I. Choose the best answer to the blank. (3%×10=30%)
1. Their divorce means the ending of their __________.
A. cooperation B. tolerance C. partnership D. life
2. In the past, men were ________ of households as they enjoyed higher position and power in society.
A. masters B. heads C. hosts D. owners
3. Compared to the close relationship between neighbors in the past, people now are ________ related.
A. closely B. tightly C. loosely D. strictly
4. John was left to the ________ of his aunt after his parents’ divorce.
A. custody B. defence C. protection D. watch
5. The two world wars have made many women war ________, experiencing a hard time.
A. victors B. widows C. wives D. mothers
6. So far the news of the president’s death has not been __________.
A. confirmed B. identified C. restated D. hidden.
7. Due to the huge economic and work pressure, many newly wedded couples prefer a ______ marriage.
A. rich B. wealthy C. prosperous D. childless
8. The novel “The Da Vinci Code” _________ a great success and was translated into 44 languages in 2004.
A. appreciated B. enjoyed C. won D. seized
9. ___________ is reported in the newspaper is that seventeen climbers have been killed in the snow tsunami.
A. It B. As C. What D. That
10. Let’s hope the fine weather ___________ for Sunday’s camping trip.
A. keeps up B. picks up C. carries on D. puts up
II. Choose suitable answers to the questions. There is usually more than one correct answer to each question. (3%×10=30%)
1.The extended family ___________.
A.includes grandparents, parents and children
B.has the relatives living in the same house
C.common in the past
D.may also include aunts, uncles, cousins etc
2.The nuclear family _________.
A.consists of only parents and their biological
B.does not include families with parents and their adopted children
C.is an old structure
D.common in modern societies
3.The blended family includes _________.
A.divorced men or women
B.widowed men or women
C.children with the men or women
D.grandparents of the men or women
4.The same-sex partnership __________.
A.is widely accepted nowadays
B.is unhealthy
C.is made legitimate in some countries in the world
D.is a means of living for some people
5.The unmarried live-in relationship ________.
A.becomes popular in recent years
B.provides a good channel to know each other before marriage
C.help both men and women learn to get on well with each other
D.is totally disastrous
6.What are the situations with women during World War II?
A.Millions of women had to take care of their homes and their children alone.
B.Women had to go to work long hours at hard jobs outside the home.
C.They demonstrated against the oppression.
D.There weren’t many perfect families.
7.In the first half of the twentieth century, the Japanese family ________.
A. was much more “traditional”
B. arranged marriages for their children
C. highly respect the power of men
D. has the men as the financial support
8. The Great Depression in the 1930s ________.
A. turned many workers out of jobs
B. created many orphans and street population
C. lasted a very long time
D. got improved by Churchill
9. From the 1960s to the 1970s, what happened in the United States?
A. The divorce rate greatly increased and the birthrate fell by half.
B. The number of single-parent families rose.
C. The number of couples living together without marriage went up even more.
D. More people became poor.
10. The two-paycheck families _______.
A. are popular today
B. make parents have less time to take care of the family
C. help lessen the economic burden on one of the parents
D. have children stand on their own feet
III. True or false questions. (2%×20=40%)
Section A
______ The nuclear family is the same as the extended family: it consists of many relatives living in the same house.
______ There is only one kind of family on planet Earth today: it is the traditional extended family.
_______ In the early 1900s in the United States, the divorce rate went up and the birthrate began to decline; couples were staying married shorter and having fewer children.
_______ Before and during World War II, families faced few financial problems in the industrialized world, so women didn’t have to work outside the home. Families were perfect.
_______ After the war, family structure changed back to the traditional family.
_______ From the 1960s on, there were many new changes in the structure of the family around the globe.
_______ The neighborhood in today’s community is pretty loose.
_______ Single parents can live a better and easier life once they divorced with their troubling partners.
_______ Custody is always a problem in divorce cases.
_______ Traditional Japanese families take women as a piece of property, which is subjected to men’s disposal.
Section B
Read the following passage and then answer the questions.
If you want to get the most out of the study of a language, you must also read for pleasure: novels, plays, travel books, and so on. And in reading books of this kind the important thing is to get on with the reading: to try to grasp what the writer is going to tell you in the book as a whole. This is impossible if you stop and think over the meaning of every single word which happens to be unfamiliar. You can not enjoy a story if you stop half a dozen times on ever page in order to look up words in the dictionary. You may even prevent yourself from understanding the story as a whole by doing this.
When you are reading books of this kind, therefore, you will usually have to rely mainly on the context to help you. If you meet an unfamiliar word, do not let it take too much of your attention from the main thread of the story. In all probability you will meet the same word again a few pages later on in a slightly different context, and each time you see it that your understanding of it will become more exact.
11. _____ To read for pleasure means to read such books as novels, plays, travel books, etc.
12. _____ The phrase “to get on with reading” in the passage has the same meaning as “to try to understand all the writer is going to tell you”.
13. _____ According to the passage the best way to read novels, plays and travel books is to read quickly and not too carefully.
14. ______ The best title for this passage “Read for Pleasure”.
15. ______ A careful study of the meaning of every single unfamiliar words will help the reader get the main idea.
16. ______ Reading is the only way to get most of the language you need.
17. ______ Looking words up in dictionaries while reading can help increase vocabulary and improve one’s understanding of the material.
18. ______ Skimming for the main idea will enable one to get the fun of reading.
19. ______ The context can provide good clues to solve the vocabulary problem.
20. ______ Sometimes a word may appear in a story many times, so it is safe to look it up in dictionaries the first time you meet it.
