牛津上海版高二年级英语第一学期话题阅读(一)society and life(有答案)

话题阅读（一）Society and Life

（A）

Christine Yu is single and successful. A senior auditor with a large company, Yu __1

her free time practicing English at a language club and dancing. She does not spend her free time trying to find the 2 man.

At 29, Yu is part of a new generation of young urban Chinese women, who say they have more choices than their mothers did when it 3 to education, careers and, especially, marriage.

For centuries, Chinese women were expected to 4 themselves to their families and husbands, but that attitude is 5 fast. In a 2004 survey by the Asian Women' s Forum and the Women' s Studies Center at Peking University, saying that 45.3% of women did not think they should have to give up a career for a family life.

China now boasts a generation of educated career women. Nearly three-quarters of Chinese

women want to be financially 6 , a survey found last year.

1-5. IJFEH 6-9. ABGC

（B）

Until recently, most population growth has occurred in relatively crowded cities. In other words, _1 we found rapid population growth, that would not mean that the 2 were filled with people.

Historically, we find that people have moved to 3 the jobs were. Jobs were usually in ports or places with many natural resources. After transportation became relatively 4 , other places became 5 of economic activity. One factor that determines where people will move to, even when transportation becomes cheap, is 6 . And people

working in cities 7 higher incomes than those working in the countryside. So population has begun until the 1970s to _8in our major urban centers. If people did not9 from living in large cities, there would likely be a much more population distribution throughout our entire land area. Probably, if this were the K), there would be 11 concern over population explosion. Indeed, one need only to arrange a cross-country drive or plane trip to 12 how sparsely(稀疏的) populated the United States really are. This is 13 that we should or should not do something about population growth. The shortage of 14 in certain areas shows that overpopulation in the United States is really only a problem in overcrowded 15 .And this problem may be slowly corrected by itself.

1. A.even B.before C.even if D.after

2. A.towns B.countryside C.cities D.farms

3. A.where B.there C.what D.how

4. A.dear B.cheap C.difficult D.tired

5. A.channels B.routes C.sources D.centers

6. A.profit B.time C.income D.housing

7. A.earn B.gain C.win D.obtain

8. A.move B.increase C.find D.drop

9. A.go away B.get C.develop D.benefit

10. A.thing B.case C.time D. place

11. A.no B.again C.less D.more

12. A.remember B.think C.work D.realize

13. A.to say B.not to say C.what D.

something

14. A.people B.material C.money D.time

15. A.states B.countryside C.cities D.

continents

1-5. CBABD 6-10. CABDB 11-15. CDBAC

（C）

City traffic is a great problem. More cars are produced every year and the streets are getting

more and more crowded. So during "rush hour", when people are going to or from their work, traffic is brought to a standstill. It has been suggested that commuters should share their cars and give each other lifts. So each car would carry four or five people instead of only one. It is an excellent idea, however, so far nobody has been able to think of a way to compel people to do so.

To discourage motorists from leaving their cars in the streets all day, parking meters are used. When you park at a meter, you must put a coin in the slot. This pays for a certain amount of time. The meter records this and it shows when the time that you have paid for is finished. If the car is still there then, you have to pay a fine.

Traffic wardens look after the meters. They walk around the streets and check that every meter shows that money has been paid for the car parked there. If a meter registers "Time expired", the motorist who has left his car there is fined. Of course, the traffic warden cannot wait for the owner of the car to return. He carries a block of printed forms, and on one of these he writes down all the details, such as the registration number of the car, where it is parked, how much the driver must pay and where he must send the money. He leaves this form on the car where the driver will be able to see it easily; he usually pushes it under one of the windscreen wipers so that it will not blow away. And in case it rains before the motorist returns the form is put in a little plastic envelope to protect it. When the driver comes back, he gets an unpleasant surprise, but it is his own fault for leaving his car too long at a parking meter.

Word Bank

compel v 强迫expire v 时间已到registration number n. 注册车牌

parking meter 计量器warden n. 监管人

1. The underlined word "standstill" means_____________________ .

A. rush

B. stop

C. adventure

D. struggle

2. Which detail is not written on the printed form?

A. Registration number of the car.

B. The place where the car is parked.

C. The name of the car owner.

D. The place to pay the fine.

3. Which is not true about the parking meters?

A. People can put coins into it.

B. It keeps a record of the time when drivers park their car.

C. It shows people when they have to drive away the cars.

D. It warns the drivers ten minutes before the time limit.

4. What's the advantage of using parking meters in the streets?

A. It makes it possible that everyone has a place to park his car.

B. It discourages motorists from parking cars for too long a time.

C. It saves labor because traffic wardens are no longer needed.

D. It keeps a record of time and drivers can put the parking fine into it.

1-4. BCDB

（D）

A picture, a calendar or even a balloon may be the best way for million of people living in China's vast country areas to learn about AIDS, one of the biggest threats to public health in the world today.

