【小题1】Where can we most probably read this text?

第三部分阅读理解（共20小题。每小题2分，满分40分）
　　阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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Events took place around the world last week to celebrate International Women’s Day.
The March eighth observance came as thousands of delegates from one hundred thirty countries met at the United Nations in New York. They discussed progress on a plan of action for women's equality. The document was approved ten years ago at a conference in Beijing.
It calls for improved health care for women, along with economic and political gains. It also calls for efforts to reduce human rights violations against women.
In Asia last Tuesday, there were demonstrations against unfair treatment of women.
In Washington, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held a Conference of Women Leaders. Laura Bush, the president's wife, spoke at the event which had representatives from fifteen Muslim nations. The first lady praised recent political gains for Muslim women.
In Afghanistan, for example, President Hamid Karzai has appointed the first female governor of a province. In Iraq, women hold almost one-third of the 249 seats in the newly elected National Assembly. And Missus Bush noted that nearly half the voters in the Palestinian presidential election were women.
International Women’s Day began in nineteen ten in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was designed to build support for voting rights for women worldwide. Missus Bush noted that it took American women many years to be recognized as full citizens with the right to vote.
Last week, just before International Women Day's, hundreds of women and men demonstrated in Kuwait to demand the right for women to vote. The government urged parliament to act quickly to debate such reforms.
Also last Monday, Human Rights Watch released a report on sexual violence by soldiers and members of armed groups in eastern Congo. The New York-based group says tens of thousands of women and young girls have been raped and beaten. Yet it says almost all the crimes have gone without punishment.
51．According to the text, which of the following statements is true?
A. The document on women’s equality has not been approved yet.
B. Muslim women’s rights have been improved.
C. Palestinian women are totally equal now.
D. Kuwait women urged government to reform.
52. About how many women have been elected into National Assembly?
A. 166      B. 83        C. 249        D. 124
53. You can most probably read the text in ________.
A. a textbook    B. a magazine    C. a newspaper    D. a biology book
54. What’s the best title of the text?
A. International Women’s Day
B. Women’s equal rights
C. How to ensure women’s equal rights
D. How do people celebrate International Women’s Day

If there is one thing I’m sure about, it is that in a hundred years from now we will still be reading newspapers. It is not that newspapers are a necessity. Even now some people get most of their news from television or radio. Many buy a paper only on Saturday or Sunday. But for most people a newspaper has become a habit passed down from generation to generation.

The nature of what is news may change. What basically makes news is what affects our lives-and the big political stories, the coverage of the wars, earthquakes and other disasters, will continue much the same. I think there will be more coverage of scientific research, though. It’s already happening in areas that may directly affect our lives, like genetic engineering. In the future, I think there will be more coverage of scientific explanations of why we feel as we do－as we develop a better understanding of how the brain operates and what our feelings really are.

It’s quite possible that in the next century newspapers will be transmitted electronically from the Fleet Street and printed out in our own home. In fact, I’m pretty sure how it will happen in future. You will probably be able to choose from a menu, making up your own newspaper by picking out the things you want to read-say, sports and international news.

I think people have got it wrong when they talk about competition between the different media. They actually feed off each other. Some people once foresee that television would kill of newspapers, but that hasn’t happened. What is read on the printed page lasts longer than pictures on a screen or sound lost in the air. And as for the Internet, it’s never really pleasant to read something just on a screen. And they will rely on each other.

1．In the writer’s opinion, in the future ___________.

       A．more big political affairs, wars and disasters will make news

       B．newspapers will not be printed in publishing houses any longer

       C．newspapers will cover less scientific research.

       D．more and more people will read newspapers

2．What will probably be on in the newspaper made by yourself?

       A．Sports and international news.

       B．A menu of all the news.

       C．The most important news.

       D．What you are interested in.

3．From the text, we can infer __________.

       A．newspapers will win the competition among the different media

       B．newspapers will stay with us together with other media

       C．television will take the place of newspaper

       D．the writer believe some media will die out

4．The underlined phrase “feed off” in the last paragraph means __________.

       A．depend on B．live on      C．fight with  D．kill

     If there is one thing I’m sure about, it is that in a hundred years from now we will still be reading newspapers. It is not that newspapers are a necessity. Even now some people get most of their news from television or radio. Many buy a paper only on Saturday or Sunday. But for most people a newspaper has become a habit passed down from generation to generation.

     The nature of what is news may change. What basically makes news is what affects our lives - and the big political stories, the coverage of the wars, earthquakes and other disasters, will continue much the same. I think there will be more coverage of scientific research, though. It’s already happening in areas that may directly affect our lives, like genetic engineering. In the future, I think there will be more coverage of scientific explanations of why we feel as we do － as we develop a better understanding of how the brain operates and what our feelings really are.

     It’s quite possible that in the next century newspapers will be transmitted electronically from the Fleet Street and printed out in our own home. In fact, I’m pretty sure how it will happen in future. You will probably be able to choose from a menu, making up your own newspaper by picking out the things you want to read － say, sports and international news.

     I think people have got it wrong when they talk about competition between the different media. They actually feed off each other. Some people once foresee that television would kill off newspapers, but that hasn’t happened. What is read on the printed page lasts longer than pictures on a screen or sound lost in the air. And as for the Internet, it’s never really pleasant to read something just on a screen. And they will rely on each other.

1．In the writer’s opinion, in the future __________.

       A．more big political affairs, wars and disasters will make news

       B．newspapers will not be printed in publishing houses any longer

       C．newspapers will cover less scientific research.

       D．more and more people will read newspapers

2．What will probably be on in the newspaper made by yourself?

       A．Sports and international news.             B．A menu of all the news.

       C．The most important news.                  D．What you are interested in.

3．From the text, we can infer ______________.

       A．newspapers will win the competition among the different media

       B．newspapers will stay with us together with other media

       C．television will take the place of newspaper

       D．the writer believe some media will die out

4．The underlined phrase “feed off” in the last paragraph means ___________.

       A．depend on           B．live on          C．fight with      D．kill off