52 Directions: For each blank in the following passage, there are four choices given below and marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is most suitable and mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. The death of a child, ( )51( ) one’s own child, is something the mind can hardly comprehend. It seems to go ( )52( ) nature. The end of a life that is still forming ( )53( ) has just begun is an almost unthinkable cruelty. But it happens. Parents sometimes must witness the illness and death of the children ( )54( ) whom they gave birth. And ( )55( ) will ever fill the empty place that the dead child leaves behind. Parents ( )56( ) to die before their children, which is the natural order of life events. When the situation is reversed and a child dies ( )57( ) the parents it seems wrong. Yet we never know why one person dies and another lives. But we do know ( )58( ) a child is gone, the parents still have a future, as grey and worthless as it may at first seem. Death may take the child, but the love never ( )59( ). The sorrow after a child’s death is one of the longest and hardest type of ( )60( ) to live with. And it takes long to deal with the parents’ own emotions.

A. 　 making their

B. 　 making the

C. 　 to make their

D. 　 to make the

A. 　 started

B. 　 had started

C. 　 would have started

D. 　 start

A. 　 let＇s

B. 　 not let＇s

C. 　 not

D. 　 let＇s not

A. 　 Entering

B. 　 To enter

C. 　 Having entered

D. 　 Having been entered

A. 　 was

B. 　 were

C. 　 would be

D. 　 have been

A. 　 what

B. 　 how

C. 　 when

D. 　 where

A. 　 don＇t I

B. 　 do I

C. 　 have you

D. 　 haven＇t you

A. 　 they seemed to do less

B. 　 the less they seemed to do

C. 　 they were doing less

D. 　 they did less