【正文】 eatingD．the cooking classes答案　D解析　主旨大意題。故選B。根據(jù)第一段中的“Now midaged Americans may not keep in touch with old people until they are old themselves.”可知，現(xiàn)在美國的中年人直到自己變老以后才會和老人住在一起。故D項正確。14．答案　D解析　根據(jù)下文中的“To show that he has killed a lion，a man will paint his body with a natural white material，making special marks to represent this acplishment.”可知，D項“馬塞族人也有一種獨特的方式來展示他們的勇敢”與語境吻合。16．答案　E解析　根據(jù)該空上面的內(nèi)容可知，男人們在他們眼的附近和嘴唇上涂上黑色與他們的眼睛和白色的牙齒形成對比，這樣顯得他們更加帥氣，目的是吸引自己的另一半，也就是說，這時候女士才能決定她們最喜歡哪一位。根據(jù)最后一段第二句“‘My parents were always telling me to hurry up，and my grandparents told me to slow down，’ one friend said.”可知，父母總是催促孩子快點，是因為父母工作很忙，節(jié)奏很快，所以孩子很少能夠從父母那里得到足夠的關(guān)注。9．The reason why old people are left alone may be that .A．the old don’t like to live in a big familyB．the young can’t get enough money to support the oldC．different generations have different lifestylesD．the old are too weak to live with the young答案　C解析　推理判斷題。根據(jù)最后一段內(nèi)容可知，人們重新燃起對烹飪的興趣，這樣是為了降低肥胖率，在歐洲肥胖率幾乎是最高的。故這篇文章主要講的是烹飪課程。2．The underlined phrase in the last paragraph probably means “ ”．A．scarcely B．usuallyC．fortunately D．unluckily答案　B解析　詞義猜測題。[自主翻譯]　科學(xué)家們認(rèn)為，這些移民通過史前存在的大陸橋穿越北極的白令海峽到達(dá)美洲。[自主翻譯]　在首批移居加州的西班牙人中，大多數(shù)是宗教人士，他們的職責(zé)是向當(dāng)?shù)厝藗魇谔熘鹘獭?．All of the following are true EXCEPT that .A．Baked Ham is usually eaten by the richB．Soup of the Day is the most mon dish of the fourC．the price of wild salmon is much lower than that of farmed salmonD．Dublin Coddle can be cooked in quantity答案　C解析　細(xì)節(jié)理解題。故選C。CIn the past most Americans spent time with people of midaged Americans may not keep in touch with old people until they are old themselves.That’s because we group people by put our threeyearolds together in daycare center，our 13yearolds in school and sports activities，and our 80yearolds in seniorcitizen ?We live away from the old for many reasons: young people sometimes avoid the old to get rid of fears for aging and is much harder to watch someone we love disappear before our it’s so hard that we stay away from the people who need us most.Fortunately，some of us have found our way to the we have discovered that they often save the young.A reporter moved her family onto a block filled with old first her children were the reporter baked banana bread for the neighbors and had her children deliver it and the children had many new friends，with whom they shared food，stories and projects.“My children have never been less lonely，” the reporter said.The young，in turn，save the I was in a rest home when a visitor showed up with a was immediately who hadn’t gotten out of bed in a week suddenly were ringing for a those who had seemed asleep woke up to watch the have an astonishing power to fort and cure.Grandparents are a special give grandchildren a feeling of security and my husband put it，“My grandparents gave me a deep sense that things would turn out right in the end.”Grandchildren speak of attention they don’t get from worried parents.“My parents were always telling me to hurry up，and my grandparents told me to slow down，” one friend teacher told me she can tell which pupils have relationships with grandparents：they are quieter，calmer，and more trusting.語篇解讀　本文是一篇議論文。故C項正確。12．答案　B解析　根據(jù)該空上一句“Some marks are used to identify people as part of a group.”可知，B項“另一部分標(biāo)記用于例如婚禮和戰(zhàn)爭期間的某些儀式”符合