As any homemaker who has tried to keep order at the dinner table knows, there is far more to a family meal than food. Sociologist Michael Lewis has been studying 50 families to find out just how much more.

Lewis and his co-workers carried out their study by videotaping(录像) the families while they ate ordinary meals in their own homes. They found that parents with small families talk actively with each other and their children. But as the number of children gets larger, conversation gives way to the parents’ efforts to control the loud noise they make. That can have an important effect on the children. “In general the more question-asking the parents do, the higher the children’s IQ scores,” Lewis says. “And the more children there are, the less question-asking there is.”

The study also provides an explanation for why middle children often seem to have a harder time in life than their siblings(兄弟姐妹). Lewis found that in families with three or four children, dinner conversation is likely to center on the oldest child, who has the most to talk about, and the youngest, who needs the most attention. “Middle children are invisible,” says Lewis. “When you see someone get up from the table and walk around during dinner, chances are it’s the middle child.” There is, however, one thing that stops all conversation and prevents anyone from having attention: “When the TV is on,” Lewis says, “dinner is a non-event.”

66．The writer’s purpose in writing the text is to _________.

       A．show the relationship between parents and children

       B．teach parents ways to keep order at the dinner table

       C．report on the findings of a study

       D．give information about family problems

67．Parents with large families ask fewer questions at dinner because ____________.

       A．they are busy serving food to their children

       B．they are busy keeping order at the dinner table

       C．they have to pay more attention to younger children

       D．they are tired out having prepared food for the whole family

68．By saying “Middle children are invisible” in paragraph 3, Lewis means that middle children _________.

       A．have to help their parents to serve dinner

       B．get the least attention from the family

       C．are often kept away from the dinner table

       D．find it hard to keep up with other children

69．Lewis’ research provides an answer to the question _________.

       A．why TV is important in family life

       B．why parents should keep good order

       C．why children in small families seem to be quieter

       D．why middle children seem to have more difficulties in life

70．Which of the following statements would the writer agree to?

       A．It is important to have the right food for children.

       B．It is a good idea to have the TV on during dinner.

       C．Parents should talk to each of their children frequently.

       D．Elder children should help the younger ones at dinner

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
In the seventh grade when my mother suggested that I should join the golf team,  I thought she had lost her mind. But as  36 , my mother won in the end. I  37  on the junior school golf team in the seventh and eighth grade. The summer before  38  school came, I had a burning  39  to play on the high school team.
That summer I  40  almost every Sunday morning on the golf course (高尔夫球场) with my  41 , and too many afternoons counting on the course with my mother. This  42  relationship with my parents  43  during my high school years,  and Mom and I  44  it to the hours spent together on the golf course.   45  you're walking down the freshly mowed fairway (高尔夫球场上的平坦大道), staring (凝视) out  46  miles of nothing but golf course,  and looking up at the beautiful blue sky, you will realize  47  is important in life. My mom and I have solved most of the world's 48  there and plan to write a book together one day. We talk about such things in the middle of a round of (一轮比赛) golf as we would never do at  49 ,  where she is Mom and I am an annoying ( 惹人烦恼的 ) teenager. On the golf course, we're just two people who  50  golf.
51  has become part of my life during the past years. My friends know in the summer the place to find me is on the golf course.  There is  52  I love more than a perfect autumn morning,  riding around in a golf cart with my dad. Golf has  53  me and made me into the person I am today. And I have to  54  that all of it is thanks to my mom who  55  me join that middle school golf team. She was right -- as usual.

It was always thought that Treasure Island was the product of Robert Louis Stevenson's imagination. 16___ , recent research has found the true story of this exciting work.

        Stevenson, a Scotsman, had lived    17    for many years. In 1881 he returned to Scotland for a    18   , with him were his American wife Fanny and his son    19   .

Each morning Stevenson would take them out for a long    20    over the hills. They had been    21   this for several days before the weather suddenly took a turn for the worse. Kept indoors by the heavy rain Lloyd felt the days    22   . To keep the boy happy, Robert asked the boy to do some    23   .

