高三英语模块4unit 2的第一轮资料

位敦市安定阳光实验学校（一）基础知识梳理与提炼
Module 4
Unit 2 Sporting events
一、词汇
A.写出下列单词：
1. sporting ________________ 11. 往户外, 在户外________________
2. light________________ 12. 对手, 竞争者________________
3. attempt________________ 13. 重要性, 重要意义________________
4. glorious________________ 14. 简要地, 扼要的________________
5. committee________________ 15. 未婚的________________
6. host
7. transport
8. bid
9. pretty
10. otherwise ________________
________________
________________
________________
________________
16. 仪式, 典礼
17. 的
18. 体育馆
19. 技术, 技巧
20. 平衡
________________
________________
________________
________________
________________
B.按要求填表：
B.译出下列词或词组：
1. i n honour of ______________ 7. play a role in ______________
2. side by side ______________ 8. keep…under control ______________
3. break the record ______________ 9. make way for ______________
4. opening ceremony ______________ 10. plenty of ______________
5. make contribution to ______________ 11. take part in ______________
6. tourist attraction ______________ 12. be well-known for ______________
二、句篇
A.根据汉语完成句子：
1. 我将简要地跟讲述一些有趣的事实和故事, 这样我们最后可以留出提问时间.
2. 是法国人皮埃尔.德.顾拜旦重发起了奥运会.
3. 我敢肯, 当许海峰为自己的祖国赢得第一枚奥运金牌时, 举国上下一感到无比的自豪.
4. 邓亚萍在1992年和1996年共获得4枚奥运金牌, 2000年成为奥委会, 她可能是迄今为止全最杰出的女乒乓球运动员了.
5. 要增加一个的运动项目, 就得去掉现有的一个项目.
B.用说给词或词组的正确形式填空：
welcome devote amaze make interest call limit hope compete share
The Olympic Games 1 volunteers to forget about 2 and individualism and be 3 to serving a common goal, 4 the success of the games and feeling the satisfaction of their work. Volunteers are the people who 5 the Games happen, supporting every athlete, watcher, visitor and functional area in all competition and non-competition places. Anyone 6 in making the Olympic Games
a success is 7 to become a volunteer. There are no 8 based
on sex, race, belief, physical ability, social standing or education. They only qualification is that they must be at 18 years old. It’s 9 that all volunteer will make the Games the most 10 sporting event
in the world.
讲练
1. practice v. &. n 实践; 练习; 从事
Mr. Smith practiced medicine.
Bob was practicing a teacher then.
联想：
practice doing sth 练习做某事
in practice 实际上; 实际put sth. into/in practice 把…付诸实施
practice n.
practical实际的, 实践的, 实用的, 用的, 有实际经验的
练习：
A. 译出：
1)我不知道她是否已经把这首歌唱德很好, 但是她今天早上还在练习.
___________________________________________________________________ ____________
2)我们明年将要实施这个计划.
We will ________ the plan ________ next year.
B. 选择
1)Theory is based on practice and in turn serves _______.
A. the practice
B. practice
C. theory
D. the theory
2)In New Zealand, I made lots of friends ___ a very practical knowledge of the English language. A. get B. to get C. getting D. got
3)When we plan our vacation, mother often offers _____ suggestions.
A. careful
B. practical
C. effective
D. acceptable
2. separate adj. 单独的; 个别的; 分离的
He wanted a separate room.
The word has two separate meanings.
separate v. 分开; 隔开
separation n. 分离, 分开
separate … from … 把… 和… 分开
get separated from 被分离
divide sth. into … 把… 分成几分
distinguish sb. from 使从… 中脱颖而出; 有别于…
辨析：
separate … from… 是把个体和个体隔开; 而divide… into… 是把一个整体分成几个.
练习：
A. 译出：
1)那个孩子和他的母亲离散了.
The child __________________ his mother.
2).
___________________________________________________________________ ____________ B. 选择
1)As we joined the big crowd, I got _______ from my friends.
A. separated
B. spared
C. lost
D. missed
3. marry vt & vi 结婚
Are them married?
