【正文】 parenting benefits society. C) The U. S. should keep up with other developed countries. D) Children need continuous care.55. What does the author think of America39。s large body of family laws governing children39。s welfare? A) They fail to ensure children39。s healthy growth B) The fail to provide enough support for parents C) They emphasize parents39。 legal responsibilities. D) They impose the care of children on parents.56. Why does the author object to classifying parenting as a personal choice? A) It is regarded as a legal obligation. B) It relies largely on social support. C) It generates huge social benefits. D) It is basically a social undertaking. Passage Two A new study from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) at Tufts University shows that today39。s youth vote in larger numbers than previous generations, and a 2008 study from the Center for American Progress adds that increasing numbers of young voters and activists support traditionally liberal causes. But there39。s no easy way to see what those figures mean in real life. During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama assembled a racially and ideologically diverse coalition with his message of hope and change。 as the reality of life under a new administration settles in, some of those supporters might bee disillusioned. As the nation moves further into the Obama presidency, will politically engaged young people continue to support the president and his agenda, or will they gradually drift away? The writers of Generation O (short for Obama), a new Newsweek blog that seeks to chronicle the lives of a group of young Obama supporters, want to answer that question. For the next three months, Michelle Kremer and 11 other Obama supporters, ages 19 to 34, will blog about life across mainstream America, with one twist: by tying all of their ideas and experiences to the new president and his administration, the bloggers will try to start a conversation about what it means to be young and politically active in America today. Malena Amusa, a 24yearold writer and dancer from St. Louis sees the project as a way to preserve history as it happens. Amusa, who is traveling to India this spring to finish a book, then to Senegal to teach English, has ongoing conversations with her friends about how the Obama presidency has changed their daily lives and hopes to put some of those ideas, along with her global perspective, into her posts. She39。s excited because, as she puts it, I don39。t have to wait [until] 15 years from now to make sense of the world. Henry Flores, a politicalscience professor at St. Mary39。s University, credits this younger generation39。s political strength to their embrace of technology. [The Internet] exposes them to more thinking, he says, and groups that are likeminded in different parts of the country start to e together. That39。s exactly what the Generation O bloggers are hoping to do. The result could be a group of young people that, like their boomer (二戰(zhàn)后生育高峰期出生的美國(guó)人) parents, grows up with a strong sense of purpose and sheds the image of apathy (冷漠) they39。ve inherited from Generation X (60 年代后期和70 年代出生的美國(guó)人). It39。s no small challenge for a blog run by a group of ordinary—if ambitious—young people, but the members of Generation O are up to the task.注意：此部分試題請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡2上作答。57. What is the finding of a new study by CIRCLE? A) More young voters are going to the polls than before. B) The young generation supports traditionally liberal causes. C) Young voters played a decisive role in Obama39。s election. D) Young people in America are now more diverse ideologically.58. What is a main concern of the writers of Generation O? A) How Obama is going to live up to young people39。s expectations. B) Whether America is going to change during Obama39。s presidency. C) Whether young people will continue to support Obama39。s policy. D) How Obama39。s agenda is going to affect the life of Americans.59. What will the Generation O bloggers write about in their posts? A) Their own interpretation of American politics. B) Policy changes to take place in Obama39。s administration. C) Obama39。s presidency viewed from a global perspective. D) Their lives in relation to Obama39。s presidency.60. What accounts for the younger generation39。s political strength according to Professor Henry Flores? A) Their embrace of radical ideas. B) Their desire to change America. C) Their utilization of the Internet. D) Their strong sense of responsibility.61. What can we infer from the passage about Generation X? A) They are politically conservative. B) They reject conventional values. C) They dare to take up challenges. D) They are indifferent to politics.Part V Cloze (15 minutes) A new study found that innercity kids living in neighborhoods with more green space gained about 13% less weight over a twoyear period than kids living amid more concrete and fewer trees. Such __62__ tell a powerful story. The obesity epidemic began in the 1980s, and many people __63__ it to increased portion sizes and inactivity, but that can39。t be everything. Fast foods and TVs have been __64__ us for a long time. Most experts agree that the changes were __65__ to something in the environment, says social epidemiologist Thomas Glass of The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. That something could be a __66__ of the green. The new research, __67__ in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, isn39。t the first to associate greenery with better health, but it does get us closer __68__ identifying what works and why. At its most straightforward, a green neighborhood __69__ means more places for kids to play – which is __70__ since time spent outdoors is one of the strongest correlates of children39。s activity levels. But green space is good for the mind __71__: research by environmental psychologists has shown that it has