One morning, the boy came to Robert with a beautiful map of an island. Robert    24  that the boy had drawn a large cross in the middle of    25   .  "What's that ?" he asked. "That's the    26    treasure." said the boy. Robert suddenly    27    something of an adventure story in the boy's    28   . While the rain was pouring, Robert sat down by the fire to write a story. He would make the    29    a twelve-year-old boy just like Lloyd. But who would be the pirate?

Robert had a good friend named Henley, who walked around with the    30    of a wooden leg. Robert had always wanted to    31    such a man in a story.    32    Long John Silver, the pirate with a wooden leg, was    33  .

        So thanks to a    34    September in Scotland, a friend with a wooden leg, and the imagination of a twelve-year-old boy, we have one of the   greatest    35    stories in the English language.

A. However        B.  Therefore        C. Besides         D. Finally

A. alone             B. next door           C. at home         D. abroad

A. meeting         B. story                   C. holiday         D. job

A. Lloyd             B. Robert               C. Henley          D. John

A. talk                  B. rest                  C. walk              D. game

A. attempting       B. missing            C. planning        D. enjoying

A. quiet                 B. dull                  C. busy              D. cold

A. cleaning            B. writing             C. drawing         D. exercising

A. doubted          B. noticed              C. decided           D. recognized

A. the sea          B. the house           C. Scotland         D. the island

A. forgotten       B. buried               C. discovered      D. unexpected

A. saw               B. drew                  C. made               D. learned

A. book             B. reply                  C. picture             D. mind

A. star               B. hero                   C. writer               D. child

A. help            B. problem            C. use               D. bottom

A. praise         B. produce             C. include         D. accept

A. Yet              B. Also                  C. But               D. Thus

A. read           B. born                  C. hired             D. written

A. rainy          B. sunny                 C. cool              D. windy

A. news          B. love                   C. real-life         D. adventure 

MONTREAL (Reuters) Crossing the US-Canada border（边界）to go to church on a Sunday cost a US citizen ＄10,000 for breaking Washington’s strict new security（安全）rules.

The expensive trip to church was a surprise for Richard Albert, who lives right on the Canadian border. Like the other half-dozen people of Township 15, crossing the border is a daily occurrence for Albert. The nearby Quebec village of St. Pamphile is where they shop, eat and go to church.

There are many such situations in these areas along the largely unguarded 5,530-mile border between Canada and the US-which in some cases actually runs down the middle of streets or through buildings.

As a result, Albert says he did not expect any problems three weeks ago when he returned home to the US after attending church in Canada, as usual. The US customs（海关）station in this area is closed on Sundays, so he just drove around the locked gate, as he had done every weekend since the gate appeared last May, following a tightening of border security. Two days later. Albert was told to go to the customs office, where an officer told him he had been caught on carnera crossing the border illegally（非法）.

Ottawa has given out special passes to some 300 US citizens in that area so they can enter the country when Canadian customs stations are closed, but the US stopped a similar program last May. That forces the people to a 200-mile detour along hilly roads to get home through another border checkpoint.

Albert has requested that the customs office change their decisions on the fine, but he has not attended a Sunday church since. “I feel like I’m living in a prison,” he said.

59．We learn from the text that Richard Albert is            .

       A．an American living in Township 15

       B．a Canadian living in a Quebec village

       C．a Canadian working in a customs station

       D．an American working in a Canadian church

60．Albert was fined because he              .

       A．failed to obey traffic rules                     B．broke the American security rules

       C．worked in St. Pamphile without a pass   D．damaged the gate of the customs office

61．The underlined word “detour” in paragraph 5 means              .

       A．a drive through the town                      B．a race across the fields

       C．a roundabout way of travelling              D．a journey in the mountain area

62．What would be the best title for the text?

       A．A Cross-country Trip                           B．A Special Border Pass

       C．An Unguarded Border                           D．An Expensive Church Visit

News has been put forward ________ more middle school graduates will be admitted into universities.