_______ the Internet is of great help, I don't think it's a good idea to spend too much time on it.
A If B While C Because D As
How I wish every family _______ a large house with a beautiful garden.
A has B had C will have D had had
It was not until I came here _______I realized this place was famous for not only its beauty but also its weather.
A who B that C where D before
__________hard you try, it is difficult to lose weight without cutting down the amount you eat.
A Whatever B Whichever C However D Whenever
A few months ago as I wandered through my parents’ house, the same house I grew up in, I had a sudden, scary realization. When my parents bought the house, in 1982, they were only two years older than I am now. I tried to imagine myself in two years, ready to settle down and buy the house I’d still be living in almost 30 years later.
It seemed ridiculous. On a practical level, there’s no way I could afford to buy a house anytime soon. More importantly, I wouldn’t want to. I’m not sure where I’ll be living in two years, or what kind of job I’ll have. And I don’t think I’ll be ready to settle down and stay in one place.
So this is probably the generation gap that divides my friends and me from our parents. When our parents were our age, they’d gotten their education, chosen a career, and were starting to settle into responsible adult lives.
My friends and I – “Generation Y” – still aren’t sure what we want to do with our lives. Whatever we end up doing, we want to make sure we’re happy doing it. We’d rather take risks first, try out different jobs, and move from one city to another until we find our favorite place. We’d rather spend our money on travel than put it in a savings account.
This casual attitude toward responsibility has caused some critics to call my generation “arrogant”, “impatient”, and “overprotected”. Some of these complaints have a point. As children we were encouraged to succeed in school, but also to have fun. We grew up in a world full of technological innovation: cellphones, the Internet, instant messaging, and video games.
Our parents looked to rise vertically(垂直的)--starting at the bottom of the ladder and slowly making their way to the top, on the same track, often for the same company. That doesn’t apply to my generation.
Because of that, it may take us longer than our parents to arrive at responsible, stable adulthood. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In our desire to find satisfaction, we will work harder, strive for ways to keep life interesting, and gain a broader set of experiences and knowledge than our parents’ generation did.
By Ariel Lewiton
1.When the author walked through her parents’ house, she _______.
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A．was frightened that she had no idea what she wanted from life |
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B．started to think about her own life |
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C．realized I should buy a house. |
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D．wondered why her parents had settled down early |
2.What is the main “generation gap” between the author and her friends and their parents according to the article?
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A．Their attitude toward high technology. |
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B．Their ways of making their way to the top. |
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C．Their attitude towards responsibility. |
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D．Their ways of gaining experience. |
3.Which of the following might the author agree with?
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A．It’s all right to try more before settling down. |
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B．It’s better to take adult responsibility earlier. |
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C．It involves too much effort to rise vertically. |
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D．It’s ridiculous to call her generation “arrogant”. |
4.What can we conclude from the article?
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A．The author is envious of her parents enjoying a big house at her age. |
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B．Growing up in a hi-tech world makes “Generation Y” feel insecure about relationships. |
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C．“Generation Y” people don’t want to grow up and love to be taken care of by their parents. |
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D．The author wrote this article so that others would be able to understand her generation better. |
5.What is the main theme of the article?
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A．The sudden realization of growing up. |
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B．A comparison between lifestyles of generations. |
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C．Criticisms of the young generation. |
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D．The factors that have changed the young generation. |
I believe that families are not only blood relatives, but sometimes people who show up and love you when no one else will.
In May 1977, I was living in a Howard Johnson’s motel off Interstate 10 in Houston. My dad and I 41 a room with two double beds and a bathroom was too 42 for a 15-year-old girl and her father. Dad’s second marriage was 43 and my stepmother had 44 us both out of the house the previous week. Dad had no 45_ what to do with me. And that’s when my other family 46 .
Barbara and Roland Beach took me into their home 47 their only daughter, Su, my best friend, asked them to. I 48 with them for the next seven years.
Barb washed my skirts the same as Su’s. She 49 I had lunch money, doctors’ appointments, help with homework and nightly hugs. Barbara and Roland attended every football game where Su and I were being cheerleaders. 50 I could tell, for the Beaches there was no 51 between Su and me; I was their daughter, too.
When Su and I 52 college they kept my room the same for the entire four years I attended school. Recently, Barb presented me with an insurance policy they bought when I first moved in with them and had continued to pay on for 23 years.
The Beaches knew 53 about me when they took me in – they had heard the whole story from Su. When I was seven, my mother died and from then on my father relied on other people to _54 his kids. Before I went to live with the Beaches I had believed that life was entirely 55__ and that love was shaky and untrustworthy. I had believed that the only person who would take care of me was me.
56 the Beaches, I would have become a bitter, cynical (愤世嫉俗的) woman. They gave me a(n) 57 that allowed me to grow and change. They kept me from being paralyzed by my _58 , and they gave me the confidence to open my heart.
I 59 family. For me, it wasn’t the family that was there on the day I was 60 , but the one that was there for me when I was living in a Howard Johnson’s on Interstate 10.
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