高考英语 阅读理解（4月）训练（18）.doc

2013高考英语阅读理解（4月）训练（18）及答案dmore surprising,perhaps,than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and increasing.as skolnick notes,americans are a marrying people:relative to europeans,more of us marry at younger age.moreover,after falling in the early 1970s,the rate of marriage in the united states is now increasing.even the divorce rates need to be taken in this pro-marriage context:some 80 percent of divorced individuals remarry.thus,marriage remains,by far,the preferred way of life for the vast majority of people in our society.what has changed more than marriage is the nuclear family.twenty-five years ago,the typical american family consisted of a husband,a wife,and two or three children.now,there are many marriages in which couples have decided not to have any children.and there are many marriages where at least some of the children are from the wifes previous marriage,or the husbands,or both,sometimes these children spend all of their time with one parent from the former marriage;sometimes they are shared between two former spouses.thus,one can find every type of family arrangement.there are marriages without children;marriages with children for only the present marriage;marriages with“full-time”children from both the present and former marriages;marriages with“full-time”children from the present marriage and“part-time”children from former marriages.there are stepfathers,stepmothers,half-brothers,and half-sisters.it is not all that unusual for a child to have four parents and eight grandparents!these are enormous changes from the traditional nuclear family.but even so,even in the midst of all this,there remains one constant:most americans spend most of their adult lives married.13.by calling americans marrying people the author means that_.a.americans are more traditional than europeansb.americans expect more out of marriage than europeansc.there are more married couples in the usa than in europe d.more of americans as compared with europeans,prefer marriage and they accept it at a younger age14.which of the following can be presented as the picture of todays american families? a.a typical american family consists of only a husband and a wife. b.many types of family arrangements have become socially acceptable. c.americans prefer to have more kids than before. d.there are no nuclear families any more.15.the“nuclear family”refers to_.a.families formed up by men or women working for nuclear power stationsb.married couples who are closely matchedc.family consists of married couples who do not want to have any childd.family with small number of members16.“part-time”children_a.spend some of their time with their half-brothers and some of their time with their half-sistersb.spend all of their time with one parent from the previous marriagec.are shared between the two former spousesd.cannot stay with“full-time”children参考答案 / dbcc /*结束eit came as something of a surprise when diana, princess of wales, made a trip to angola in 1997, to support the red crosss campaign for a total ban on all anti-personnel landmines. within hours of arriving in angola, television screens around the world were filled with images of her comforting victims injured in explosions caused by landmines. “i knew the statistics,” she said. “but putting a face to those figures brought the reality home to me; like when i met sandra, a 13-year-old girl who had lost her leg, and people like her.” the princess concluded, with a simple message: “we must stop landmines”. and she used every opportunity during her visit to repeat this message. but, back in london, her views were not shared by some members of the british government, which refused to support a ban on these weapons. angry politicians launched an, attack on the princess in the press. they described her as “very ill-informed” and a “loose cannon (乱放炮的人).” the princess responded by brushing aside the criticisms: “this is a distraction (干扰) we do not need. all im trying to do is help.” opposition parties, the media and the public immediately voiced their support for the princess. to make matters worse for the government, it soon emerged that the princesss trip had been approved by the foreign office, and that she was in fact very well-informed about both the situation in angola and the british governments policy regarding landmines. the result was a severe embarrassment for the government. to try and limit the damage, the foreign secretary, malcolm rifkind, claimed that the princesss views on landmines were not very different from government policy, and that it was “working towards” a worldwide ban. the defense secretary, michael portillo, claimed the matter was “a misinterpretation or misunderstanding.” for the princess, the trip to this war-torn country was an excellent opportunity to use her popularity to show the world how much destruction and suffering landmines can cause. she said that the experience had also given her the chance to get closer to people and their problems. 17. princess diana paid a visit to angola in 1997 _. a. to voice her support for a total ban of landmines b. to clarify the british governments stand on landmines c. to investigate the sufferings of landmine victims there d.to establish her image as a friend of landmine victims 18. what did diana mean when she said “. putting a face to those figures brought the reality home to me” (line 5, para. 1)? a. she just couldnt bear to meet the landmine victims face to face. b. the actual situation in angola made her feel like going back home. c.meeting the landmine victims in person made her believe the statistics. d.seeing the pain of the victims made her realize the seriousness of the situation. 19. what did princess diana think of her visit to angola? a.it had caused embarrassment to the british government. b. it had brought her closer to the ordinary people. c.it had greatly promoted her popularity. d. it had affected her relations with the british government.20. how did diana respond to the criticisms? a. she paid no attention to them. b. she made more appearances on tv. c.she met the 13-year-old girl as planned.d. she rose to argue with her opponents. 参考答案adba*结束（2011四川卷）cthe pound new library of birmingham（lob）will be the most visible sign of the way the city is accepting the digitalization（数字化）of everyday life.set to open in 2013, the 188m lob is already beginning to tale shape next to the birmingham repertory theatre, with which it will share some equipment.as digital media（媒介）is important to its idea. the project is already providing chances for some of the many small new local companies working at the new technologies.brian gambles, the lob project director, says it is about giving people the right tools for learning,“the aim is to mix the physical with the digital. providing 24-hour services which can be used through, many different ways. it is important to enable us to reach more people, more effectively.”the digital library will, he says, be as important as the physical one, allowing the distant use of the services, making sure that it is never closed to the public.even before the lob is complete, the public has been able to go online to visit the virtual（虚拟的）lob, designed by baden, the birmingham virtual worlds specialists. not only have the public been able to learn about lob, but the virtual one has also enabled those working on the lob to understand the building and how it will work before it even opens.two other small birmingham-based digital companies are working on the lob projects. substrat, a digital design company, is developing what it calls an example of an “enlarged reality” project. it is about the use of an exciting smart phone, an important part of the which is the early stages of development is an online library of figures of the city being built up by a content company in cahoots, in which users with the encouraged to add to and comment on the m