Tom married Jenny last year.
marry sb. to 把… 嫁给…
be married to 跟… 结了婚
get married to 跟…结婚
marry well 嫁得好
be engaged to 跟…订婚
练习：
A. 译出：
1)珍妮已经嫁给吉姆了.
___________________________________________________________________ ____________
2)这个老板把他唯一的女儿嫁给一个老外.
The boss _____________ his only daughter ________ a foreigners
B. 选择
1)She ______ a soldier, which was against the will of her mother.
A. marries
B. married to
C. was married to
D. get married
4. otherwise
1)adv 表示“用其他的方法, 在不同的情况下”
2)conj相当于or 或 or else, 表示“否则, 要不然”.
3)有的句子常用虚拟
他很忙, 要不然的话他就来参加会议了.
He was busy then, otherwise he would have attended the meeting.
练习：
A. 译出：
1)他不知道你在这儿, 要不然的话他就会立刻下来了.
___________________________________________________________________ ____________
B. 选择
1)—Why didn’t you ring me up?
—Sorry, I forgot your phone number. Otherwise, I long before.
A. had rung you up
B. must rung you up
C. would have rung you up
D. would ring you up
2)—Do you really want to go out?
—It may rain. , I shall go out; I don’t mind the rain.
A. Anyway
B. Otherwise
C. Somehow
D. Somewhat
3)Good ways of doing things mean saving time, and it is important for us to find them.
A. meanwhile
B. otherwise
C. however
D. therefore
5. break n.休息, 暂停, 破裂, 突变v.打破, 违犯, 折断, 削弱, 超过, 突变
The rope broke when he was climbing.
When the bank broke, many people were ruined.
break down 溶解,分解,中止, 坏掉
break up 分离,打碎
break into 破门而入
break off 折断
break away from 与…脱离
break in 闯入, 暂停
break the law 违反法律
break one’s promise 违背诺言
练习：
A. 译出：
1)我告诉过你在线弱的地方很容易断.
___________________________________________________________________ ____________
2)有那么多的工作要去做, 我几乎要崩溃了.
With so many work _____________, I almost ______________.
B. 选择
1)Could you ___ this 10-dollar bill so I can make a phone call?
A. divide
B. tear
C. break
D. cut
2)Shall we our discussion and have some tea or coffee, please?
A. break off
B. break down
C. break into break out
6. advice n 劝告, 建议, 意见, 指点Can you give me some advice?
I want your advice on this work.
a piece of advice 一条建议
ask for sb’s advice向某人征询意见
give advice 给出建议
follow/take sb’s advice 遵循某人的建议
advise v
advise doing 建议某人做某人做某事
advise sb to do sth建议某人做某人做某事
advise that sb (should) do sth建议某人该做某人做某事
练习：
A. 译出：
1)我建议你不要向他征询意见, 因为他不善于表达他的想法.
I advise you not to ______________, as he was not good at getting his ideas across.
2)他建议我住在空气鲜的地方.
___________________________________________________________________ ____________
B. 选择
1)I ____ my father ____ and he did so.
A. advised; to stop smoking
B. tried to persuade; to give off smoking
C. persuaded; to give up smoking
D. suggested; to stop to smoke.
7. honor v尊敬, 使荣耀; n 荣誉, 光荣(可数名词); 名誉, 信誉(不可数名词)
The people honored him by making him their president.
He received many honors from many cities, colleges and societies. in honor of …, 向…表示敬意
do sb. the honor (of doing sth.) 做…而给某人面子
have the honor of doing sth/to do sth 有做某事的荣誉
do sb. an/the nonor 使某人有特殊的荣幸
be honored for 因…而受到尊敬
be/feel honored to do sth 做…感到荣幸
feel honored by 因…而感到荣幸
练习：
A. 译出：1)我能有荣幸与你跳舞吗?
___________________________________________________________________ ____________
2)为了庆祝经理上任, 今晚举行一个晚会.
There is a party tonight _______________ our new manager.
B. 选择
1) —Yangyang carried off the first winter Olympic _____ medal for China.
—Great! What ____ she won for our motherland!
A. golden; honour
B. gold; honor
C. golden; honors
D. gold; honors
2)Christmas is a Christian holy day usually celebrated on December 25th ____ the birth of Jesus Christ.
