1、语篇提能.阅读理解The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most peoples work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reversed. This seems a discouraging thought. But, in fact,
2、 it could offer the prospect of a better future for work. Universal employment, as its history show, hasnt meant economic freedom.Employment became widespread when the enclosures(圈地运动) of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by taking them away from the use of the land
3、, and thus from the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from peoples homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people traveled longer distances to their place of employment until, eventually, m
4、any peoples work lost all connection with their home lives and the place in which they lived.Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. In preindustrial times, men and women had shared the productive work of the household and village community. Now it became customary for the husband to go o
5、ut to paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and family to his wife. Tax and benefit regulations still assume this norm(准则) today, and restrict more flexible sharing of work roles between sexes. It was not only women whose work status suffered. As employment became the dominant form of
6、 work, young people and old people were kept out a problem now, as more teenagers disappointed and annoyed at school and more retired people want to live active lives.All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some efforts and resources away from the utopian(乌托邦式的) goal o
7、f creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping more people to manage without fulltime jobs.1From the passage we can learn that _.Ajobs have existed since human came into beingBthe industrial age brought jobs to everyoneCthe industrial age brought the work patterns most peoples work
8、 has takenDin the future more and more people could get jobs with the industry developing2Before the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries, people lived mainly on _.Apaid workBunpaid work Ctaxes and benefits Dland3From the passage we can infer that _.Acreating jobs for all must be changedBenough
9、 jobs must be created by our societyCmore and more jobs are being createdDindustrial age has made many people unable to live without fulltime jobs.4Where does a reader can read an article like this?AA popular magazine. BA history book.CScience news. DLife magazine.答案与解析：1解析：细节理解题。从文章第一段的前两句可知，工业时代改变
10、人们原有的工作方式，并形成了人们现在的工作方式。答案：C2解析：细节题解题。从文章第二段中“.by taking them away from the use of the land, and thus from the means to provide a living for themselves.”可知，过去人们是以土地为生，过着自给自足的生活，因此D项正确。答案：D3解析：推理判断题。文章最后一段说明了作者的一个观点：要改变那种乌托邦式的要为所有的人创造工作的目标，去完成帮助更多的人不用做全职的工作也能设法生活下去这样一个紧急且实际的任务。由此可知A项正确。答案：A4解析：推理判断题。
11、本篇文章旨在介绍欧洲工业革命所产生的影响，尤其是对女性产生的影响，这样的文章最可能出现在与历史相关的书中，故选B。答案：B.完形填空The definition(定义) of happiness is different from person to person. Yet happiness is what everyone looks for. _1_ someone says that he is happy. However, _2_ makes him happy may not work for others. And even _3_， someone may spend all
12、 his life looking for happiness, but without success.In the past, I tried my best to make myself happy. I thought if I could _4_ get and do what I wanted to, I would be happy. Certainly, it was possible, but I was a little _5_. Though I could be happy at _6_， I couldnt keep my happiness for long. Wh
13、y?One day, when I told a friend of mine what I _7_ about happiness, he smiled and said only a few words, “Happiness is _8_ but a byproduct(副产品)” I was surprised, but he was really _9_.Someone thinks money can _10_ everything, but when he becomes a millionaire through hard work, perhaps he will find
14、that he has new _11_. And he has to go to church for _12_. Sometimes love can bring happiness, but at other times it _13_ misunderstanding, tiredness, and even quarrelling.Happiness is not a single thing but a byproduct of all _14_ of things you love to do. You can not _15_ it in a straight way. Tha
15、t is, it is not a thing _16_ in the material form but in your senses.You should tell yourself, “I do not _17_ whether I am happy or not. But I must love _18_.” And one day you will _19_ find happiness itself has quietly _20_.1A.Once BBut CAnd DMaybe2A.which Bwhat Cit Dthat3A.worse Bmore Cthough Dso4
16、A.sincerely Bexactly Creally Dactually5A.determined Bshocked Cexcited Ddisappointed6A.once Ball Ctimes Dlast7A.concerned Blearned Cthought Dconsidered8A.everything Banything Call Dnothing9A.lying Btrue Cright Dwrong10A.sell Bbring Cproduce Dmake11A.wishes Bproblems Ctrips Dgoals12A.comfort Bcompany
17、Cfun Dpleasure13A.causes Boffers Cprovides Dsuggests14A.fields Bkinds Csources Dforms15A.control Bfound Csearch Dgrasp16A.exists Bexisting Ccomes Dcoming17A.ask Blike Cmind Dwonder18A.life Bfamily Cwealth Dhealth19A.generally Bimmediately Calways Dsuddenly20A.arrived Bgone Creached Dleft答案与解析：1解析：根据
18、下句的转折关系，此处用maybe表示推测，或许，也许答案：D2解析：以what引导主语从句，意为“使他快乐的一切”。答案：B3解析：根据下文的“but without success”没有成功，故选even worse“甚至更糟糕的”。答案：A4解析：really“真地，真正地”，符合题意。句意：我认为如果我能真地做我想做的事sincerely“忠实地，诚恳地”；exactly“确切地”；actually“事实上，实际上地”。答案：C5解析：答案disappointed(失望)符合下文的我不能够保持长时间的幸福。答案：D6解析：at times “有时”与下文的for long“长时间”相对照
19、。答案：C7解析：(be)concerned about “焦急的，担忧的”；learned about “了解，获悉”；thought about “思考”；consider “认为是”，及物动词不与about连用。答案：C8解析：据句意和搭配：nothing but “仅仅是，只是”，D项是正确的。答案：D9解析：据句意“我很吃惊，但他所说的的确是对的”可知选C。答案：C10解析：句意：有人认为钱可以带来一切答案：B11解析：句意：可当他通过努力工作成为百万富翁时，或许他将发现他有了新的烦恼。wishes “愿望”；trips “旅行”；goals “目标”。答案：B12解析：因上文中提到
20、“产生了新的烦恼”，因此会去教堂里寻求安慰。company“公司，同伴”；fun “乐趣”；pleasure “快乐”。答案：A13解析：cause“导致，致使”；offer“主动提供”；provide“供应，给”；suggest“建议，提议”。根据下文导致误解，符合题意。答案：A14解析：all kinds of things “各种各样的事情”。答案：B15解析：句意：你不可能以一种直接的方式抓住它。选项B的词义适合但形式用了过去时，所以排除。答案：D16解析：exist in意为“存在于”；因为要作a thing的后置定语，所以用现在分词existing充当。答案：B17解析：句意：我不在乎我是幸福还是不幸福的。答案：C18解析：根据上文推知：无论幸福与否，我都是热爱生活的。答案：A19解析：句意：总有一天你将会突然发现幸福会悄然而至。答案：D20解析：据句意选项A、C都合理，但reach为及物动词，需带宾语，故排除。答案：A
