2.　 The study shows that teenagers don’t want to ___

A. share family responsibility　　　　　　　　　　　 B. cause trouble in their families

C. go boating with their family　　　　　　　　　　　 D. make family decisions

1.　 What is the popular images of teenagers today?

A. They worry about school　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. They dislike living with their parents

C. They have to be locked in to avoid troubles　　　　 D. They quarrel a lot with other family members

9. 　The underlined word “crumbled” in the last paragraph can be replaced by______.

　 A. broke　　　 　　B. shook　　　　　　　 C. fell　　　　　　 D. moved

第24 天 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　A

The Best of Friends

The evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families. But it seems that four out of five young people now get on with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly held image(印象)of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.

An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it has ever been in the past.” We were surprised by just how positive today’s young people seen to be about their families,” said one member of the research team.” They’re expected to be rebellious(叛逆的) and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well. There’s more negotiation(商议) and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. They don’t want to rock the boat.”

So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends.” My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me,” says 17-years-old Daniel Lazall.” I always tell them when I’m going out clubbing. As long as they know what I’m doing, they’re fine with it.”Susan Crome, who is now 21, agrees.”Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation. For example, as long as I’d done all my homework ,I could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that.”

Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. It is possible that the idea of teenagers’ rebellion is not rooted in real facts. A researcher comments,” Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in out social history when teenagers were regarded as different beings. But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled. The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over.” (07北京卷)

8. 　The reason why the rescue work wasn’t going smoothly was probably that_______.

　 A. the rain was heavy

　 B. so many people were buried

　 C.it was difficult to reach the village

　 D.these is little chance to save the survivors

7. 　How many survivors were found by the dogs?

　 A. 50.　　　　　 B. Only a few.　　　　　 C. 1,800.　　　　　 D. None.

6. 　The main purpose of this passage is probably_______.

　A.to show the way to rescue the victims in the ruins

　 B.to introduce the instruments to save victims in a disaster

　 C.to tell readers that dogs can smell out victims buried in the ruins

　 D.to show how to train dogs to save victims in a mudslide

5. 　According to the search officials’ words in the first paragraph, we can learn that_________

A.the smell of rescue teams can disturb the dogs

B.the dogs can follow the smell of rescue teams

C.the gods can’t smell the rescue teams

D.the dogs can tell the differences between people and rescue teams

4.　 Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

　 A．Volunteer Work Can Boost Your Career.

　 B．Mulcahy’s Voluntary Work Experience.

　 C．It’s a Good Chance to Be a Volunteer.

　 D．Volunteer Work.

B

Dogs may help save the day in the Philippines, as they use their noses to smell out survivors buried by Friday’s mudslide(泥石流). The team of dogs arrived in the Philippines from Spain, and this Tuesday they were just beginning their work. Search officials told CNN they hope the recent rain will wash away the smell of rescue teams so the dogs can do their job more accurately.

The dogs were brought in after sound equipment found sounds coming from deep inside the ruins, at a place where a school stood before the mudslide covered it. The sounds could mean people are still alive under all the mud or it could just be the earth resettling.

On Monday, rescue workers worked at the school site until three in the morning, trying to locate survivors, and they will begin digging again as soon as the dogs think they find someone.

Human teams from the US, Malaysia, and Australia are all trying to help, too. But so far they have yet to locate any survivors. Rescue workers told CNN that an earlier report that 50 survivors had been found was false.

How did all that mud bury the village in the first place? On Friday, 2,400-foot Mt Kanabag turned into a mudslide after two weeks of constant rain weakened it. The mountain crumbled and the mud fell onto the village Guinsaugon, burying the 1,800 people who lived there . Out of the 300 houses in the village, only 3 were not covered by the mud . The village is on a southern Philippine Island called Levte. Rescue efforts have been difficult because the village takes six hours to reach from the nearest airport. Hopefully, the dogs can help their human friends find survivors.

3. 　Which of the following words can best describe Todd?

　 A．Learned　　　　 B．Lucky　　　　 C．Rude　　　　　 D．Realistic

2. 　Which of the following is NOT true about Mulcahy according to the passage?

　 A．Mulcahy put in long hours as Vice President at a Fortune 500 company.

　 B．Mulcahy becomes a famous football player.

　 C．Mulcahy brought with her several accounts based on relationships she had formed through volunteering.

　 D．Mulcahy was hired by a PR agency.