题目内容
A mother’s ad calling for her son to come home for Chinese New Year ran on the front page of the Chinese Melbourne Daily newspaper on January 14.
It placed a full page ad, saying “Dear Peng, I’ve called you many times but you don’t pick up, maybe you will see this. Dad and mom won’t ever force you to get married anymore, come home for Chinese New Year! From your mom who loves you.”
The ad, which appeared on the front page of the Chinese Melbourne Daily on Tuesday, would cost $2,796.80 Australian dollars ($2465). The newspaper serves the city’s Chinese community. The mother, who lives in Guangzhou had placed the ad after losing contact with her son.
Every year around this time, many Chinese prepare to head home for China’s most important festival. But many of the younger generation are afraid of facing family confrontations about their love life.
On the online Chinese forum Tianya. cn, a single man asked for advice on facing his family. “It’s almost that time of the year. How should I explain to my family and relatives that I am single?” a user in Guangzhou “1979xiaozhu” posted. Many of the replies were telling him not to go home instead.
User “qianlidaiwanwoduxing” wrote: “Going home means they will either arrange blind dates for you or you get scolded.”
“This year my mom gave me an ultimatum. One, bring 50,000 yuan; second, bring a wife home. If I don’t have both then she said I don’t need to come home. What a tragedy!” said user “fghjkh84”.
Those girls who can’t handle the pressure of parents can rent a boyfriend for the day through China’s online shopping giant, Taobao.com. Rental boyfriends come with services such as meeting the parents, shopping and watching movies.
1.The mother placed a full page ad in order to _______.
A. ask her son to come back to China for the festival
B. beg her son to answer her telephone more times
C. force her son to come home and get married
D. make her son become famous in Melbourne
2.Why did the mother place the ad in the Chinese Melbourne Daily?
A. Because her son didn’t want to get married in China.
B. Because she couldn’t get in touch with her son any more.
C. Because her son wanted to live alone in Australia.
D. Because she wanted her son to come back to work.
3.What leads many Chinese young people not to go home for New Year?
A. Their busy work. B. The long distance.
C. Their low pay. D. Their love life.
4.From the passage we can infer ______.
A. the user “1979xiaozhu” is a married young man
B. the user “qianlidaiwanwoduxing” will go home
C. the user “fghjkh84” will bring a wife home
D. some single girls have to bring an untrue boyfriend home
1.A
2.B
3.D
4.D
【解析】
试题分析：一位来自广州的妈妈花费巨资在澳大利亚的中文报纸头版登广告来寻找他的儿子。现在的年轻一代大多有被家人催婚甚至逼婚的经历，由于害怕被家长逼婚，很多年轻人都不愿意回家。
1.calling for her son to come home for Chinese New Year”和第二段“Dad and mom won’t ever force you to get married anymore, come home for Chinese New Year!”可知，妈妈登广告是为了让她的儿子回家过年，故选A。
2.I’ve called you many times but you don’t pick up, maybe you will see this”可知，她因为联系不上自己的儿子才想到用在报纸上登广告的方法来找他，故选B。
3.But many of the younger generation are afraid of facing family confrontations about their love life.”可知，许多年轻人不愿意回家过年是因为担心父母问自己的感情问题，故选D。
4.Those girls who can’t handle the pressure of parents can rent a boyfriend for the day through China’s online shopping giant可知，单身的女性可以在网上租一个男朋友，故选D。
考点：社会类短文阅读
Manners nowadays in metropolitan cities like London are practically non-existent. It is nothing for a big, strong schoolboy to push an elderly woman aside to take the last remaining seat on the underway or bus.
This question of giving up seats in public transport is much argued about by young men, who say that since women have claimed equality, they no longer deserve to be treated with politeness and that those who go out to work should take their turns in the rat race like anyone else. But women have never claimed to be physically strong as men. Even if it is not agreed, however, the fact remains that courtesy(礼节) should be shown to the old and the sick. Are we really so lost to all ideals of unselfishness that we can sit there indifferently(冷漠地) reading the paper or a book, saying to ourselves, “First come, first served” while a grey-haired woman, a mother with a young child or a cripple(残障者) stands? Yet this is all too often seen.
Older people, tired and impatient from a day’s work, are not always considerate either--far from it. Many arguments break out as the older people push and squeeze(挤) each other to get on buses. One cannot approve this, of course, but one does feel there is just a little more excuse.
It seems urgent, not only that communications in transport should be improved, but also that communication between human beings should be kept smooth and polite. All over cities, it seems that people are too tired and too rushed to be polite. Shop assistants won’t bother to assist; taxi drivers shout at each other as they dash dangerously around corners; bus conductors pull the bell before their desperate passengers have time to get on or off the bus, and so on. It seems to us that it is up to the young to do their small part to stop such lowering of moral standards.
Title: Manners in Metropolitan Cities
Theme | Politeness is1. , especially in large cities. | |
Phenomena and Excuses | Phenomena | Excuses |
Big, strong schoolboys push elderly women aside to 2. on the last remaining seats. |
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Young men3. to treat women politely. | Women think they are4. to men, so they should take their turns in the rat race like others. | |
Young people sit indifferently5. while grey-haired women, mothers with 6. and disabled people stand by. | First come, first served. | |
The elderly themselves push each other to get on buses. |
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7. | ●Communications in transport are not satisfactory. ●Communication between people doesn’t go 8. and politely. ●People are too 9. and too rushed to care about others. | |
Solution | Young people make an 10. to stop such lowering of moral standards. | |