概括段落大意和补全句子。阅读下面短文，请完成短文后的2项测试任务： （1）从每个题后所给的6个选项中为第①～⑤段每段选择1个正确的小标题；（2）从每个小题后所给的6个选项中选择5个正确选项，分别完成每个句子。

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概括段落大意和补全句子：阅读下面短文，请完成短文后的二项测试任务：(1)从第1~5题后所给的六个选项中为第①~⑤段每段选择一个正确的小标题；(2)从第6~10题后所给的六个选项中选择五个正确选项，分别完成每个句子。

概括段落大意和补全句子

阅读下面短文，请完成短文后的2项测试任务: ( 1 )题后所给的6个选项中为第①~⑤段每段选择1个正确的小标题； (2)从题后所给的6个选项中选择5个正确选项，分别完成每个句子。                                                                                           

概括段落大意和补全句子：阅读下面短文，请完成短文后的二项测试任务：(1)从第1~5题后所给的六个选项中为第①~⑤段每段选择一个正确的小标题；(2)从第6~10题后所给的六个选项中选择五个正确选项，分别完成每个句子。 

     ① The endless debate about "work-life balance" often contains a hopeful footnote about stay at home dads. If American society and business won't make it easier on future female leaders who choose to have children, there is still the ray of hope that increasing numbers of full-time fathers will. But based on today's socioeconomic trends, this hope is, unfortunately, misguided. 

    ② It's true that the number of men who have left work to do their thing as full-time parents has doubled in a decade, but it's still very small: only 0.8％ of married couples where the stay-at-home father was out of the labor force for a year. Even that percentage is likely inflated by men thrust into their caretaker role by a downsizing. This is simply not a large enough group to reduce the social stigma(污名) and force other adjustments necessary to supporting men in this decision even if only work more than their family.

    ③ Even shorter times away from work for working fathers are already difficult. A study found that 85％ of new fathers take some time off after the birth of a child-but for all but a few, it's a week or two at most. Meanwhile, the average for women who take leave is more than 10 weeks.

    ④ Such choices impact who moves up in the organization. While you're away, someone else is doing your work, making your sales, taking care of your customers. That can't help you at work. It can only hurt you. Women, of course, face the same issues of returning after a long absence. But with many more women than men choosing to leave the workforce entirely to raise families, returning from an extended parental leave doesn't raise as many eyebrows as it does for men. 

    ⑤ Women would make more if they didn't break their earning trajectory(轨迹) by leaving the workforce, or if higher-paying professions were more family friendly. In the foreseeable future, stay-at-home fathers may make all the difference for individual families. But their presence won't reduce the numbers of high potential women who are forced to choose between family and career.

概括段落大意和补全句子：阅读下面短文，请完成短文后的二项测试任务：(1)从第1~5题后所给的六个选项中为第①~⑤段每段选择一个正确的小标题；(2)从第6~10题后所给的六个选项中选择五个正确选项，分别完成每个句子。

概括段落大意和补全句子
阅读下面短文，请完成短文后的2项测试任务: ( 1 )题后所给的6个选项中为第①~⑤段每段选择1个正确的小标题; (2)从题后所给的6个选项中选择5个正确选项，分别完成每个句子。

概括段落大意和补全句子
阅读下面短文，请完成短文后的2项测试任务： ( 1 )从题后所给的6个选项中为第①~⑤段每段选择1个正确的小标题；(2)从题后所给的6个选项中选择5个正确选项，分别完成每个句子,并选择正确的答案代码(指 A、B、C、D、E或 F)。

