第二节 语法填空 (共10 小题,每小题 1.5 分,满分 15 分)
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号
中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卡标号为 31~40 的相应位置上。
Chinese proverbs are rich and they are still widely used in Chinese people’s daily life. 31 these proverbs
there are often interesting stories. For example, the proverb, “plucking up a crop 32 (help) it grow”, is based on
the following story.
It is said that a short—tempered man in the Song Dynasty (960—1279) was very anxious to help 33 rice crop
grow up quickly. He was thinking about 34 day and night. But the crop was growing much slower than he
expected.
One day, he came up with an idea 35 he would pluck up all of his crop a few inches. He did so the next day.
He was very tired 36 doing this for a whole day, 37 he felt very happy since the crop did “grow” 38
(high).
His son heard about this and went to see the crop. Unfortunately the leaves of the crop began to wither.
This proverb is saying we have to let things go in their 39 (nature) course. Being too anxious to help an
event develop often 40 (result) in the contrary to our intention.
Ⅲ 阅读 (共两节,满分 40 分)
第一节 阅读理解 (共15 小题;每小题 2分,满分 30 分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的 A、B、C和D项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Parents and kids today dress alike, listen to the same music, and are friends. Is this a good thing? Sometimes,
when Mr. Ballmer and his 16-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, listen to rock music together and talk about interests
both enjoy, such as pop culture, he remembers his more distant relationship with his parents when he was a
teenager.
“I would never have said to my mom, ‘Hey, the new Weezer album is really great. How do you like it?’” says
Ballmer. “There was just a complete gap in taste.”
Music was not the only gulf. From clothing and hairstyles to activities and expectations, earlier generations
of parents and children often appeared to move in separate orbits.
Today, the generation gap has not disappeared, but it is getting narrow in many families. Conversations on
subjects such as sex and drugs would not have taken place a generation ago. Now they are comfortable and
common. And parent—child activities, from shopping to sports, involve a feeling of trust and friendship that can
continue int0 adulthood.
No wonder greeting cards today carry the message, “To my mother, my best friend.”
But family experts warn that the new equality can also result in less respect for parents. “There’s still a lot of
strictness and authority on the part of parents out there, but there is a change happening,” says Kerrie, a
psychology professor at Lebanon Valley College. “In the middle of that change, there is a lot of confusion among
parents.”
Family researchers offer a variety of reasons for these evolving roles and attitudes. They see the 1960s as a
turning point. Great cultural changes led to more open communication and a more democratic process that
encourages everyone to have a say.
“My parents were on the ‘before’ side of that change, but today’s parents, the 40-year-olds, were on the
‘after’ side,” explains Mr. Ballmer. “It’s not something easily accomplished by parents these days, because life is
more difficult to understand or deal with, but sharing interests does make it more fun to be a parent now.”
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41. The underlined word gulf in Para.3 most probably means _________.
A. interest
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