44．What of the following
can be the best title for the passage?
A. Bomb Hidden in a Rubbish
Bin B. The Cause of the Explosion
C. A Terrible Thing D. Market Blast Kills 1 ,Injures
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B
I was the middle child
of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I hardly saw my
father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely. I
had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations
with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions(文学志向) were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated(孤独) and undervalued. I knew that I had a natural ability with words and a
power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of
private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.
However, the quantity of serious writing which I produced
all through my childhood would not add up to half a dozen pages. I wrote my
first poem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation. I
cannot remember anything about it except that it was about a tiger and
the tiger had “chair-like teeth” - a good enough expression. At eleven, when the
war of 1914-18 broke out, I wrote a poem which was printed in the local(地方的) newspaper, as was another, two years later, on the death of Kitchener.
From time to time, when I was a bit older, I wrote bad and usually unfinished
“nature poems”. I also, about twice, attempted a short story which was a
failure. That was the total of the would-be serious work that I actually set
down on paper during all those years.
45.The underlined word“it” in paragraph 2 refers
to .
A.the quantity of serious writing B.the writer’s first
poem
C.the writer’s childhood
D.the tiger in the poem
46.From the text, we learn that as a little boy the
writer .
A.had no playmates
B.showed his gift for writing
C.put out lots of poems and stories
D.got his first poem published in 1916
47.What can be inferred about the writer?
A.He was least favoured in his family.
B.He had much difficulty in talking with others.
C.He had an unhappy childhood for lack of care.
D.His loneliness resulted in his interest in writing.
C
Important
changes took place in the lives of women in the 19th century. When
men went out from their farms to cities to seek jobs in industry, peasant women
had to take over the sowing, growing, and harvesting of the fields as well as
caring for cattle and raising children. When women also moved to the cities in
search of work, they found that it was increasingly separated by sex and that
employment opportunities for women were limited to the lower-paid jobs. Later in
the century, women in industry gathered mainly in cloth-making factories,
though some worked in mining or took similarly difficult and tiring jobs.
In the
1800s, service work also absorbed(吸纳) a great number of
women who arrived in the cities from the country. Young women especially took
jobs as servants in middle-class and upper-class homes; and as more and more
men were drawn into industry, domestic service(家庭服务) became increasingly a
female job. In the second half of the century, however, chances of other
service work also opened up to women, from sales jobs in shops to teaching and
nursing. These jobs came to be done mainly by women and low paid.
For
thousands of years, when almost all work was done on the family farm or in the
family firm(家庭作坊)，home and workplace had
been the same, In these cases, women could do farm work or hand work, and
perform home duties such as child care and preparation of meals at the same
time. Along with the development of industry, the central workplace, however,
such as the factory and the department store, separated home from work. Faced with the necessity for women to
choose between home and workplace, Western society began to give particular
attention to the role of women as homemakers with more energy than ever before.
