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　　辽宁省东北育才学校、省实验中学、大连二十高（新疆部）三校2013-2014学年高二下学期期末联考英语试题
　　考试时间：100分钟 试题分数：150分
　　第二部分  阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
　　第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
　　阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
　　A
　　My brother Ron joined the US army a few years ago. Most girls, especially those who are my age, are thrilled by anything that has to do with the “army”. It’s a novelty to them to shoot a gun, jump out of a plane, and wear uniform.
　　Now I ’re thinking that I must find it really cool to know a solider, who’s my brother. That’s wrong, before I found out that my brother joined the army, I was crazy about the army. Firstly, I wanted to go to college, knew that joining the army was probably the only way I could get it as my parents couldn’t afford it. Additionally there were all the other points of the army that grabbed my heart. I wanted the challenge, I wanted the discipline and I wanted the feeling that I would be doing something beyond the ability of average citizen.
　　But as soon as my brother joined the army, all those things fell away. All I saw were dead people, guns shooting, tanrning into a ball of fire, tents burning, and lots of blood. It was so horrible. When Ron went to Iraq, I freat whenever I didn’t hear from him for more than a week. I p with the news, reading the latest newspaper and listening to the hourly reports. And every time I heard that an American solider was killed, I prayed, it’ wasn’t Ron.
　　I’m proud of my brother for serving our country, and his willingness to devote his life to something he finds important. It’s great to see how discipline and mature he’s got, and I’m glad he has his college paid for. But although I am proud, I gladly give up the “coolness” of having a brother in the army. I would be perfectly all right if I had never seen that uniform on him, and he was just a plain old “boring” brother.
　　I love my brother, and I’m proud of him, but I want him back home!
　　21. What did the writer think of the army before Ron joined?
　　A. Joining the army was more beneficial than going to college.
　　B. Joining the army was a good choice for those who couldn’t afford college education.
　　C. Joining the army was meant risking one’s life for something important,
　　D. Joining the army did more harm than good.
　　22. After Ron joined the army, the writer          .
　　A. decide to join the army one day                      
　　B. became afraid of seeing soldiers
　　C. often showed off Ron in front of friends               
　　D. became aware of the danger of joining the army
　　23. What would be the best title for the passage?
　　A. Peace or war?                     B. Life in the army   
　　C. Having a soldier in the family         D. A choice between your life and your dream
　　B
　　The greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there has been a remarkable shortening of the proportion of a woman's life spent in caring for the children. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, four or five of whom lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman's youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five years and can be expected to live another thirty-five years and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty. Even while she has to take care of children, her work is lightened by modern living conditions.
　　This important change in women's life-patterns