A. in accordance with
B. in terms of
C. in favor of
D. in honor of
8. compete vi 比赛; 竞赛
Several advertising agencies are competing to get the contract.
The two teams will compete for the championship.
compete to do sth 竞争做某事
can’t compete with 敌不过
compete against 与…竞争
compete for 为…而竞争
compete with sb in 在某方面竞争
competition n. 竞争
in competition with 与…竞争
练习：
A. 译出：
1)为了得到这份工作, 他与另外5个人竞争.
___________________________________________________________________ ____________
2)随着4月18日铁路的提速, 铁路运输和空运将不得不竞争为乘客们提供更好的服务.
With April 18’s railway speedup, highway and air transport will have to __________ ________ service for passengers.
B. 选择
1)To gain honor for our country, we will try our best _____ the game. A. competing in B. competing against C. to compete with D. to compete in
9. however 然而
He didn’t agree with me; however, he said nothing.
He will never succeed, however hard he tries.
however; although; though
1)however 为副词然而, 但是, 表示转折, 具有性, 通常用逗号隔开; 也可引导从句, 后面通常加形容词或副词.
2)although通常用于句首. Though的位置灵活, 句首,句尾都可以用, 同时还可以引导倒装句, 相当于as; 同时构成as though, even though 词组.
3)however, although, though 3个词通常不能在句子中一起使用.
练习：
A. 译出：
1)他喜欢唱歌, 但是唱的不好.
___________________________________________________________________ ____________
2)无论有多少的工作你不得不去做, 你都该努力睡好.
You should try to get a good night’s sleep ________ _________ work you
have to do.
B. 选择
1) all the shortcomings you mentioned ,he is a man to be depended on.
A.However
B.Although
C.Though
D.Despite
2)A mysterious illness, referred to as “ a typical phenomena”, has been brought under control, the government said on Wednesday, ______ no cause of it has been made public.
A. though
B. when
C. however
D. because
10. contribution n 贡献; 捐款; 投稿
The old scientist has made great contribution to his country. Would you rather be famous or make a great contribution to the world but unknown?
make contributions to
contribute v 贡献; 捐献; 投稿; 导致
contribute to 导致; 促成; 有助于…; 为… 投稿
contributor n 投稿人; 捐助人; 起作用的人
练习：A. 译出：
1)他为事业做出了巨大贡献
___________________________________________________________________ ____________
到目前为止, 6名华裔人已经因为他们对的杰出贡献被授予诺贝尔奖.
2)So far 6 Chinese Americans have been _________ the Nobel Prize for their outstanding _________ to science.
B. 选择
1)The building of an express way will the growth of the countryside.
A. of great help to
B. create
C. stand out from
D. contribute to
11. The modern games, first played in 1896, were designed to make it possible for countries and people to live peacefully together. make it possible for countries and people to live peacefully together 为make+形式宾语+宾语补足语+ to do 形式, 称为6123句型结构. 6 指主常用的动词：think, believe, make, find, consider, feel；1 指的是形式宾语it；2 指的是宾补的两种形式：形容词或名词；3 指的是真正宾语的三种形式：
不式短语，动名词短语或that引导的宾语从句。

We think it our duty to clean our classroom every day.
He felt it important learning English well.
They found it difficult that they would finish their work
in two days.
练习：
1)As is known, mobile phones make _____ possible for people to stay in touch with each other conveniently.
A. one
B. that
C. it
D. this
2)I find these problems are easy ___.
A to work out
B to be worked to out
C in working out
D to be worked them out
3)When workers are organized in trade unions, employers find _______ hard to lay them off.
A. one
B. that
C. it
D. this
12. I am delighted to have been invited to your school to talk to you about the history and significance of the Olympic Games. to have done为不式的完成式, 表示不式的动作发生在主句的动作之前, 被动式为to have been done
There seems to have been much difficulty in solving the problem.
练习：
1)________ doesn’t seem to have been much difficulty in solving the problem.
A. It
B. That
C. There
D. He
2)The bank is reported in the local newspaper ______ in broad daylight yesterday.
A. being robbed
B. having been robbed
C. robbed
D. to have been robbed
3)Bird flu , a contagious disease of animals , is believed by viruses that normally infect only birds and less commonly pigs , and rarely humans .