阅读选择：阅读下面短文，请从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出一个最佳选项。

阅读下面短文，请从短文后所给各题的4个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出一个最佳选项。 

     As every physics student learns, there are four known forces of nature: gravity, electromagnetism, a "strong force" that binds atomic nuclei and a "weak force” that governs certain types of radioactive decay. Last week researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory announced that they may have found the best evidence yet for a hypothetical, elusive "fifth force”. If confirmed, their findings could mean that Sir Issac Newton's famous inverse-square law of gravity is in danger of losing the dignified position it has held for three centuries. “It's like saying Mem and apple pie's no good any more”, admits the leader of the gravity project, Geophysicist Mark Ander. “You just don't do that lightly.”
     The physicists reached their conclusion as the result of an experiment conducted in Greenland last summer. They lowered a supersensitive meter into a mile-deep hole bored in glacial ice--chosen because its density is more uniform than that of rock—and monitored the gravity as the meter descended, What occurred was startling: the expected increase in gravitational force predicted by Newton was there, but it got stronger, faster than expected. Either something was enhancing the force of gravity or the researchers had come upon a heretofore unknown, far more complex working of gravity itself. Or, just possibly, they had made a mistake.
     The fifth force, if that is what it is, has been a source of debate among physicists since its existence was suggested in 1981 by Australian mineshaft experiments. Five years later, Purdue University Physics Professor E. Fischbach measured a weak force he called "hypercharge" and theorized that it caused object of different composition to fall at different rates. Since Fischbach's finding, as many as 45 experiments have sprung up in search of the mystery force, and so far each has served only to confuse rather than clarify the issue.
     Jim Thomas, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology, praises the technical precision of Ander's experiment, but cautions that measuring gravity in holes is inexact at best. He points out, for example, that an aberration in the earth's crust might have caused the unusual measurements. What we are talking about is the possible modification of gravity, which is the fourth force,"adds Thomas. Even Ander stresses the strict confirmation is needed before he accepts the results of his Greenland experiment, Says he, "Gee, I've gotta be wrong—Newton certainly can't be wrong!"

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     Not long after George and Betty were married, they were talking about a movie they had just seen. Betty thought the leading man was extremely attractive. George didn't. "But it wasn't just his physical appearance," Betty said. "He was strong, but kind and considerate. That's what I find attractive in a man. Though you don't always act that way you're really strong and self-confident, too, George,"she continued. "I love you for that.”
     George had never thought of himself as strong and self-confident before. He usually sat back and let others make decisions for him, even push him around. Betty's words made him decide that from that moment on, no matter how he felt in situation, he would try to appear strong and self-confident. The next day, George stood his ground in an argument at a supermarket checkout counter. Gradually, with Betty cheering him on, he demonstrated his quiet strength at home, in the community and at work.
     "If Betty had said to George, ‘Why can't you be like the hero?' she would have gotten hurt feelings and an argument, not improvement," says Robert H. Lauer, professor of human behavior at U.S. International University in San Diego. Instead, by complimenting George, and telling what she wanted, Betty helped him change.
     George and Betty had discovered the secret of successful marriages, says Lauer—the art of helping each other improve and grow. Lauer and his wife, Jeanette, studied 351 couples married at least 15 years and found that one of the characteristics happy marriages most commonly shared was the ability of husband and wife to recognize each other's hidden qualities and nurture them. "Mutual improvement and education are essential to a strong marriage, "says Lauer.

阅读选择
阅读下面短文，请从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出一个最佳选项。

Improve Your Memory    

     If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, they become weak; when you start using them again, they slowly become strong again. Everybody knows this, and nobody would think of questioning this fact. Yet there are many people who do not seem to know that the memory works in the same way. When someone says that he had a good memory, he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by exercising it regularly, either consciously or unconsciously. When someone says that his memory is poor, he really means that he does not give it enough opportunity to become strong. The position is exactly the same as that of two people, one of whom exercises his arms and legs by playing tennis while the other sits in a chair or a motor car all day.
     If a friend complains that his arms are weak, we know that it is his own fault. But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his parents are to blame, or that he is just unlucky, and few of us realize that it is just as much his own fault as if it was his arms or legs that were weak. Not all of us can become extremely strong or extremely clever; but all of us can, if we have ordinary bodies and brains, improve our strength and our memory by the same means—practice.
     Have you ever noticed that people who cannot read or write usually have better memories than those who can? Why is this? Of course, because those who cannot read or write have to remember things; they can not write them down in a little notebook. They have to remember dates, times and prices, names, songs and stories; so their memory is the whole time being exercised.
     So if you want a good memory, learn from the poor and humble; practice remembering. 

