Question

It seems that everywhere around the world, people are spending more time at work    1.   less time with their families and friends. People are   2.   than ever before!

In the past in many countries , the father worked and the mother stayed home ,took    3.   of the children ,and did the food shopping, cooking and cleaning.  At present , in most of the families , parents need work on weekdays, so they   4. have to do the shopping, cooking and cleaning in their free time. Parents don’t have as much time with their   5.  , however, they often had time in the past. There are also many single-parent（单亲的）families .In these families ,the single parents has to do everything.

These days ,many children come home    6.     school to an empty apartment or house .A lot of children spend many hours   7.   day in front of the television .Even the families are together, it is common for families members to do things by themselves. For example, they   8.    programs on separate TVs in different rooms, they use the Internet, they     9.   friends on the telephone, and they do other individual by themselves.

Isn’t it strange? Thanks to technology（科技）, people are able to communicate so    10.   with people far away, but sometimes they don’t communicate with people their own homes.

Answer

1.E

2.K

3.L

4.I

5.A

6.B

7.H

8.C

9.D

10.F

【解析】

试题分析：本文叙述了过去的时候，父母和孩子在一起的时间较长，随着科技和社会的发展，家庭妇女走出家门开始工作，电脑和手机的普及，孩子们在家看电视玩电脑的时间多了，和家人交流的时间更少了。

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