A．caused B．being caused C．to be caused D．to have caused
4)Charles Babbage is generally considered______ the first computer A．inventing B．to invent C．to have invented D．having invented
5)Dr. Manette, ______ a prisoner in Bastille for many years, had recently been set free.
A．is kept B．has been kept C．To have kept D．having been kept 语法过关
练习：
A.选择填空：
1. "When _____ he leave the hospital?" I asked the doctor.
A. will
B. shall
C. can
D. may
2.--- They have not finish the work up to now.
---Well, they ______
A. should have
B. should
C. ought to
D. ought have
3. Since it is already midnight, we______.
A. had better leaving
B. ought to have leave
C. should take our leave
D. might as well leave
4.____ you be happy!
A. May
B. Can
C. Must
D. Would
5. ---Must we come tomorrow? --- ______.
A. No, you can't
B. No, you needn't
C. No, you mustn't
D. No, you may not
6. To succeed in a difficult task,_____.
A. one needs to work hard
B. to work hard is needed
C. you need be a hard working person
D. to work hard is what one needs
7. In case I______, I would try again.
A. will fail
B. would miss
C. should fail
D. shall miss
8. Some people feel that handguns______.
A. should control
B. should be controlled
C. must be controlling
D. can be control
9. ______ open the door for you ?
A. Would you like that I
B. Do you want that I
C. Will I
D. Shall I
10. ---Why! I couldn’t get you on the phone this morning.
---We ____tennis in the yard when you phoned me.
A. could be playing
B. must be playing
C. must have been playing
D. should have played
B. 用所给的情态动词适当形式填空
1. “ _____ you play baseball?” “ No, I _______. “
2. “ ______ I hand in the paper this week?” “ No, you ______. You _____ hand it in next week.
3. It’s nearly eight o’clock. They ______ be here at any moment.
4. There were already 4 people in the car but they managed to take John as well. It ______ a comfortable journey.
5. “ ______ I take the magazine out of the reading room?” “ Sorry, you _____.”
6. The boss say to the secretary, “ If you work well, you _____ have
a rise.”
7. Let’s sing a song, ______ we?
8. The book I borrowed from the library isn’t here. Who __________?
9. “ They went to the lecture, but it had been put off.” “ Oh, so they _______.”
10. “ Isn’t that Tom playing basketball?” “ It ______ be; he fell off the ladder yesterday and got badly hurt.”
1. Can’t; can’t
2. Must; needn’t; may
3. should
4. couldn’t have been
5. May; mustn’t
6. shall
7. shall
8. could have taken it
9. needn’t have gone 10. couldn’t
第二英语知识运用（共两节，满分35分）
第一节：语法和词汇知识（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
1. Because prices of food and clothing and almost everything else in that country have steadily gone up, the buying of the dollar has gone down.
A. energy
B. force
C. power
D. strength
2. British people always talk about wether.
A. the; the
B. / ,/
C. /; the
D. the; /
key: C
3. —Is there anyone who is gong the Great Wall?
—_______
A. None
B. No one
C. No
D. Not any
4. .You’ll have to spend writing your report here.
A. one day or two days
B. one day or two
C. a day or two
D. two days or one
5. 2. When she woke up, she realized that the things she had dreamt about could not have happened.
A. possibly
B. likely
C. certainly
D. usually
6. It’s impossible for us to finish the task within half a month.
A. very
B. rather
C. quite
D. much
7. The speech by the mayor of Shanghai before the final voting for Expo 2010 is strongly impressed my memory.
A. to
B. over
C. by
D. on
8. I really don’t want to go to the Party, but I don’t see how I can it.
A. get back from
B. get out of
C. get away
D. get off
9. From what I learn about their hotel, the service and the weather, they their holiday very much.
A. couldn’t have enjoyed
B. shouldn’t have enjoyed
C. needn’t have enjoyed
D. can’t have enjoyed
10. ---Have you decided already? ---Yes, I at once.
