题目
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Take heart — the empty nest “is often worse in anticipation (预料) than in day-to-day practice”, says psychologist Bert Hayslip Jr.
Hayslip, who has studied retirement adjustment (调整) and other aging problems, such as aging sleeplessness, for many years, points out that, more often than not, children who leave do not completely cut off contact with their parents. He advises parents to think of it as a series of life events, instead of a sudden change. He also says an empty nest can cause bigger problems to surface “if a couple hasn’t looked after their marriage while raising their children”. According to Hayslip, some couples may find they no longer have anything in common once the children are out of the house.
Thinking of an empty nest as the loss of children makes the adjustment more difficult. “With the empty-nest syndrome (综合症), parents actually need to deal with the loss of the parenting control over children, not with having really lost their children,” Hayslip says. “They just have to find a new way to get along with their children.”
“Relating to their college-age children in this new way will come easily to parents as the months pass. As with many things, the passage of time heals the pain of loss,” Hayslip says.
小题1:What does the “empty nest” mean?
A.Children’s cutting off contact with their parents. |
B.Children’s not liking spending time with their parents. |
C.Children’s growing up and leaving home. |
D.Children’s not accepting parents’ care and love. |
A.Retirement adjustment. | B.Aging problem. |
C.Sleeplessness. | D.The reality of empty nest. |
A.Because they think they have actually lost their children. |
B.Because they often disagree with their children on many things. |
C.Because their children completely cut off contact with them. |
D.Because these parents don’t have anything in common. |
A.their children’s love for them |
B.their control over children |
C.their interest in life |
D.their contact with children |
答案
小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:A
小题4:B
解析
试题分析:当孩子高中毕业,搬到大学宿舍的时候,你有没有一种失落感,并且开始担心如何去面对家里即将来临的沉寂,空旷呢?你是不是担心如何去填充那些以前和孩子们在一起的时间呢?在本文中作者就此现象进行了深入的剖析,并且指出了家长应如何摆脱这种失落感。
小题1:C词义猜测题。文章第一段提出了孩子们升入大学,从家里搬出去这一情况,然后在下文中就孩子离开家这种情况展开讲述,由此推断empty nest指的是孩子长大后离开家,从而家就像没了小鸟的巢穴一样,所以答案选C。
小题2:D词义猜测题。根据上文children who leave do not completely cut off contact with their parents.和下文 He also says an empty nest can cause bigger problems可知作者一直在讲述孩子离开家后家长会出现的一些不适应情况,由此推测 it指的是空巢问题,所以D选项正确。
小题3:A细节理解题。根据文章倒数第二段Thinking of an empty nest as the loss of children makes the adjustment more difficult.可知如果把孩子搬离家去外面居住看作是失去孩子的话,人们会很难去适应这种空巢生活,故A选项正确。
小题4:B细节理解题。由文章倒数第二段parents actually need to deal with the loss of the parenting control over children,可知Hayslip认为在空巢现象中家长失去的仅仅是家长对子女的心理控制感,故答案选B。
核心考点
试题【Your youngest son or daughter has just graduated from high school, and soon he o】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
Most problems with friendships come up because people are just too selfish to care about the things that their friends need. They care about their own needs much more, which makes it hard for friendships to work. However, being selfish is part of human nature. A person is put together in order to take care of themselves and their own needs, not necessarily those needs of other people. Even though being selfish is something that all humans are born with, it is something that everyone should be against.
The best thing to remember when you are a friend to anyone is that you need to treat your friends the same way that you"d like to be treated(对待). This is wonderful advice for a friendship, because it is really the only way to make sure that you are giving your friends everything you would want to be given in a friendship. Whenever you have a question about how you should treat a friend, it is easy to find an answer simply by asking yourself what you would like your friend to do for you, if he or she was in your shoes.
