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大学英语A4

一、阅读理解

When Pilar Jiménez got married in 1961, she knew her marriage would last. "Back then, no one separated," says the 71-year-old lady. "Marriage was for life." Indeed, her husband and she lived happily until he passed away two years ago. But if her marriage was typical of its time, so are those of her 10 children: five of them are now divorced.

The rate of broken marriages has risen steadily since Spain legalized (合法化) divorce in 1981, and a 2005 reform has caused those numbers to skyrocket. The reform has allowed couples to separate for one year before divorce. As a result, Spain now has one divorce for every 2.3 marriages－an increase of 74% in the past two years alone.

For the Catholic Church, Spain's rising divorce rate shows the morality (道德) is being threatened, and this threat comes from the government, whose power has no longer remained in the Church. Cardinal (红衣主教) Augustín García-Gasco believes that radical separation of politics and religion has led to nothing but despair along with abortion and fast divorce. Benigno Blanco, president of the Spanish Forum for the Family, agrees, "The reform has made the marriage contract useless."

However, Spaniards (西班牙人) no longer feel shameful by the prospect of divorce. A website named "divorcioexpress.com" offers couples agreements on divorce through the Internet. "We facilitate about 100 divorces a month," Alberto Gillette, the founder of the website, says, "but we're not encouraging divorce, just making it easier to get." Like the companies, some sociologists also think it unreasonable to be worried about the divorce boom, because the number of separations is dropping down when that of divorces is increasing. "In the past, when it came to the issue on divorce, Spain seemed unique in Europe." Sociologist Inés Alberdi says, "Now we're more like other European countries."

1.The story of Pilar Jiménez and her children leads to ______.

A.the happiness of marriage and family

B.the situation of divorce rate in Spain

C.separation of politics and religion

D.suggestions to avoid family conflicts

2.The word "skyrocket" (paragraph 2, line 2) means ______.

A.to decline sharply

B.to remain unchanged

C.to move up and down

D.to go up fast

3.According to Augustín García-Gasco, the rising divorce rate is resulted from _______.

A.the 2005 reform on the one-year separation

B.the government separating from the religion

C.the despair in increasing number of abortion

D.the national concern over marriage problems

4.The website is mentioned to show that ______.

A.the government is facing the moral threats

B.Spaniards think much of the divorce problem

C.divorce is likely to become ordinary in Spain

D.couples can divorce without any restrictions

5.It can be inferred that many European countries have ______.

A.increasing divorce rates

B.decreasing divorce rates

C.increasing marriage rates

D.decreasing marriage rates

Child labor, the employment of children in industry, often against their will, has been a problem for many years.

Over a hundred years ago, Charles Dickens shocked many of his readers when he described the conditions under which young children worked in British factories. The conditions Dickens described continue almost unchanged today in many parts of the world. The only difference is that today employment of children is confined to small industries and family businesses, such as hotels, restaurants and particularly farms, rather than to large factories.

Girls suffer more from child labor practices than boys. Many of them are forced to start work when they are only ten years old. Although the work they are given to do is often light, it is often harmful to their health. Recently, children as young as six years were found to be working in Asian factories, and the children were working from eight to fourteen hours a day in overcrowded and unhealthy working conditions. Sometimes a whole family group is employed, with the payment going to a parent or older relative. The children not only receive nothing or very little for their long hours of work, but also they are prevented from attending schools. Therefore, when they become older they are unable to do any other kind of work.

The solution to the problem of child labour is clearly better laws to protect young children, greater supervision of industry and heavier fines for those who break the laws. Only in this way can young boys and girls be allowed to enjoy the most valuable time of their lives-childhood.

6.The conditions under which young children work ______.

A.have improved since a hundred years ago

B.are even worse than those a hundred years ago

C.are similar to those a hundred years ago

D.are exactly the same as those a hundred years ago

7.Girls' work is ______.

A.not harmful to the health though it is heavy

B.not harmful to the health because it is light

C.harmful to the health though it is light

D.harmful to the health because it is heavy

8.Young children go to work ______.

A.because they are forced to

B.in order to be skilful in a certain kind of work

C.in order to earn money for education

D.in order to be paid well

9.To solve the problem of child labour, the writer suggests ______.

A.punishing lawbreakers with severer fines, improving children's working conditions, and confining employment of children to light industries

B.improving laws of protecting children's interests, looking over factories more closely, and punishing lawbreakers with severer fines

C.improving laws of protecting children's interests, giving them lighter work, and raising their payment

D.confining employment of children to small industries and family businesses, looking over factories more closely, and improving the system of education

10.What is the author's attitude toward child labor?

A.indifferent

B.disapproving

C.supportive

D.admiring

二、词汇与语法

11.The two friends shared a _______ interest in stamp collecting.

A.common

B.general

C.popular

D.usual

12.The electric shaver ______ before it can be used.

A.must repair

B.should be in repair

C.has to be repairable

D.needs repairing

13.I'd like to explain the proposals _______ we have received many objections.

A.to which

B.to where

C.to who

D.to what

14.Not only _______ our money, but we were also in danger of losing our lives.

A.we lost

B.lost we

C.we did lose

D.did we lose

15.This couple has two daughters, _________ of whom is working in the U. S.

A.the younger

B.the youngest

C.a younger

D.the young

16.That poorly dressed old man felt quite ________ at such a big party attended by many important figures.

A.in the way

B.out of the way

C.out of place

D.in place

17.The ship took machines and other goods back to the port ________ it had set off.

A.from which

B.to which

C.which

D.in which

18.Not only Tom but also his wife ______fond of watching television.

A.are

B.were

C.be

D.was

19.They found the conditions there ________.

A.much improve

B.much to improve

C.much improved

D.be much improved

20.- Does he speak English or Russian?

- He doesn't speak_________.

A.either

B.neither

C.another

D.none

三、完型填空

Miss Ebert kept the little bakery on the corner. Two __21__ three times a week, she had a customer in __22__ she began to take an interest. He was a middle-aged man __23__ spectacles and a brown beard. He spoke English with a strong German accent. His clothes were worn and wrinkled, but he looked neat and had very good manners. He always bought two loaves of stale (不新鲜的) bread. He never asked for anything __24__ stale bread; it cost a lot less than fresh bread.

Once Miss Ebert __25__ a red and brown stain on his fingers. She was sure that he was an artist and very poor. No doubt he lived in an attic, where he __26__ pictures and ate stale bread and thought of the good things __27__ eat in the bakery.

Often when Miss Ebert sat down to her evening meal, she __28__ sigh and wish the artist might share her food __29__ of eating his dry bread.

One day the customer came in __30__ usual and asked for his stale bread. As the sudden noise of a fire-engine made his hurry to the door, Miss Ebert seized her opportunity. She cut each of the loaves with a knife, inserted some butter and, when the customer turned round, she was putting them into a paper bag.

21.

A.and

B.thus

C.or

D.then

22.

A.whom

B.who

C.which

D.that

23.

A.on