social services from time to time find themselves faced with flat with decaying food covered by small worms, and an old person lying alone in bed, taking no notice of the worms. But is it interfering with personal freedom to insist that they go to live with some of their relatives so that they might be taken better care of? Some social workers, the ones who clear up the worms, think we are in danger of carrying this concept of personal freedom to the point where serious risks are being taken with the health and safety of the old. Indeed, the old can be easily hurt or harmed. The body is like a car, it needs more mechanical maintenance as it gets older. You can carry this comparison right through to the provision of spare parts. But never forget that such operations are painful experiences, however good the results. And at what point should you cease to treat the old body? Is it morally right to try to push off death by pursuing the development of drugs to excite the forgetful old mind and to activate the old body, knowing that it is designed to die? You cannot ask doctors or scientists to decide, because so long as they can see the technical opportunities, they will feel bound to give them a try, on the principle that while there's life, there's hope. When you talk to the old people, however, you are forced to the conclusion that whether age is happy or unpleasant depends less on money or health than it does on tour ability to have fun.
1.It is implied in paragraph 1 that ______. A . social services have nothing to do with very old people
B . very old people would like to live alone so that can have more personal freedom C . very old people are able to keep their rooms very clean D . very old people enjoy living with their relatives
提交的答案:very old people would like to live alone so that can have more personal freedom
正确答案:very old people would like to live alone so that can have more personal freedom 题目详解:依据问题中\paragraph 1\的提示，从第一段文章的倒数第2句中的\it interfering with personal freedom to insist\判断出，选项中的\live alone so that can have more personal freedom\符合题意。
2.Some social workers think that ______. A . health and safety are more important than personal freedom B . old people should keep their rooms clean
C . one should not take the risk of dealing with old people D . personal freedom is more important than health and safety
提交的答案:health and safety are more important than personal freedom 正确答案:health and safety are more important than personal freedom
题目详解:依据问题中\的提示，从第一段文章的最后一句中的\the point where serious risks are being taken with the health and safety of the old\判断出选项中的\符合题意。
3.In the author's opinion, ______. A . the human body can't be compared to a car B . the older a person, the more care he needs
C . too much emphasis has been put on old people's values D . it is easy to provide spare parts for old people
提交的答案:the older a person, the more care he needs 正确答案:the older a person, the more care he needs
题目详解:根据问题中?In the author's opinion?的提示，从第2段第一句中的\a car, it needs more mechanical maintenance as it gets older\判断出，选项中的\person, the more care he needs\符合题意。
4.The word \A . your talk to the old people B . one's money or one's health C . whether age is happy or unpleasant D . the conclusion you have come to
提交的答案: one's money or one's health 正确答案:whether age is happy or unpleasant
题目详解:问题中\指的就是最后一段最后一句中的\，
判断出选项中\符合题意。
5.The author thinks that ______ A . it is always morally right to treat old people and push off death B . medical decisions for old people should be left to the doctors
C . the opinion that we should try every means possible to save old people is doubtful D . it is always morally right to treat old people and push off death
提交的答案:the opinion that we should try every means possible to save old people is doubtful
正确答案:the opinion that we should try every means possible to save old people is doubtful
题目详解:依据第一段的第一句中的\和最后一段的最后一句中的\的提示，判断出选项中的\people is doubtful\符合题意。
It was 1961 and I was in the fifth grade. My marks in school were miserable and, the thing was, 1 didn't know enough lo really care. My older brother and I lived with Mom in a dingy multi-family house in Detroit. We watched TV every night. The background noise of our lives was gunfire and horses' hoofs from \\at the lube. But one day Mom changed our world forever. She turned off the TV. Our mother had only been able to get through third grade. But she was much brighter and smarter than we hoys knew at liie time. She had noticed something in the suburban houses she cleaned—books. So she came home one day, snapped off the TV , sat us down and explained that her sons were going to make something of themselves. '' You boys are going to read two books every week,\report on what you read. We moaned and complained about how unfair it was. Besides, we didn't have any books in the house other than Mom's Bible. But she explained that we
would go where the books were; \these two peevish boys sitting in her white 1959 Oldsmobile on their way to Detroit Public Library. I wandered reluctantly among the children's books. I loved animals, so when I saw some books that seemed to be about animals, I started leafing through them. The first book I read clear through was Chip die Dam Builder. It was about beavers. For the first time in my life I was lost in another world. No television program had ever taken me so far away from my sur?roundings as did this verbal visit to a cold stream in a forest and these animals building a home. It didn't dawn on me at the time, but the experience was quite different from watching TV. There were images forming in my mind instead of before my eyes. And I could return to them again and again with the flip of a page. Soon I began to look forward to visiting this hushed sanctuary from my other world. I moved from ani?mals lo plants, and then to rocks. Between the covers of all those books were whole worlds, and I was free to go anywhere in them. Along the way a funny thing happened ;I started to know things. Teachers started to notice it too. I got to the point where I couldn't wait to get home to my books. Now my older brother is an engineer and I am chief of pediatric neurosurgery at John Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore. Sometimes I still can't believe my life's journey, from a failing and indif?ferent student in a Detroit public school to this position, which takes me all over the world to teach and perform critical surgery. But I know when the journey began—the day Mom snapped off the TV set and put us in her Oldsmobile for that drive to the library.
1.We can learn from the beginning of the passage that A . the author had spent much time watching TV after school. B . the author had realized how important schooling was. C . the author had been very concerned about his school work. D . the author and his brother had done poorly in school.
提交的答案:the author had spent much time watching TV after school. 正确答案:the author had spent much time watching TV after school.
题目详解:在短文第一段作者就提到“We watched TV every night．”而后又列出一堆当时播出的电视剧的名称，并且这些电视里的声音已经成为the back ground noise of our lives，
可见文中的我和哥哥放学后消磨了大部分的时间在电视上。所以the author had spent much time watching TV after school.为正确答案。
2.Which of the following is NOT true about the author's family? A . His mother worked as a cleaner. B . He came from a middle-class family. C . He came from a single-parent family. D . His mother had received little education.
提交的答案:He came from a middle-class family. 正确答案:He came from a middle-class family.
题目详解:短文中第一段就提到“My older brother and l lived with Mom．．．”说明他是来自单亲的家庭，由此排除He came from a single-parent family.；在短文的第二段提到“She had noticed something in the suburban houses she cleaned．．．”也就是说妈妈的工作是给其他人家打扫卫生，可排除His mother worked as a cleaner；同样是在这段里“Our mother had only been able to get through third grade\说明妈妈没有受过太多的教育，排除His mother had received little education.。只有He came from a middle-class family.是答案。
3.The mother was_______ to make her two sons switch to reading books. A . determined B . unprepared C . reluctant D . hesitant
提交的答案: determined 正确答案: determined
题目详解:短文没有直接说妈妈要她的两个孩子去读书的态度：而是从一些行为表现出来的。当妈妈在他人家里发现了很多书以后，回到家她就snapped off the TV，即猛然关上电视；而后就给她的两个孩子提出了要求“You boys are going to read two books every week，and you are going to write me a report on what you read”，由于家里除了圣经什么书也没有，所以妈妈告诉她的孩子“I?ll drive you to the library．”从这一系列的行动来看，妈妈的态度