15. B。母亲在听到Joe要自己打电话后，非常满意，“开心地”笑了，故选happily。

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Have you ever asked yourself why children go to school? You will probably __1__ they go to learn languages, geography, history, science and all __2__ subjects. That is quite __3__, but __4__ do they learn these things?

We send our children to school to __5__ them for their future work and life. Nearly everything they study at school has some practical use __6__ their life, but is that the __7__ reason they go to school?

There is __8__ in educatuon than just learning facts. We go to school above all __9__ how to learn, so that when we have left school we can go on learning. If a man really knows __10__, he will always be successful, because whenever he has to do __11__ he will quickly teach himself how to do it in the best way. The uneducated person, on the other __12__, is __13__ unable to do it, or does it badly, so the purpse of school is not just __14__ languages, geography, science, etc, but to teach pupils the __15__ to learn.

14. C。母亲肯定了这是一个好主意，说明这是一个great idea。

13. A。根据下文妈妈的言谈可见她很满意，故选择smiled。

12. C。这里应选一个连接代词引导宾语从句，同时在从句中作宾语，故选择what。

11. B。因为Dick已经送报纸了，他熟悉报社经理的电话号码，所以他把电话号码“给”了Joe，故选gave。

10. B。每晚“大约”花费三小时，用about。

9. C。it was possible to do sth. 意为“做……是有可能的”。

8. B。catch up with 为固定词组，意为“追上，赶上”。

7. D。pay for sth. 为固定词组，意为“付……款”。

6. B。right away意为“立刻，立即”。Joe认为他甚至可以通过每周分期付款的方式“立刻”得到电脑。