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　　2010年1月份百题精练（1）
　　英语试题
　　第二部分：阅读（共两节，满分55分）
　　第一节阅读理解（共20小题，每题2分，满分40分）
　　阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
　　A
　　More surprising , perhaps , than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and thriving (旺盛的). As Skolnich notes , Americans are a marrying people : relative to Europeans , more of us marry and we marry at a younger age . Moreover , after a decline (衰退) in the early 1970s, the rate of marriage in the United States is now increasing . Even the divorce (离婚) rate needs to be taken in this pro-marriage context :some 80 percent of divorced individuals remarry . Thus , marriage remains by far the preferred way of life for the vast majority of the people in our society .
　　What has changed more than marriage is the nuclear family . Twenty-five years ago , the typierican family consisted of the husband ,the wife , and two or three children . Now , there are many marriages in which couples have decided not to have any children , and there are many marriages where at least some of the children are from the wife’s previous marriage , or the husband’s , or both . Sometimes these children spend all of their time with one parent from the former marriage ; sometimes they are shared between the two former spouses (配偶).
　　Thus , one can find every type of tamely arrangement . There are marriages without children ; marriages with children from only the present marriages ; marriages with "full-time" children from both the present and former marriages ; marriages with "full-time" children from the present marriage and "part-time" children from former marriages . There are stepfathers , stepmothers ,half-brothers and half-sisters . It is not all that unusual for a child to have four parents and eight grandparents ! These are enormous changes from the traditional nuclear family . But even so , even in the midst of all this , there remains one constant : most Americans spend most of their adult lives married .
　　46．By calling Americans a marrying people the writer means that .
　　A．Americans are more traditional than Europeans
　　B．Americans expeore out of marriage than Europeans
　　C．there are more married couples in the USA than in Europe
　　D．more of Americans , as pared with Europeans , prefer marriage and they accept it at a younger age
　　47．Divorericans .
　　A．prefer the way they live B．will most likely remarry
　　C．have lost interest in marriage D．are the majority of people in the society
　　48．Which of the following can be presented as the picture of today’s American families ?
　　A．Which types of family arrangements have bee socially acceptable .
　　B．A typierican family consists of only a husband and a wife .
　　ericans prefer to have more kids than before.
　　D．There are no nuclear families any more .
　　49．Though great changes have taken place in the structure of American families , .
　　A．the majority of Americans still have faith in marriage
　　B．the functions of marriage remain unchanged
　　ost Americans prefer a searriage
　　D．most Americans prefer to be single
　　B
　　Many people believe the glare (炫目的光) from snow causes snowblindness . Yet , with dark glasses or not , they find themselves suffering from headaches and watering eyes , and even snowblindness , when exposed to several hours of "snow light".
　　The United States army has now determined that glare from snow does not cause snowblindness in troops in a snow-covered country . Rather , a man’s eyes frequently find nothing to focus on (聚集)in a broad space of snow-covered without-grass land . So his gaze continually moves and jumps back and forth over the entire landscape in search of something to look at . Finding something , hour after hour , the eyes never stop searching and the eyeballs bee tired