Even if you"re always thinking about how you"d like to be treated, and your friends are too, there are problems that come up from time to time in each friendship, and it is important to understand how to deal with these problems so that you can build stronger and healthier friendships. Problems like friends getting boyfriends or girlfriends and not spending enough time with their friends, or even friends finding new friends and leaving old friends behind are problems that will probably come up with one or more of your friendships. It is important to know how to deal with these friend problems so that you can keep your friends and make new ones. No one wants to have a broken friendship.
小题1:This passage mainly talks about ________.
A.the importance of friendship |
B.the advantages(益处) of friendship |
C.the problems of friendship |
D.the disadvantages(劣势) of friendship |
A.one is honest | B.one is selfish | C.one is open | D.one is kind |
A.to treat your friend as you like to be |
B.to give your friends whatever you have |
C.not to hurt your friends" feelings |
D.not to think of your own need any more |
A.To have a comfortable life. |
B.To build stronger and healthier friendships. |
C.To be treated the way you want. |
D.To get a boyfriend or girlfriend more quickly. |
As a special visitor, I was greeted with songs and dances. The locals used to sing and dance all the time but now Turkana is silent and has been for some years. No one is singing or dancing any more because they have no food, nothing to celebrate. Many of them are surviving on a little corn a day and water, which they can get just every two days.
I met Tede Lokapelo, a local farmer who described the experience of a six-year drought(干旱). Tede used to have 200 goats, but now he has only seven left. He told me that this drought has taught him a hard lesson: It is too difficult to keep animals. He lives on animals. His traditional way of life has been completely destroyed now. Without the food aid(援助) they got, Tede is certain that they would starve because there are no other ways to feed themselves left.
Sadly, the same can be heard in almost any developing country around the world. Almost one billion people go to bed hungry each night. The food system is broken. In Turkana, not enough rain has fallen since 2005. They measure(测量) rainfall not in days or weeks but in minutes. More and more people are being forced to rely on food aid, but people like Tede don’t want food aid. They want to work and develop their country. It’s our responsibility(责任) to change the situation so that they can support themselves.
Drought is impossible to avoid but famine(饥荒) is manmade, and unless enough money is provided to develop a basic infrastructure(基础设施) for people in the area, thousands more lives are sure to be lost.
小题1: Why do people in Turkana no longer sing or dance any more?
A.Because they have no time. |
B.Because they are tired of them. |
C.Because they are always hungry. |
D.Because they have other interesting things to do. |
A.200 | B.193 | C.7 | D.6 |
A.He was a farmer in Kenya. |
B.He has never received any food aid. |
C.His traditional way of life ha s been changed. |
D.He found it hard to raise animals after the drought. |
A.To show drought is serious in the world. |
B.To tell readers the serious situation of food shortage(短缺). |
C.To ask more people to give food aid to people in Kenya. |
D.To make it clear what is the right way to help people suffering from drought. |
Some TV series are more than pure entertainment―they have a certain depth. Mad Men, which returned with a sixth season recently; Monday Mornings, which just finished its first season; and Modern Family, which sweeps the awards every year, are just a few examples.
Why do these shows stand out among so many similar ones? TV critics Raymond Zhou will give you an idea of why some shows are better than others.
Period drama—More than time travel
Period dramas are intended to capture the ambience (气氛) of a particular era. Directors must therefore attract audiences as much by their recreation of a historical setting as by an interesting storyline.
Mad Men is an excellent example of this balance being struck. Set in New York during the 1960s, it accurately shows US attitudes in the workplace through the alcoholism and chain-smoking common of the time, and places an absorbing plot right in its center.
But rather than merely presenting a past decade, Mad Men’s subtle (微妙的) description of the struggles of white-collar workers at the time, both male and female, makes it stand out.
“The series’ attention to detail is superb,” Raymond Zhou said. “For example, creator Matthew Weiner makes Don Draper―the leading role of the series―drive a Buick instead of a Cadillac, because Weiner thinks the ad man lacks the self-pride to buy a luxury car. It’s this kind of attentiveness that raises the show’s artistic value.”
