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1、第二部分 阅读理解全真模拟题(Units 10-16)Unit 1 0Passage 1Fathers should be neither seen nor heard.wrote OscarWilde.This is the only proper basis for family life.Its hardto say what Wilde would have thought of this weeks coverphoto or the pictures inside of dads and their children.Several clearly defy the outdate
2、d idea of fathers asdetached from the parenting process.And thats just whatthe photographers intended.Gregory Heisler,who did the cover photograph,says hewanted the image to show genuine affection.So,ratherthan use professional models,he went out and found somereal dads and their real kids.Adds Heis
3、ler:Instead ofdoing some slick,over-produced shot,I wanted somethingmore authentic to the experience of being a father.Thisisnt the first time that Heisler,39,has conveyed complexideas for the cover of Tl ME.His photographs have gracedthe front of the magazine some 20 times,ranging fromOlympic athle
4、te Jackie Joyner-Kersee and director DavidLynch to former President George Bush and Ted Turner forthe Man of the Year issues in 1991 and 1992,respectively.But this weeks TlME cover has special meaning,he says,because he and his wife Prudence had their first child,Lucy,16 months ago.The pictures appe
5、aring inside were all done byphotographer Jeffrey Lowe.Although Lowe has notexperienced fatherhood yet,he observed many intimatemoments of parenting by spending a lot of private time witheach dad and child.Of all the pictures.Lowe was mostdeeply touched by the father-to-be embracing his pregnantwife
6、.While most of the credit for the pictures rightly goes tothose behind the camera,cover coordinator Lina Freemanand assistant picture editor Mary Worrell Bousquette,whowork behind the scenes,also deserve accolades.Freeman,for instance,had the challenging task of makingarrangements for the group port
7、rait of child movie stars byHeisler that appears on page 62.Says she:My greatestreward is working with these talented artists.Bousquetteedited the pictures that appear inside.I wanted our storyto show the many faces of fatherhood,she says.At least inthis issue,those fathers are seen as well as heard
8、.Sorry,Oscar.1.In Oscar Wildes vi ew,.A)distance between fathers and their children isessential in family lifeB)fathers should play a greater role in family lifeC)family life is something that fathers enjoy mostD)fathers are never sure about what they should do athome.2.The photographers of this wee
9、ks Tl ME intendedA)to support Oscar Wildes viewB)to prove that Oscar Wilde was wrongC)to apologize to Oscar WildeD)to show their respect-for Oscar Wilde3.The word graced in the second paragraph meansA)decorated B)substitutedC)turned out D)mixed up4.How did Jeffrey Lowe manage to portray fathers feel
10、ingsaccurately?A)He tried to experience fatherhood himself.B)He spent most of his time with his pregnant wife.C)He mixed with many fathers and their children.D)He studied the relationship between each member ina family.Passage 2I n Russia dont look to read about actor X sneaking outto the Bolshoi wi
11、th starlet Y while his famous author wife ison vacation in Odessa with her children from two previousmarriages.Even if X and Y were engaged in hanky-panky,the country could not do the story justice,since it lacks theequivalents of People or Vanity Fair,the National Enquireror Entertainment Tonight.N
12、or do famous lives playthemselves out in newspapers or on television.The press isas conservative as the sovety at large,where directquestions about private lives are considered insulting.Movie magazines are simply film synopses and accounts ofproduction and casting.That does not mean,however,that in
13、quiring Russianminds dont want to know.It often seems as if it is thenational pastime to gossip about me,says pop superstarAlla Pugacheva,39,the biggest musical draw in the country.Perhaps we are better off here than in the West.We do nothave entire magazines devoted to our private lives.ButSoviets
14、dont need a magazine to gossip.Instead,a vastrumor mill operates 24 hours a day 365 1/4 days a year.Astudy of some unofficial youth groups in Tadjikstan inCentral Asia listed among them Celebrity Hounds,which alocal paper described as people who try to gain prestigeamong the less informed by exchang
15、ing stories about theprivate lives of stars.Some may consider the meager trickle（细 流）ofpersonal detail about a pop star a blessing,but the lack ofinformation about politicians proved to be a handicap forvoters in last months election.Even if voters knew acandidates program,they did not know the man
16、himself,complains Yegor Yakovlev,editor of Moscow News.Sovietnewspapers and magazines discuss the personal lives ofleaders only when the person is dead and usually out offavor（thus only last fall did Moscow News claim that LeonidBrezhnev,who died in 1982,had been revived from clinicaldeath in 1976,a
17、nd was tended constantly by doctors for therest of his life)or when refuting a nasty bit of gossip.Observes Zhenia,a semiprofessional celebrity watcher inMoscow:The way it works is that first a rumor starts,thengains momentum(势头)，then,and only then,somethingappears in the press denying the rumor as
