【正文】 *第十九篇 The Family 家庭 The structure of a family takes different forms around the world and even in the same society. The family39。s form changes as it adapts to changing social and economic influences. 1. Another good title for this passage would be What Makes a Family? 2. A nuclear family is defined as a married couple with their minor children 3. The information in this passage would most likely be found in an anthropology textbook information in the first paragraph is presented mainly through pointing out similarities 5. The word mobility means readiness to move *第二十篇 Tales of the Terrible Past 講述可怕的過去 It is not the job of fiction writers to analyze and interpret history. Yet by writing about the past in a vivid and pelling manner， storytellers can bring earlier eras to life and force readers to consider them seriously. 1. This passage is mostly about two novels that deal with slavery 2. Beloved is set in Ohio after the Civil War 3. The writer seems to feel that the books are worthwhile but challenging 4. The writer emphasizes that the two books are similar in their portrayal of violence 5. The word appalling means terrible *二十六 Seeing the World Centuries Ago 看許久以前的世界 If you enjoy looking through travel books by such familiar authors as Arthur Frommer or Eugene Fodor， it will not surprise you to lean that travel writing has a long and venerable history. 1. This passage is mostly about where three early travel writers went and wrote about 2. Ibn Battutah traveled throughout the Muslim word 3. The books bf the three writers were popular because they told of strange and exotic locales 4. The overall anization of this passage is through chronological order 5. In this passage attest means to give proof of 第十七篇 Eiffel Is an Eyeful 引人注目 的埃菲爾鐵塔 Some 300 meters up, near the Eiffel Tower39。s windwhipped summit the world es to scribble . does the author think the Eiffel Tower is transformed into symbol of a world on the move? Tourists of all nationalities e to scribble on the cold iron of the tower. seems strange to the author? Visitors prefer wasting time scribbling to enjoying the view. statement is NOT true of Hugues Richard? He climbed 747 steps up the tower in 19minutes and 4 seconds. did the builder use the Eiffel Tower for? Conducting research in various fields. of the following is nearest in meaning to (The Eiffel Tower is like) a blank canvas for visitors to make of it what they will? Visitors can imagine freely what the tower represents. *第 三十篇 “Lucky” Lord Lucan Alive or Dead 幸運(yùn)的盧肯伯爵 是死是活 On 8th November 1974 Lord Lucan， a British aristocrat， vanished. The day before， his children39。s nanny had been brutally murdered and his wife had been attacked too. 1. The public are still interested in the investigation because Lord Lucan has never been found 2. It is thought that Lucan killed the nanny because it was dark and he thought she was Lady Lucan 3. Aspinall thought Lucan killed himself by sinking his boat 4. Lucan could have been killed because people thought he might talk to the police about them if he was caught 5. Exdetective MacLaughlin claimed that Mr Barry Haplin was really Lord Lucan in disguise *第三十三篇 Oseola McCarty 老婦人 Oseola McCarty LATE ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON in September 1999， Oseola McCarty， an elderly cleaning lady passed away in the little wooden frame house where she had lived and worked most of her life. woman shocked and inspired the world because she gave her life savings to help others through university managed to save so much mOI1y because she had worked hard， saved hard and invested carefully gave her money away because she wanted others to have the opportunity to escape a hard life her generosity was made hundreds of people put money into the fund became famous because of her generosity *第三十一篇 Pool Watch 泳池監(jiān)護(hù) Swimmers can drown in busy swimming pools when lifeguards fail to notice that they are in trouble. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents says that on average 15 people drown in British pools each year, but many more suffer major injury after getting into difficulties. 1. AI means the same as artificial intelligence. 2. What is required of AI software to save a life? It can distinguish between a swimmer and a shadow. 3. How does Poseidon save a life? It alerts the lifeguard. 4. Which of the following statements about Travor Baylis is NOT true? He runs. 5. The word considered in paragraph 5 could be best replaced by rated. *第三十二篇 The Cherokee Nation 徹羅基部落 Long before the white man came to the America, the land belonged to the American Indian nations. The nation of the Cherokees lived in what is now the southeastern part of the United States. Cherokee Nation used to live in the southeastern part of the . of the ways that Sequoyah copied from the white man is the way of writing down the spoken language. law was passed in 1830 to force the Cherokees to move westward. the Cherokees began to leave their lands, all of the above. Cherokees died on their way to their new home mainly because they did not have enough food and clothes. 一 Telling Tales about People 講述關(guān)于人們的故事 One of the most mon types of nonfiction, and one that many people enjoy reading, is stories about people39。s lives. These stories fall into three general categories: autobiography, memoir, and biography. 1. This passage is mostly about the characteristics of autobiographies， memoirs， and biographies 2. Helen Keller wrote an autobiography. 3. Autobiography writers are not always objective because they want to present themselves in a good light. 4. The writer introduces each category in the passage by defining it. 5. Diverse means varied or different _. 八 The Changing Middle Class 變化中的中產(chǎn)階級(jí) T