A book which is still being discussed by many Americans today is Future Shock by Alvin Toffler. In this book the writer describes the great changes which have taken place in family life because of the development of science and industry.

In the past, when more Americans lived on farms, the typical (典型的)family had many children. In a farm family, parents and their children often lived with grandparents. Uncles and aunts often lived nearby, too.

But now, when industry has become more important than agriculture (农业)in American life, families are becoming smaller and smaller. Industry requires workers who are ready and able to move off the land to move again whenever necessary. Large families can't move from place to place as easily as small families.

In the future, a typical family will be required to move even more often, so families will be even smaller. The typical family may keep childless and consist only of a man and a woman. A small number of families may raise children. These families may raise children as their main occupation (耳只业),leaving the childless families free to move from job to job. What's more, these child-raising families may raise other people's children in addition to their own.

 

Title: A book(8I)                  Future Shock

Author

Alvin Toffler

Topic

(82)       

life has been changing greatly in America

 

In the past

In a(83)        family, there were parents,   many children,        ,uncles and aunts.

 

At'85       '

Families are becoming (86)        .

Content

In the future

 

A typical   family is (87)        , including only a man and a woman. A small number   of families raise children of their own and        as a job.

 

Reason

 

People are   required to(89)           from place to place more often because of the development of both (90)         and industry.

阅读理解

We want to buy something for Christmas. The four kids like doing shopping at the mall. They talk and ask each other and their grandparents what they want for Christmas. I give every kid twenty dollars to buy gifts.

In the evening we drive back home. Everyone is very happy. But Ginger is very quiet. She is my eight-year-old daughter. She has only candy bars ― fifty-cent candy bars! I am very angry, but I don't say anything. I call her into my bedroom and ask her why. This is what she tells me :

"I am looking around. I find a little card on one of the Christmas trees. It is from a four-year-old girl, and she wants a doll for Christmas. We have so much and she doesn't have anything. So I take the card off the tree and buy the doll for her. I have little money and buy candy bars for us.,,

(       )1. There are_______ kids in the family.

A. two     B. three     C. four     D. five

(        )2. Mother gives her children _________  dollars in all.

A. twenty                         B. forty

C. sixty                           D. eighty

(       )3. They go to the mall________ .

A. on foot                          B. by car

C. by bus                           D. by subway

(       )4. Ginger is_______ .

A. four years old                  B. eight years old

C. ten years old                    D. twelve years old

(       )5. Ginger buys a_______ doll for the little girl.

A.  twenty dollars

B.  fifty cents

C.  nineteen dollars and fifty cents

D.  twenty dollars and fifty cents

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