(A)

　　One hot night last July, when our new baby wouldn't or couldn't sleep, I tried everything I could think of: a warm bottle, songs, gentle rocking. Nothing would settle him. Guessing that I had a long night ahead of me, I brought a portable(手提式的) TV into his room, figuring that watching the late movie was as good a way as any to kill off the hours until dawn. To my surprise, as soon as the TV lit up, the baby quieted right down, his little eyes focused (集中) brightly on the tube. Not to waste an opportunity for sleep, I then tiptoes(踮脚尖) out of the room, leaving him to watch the actors celebrate John Bellushi's forty-fifth birthday.

　　My wife and I heard none of the baby that night, and the next morning when I went into his room, I found him still watching TV himself.

　　I found in my baby's behavior a metaphor(暗语) for the new generation. My wife and I had given him some books to examine, but he merely spit upon(不屑一顾) them. When we read to him, he did not feel comfortable. And so it is in the schools. We find that our students don't read and they look down upon reading and scold those of us who teach it. All they want to do is watch TV. After this experience with the baby, however, I have reached a conclusion: “Let them watch it!” If television is that much more attractive to children than books, why should we fight it? Let them watch it all they want!

　　1. Why did the author bring a TV set into his son's room?

　　A. To make his son stop crying.

　　B. To spend the night by watching TV programs.

　　C. To leave it to his son.

　　D. To make his son go to sleep as soon as possible.

　　2. The baby's reaction to the TV program was _______ .

　　A. unexpected B. exciting C. awful D. calm

　　3. According to the passage, which is true of the school children?

　　A. They prefer reading to watching TV.

　　B. They like watching TV only after school.

　　C. They would rather watch TV than read books.

　　D. They like their teachers who teach them reading.

　　4. What do you think is the author's attitude towards TV expressed in the last two sentences?

　　A. Favorable. B. Serious. C. Not favorable. D. Not serious.

　　(B)

　　How many men do housework? Recently a European commission (委员会) tried to find out people's ideas and reactions to the women's movement. As part of their survey

　　(调查), they asked many men and women the question: “Who does the housework?” The men answered very differently from the women!

　　The housework they asked people about were: preparing meals, washing dishes, cleaning the house and babysitting. 48% of British husbands said they did these things. 37% of Danish men helped in the house. But only 15% of Italian men said they did the housework; many of them said they never helped at all.

　　But there was an interesting point of view from the wives. According to British wives, only 38% of their husbands helped in the house. And Italian wives said that their husbands hardly ever helped. The Italian and British men did not tell the truth! The Commission found that Danish men were the most trustful husbands; their answers were the same as their wives' answers.

　　Do the men you know help in the house? Do you think the survey gives a true picture in your experience?

　　5. The subject for the survey is _______ .

　　A. how many boys do the housework

　　B. who does the housework at home

　　C. how many women do the housework

　　D. who are more diligent, wives or husbands

　　6. From the passage we can see that _______ .

　　A. there were more husbands who did the housework than wives

　　B. husbands did half of the housework all the time

　　C. there were more wives who did the housework than husbands

　　D. wives did almost all the housework at home

　　7. More _______ husbands help in the house than _______ husbands.

　　A. British; Danish

　　B. Italian; Danish

　　C. Danish; British

　　D. Italian; British

　　8. The survey shows that _______ husbands were the most honest.

　　A. Italian B. Danish C. British D. Both A and B

　　(C)

　　WASHINGTON—Nearly 40 million children in developing countries stand to lose one or both parents to AIDS (艾滋病) over the next 13 years, and almost 3 million children under 15 have caught the disease worldwide, US experts said.

　　“More than 40 million children in 23 developing nations will likely have lost one or both their parents by 2010. Most of these deaths will be the result of the HIVIAIDS and complicated illnesses,” Brian Atwood, a US official said. Meanwhile, since the first reported death of a child by AIDS in Los Angeles 15 years ago, almost 3 million children under 15 are estimated (估计) to have caught the disease worldwide, and at least 1,000 are dying each day.

　　“In countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America, HIVIAIDS is pulling years of progress in economic and social development,” he added.

　　“Life expectancy(估计寿命) which has been steadily on the rise for the last thirty years will drop to 40 years or less to nine African countries by the year 2020.”

　　Atwood said serious work to help stop children from dying in developing countries was being wiped out.

　　“In all 23 countries included in this study, AIDS related death will take away the gains made in child survival over the past 20 years. In Zambia and Zimbabwe, children's death rates will likely nearly double,” Atwood said.

　　9. AIDS is developing fast in _______ .

　　A. Europe

　　B. North America

　　C. poor countries

　　D. rich countries

　　10. The first child who died of AIDS lived in _______ .

　　A. England B. Russia C. Japan D. America

　　11. AIDS is not only causing millions of death to human beings, but also _______ .

　　A. speeding the development of society

　　B. slowing down the development of society

　　C. polluting the air

　　D. breaking the balance of nature

　　12. The underlined words “wiped out ”mean _______ .

　　A. cleaned out

　　B. truned down

　　C. dried up

　　D. destroyed completely

　　Key:

　　(A) 1—4 BACA (B) 5—8 BCAB (C) 9—12 CDBD

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