China has decided to use user-friendly methods including exhibitions, VCDS and TV programmes to spread knowledge of the disease across the nation to try to keep it in check. Educating people nationwide about AIDS is the top priority to prevent the disease from getting out of hand. The farmers will be given knowledge in the easiest way that they can understand.

A recent survey from the commission of more than 7,000 people in China showed that nearly

20 percent of them had never heard of AIDS before. Just over 71 percent said they knew AIDS was highly infectious , but most of them had no clear idea of how the disease could be spread. Just over 62 percent said they knew they could do things in advance to prevent them catching AIDS but they didn't know what these measures were.

The month-long survey, carried out last December, talked to people in seven counties and cities across China including both developed coastal areas and the less-developed inland areas. The interviewees changed from 15 to 49 years old, and country residents were about 63% of the total surveyed.

Chinese residents, especially those in the country, have very little knowledge about that AIDS is all about, not to mention prevention and treatment. By the end of last year, there were 22, 517

known HIV/AIDS cases in China. However, more than 6,000,000 people in China have been infected.

Since 1985, China has discovered 880 patients with AIDS—466 of them have died. Sharing needles, complicated sex relations and contaminated blood transfusions are major ways for HIV to spread. A lack of education has been the biggest difficulty against nationwide efforts to prevent AIDS, especially in the countryside.

Word Bank

priority n. 优优优infectious adj. 优优优

commission n. 优优优contaminated adj. 优优优

5. The author 's purpose in writing the passage is to.

A. show his concern about the health of people

B. make people know about AIDS

C. call on people to fight against AIDS

D. tell us people are short of the knowledge of AIDS

6. The greatest difficulty against the nationwide effort to prevent AIDS lies in

A. misunderstanding of people

B. the shortage of money

C. its infection

D. lack of education

7. "Since 1985, China has discovered 880 patients with AIDS—466 of them had died. " Do you know why?

A. Because their families refused to cure them.

B. Because they had been in low spirits for a long time.

C. Because there weren't enough effective measures to treat AIDS.

D. Because they couldn't lead a normal life like other healthy people.

8. It is judged that there are people hit by AIDS in China at present.

A. 22,527

B. over 6,000,000

C. 880

D. over 7,000

5-8. CDVB

（E）

The flat, at the top of a huge tower block in a northern suburb of London, was empty. It had been vacant for a long time, a year or eighteen months perhaps. The landlord was living abroad, it seemed. The staircase creaked, the dust flew up in clouds from the worn carpet and rainwater dripped from a hole in the ceiling on to the floorboards below. Both windows on the landing were cracked and curtainless. The light worked but there was no shade and electric wire black with spider webs.

Very carefully they inspected the rooms. All were empty. There were two ancient leather armchairs in one, together with an old oak table, covered with dust, and an enormous double-bed in the front room—too large, probably to go through the door. All over the floor lay pieces of newspaper, broken canvases, coat hangers and other grubby oddments.

"What do you think?" asked the man. He was about twenty years old, unshaven, wearing a thick sweater, jeans and muddy boots.

"It's better than nothing," answered the girl. She was carrying a small child wrapped in a blanket. She herself wore a loose coat and a long skirt that touched the floor.

"We can clean it up," the man said. "That hole in the ceiling will need repairing but that's about all. A coat of paint and a few rolls of wallpaper will cover up the cracks. "

They had taken over the flat because they needed a home and could not, at that time, afford to buy one. Being on the city's housing waiting list hadn't helped much either. Now they would live in this flat until they found something else—somewhere to bring up a family in.

Word Bank

creak v. 吱吱嘎嘎作响

9. According to the passage, the underlined part "grubby oddments" (Para. 2) most probably means " ".

A. dirty bits and pieces

B. current issues of magazines

C. fashionable carpets

D. fresh milk

10. The appearance of the man could best be described as.

A. charming

B. serious

C. casual

D. handsome

11. When he says "but that's about all" (Para. 5), the man means "".

A. but there is little else that needs repairing

B. but that is just a beginning

C. but there are repair jobs to be done everywhere

D. but there are holes all over the ceiling

12. What could be said about their previous efforts to obtain accommodation?

A. They had just waited for something to happen without doing anything to help themselves.

B. They had already put their names on a local authority housing list.

C. They had not attempted to save money in order to buy a home of their own.

D. They liked moving house frequently and did not want to settle down.

9-12. ACAB