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Another period drama that works is Broadwalk Empire, set during the prohibition period of the 1920s and 1930s in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Heather Havrilesky at Salon magazine noted how the show “revels in the oddities(怪事) of its time, peeling back the layers of polite society to reveal a shadow world of criminals and politicians working together to keep the liquor flowing.”
Why does it appeal to viewers? Because they know that the “liquor” is a metaphor (暗喻) for today’s political scandals (丑闻).
小题1: How many US TV series are mentioned in this passage?
A.One. | B.Two. | C.Three. | D.Four. |
A.US television dramas merely present a past decade |
B.directors recreate a historical setting and adopt interesting storylines |
C.the dramas can improve their English skills, and help people kill time |
D.some TV series are more than pure entertainment, and they have a certain depth |
A.Mad Men attaches much importance to details |
B.Mad Men places an absorbing plot right in its center |
C.the director wants to raise the show’s artistic value |
D.Mad Men’s description of the struggling white-collar workers makes it stand out |
A.Directors of US dramas. | B.US dramas and their storylines. |
C.US period dramas to kill time. | D.US dramas and their magic touch. |
Winners are great at overcoming problems. For example, if you were late because your car broke down, maybe you need to have your car examined more regularly. Or, you might start to carry along with you the useful phone numbers, so you could call for help when in need. For another example, if your colleague causes you problems on the job for lack of responsibility or ability, find ways of dealing with his irresponsibility or inability rather than simply blame the person. Ask to work with a different person, or don’t rely on this person. You should accept that the person is not reliable and find creative ways to work successfully regardless of how your colleague fails to do his job well.
Being a winner is all about creatively using your skills and talents so that you are successful no matter what happens. Winners don’t have fewer problems in their lives; they have just as many difficult situations to face as anybody else. They are just better at seeing those problems as challenges and opportunities to develop their own talents. So, stop focusing on “whose fault it is.” Once you are confident about your power over bad situations, problems are just stepping stones for success.
小题1:According to the passage, winners .
A.deal with problems rather than blame others |
B.meet with fewer difficulties in their lives |
C.have responsible and able colleagues |
D.blame themselves rather than others |
A.avoid | B.accept | C.improve | D.consider |
A.blame him for his lack of responsibility |
B.find a better way to handle the problem |
C.tell him to find the cause of the problem |
D.ask a more able colleague for help |
A.excuses for their failures |
B.barriers to greater power |
C.challenges to their colleagues |
D.chances for self-development |
A.A Winner’s Secret | B.A Winner’s Problem |
C.A Winner’s Opportunity | D.A Winner’s Achievement |
Keep your pets inside as much as you can when the weather is bad. If you have to take them out, stay outside with them. When you’re cold enough to go inside, they probably are too. If you must leave them outside for a long time, make sure they have a warm, solid shelter against the wind, thick bedding, and plenty of non-frozen water.
If left alone outside, dogs and cats can be very smart in their search for warm shelter. They can dig into snow banks or hide somewhere. Watch them closely when they are left outdoors, and provide them with shelter of good quality. Keep an eye on your pet’s water. Sometimes owners don’t realize that a water bowl has frozen and their pet can’t get anything to drink. Animals that don’t have clean and unfrozen water may drink dirty water outside, which may contain something unhealthy for them.
小题1:What do we learn about pets from Paragraph 1?
A.They are often forgotten by their owners. |
B.They are used to living outdoors. |
C.They build their own shelters. |
D.They like to stay in warm places. |
A.To know when to bring them inside. |
B.To keep them from eating bad food. |
C.To help them find shelters. |
D.To keep them company. |
A.run short of clean water | B.dig deep holes for fun |
C.dirty the snow nearby | D.get lost in the wild |
A.To solve a problem. |
B.To give practical advice. |
C.To tell an interesting story. |
D.To present a research result. |
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