Question

People are very social animals. We need to talk with and do things with other people. We often understand ourselves better when we discuss our ideas and activities with other people. We need to make meaningful connections with friends and family. These connections help us forget our failures and worries. We can focus (集中) on things that are important: the people we care about.
Your community is the area near your home. It’s where you work, play and go to school. It is the neighborhood where your family makes connections with other people. It’s the places you feel like you belong (属于) to.
Communities grow and change over time. Families move from one city to another because of work or family situations. Older people often move to smaller homes or vacation areas after their children have grown up. Their children move out to start families of their own. New families move in when others leave.
Basic services, such as police, fire, post office, health and public schools are in almost every community. Businesses provide services to the community, too. Stores sell things that people need. Restaurants sell prepared food. Offices provide lots kinds of skilled work.
The job of the city government is to listen to the people of the community and help them connect. Some people may move on, but the community remains.
小题1:Are people very social animals?
小题2:What can these connections help us forget?
小题3:Why do older people move to smaller homes or vacation areas?
小题4:What does the passage tell us?

Answer 1

小题1:Yes, (they are).
小题2:These connections (can) help us forget our failures and worries.
小题3:Because their children move out to start families of their own.
小题4:Why we have communities and what community is.

试题分析：这篇文章主要告诉我们人类是群居动物，为什么我们需要社区以及社区是什么。
小题1:根据文章People are very social animals.可知，人类是群居动物。故回答Yes, (they are).
小题2:根据文章These connections help us forget our failures and worries.可知，这些关系帮助我们忘记我们的失败和担忧。故回答These connections (can) help us forget our failures and worries.
小题3:根据文章Their children move out to start families of their own.可知，因为他们的孩子搬出去开始他们自己的家庭，所以老人就搬到更小的房子或者去度假。故回答Because their children move out to start families of their own.
小题4:这篇文章主要告诉我们人是群居动物，为什么我们需要社区以及社区是什么。故回答Why we have communities and what community is.
点评：此类题目不难，重在理解全文的意思。对于题目中所提的问题要充分理解原文，在文章中找到答案，利用文章的信息进行作答，写的过程中注意题目所问的内容和原文的差异，适当选词符合题目前后文的要求。