Reading Comprehension
从下列每篇短文的问题后所给的四个选择项中选出一个最佳答案。

     There will be a major shift in the age distribution in the American workforce. As the baby boomers （born between 1946 and 1963） begin to hit retirement age, they will be replaced by the so-called ”Generation Y” or ”Millennial Generation,” who number almost 80 million. And the qualified workers of this generation are soon going to be desperately needed, leaving businesses no choice but to figure out how to attract and keep them.
     People often say that members of the ”Millennial Generation” can’t take care of themselves and are going to bring the world down with them. Some people might think Millennials are spoiled internet addicts （上瘾者） who feel a strong sense of entitlement and aren’t willing to work hard for the great rewards they expect.
     In reality Millennials are the first generation of “digital natives,“ that is, they have never known a world without digital technology. As a result Millennials experience the world in a completely different way than previous generations. They experience the world through technology, as older generations experience the world through their organic senses. This intimacy（亲密接触） with the digital world is one of the Millennials’ greatest strengths. It also presents the greatest challenge to those companies that need highly qualified applicants. Managers need to determine ways to use their strengths and work with their weaknesses with business goals in mind.
     The key to attracting and managing Millennials is to create an experience of the company that matches their technological experience of the world. It’s about finding a balance between youthful enthusiasm, cooperative spirit, and the realities of the business world.
     The business world is experiencing a continued breakdown of the authoritarian management style that in some ways still remains as a legacy（遗留做法）from the early 20th century. Managers are going to have to be patient and flexible to a large extent because one thing is for sure, nothing makes Millennials unhappier than doing tasks with traditional methods that can be done better and more efficiently with the right technology or more sophisticated methods.
     They need to be given the opportunity to use the technologies they are familiar with to cooperate with each other and do business. The best candidates are going to be attracted to companies that are willing to give employees what they need and want.

Reading Comprehension
从下列每篇短文的问题后所给的四个选择项中选出一个最佳答案。

     The long summer holidays are finally over and some parents are pleased. "We worry more about their safety in the holidays, explains one mother from North London. If teenagers are not wandering around on public transport in a big and potentially dangerous city, they are chatting to strangers in an internet chat room! Well, that's an extreme picture of the UK today, but many parents are worried about how much freedom they can give their children during the holidays and at weekends..
     Weekends are not the only time to worry! Newspapers are full of stories about too many school kids going to school by car because their parents do not want them to travel alone on a bus or train. This summer there were more frightening stories of many teenagers disappearing with questionable friends that they met on the net. All the Media stories help increase parents fears, but is the UK really so dangerous?
     Many young people feel that life for their parents was easier. In the 1960s young people played in the streets more and traveled around town without their parents. "At least our parents can keep tabs on us," says 16-year-old Julia. "So many people have mobile phones now and their parents ring to find out where they are. I use my mobile to get Dad to come to the station when I arrive late. " Mobiles are not just expensive toys; they help keep young people safe. Most significantly, they make parents feel better. Only one problem is, though, that some young people have been attacked by thieves who want to steal their mobile phones.
     Young people like going out with friends, but they now need to learn how to get home safely. Five million young people in the UK between the ages of 9 to 16 use chat rooms to make friends, but they, too, need to be careful and never give their personal details to a stranger, Young people today have more opportunities to meet new people and go out at night more than their parents ever did. Now schools, television programs and newspapers must help teenagers to enjoy their freedom and to be responsible for their own safety.