A. have decided
B. decided
C. will decide
D. had decided
11. With all the magazine he needed ,he left the library.
A. borrowing
B. borrowed
C. borrow
D. to borrow
12. She is not worth .
A. to get angry
B. getting angry
C. getting angry with
D. to get angry with
13. The workers were making so much noise in the workshop, and the boss went to see_______.
A. what the matter was
B. what was the wrong
C. what wrong was
D. what was the matter
14. He quite appreciated_______ to the hall at the palace.
A. inviting
B. to be invited
C. being invited
D. having invited
15. ---Were you at home last Sunday?
---Yeah! I devoted the whole day to _______ the English grammar. A. review B. reviewing C. be reviewed D. being reviewed
第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
When I come across a good article in reading newspapers, I often want
to cut and keep it. But just as I am about to do so I find the article
on the 1 side is as much interesting. It may be a discussion of the way to 2 in good health, or 3 about how to behave and conduct oneself in society. If I cut the front article, the opposite one is likely to 4 damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text 5 the title. Therefore, the scissors(剪刀)would 6 before they start, 7 halfway done , when I find out the 8 result.
Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both worth your 9 .You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or be 10 up. But you know the future is unpredictable（不可预料）—the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left 11 . Thus you are 12 in a difficult position and feel sad. How 13 that nice chances and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once? It may happen that your life 14 greatly on your preference of one choice
to the other.
In fact that is what 15 is like: we are often 16 with the two opposite sides of a thing which are both desirable like a newspaper cutting. It often occurs that our attention is drawn to one thing only 17 we get into another. The 18 may be more important than the latter and give rise to a divided mind. I 19 remember a philosopher’s remarks:“When one door shuts, another opens in life.”So a casual （不经意） 20 may not be a bad one.
16.A.front B. same C. either D. opposite
17.A.get B. keep C. lead D. bring
18.A.advice B. news C. a theory D. a report
19.A.suffer B. reduce C. prevent D. cause
20.A.on B. for C. without D. off
e B. handle C. prepare D. stay
22.A.or B. but C. so D. for
23.A.satisfying B. regretful C. surprising D. impossible
24.A.courage B. strength C. attention D. patience
25.A.given B. held C. made D. picked
26.A.near B. alone C. about D. behind
27.A.filled B. attracted C. caught D. struck
28.A.dares B. comes C. deals D. does
29.A.improves B. changes C. progresses D. goes
30.A.study B. society C. nature D. life
31.A.faced B. supplied C. connected D. fixed
32.A.before B. after C. until D. as
33.A.following B. next C. above D. former
34.A.still B. also C. once D. almost
35.A.treatment B. action C. choice D. remark
第三阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面的短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

A
Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12, a white gardenia was delivered to my house. No card came with it Calls to the flower-shop were not helpful at all. After a while I stopped trying to discover the sender’s name and just delighted in the beautiful white flower in soft pink paper.
But I never stopped imagining who the giver might be. Some of my happiest moments were spent daydreaming about the sender. My mother encouraged these imaginings. She’d ask m e if there was someone for whom I had done special kindness. Perhaps it was the old man across the street whose mail I’d delivered during the winter. As a girl, though, I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy I had run into.
One month before my graduation, my father died. I felt so sad that I became completely uninterested in my upcoming graduation dance, and I didn’t care if I had a new dress or not. But my mother, in her own sadness, would not let me miss any of those things. She wanted her children to feel loved and lovable. In truth, my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gar-denia-lovely, strong and perfect with perhaps a bit of mystery(神秘)
My mother died ten days after I was married. I was 22. That was the year the gardenia stopped coming.
36．Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A．A childhood Dream. B．A Mother’s Love.
C．A Graduation Party. D．A Special Birthday.
37．The mother insisted that her daughter go to the graduation dance because _________.
A．she could take care of things herself B．she hoped she
would find a boyfriend
C．she wanted her to be happy and strong D．she thought education was most important
38．Who was the sender of the flower?
A．A boy the writer had run into. B．One of the writer’s neighbors.
C．One of the writer’s classmates.D．The writer’s mother.
B
The Sahara Festival is a celebration of the very recent past. The three-day event is not fixed to the same dates each year, but generally takes place in November or December. It is well attended by tourists, but even better attended by locals.
