【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 62. Which of the following events takes place every school day? A. Starlight dinner concert. B. Grandparents Day. C. Chapel. D. Auction.C Parents and kids today dress alike, listen to the same music, and are friends. Is this a good thing? Sometimes, when Mr. Ballmer and his 16yearold daughter, Elizabeth, listen to rock music together and talk about interests both enjoy, such as pop culture, he remembers his more distant relationship with his parents when he was a teenager. “I would never have said to my mom, ‘Hey, the new Weezer album is really great. How you like it?” says Ballmer. “There was just a plete gap in taste.” Music was not the only gulf. From clothing and hairstyles to activities and expectations, earlier generations of parents and children often appeared to move in separate orbits. Today, the generation gap has not disappeared, but it is getting narrow in many families. Conversations on subjects such as sex and drugs would not have taken place a generation ago. Now they are fortable and mon. And parentchild activities, from shopping to sports, involve a feeling of trust and friendship that can continue into adulthood. No wonder greeting cards today carry the message, “To my mother, my best friend.” But family experts warn that the new equality can also result in less respect for parents. “There’s still a lot strictness and authority on the part of parents out there, but there is a change happening,” says Kerrie, a psychology professor at Lebanon Valley College, “In the middle of that change, there is a lot of confusion among parents.” Family researchers offer a variety of reasons for these evolving roles and attitudes. They see the 1960s as a turning point. Great cultural changes led to more open munication and a more democratic process that encourages everyone to have a say. “My parents were on the ‘before’ side of that change, but today’s parents, the 40yearold, were on the ‘a(chǎn)fter’ side,” explains Mr. Ballmer. “It’s not something easily acplished by parents these days, because life is more difficult to understand or deal with, but sharing interests does make it more fun to be a parent now.”63. The underlined word gulf in Para. 3 most probably means _______.A. interest B. distance C. difference D. separation64. Which of the following show that the generation gap is disappearing?A. Parents help their children develop interests in more activities.B. Parents put more trust in their children’s abilities.C. Parents and children talk more about sex and drugs.D. Parents share more interests with their children.65. The change in today’s parentchild relationship is _____.A. more confusion among parentsB. new equality between parents and childrenC. less respect for parents from childrenD. more strictness and authority on the part of parents66. The purpose of the passage is to _____.A. describe the difficulties today’s parents have met withB. discuss the development of the parentchild relationshipC. suggest the ways to handle the parentchild relationshipD. pare today’s parentchild relationship with that in the pastD As prices and building costs keep rising, the “doityourself” (DIY) trend (趨勢(shì)) in the . continues to grow. “We needed furniture for our living room, ” says John Ross, “and we just didn’t have enough money to buy it. So we decided to try making a few tables and chairs.” John got married six months ago, and like many young people these days, they are struggling to make a home at a time when the cost of living is very high. The Rosses took a 2week course for $ 280 at a night school. Now they build all their furniture and make repairs around the house. Jim Hatfield has three boys and his wife died. He has a fulltime job at home as well as in a shoe making factory. Last month, he received a car repair bill for $ 420. “I was deeply upset about it. Now I’ve finished a car repair course, I should be able to fix the car by myself.” John and Jim are not unusual people. Most families in the country are doing everything they can to save money so they can fight the high cost of living. If you want to bee a “doityourselfer”, you can go to DIY classes. And for those who don’t have time to take a course, there are books that tell you how you can do things yourself.67. We can learn from the text that many newly married people _____. A. find it hard to pay for what they need B. have to learn to make their own furniture C. take DIY courses run by the government D. seldom go to a department store to buy things68. John and his wife went evening classes to learn how to _____.A. run a DIY shop B. make or repair thingsC. save time and money D. improve the quality of life69. Jim Hatfield decided to bee a doityourselfer when ____. A. his car repairs cost too much B. the car repair class was not helpful C. he could no possible do two jobs D. he had to raise the children all by himself70. What would be the best title for the text? A. The Joy of DIY B. You Can Do It Too! C. Wele to Our DIY Course! D. Ross and Hatfield: Believers in DIY.第二卷 （共35分）第三部分：寫作（共三節(jié)，滿分35分） 第一節(jié) 單詞拼寫（共10小題，每小題1分，滿分10分）根據(jù)下列句子及所給單詞的首字母或中文解釋，寫出該單詞的正確形式，并將答案填在答題紙上的相應(yīng)位置。71. To get full marks in the exam is really a c_________ task for little Jack.72. The club is for t_________ who are between 13 and 19 years old.73. You can’t ask a lady about her age in public because it will make her e_________.74. One of the side e_________ of this drug is the easiness of habitforming.75. Jack is r_________ from his operation and he will soon go back home.76. Bill Gates _________ (捐贈(zèng)) lots of money to poor people every year.77. The famous professor gave us an _________ (解釋) of how sound travels in water.78. The final exam is ing and everyone is making _________ (準(zhǔn)備) for it.79. Mary looks _________ (苗條) than Helen.80. Children are _________ (禁止) to smoke.第二節(jié) 任務(wù)型閱讀（共10小題，每小題分，滿分5分）