18、unfounded.5.Famous lives are rarely publicized through the massmedia in Russia b e c a u s e.A)famous lives are not exciting enoughB)it is difficult to get interesting storiesC)it is against the nations moral standardsD)famous people dont want others to know about theirlives6.What is the attitude of
19、 ordinary Russians towards theprivate lives of famous people?A)Indifferent.B)Respectful.C)Blindfold.D)Inquisitive at heart.7.From the passage we know that pop superstar AllaP u g a c h e v a.A)is proud to be the center of national gossipB)lives a better life than stars in the westC)wishes to attract
20、 more attention from the massmediaD)doesnt want to be the center of national gossip8.In the writers opinion,politicians l i ves.A)should always be kept secretB)can be publicized after their deathC)can be publicized in order to refute the gossipsD)can be publicized to let the public know them betterP
21、assage 3Children are in need of adoption because some birthparents are unable or unavailable to provide adequately forthe needs of their child.There are numerous reasons formaking an adoption plan.Birth parents may feel theycannot take on the responsibility of an unplanned childbecause they are too
22、young or because they are financiallyor emotionally unable to provide proper care.They do notfeel ready or able to be good parents.I n other cases children are in need of adoption becausecourts have decided that their birth parents are unable tofunction adequately.Many of these children are victims
23、ofabuse or neglect.Regardless of how children come to needadoption,they are put with adoptive parents throughprivate or public social service agencies.Other adoptionsmay be arranged independently,as when birth parents andadoptive parents come to know each other outside of anagency and then complete
24、the adoption according to thelaws and regulations of their states of residence.Which Children Need AdoptionChildren from all countries and all walks of life needadopting.Although international adoptions occur,thelargest number of adoptions in the United States involveAmerican parents adopting Americ
25、an infants.Statistics onthe ethnicity of both parties are incomplete.In the early 1970s there was a dramatic increase n thenumber of families seeking to adopt,a condition whichpersists today.For this reason,the number of those whowish to adopt regularly exceeds the number of infantsavailable.Reasons
26、 for this dramatic increase are varied.Amajor factor has been the choice of many people to delaythe start of a family until later in life.Many of these people,in turn,have found themselves to be less fertile at that time,and so they have decided that their desire to have childrenmight best be fulfil
27、led through adoption.In every state,however,there are children who arelegally free to be adopted but are desperately waiting forparents.The children in this group are usually older andoften have special needs.They may require additional carefrom a parent because of their physical,emotional,ormental
28、disabilities(which may have been caused by abuse,neglect,or medical or genetic factors).Because of theirspecial needs,these children are challenging to rear.In fact,adoption experts believe that people who adopt thesechildren need special training and preparation in order tosuccessfully rear the chi
29、ld and to integrate the child into thefamily and eventually into society.In cases of international adoption,Americans haveadopted orphaned children from places like Korea,India,and Latin America.United States immigration laws allowsuch children to reside in the United States through aspecial visa un
30、der which the children are classified asimmediate relatives of the adopting family.The laws,regulations,and attitudes toward international addoptionvary a great deal from one country to another.Because ofthis,people wishing to adopt should use experiencedagencies or organizations in order to adopt a
31、 child fromanother country successfully.Stepparent adoption is also very common.Most often,this type of adoption occurs when one of the childs birthparents has remarried and the new spouse adopts the child.In such adoptions,the consent of the other birth parent isusually required,because it entails
32、the termination of thatparents rights.9.The author thinks of adoption as.A)illegal B)unethicalC)unavoidable D)necessary10.What is the most important reason for the adoptionboom in the 1970s?A)In the early 1970s,adoption came into vogue amongyoung American couples.B)Many women chose adoption for fear
33、 that their figuremight be adversely affected after giving birth to babies.C)Many people who married late found they were lessfertile and had to adopt children.D)Due to the baby boom in the 1 960s,the Americangovernment carried out family planning and many peoplehad to adopt children.11.By saying th