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     For Americans, time is a "resource" that, like water or coal, can be used well or poorly. "Time is money," they say. "You only get so much time in this life; you’d better use it wisely." The future will not be better than the past or the present unless people use their time for constructive, future-oriented activities. Thus, Americans admire a "well-organized" person, one who has a written list of things to do and a schedule for doing them. The ideal person is punctual and treasures other people’s time.
     The American attitude towards time is not necessarily shared by others, especially non-Europeans. They are more likely to consider time as something that is simply there around them, not something they can "use". One of the more difficult things many foreign businessmen and students must adjust to in the States is the notion that time must be saved whenever possible and used wisely every day.
     In their efforts to use their time wisely, Americans are sometimes seen by foreign visitors as automatons, unhuman creatures who are so tied to their clocks and their schedules that they cannot participate in or enjoy the human interactions that are the truly important things in life. "They are like little machines running around," one foreign visitor said.
     The emphasis Americans place on efficiency is closely related to their concepts of the future, change and time. To do something efficiently is to do it in the way that is quickest and requires the smallest investment of resources. American businesses sometimes hire "efficiency experts" to review their operations and suggest ways in which they could accomplish more than they are currently accomplishing with the resources they are investing. Popular periodicals carry suggestions for more efficient ways to clean house, raise children, tend the yard, and so on.
     In this context the "fast-food industry" can be seen as a clear example of an American cultural product. McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut, and other fast-food establishments prosper in a country where many people want to minimize the amount of time they spend preparing and eating meals. The millions of Americans who take their meals at fast-food restaurants cannot have much interest in lingering over their food while conversing with friends, as millions of Europeans do. As McDonald’s restaurants have spread around the world, they have been viewed as symbols of American society and culture, bringing not just hamburgers but an emphasis on speed, efficiency, and shiny cleanliness. The typical American food, some observers argue, is fast food.

Reading Comprehension 
从下列每篇短文的问题后所给的四个选择项中选出一个最佳答案。
     Americans are a very energetic and mobile people, always on the run, rushing from one appointment to another, from a PTA (Parent-Teacher Association) meeting to a social planning committee. They have very little time to spend preparing elaborate (精致的,复杂的) everyday meals to be eaten at leisure. In many homes it is rare for the whole family to sit down at supper together. Clubs and committees force them to grab a quick meal rather than a sit-down supper.
     When they do have the chance to eat at home, often the working housewife prefers to prepare meals that can be quickly heated and consumed. It is no wonder, therefore, that America has become a shelter for fast food consumption.
     This great transformation occurred after World War II when many women began to work full time and spend less time at home with their families. Women, however, wanted to function well in the capacity of homemaker, as well as that of career woman but time became a precious commodity (商品) which had to be carefully used.

     Therefore, it was necessary to make her life easier at home in the preparation of the family dinner. Simultaneously with women entering the job market there was also a shifting of the focus of home entertainment from the radio to the television. Television became the latest fashion in the 1950s and no one wanted to miss his or her favorite programs. And then, the place for supper shifted from the dining room to the living room.
     As the customs changed, so did the culture. The immediate solution for this was the invention of the TV dinner. These were frozen meals which were divided into portions of meat and vegetables. They could easily be put into an oven (锅) and prepared within minutes. The tin trays (托盘) in which they were served were conveniently carried into the living room and dinner was consumed in front of a TV set. Cleaning up afterwards was no problem. The tin trays were easily thrown into the garbage.
     From fast dinners at home the next step was quick eating while on the road. Love for TV was combined with the fascination for the automobile. It is not odd that with the development of the superhighways America saw the beginning of fast food chains. McDonald's paved the way with its variety of burgers and cold drinks soon to be followed by all kinds of other foods. Today dozens of fast-food chain stores can be found along highways, in modern shopping malls and scattered throughout neighborhoods in America. Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Roy Roger's, Burger King and Wendy's are just a few of the fast-food chains which are now part of American culture. They offer chicken, donuts, tacos and pizza, all quickly produced in great quantities for the masses. These establishments have given shape to the modern lifestyles and diet of the American people.

Reading Comprehension
从下列每篇短文的问题后所给的四个选择项中选出一个最佳答案。

     Many of today's most trusted sales techniques were invented over a century ago by a young merchant named Eaton in Toronto. When he was young, Eaton worked briefly with his brothers in small-town stores. In 1869, he set up his own shop in downtown Toronto. He had many competitors, but he was also ambitious and had a plan for success. He offered a unique style of trade, but as was expected, all the other shopkeepers laughed at him, believing he would eventually fail. However, Eaton was not a man to be easily defeated; he came up with a brand new notion of business--"Goods satisfactory, or money refunded. He sold all his goods at fixed prices and only for cash. 

