D
As any housewives who has tried to keep order at the dinner table knows, there is far more to a family meal than food. Sociologist Michael Lewis has been studying 50 families to find out just how much more.
Lewis carried out his study by videotaping (录像) the families while they ate ordinary meals in their own homes. They found that parents with small families talk actively with each other and their children. But as the number of children gets larger, conversation gives way to the parents’ efforts to control the loud noise they make. That can have an important effect on the children. “In general the more question-asking the parents do, the higher the children’s IQ scores,” Lewis says. “And the more children there are, the less question-asking there is.”
The study also provides an explanation for why middle children often seem to have a harder time in life than their siblings (兄弟姐妹). Lewis found that in families with three or four children, dinner conversation is likely to center on the oldest child, who has the most to talk about, and the youngest, who needs the most attention. “Middle children are invisible,” says Lewis. “When you see someone get up from the table and walk around during dinner, chances are it’s the middle child.” There is, however, one thing that stops all conversation and prevents anyone from having attention: “When the TV is on,” Lewis says, “dinner is nothing.”
71. The writer’s purpose in writing the text is to _________.
A. show the relationship between parents and children
B. teach parents ways to keep order at the dinner table
C. report on the findings of a study
D. give information about family problems
72. Parents with large families ask fewer questions at dinner because _________.
A. they are busy serving food to their children
B. they are busy control the loud noise the children make
C. they have to pay more attention to younger children
D. they are tired out having prepared food for the whole family
73. By saying “Middle children are invisible” in paragraph 3, Lewis means that middle children _________.
A. have to help their parents to serve dinner
B. get the least attention from the family
C. are often not allowed to come to the dinner table
D. find it hard to get along well with other children
74. Lewis’ research provides an answer to the question_________.
A. why TV is important in family life
B. why parents should keep good order
C. why children in small families seem to be quieter
D. why middle children seem to have more difficulties in life
75. Which of the following statements would the writer agree to?
A. It is important to have the right food for children.
B. It is a good idea to have the TV on during dinner.
C. Parents should talk to each of their children frequently.
D. Elder children should help the younger ones at dinner.
第II卷 （共45分）
第四部分 书面表达
第一节 阅读表达（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文并回答问题，然后将答案写到答题纸相应的位置上（请注意问题后的字数要求）。
[1] To ensure the protection of our global village from pollution for us and for future generations, it is the duty of everybody to take an active part in environmental protection.
[2] They have often heard that there are dangerous levels of air pollution in big cities of the world. Yet little has been done to solve this problem. Researchers are telling us that it will certainly cost money to make there polluted cities clean. if not, people will suffer from a lot of serious diseases.
[3] As a result of continued pollution, it is sure that people have to pay more money in health care in the future. Then, cleaning up our water and protecting our food supply will cost us too much. Scientists are trying to inform us that in the future, they will save money and our natural resources by ___________________ now.
[4] It seems to me that people should pay more attention to the environment. If they want to do something, the potential damage to the environment should be thought first. In particular, it is for those economists in governments to take the costs of harming the environment into consideration. Once they do that, it will be clearer to everyone that it will pay to change the way they currently go about functioning in society.
[5] Thanks to technologies, especially. clean technologies, a lot less pollution could be produced. It is just a matter of cost. And it will be very important that the developed countries not only just give old and useless technologies to the developing ones.
76. What's the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words)
______________________________________________________________________________
77. Which sentence (s) in this passage could be replaced by the following one?
“Perhaps people should care much more for the future and pay attention to any possible harm people do to the environment.”
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78. Fill in the blank in the third paragraph with proper words to complete the sentence. (Please
answer within 10 words)
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79. What do you think is the result of the pollution from the text? (Please answer within 30 words)
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80. Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese.
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第二节 写作（满分30分）
假设你是新华中学的学生李华，你的英国朋友Tom要来济南旅游，向你寻求建议。请根据
以下要点用英语给他写一封电子邮件：
周一 乘坐公共汽车去趵突泉参观
周二 去爬千佛山
周三 去游览大明湖
周四 去泉城路购物，中午在芙蓉街吃饭
注意：1. 词数120~150；
2. 可适当增加细节。
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