Ⅱ 阅读(共两节，满分50分)
第一节：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Parents have to do much less for their
children today than they used to do，and home has become much less of a workshop. Clothes can be bought
ready made; washing can go to the laundry; food can be bought; cooked，canned or preserved; bread is
baked and delivered by the baker; milk arrives on the doorstep; meats can be
had at the restaurant，the work’s canteen，and the school dining-room.
It is unusual now for father to pursue his
trade or other employment at home，and his children rarely，if ever，see
him at his place of work. Boys are therefore seldom trained to follow their
father’s occupation，and in many towns they have a fairly wide choice of employment and
so do girls. The young wage-earner often earns good money，and soon acquires a feeling of
economic independence. In textile areas it has long been customary for mothers
to go out to work，but
this practice has become so widespread that the working mother is now a not
unusual factor in a child’s home life，the number of married women in employment having more than doubled
in the last twenty-five years. With mother earning and his older children
drawing substantial wages father is seldom the dominant figure that he still
was at the beginning of the century. When mother works, economic advantages
accrue，but children
lose something of great value if mother’s employment prevents her from being
home to greet them when they return from school.
26. The writer mentions home as workshop
because______.
A. fathers often pursue employment at home
B. parents had to make food and necessity
themselves for their daily-life
C. many families produce goods at home for
sale
D. both fathers and mothers and mothers in
most families are workers
27. The writer says that home has become
much less of a workshop. He means______.
A. in the past, home was more like a
workshop
B. home is much more of a workshop now
C. home-workshops are becoming fewer and
fewer
D. home was less like a workshop in the
past
28. The word“accrue”in the sentence“When
mother...accrue，”is
closest in meaning to
__________________.
A.
change
B.
dwindle
C.
double
D. increase
29. The chief reason that boys are seldom
trained to follow their father’s occupation is ___________________.
A. that children nowadays rarely see their
fathers at their place of work
B. that fathers do not like to pursue
employment at home any more
C. that there is a wide choice of
employment for children
D. that children also like to have jobs
outside
30. What makes father no longer the only
dominant person in a family?
A. With their earning，mother and children do not need
to depend on father for their life.
B. There are many choice of employment for
mothers and children.
C. Father does much less for his children
today than he used to.
D. The number of married women in
employment has increased greatly now.