34、ese are children who are legally free to beadopted but are desperately waiting for parents,theauthor suggests that.A)few people would like to adopt these children for theyare hard to rearB)the children were eager to be lover by their birthparentsC)although some people would like to adopt them,these
35、children would rather wait for their birth parents.D)their birth parents abandoned them but thesechildren still loved them12.According to the passage,international adoptionA)occurs more often than adoptions of AmericaninfantsB)mostly involves European orphansC)should be done through experienced agen
36、ciesD)should be banned right awayPassage 4Joshua DeShaney is paralyzed and profoundly retarded,the victim of brutal pummelings at age four by his father.Joshua,now nine,is also the victim of inaction byWisconsins Winnebago County department of socialservices.The agency failed to remove the child fro
37、m hisdivorced fathers custody despite continual reports of abusefor nearly two years,repeated hospitalizations for seriousinjuries,and regular observations by a caseworker ofsuspicious bumps and lesions.Joshuas father wasconvicted of child abuse in 1984 and paroled from prisonafter less than two yea
38、rs.Last week,in a ruling thatstunned childrens rights advocates around the country,theU.S.Supreme Court voted 6 to 3 to absolve WinnebagoCounty of constitutional responsibility for Joshuas fate.A states failure to protect an individual against privateviolence,declared Chief Ju st ice William Rehnqui
39、st,was nota denial of the victims constitutional rights.While the statemay have been aware of the dangers that Joshua faced inthe free world,it played no part in their creation,nor did itdo anything to render him any more vulnerable to themThe majoritys ruling provoked an emotional dissent fromJusti
40、ce Harry Blackmun.Poor Joshua!Victim of repeatedattacks by an irresponsible,bullying,cowardly andintemperate father,and abandoned by county officials whoplaced him in a dangerous predicament,he wrote.It is asad commentary upon American life and constitutionalprinciples.Government child-welfare agenc
41、ies expressed reliefover the decision.A contrary ruling would have seriouslyaffected programs and budgetary priorities,explainedBenna Ruth Solomon of the State and Local Legal Center inWashington.For child advocates,the opinion was deeplytroubling.Said James Weill of the Childrens Defense Fund:Its p
42、art of a line of decisions in which the court hasindicated significant hostility to legal protections forchildren.Suits against agencies may still be filed in somestate courts,but local laws often permit little or no recourse.In Joshuas case,a Wisconsin statute limits damages to$50,000-less than the
43、 cost of a years medical care for thetragically battered youngster.13.By saying Joshua is also a victim of inaction byWisconsins Winnebago county department of socialservices,the author means.A)the agency should have sent someone to Joshuashome to take care of himB)the court had made the ruling that
44、 the child shouldbe removed from his father,the agency failed to do soC)the agency should have taken actions to remove thechild from his fathers custodyD)the agency failed to send the child to his mother14.Which of the following was the reason given by ChiefJustice William Rehnquist for absolving Wi
45、nnebago Countyof constitutional responsibility for Joshuas fate?A)The agency had no responsibility of taking care of theabused child.B)The agency didnt play a part in the child abuse.C)The agency was so busy that it had no time to dealwith Joshuas case.D)The agency couldnt intrude upon other peoples
46、personal affairs.15.According to Ju st ice Harry Blackmun,Joshuas fateA)reflects the sad aspects of American life andconstitutional principlesB)provokes people to comment on American life andconstitutional principlesC)makes people disappointed with American life andconstitutional principlesD)has a p
47、rofound impact on American life andconstitutional principles16.l t can be inferred from the passage that.A)the author definitely agrees with Chief JusticeWilliam Rehnquists point of viewB)government child-welfare agencies expresseddissent to the ruling made by the Supreme CourtC)Joshua would get$50,
48、000 damages from theWisconsins Winnebago CountyD)U.S.childrens rights advocates were dissatisfiedwith the ruling made by the Supreme CourtPassage 5Is there a link between crime and population growth?And how does social change aggravate the current crimesurge?James Q.Wilson,professor of management an
49、dpublic policy at UCLA and author of Thinking About Crimeand The Moral sense,gave his views last week in aninterview with TlME assistant editor Susanne Washburn.Excerpts:Any historian knows that crime waves,in fact,arecyclical.Earlier ones occurred in the 1 830s,the late 1860sand the 1920s.The quest
50、ion is,what causes the cycles,andwhat affects their timing?Crime was abnormally low in the1940s and 1950s and began to rise around 1963 andpeaked in the late 1 970s.The increase in crime from 1963to 1980 was enormous-and it occurred in a period ofgeneral prosperity.Part of the explanation is that th