     With a sharp sense of what the public wanted, he went out of the way to meet their needs. His business grew rapidly. He set up new branches and started mail order service that allowed people to buy from a list of his goods.
     Eaton’s List-advertisements of his day--was the first of its kind. It was distributed and read all over the country. It was the only way to access good-quality goods at reasonable prices for people living far away from big cities. It became part of their life. They even called it The Wishing Book. The secret of the list's success was that Eaton gained the respect of his customers; they trusted him for good prices and quality goods. Probably because he remembered his miserable early days in Ireland, Eaton thought much of the welfare of his employees: better working conditions, shorter weekday hours than his competitors and Saturday afternoons off in the summer. In all this, he was a leader.

Reading Comprehension
从下列每篇短文的问题后所给的四个选择项中选出一个最佳答案。

     A centuries-old tradition, illustrated in a modern children's book, links the sweetness of honey with the joy of learning to read.

     "The grandpa held a jar of honey so that all the family could see. He then dipped a spoon into it and put some honey on the cover of a small book.

     The little girl had just turned five.

     'Stand up, little one,’ he asked the girl softly. 'I did this for your mother, your uncles, your older brother, and now you!'

     Then, he handed the book to her. 'Taste!'

     She touched the honey with her finger and put it into her mouth.

     'What's that taste?' the grandma asked.

     The little girl answered, 'Sweet!'

     Then all of the family said in a single voice, 'Yes, and so is knowledge, but knowledge is from the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to go after it through the pages of a book!’

     The little girl knew that the promise to read was at last hers. Soon she was going to learn to read."

     This is the beginning of a profoundly moving children's book entitled Thank You, Mr. Falker. In this book, Patricia Polacco writes of her own passion to read, inspired by the honey on the book. It wasn't until fifth grade that she met her beloved teacher who provided the help that she needed to finally unlock the magic of the written word.

     Reading this book, we are in fact acquainted with some enduring traditions of child education that stress the importance of verbal capacity at a very early age.

     The child learning to read is admitted into a collective memory by way of books. And with the printed words that are active with meaning, the child becomes acquainted with a common past which he or she renews, to a greater or lesser degree, in every reading. Much as the author of the book Thank You, Mr. Falker puts it, "Almost as if it were magic, or as if light poured into her brain, the words and sentences started to take shape on the page as they never had before... And she understood the whole thing... Then she went into the living room and found the book on a shelf, the very book that her grandpa had shown her so many years ago. She spooned honey on the cover and tasted the sweetness... Then she held the book, honey and all, close to her chest. She could feel tears roll down her cheeks, but they weren't tears of sadness—she was happy, so very happy." 

Reading Comprehension
从下列每篇短文的问题后所给的四个选择项中选出一个最佳答案。

     The question of whether dogs have a sense of humour is often fiercely argued. My own opinion is that some have and some haven’t. Dachshunds have, but not St Bernards or Great Danes. Apparently a dog has to be small to be fond of joke. You never find a Great Dane trying to be a comedian.
     But it is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts overdoing it. As an example of this I would point to Rudolph, a dachshund I once owned, whose slogan was ”Anything for a Laugh”. Dachshunds are always the worst offenders in this respect because of their peculiar shape. It is only natural that when a dog finds that his mere appearance makes the viewing public laugh, he should imagine nature intended him to be a comedian.
     I had a cottage at the time outside an English village, not far from a farm where they kept ducks, and one day the farmer called on me to say his ducks were disappearing and suspicion had fallen on my Rudolph. Why? I asked, and he said because mine was the only dog in the neighbourhood except his own Towser and Towser had been so carefully trained that he would not touch a duck even if you brought it to him with orange sauce over it.
     I was very annoyed. I said he only had to gaze into Rudolph’s truthful brown eyes to see how baseless were his suspicions. Had he not, I asked, heard of foxes? How much more likely that a fox was the Bad Guy in the story. He was beginning to look doubtful and seemed about to make an apology, when Rudolph, who had been listening with interest and at a certain point had left the room, came trotting（小跑） in with a duck in his mouth.
     Yes, dachshunds overplay their sense of humour, and I suppose other dogs have their faults, but they seem unimportant compared with their virtues.