1、精品文檔大學(xué)英語(yǔ)（一、閱讀：( 1 )Afewyearsagoitwascommontospeakofagenerationgapbetween young people and their elders. Parents said thatchildren did not respect and listen to them, while childrensaidthattheirparentsdidnotunderstandthematall.Whathadgonewrong?Whyhadthegenerationgapsuddenlyappeared?Actually,thegenera

2、tiongaphasbeenaroundforalongtime.Many people argue that it is built into every part of oursociety.One important cause of the generation gap is theopportunity that young people have to choose their own waysof life. In a more traditional society, when children growup,theyareexpectedtoliveinthesamearea

3、astheirparents,to marry people that their parents know and like, and oftentocontinuethefamilyjobs.Inoursociety,youngpeopleoftentravel great distances for their education, move out of thefamilyatanearlyage,marryorlivewithpeoplewhomtheirparentshavenevermet,andchoosejobsdifferentfromthoseof their paren

4、ts.Inoursociety,parentsoftenexpecttheirchildrentodobetterthantheydid,tofindbetterjobs,tomakemoremoneyand todoallthe things thatthey wereunable todo. Often,that is another cause of the gap between them. Often, theydiscoverthattheyhaveverylittleincommonwitheachother.Finally, the speed at which changes

5、 take place in oursocietyisthethirdcauseofthegapbetweenthegenerations.Inatraditionalculture,seniorpeoplearevaluedfortheirknowledge,butinoursocietytheknowledgeofalifetimemay.精品文檔becomeoutofdate.Theyoungandtheoldseemtoliveintwovery different worlds, separated by different skills andabilities. No doubt

6、, the generation gap will continue inAmerican life for some time to come.1. The first paragraph tells us that _A_.a.theproblemofthegenerationgapdrawsmuchattentionfrom peopleb. it is out of date to talk about the generation gapc.childrenandparentsaretryingtounderstandeachotherd.itisveryimportantforpe

7、opletofrequentlycommunicatewith each other2. In a more traditional society, old people_A_.a. have their children respect and listen to themb. do not care for their children at allc. expect their children to rebel against themd. do not live together with their children3. In American society young peo

8、ple_B_.a. do not need to find jobsb. leave home at an early agec. have better education than their parentsd. marry people younger than them4.WhichofthefollowingisNOTthecauseofthegenerationgap?Ba. Young people like to depend more on themselves.b. Parents do not love their children dearly.c. American

9、society changes rapidly.d. Parents expect too much of their children.5. The main idea of the passage is _C_.a. that the generation gap needs consideringb.whenthegenerationgapisnecessaryinAmericansocietyc. why the generation gap exist.精品文檔d. how we can reduce the generation gap( 2 )If you ask some Ho

10、w did you learn English so You may get a surprising In my Therearepeoplewhohavetakenpartinoneofrecentexperimentstotest“Learn-While-Sleep”methods,whicharenowbeingtriedinseveralcountries,andwithseveralsubjects,ofwhichEnglishis only one.Specialists say that this “ sleep-study” method speedslanguage lea

11、rning greatly. They say that the average person canlearntwoorthreetimesasmuchduringsleepasintheperiodduringthe day-and this does not affect his rest in any way. A word ofwarning,however,sleepteachingwillonlystrengtheninyourmindwhat you have studied already while you are awake.In an experiment, lesso

12、ns were broadcast over the radio. Eachlesson lasted twelve 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. The first threehoursofEnglishgrammarandvocabularyweregivenwiththestudentawake.At11p.m.alullaby(催眠曲)wasbroadcasttosendthestudenttosleepandforthenextthreehourstheradiowhisperedthelessonagainintohissleepingear.At2a.m.asharpnois

13、ewassentovertheradiotowakethesleepingstudentupforafewminutestoreviewthe lesson. The soft songs sent him back to rest again while theradio went on. At 5 a.m. his sleep ended and he had to go throughthe lesson again for three hours before breakfast.6. Compared with other methods of learning, theLearn-

14、While-You-Sleep method is_C_.a. slowerb. very tiringd. very simplec. quicker7. By this method, one _C_.a. starts to learn a new lesson in sleepb. learns how to sleep betterc. is made to remember his lessons in sleepd. can get more knowledge over the radio.精品文檔8. In the experiment, the first part of

15、the lesson wasgiven_D_.a. around midnightb. after lullabies were broadcastc. all through the twelve hoursd. while the student was awake9.Beforeeachlessonfinishes,thestudenthasto_D_.a. get up and take breakfastb. be wakened by a loud noisec. listen to the lesson again in sleepd. review the lesson by

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