, I pasted together pages 18, 19 and 20. This was a __6__ to see whether you would read the story. When the story came back yesterday, the pages were __7__ pasted together. Is this the __8__ you read all the stories that are sent to you?”

The editor wrote back:

“Dear Madam,

__9__ breakfast when I have an egg, I __10__ eat the whole egg in order to discover that it is bad.”

14. B。与上句相对应，意思一致。

13. A。句意和空格后的 up搭配，选用 “give”，是放弃的意思。

12. C。上文表示学生要将全部时间用于学习。

11. D。根据空格后的 “because they want to further their studies”，说明学生不愿意学习不及格。

10. D。在……上花时间可表达为“spend…on sth.” 。

9. C。学生处在各种压力之下，表示客观逼迫用 “have to”。

8. C。此处所指学生们的家长和老师，用复数的物主代词。

7. C。使学生不能从事运动的是studies。

6. B。与后面动词 preparing 搭配的动词是spend，牢记 spend…doing sth.句型。