题目内容
7.Divorce-Social Problem in USAMarriage,like other social instructions,is showing the strains of modern life.While more Americans are getting married today than ever before,the divorce rate is also disturbingly on the rise (one divorce for every three marriages last year).(71)E
Women's easy and convenient life in USA
For most people,life is easier and more comfortable than ever before.Convenience foods from the supermarket simplify shopping and cooking.Household appliances like the cleaner and the washing machine have made housework much easier to do.Released from these household chores,many wives have found jobs outside the home.(72)C
Average American families getting small
Families,too,are simpler today. (73)D With our frequent changes,relatives have spread over a wide area,the parents retiring to Florida or Arizona and the young people,after they marry,going wherever their jobs or their interests take them.Women have their own freedom.
(74)A While attending college,they often live away from home,sometimes far from their parents or their relatives.After college,they move to the city,find a job,and set up"bachelor"apartment.This is the era of women's liberation.
Independence leading to family break-up
But all this freedom and wealth had had an unforeseen and in some respects an extremely bad effect on marriage.Men and women,no longer dependent on each other for food and maintenance,find it harder to accept the responsibilities. (75)G On the other hand,there is a growing trend today for couples in trouble to try to save their marriage by consulting a professional adviser.He listens patiently while they talk,knowing that only through self-understanding can they solve their problems.
A.Young adult women have new freedom,too.
B.No marriage for many people nowadays.
C.Women are achieving economic independence.
D.In America,it is not customary for parents to live with their married children.
E.Why should this be so,and what,if anything,can we do to change this trend?
F.Here's some advice on how to solve the problem.
G.When happiness becomes misery,many couples decide to stop their marriage through divorce.
分析 本文针对美国社会存在的离婚现象进行了深刻的分析.指出造成这一现象的原因在于女性因其经济的独立而他们的生活变得更加的简单和舒适;因为与父母分开而早早的获得了自由,这种独立性在一定程度上增加了离婚的几率.
解答 71-75ECDAG
71. E.考查的是上下文的语境理解能力.根据本段"While more Americans are getting married today than ever before,the divorce rate is also disturbingly on the rise(one divorce for every three marriages last year)."尽管如今更多的美国人结婚,但是离婚率的上升也很令人不安."提出问题后接下来就是给出对策;所以E项有承上启下的作用;故选E.
72. C.考查的是上下文的语境理解能力.前面一句Released from these household chores,many wives have found jobs outside the home可知,女性的经济地位得到了保障.故选C项.
73. D.考查的是上下文的语境理解能力.根据前面的标题Average American families getting small及本段"Families,too,are simpler today.In America,it is not customary for parents to live with their married children."家庭变得简单.在美国,父母不再习惯和已婚子女生活.故选D.
74. A.考查的是上下文的语境理解能力.根据后面的内容谈到上大学时以及大学毕业后的自由以及最后一句This is the era of women's liberation."可知成年女性也获得了新自由;A项为正确答案.
75. G.考查的是上下文的语境理解能力.根据前一句"Men and women,no longer dependent on each other for food and maintenance,find it harder to accept the responsibilities."当男女双方不再在食物和生活费用上相互依赖,尤其是不能再接受相互的责任时,他们的选择就很有可能是离婚.可知G项正确
点评 做综合填空类题要在理解文章整体的基础上,补全所缺的部分.针对这个特点,解答时要注意语境和上下文的联系,同时还要注意文章的写作方法和结构.尤其要留心选项中的信息词(空格前后句子中与选项中相同或相近的词),站在作者的写作立场,选出最符合作者原意的句子.
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Birds of a feather may flock together,but why they fly together in V formations has never been known for certain.
Now,with the help of 14 northern bald ibises (欧洲秃鹰) equipped with(41)Dsensors on a 600-mile migration from Austria to Italy,researchers are suggesting that the explanation is one that was long (42)Cbut never proved:the formations helps the birds conserve energy.
Reporting in the (43)GNature,the scientists write that the ibises(44)Athemselves in spots that were aerodynamically optimal (空气动力学上最佳的)-allowing them to take advantage of swirls of upward-moving air(45)Fby the wings of the bird ahead.Since the lead bird got no lift advantage,the ibises regularly switched leaders.
"We've been wondering for years whether flapping birds can save energy by following each other in the right way,"said Geiffrey Spedding,a researcher at the University of Southern California,who was not involved in the study."This word answers that question,and the answer is yes."
The scientists,led by Jim Usherwood of the Royal Veterinary College in England,said a major (46)Ewas obtaining the data.The ibises hatched at Zoo Vienna in March 2011 and (47)Jas part of a conservation project aimed at reintroducing the (48)Kendangered species to its natural range in Europe.
Some of the study's authors served as human foster parents,taking the young birds on training flights in Salzburg,Austria.The humans rode in a paraplane,a type of lightweight aircraft,and the birds followed.Eventually,the foster parents taught the birds their 600-mile migration route from Salzburg to Orbetello,Italy,by flying alongside them.
The birds wore custom-made data loggers that allowed the researchers to track flapping,speed and direction.Weighing less than an ounce,the devices included a memory card and a GPS unit,among other things.It is(49)Ito about one foot and refreshes five times per second-the(50)Bnecessary to track the birds'positions in relation to one another.
The new study does not say how much energy the ibises saved through the V formation,but small gains could be useful over long migrations,experts say.
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