15. -Do you mind if
I open the window?
-_____, but I’ve
caught a bad cold today.
A. No, not at
all B. Yes, of course not
C. Yes,
please D. I’m sorry
第二节 完形填空(共20小题； 每小题1.5分，满分30分)
I have certainly seen lots of changes in my lifetime! I look around
my home and see mod cons(现代化生活设备) that I could never
have 16 of fifty or sixty years ago. I
17 the early part of childhood in
a cottage without running water or electricity and yet these days, I feel 18 if there is a power cut for
even just an hour or two! So, I have changed too. Things that I couldn’t even
imagine in the past now seem quite 19 .
I don’t think, however, that people are
happier today than they were 50 years ago. We are certainly materially better
off than we were
20 most people
still seem to be weighed 21 by problems. My daughter and her family
are a good 22 . They have a spacious, comfortable
home with every labor-saving device you can 23 . There’s a
washing machine, a clothes dryer, and all sorts of other household items which
are 24 to save time but it seems to
me that my daughter and her husband just spend all that “saved” time 25 ! They 26 relax and are always
complaining of being
27 and “stressed”.
Children these days have all sorts of “educational
toys” and yet they seem unable to 28 themselves. My daughter tries to 29 the time her children spend
watching television but when they aren’t watching TV,
they are sad. They play with new 30 for a day or two and then 31 them once they have gone off
them. When we were children, we had
almost nothing but we were so 32 . We had all sorts of fun and games
in the nearby woods. But, of course, children can’t
play 33 outdoors any longer. There is
so much crime and parents are afraid to let their children go out alone 34 they are injured, kidnapped,
raped or even murdered. These crimes may not be directly 35 with modern inventions but
there must be some connection.