During the opening ceremonies, after the official greetings from the government leaders, people who attend the festival begin to march smartly before the viewing stands, and white camels transport their riders across the sands. Horsemen from different nations display their beautiful clothes and their fine horsemanship. One following another, groups of musicians and dancers from all over the Sahara take their turn to show off their wonderful traditional culture. Groups of men in blue and yellow play horns and beat drums as they dance in different designs. On their knees in the sand, a group of women in long dark dresses dance with their hair: their long, dark, shiny hair is thrown back and forth in the wind to the rhythm of their dance.
The local and visiting Italian dogs are anxious to run after hares. The crowd is on its feet for the camel races. Camels and riders run far into the distance, and then return to the finish Line in front of the cheering people.
Towards the evening, there comes the grand finale of the opening day, an extremely exciting horserace. All the riders run very fast on horseback. Some riders hang off the side of their saddles. Some even ride upside down -- their legs and feet straight up in the air -- all at full speed. Others rush down the course together, men arm in arm, on different horses. On and on they went. So fast and so wonderful!
39. The Sahara Festival is a festival which________.
A. has a very long history in North Africa
B. is held in the same place on the same day
C. is attended mainly by the people in the Sahara
D. is celebrated mostly by travelers from different countries
40. Before the races begin, ________ take part in the activities during the opening ceremonies.
A. musicians, dancers, horses and hares
B. camel riders, musicians, dogs and hares
C. horsemen, dancers, camels and dogs
D. musicians, officials, camels and horses
41. The underlined word "finale" in the fourth paragraph most probably
means the ________of the opening day.
A. first part
B. middle
C. last part
D. whole
42. This passage mainly tells readers_______.
A. what happens on the opening day of the Sahara Festival
B. how people celebrate during the three-day Sahara Festival
C. what takes place at the closing ceremonies of the Sahara Festival
D. how animals race on the first and the last days of the Sahara Festival
C
Some time ago ,I discovered that one of my chairs had a broken leg. I didn’t think there would be any difficulty in getting it mended ,as there are a whole lot of antique（古董）shops near my home. So I left home one morning carrying the chair with me. I went into the first shop expecting a friendly reception（接侅）. I was quite wrong. The man wouldn't even look at my chair.
The second shop, though slightly more polite, was just the same, and the third and the fourth ,so I decided that my approach must be wrong.
I went into the fifth shop with a plan in my mind. I placed the chair on the floor and said to the shopkeeper,“ Would you like to buy a chair?” He looked it over carefully and said,“ Yes, not a bad chair. How much do you want for it, sir?”“Twenty pounds,”I said. “OK, ”he said, “I’ll give you twenty pounds. ”“It’s got a slightly broken leg,”I said. “Yes, I saw that, it's nothing.”
Everything was going according to plan and I was getting excited. “What will you do with it?”I asked. “Oh, it will be easy to sell once the repair is done. ”“I'll buy it,”I said. “What do you mean？
You’ve just sold it to me,”he said. “Yes, I know but I’ve changed my mind. I'm sorry, I'll give you twenty -seven pounds for it. ”“Your must be crazy, ”he said. Then, suddenly the penny dropped. “I know what you want. You want me to repair your chair. ”“You’re right, ”I said. “And what would you have done if I had walked in and said, would you mend this chair for me?”I wouldn't have agreed to do it,” he said. “We don’t do repairs, not enough money in it and too much trouble. But I’ll mend this for you. Shall we say for a fiver?”He was a very nice man and was greatly amused（感到有趣）by the whole thing. 43．We can learn from the text that in the first shop the writer ________.
A. was rather impolite
B. was warmly received
C. asked the shopkeeper to buy his chair
D. asked the shopkeeper to repair his chair
44．The expression “the penny dropped” in the last paragraph means the shopkeeper ________.
A. changed his mind
B. accepted the offer
C. saw the writer’s purpose
D. decided to help the writer 45．How much did the writer pay?
A. ￡ 5.
B. ￡ 7.
C. ￡ 20.
D. ￡ 27. 46．From the text, we can learn that the writer was ________
A. honest
B. careful
C. smart
D. funny
D
More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and thriving（旺盛的）. As Skolnich notes, Americans are a marrying people: relative to Europeans, more of us marry and we marry at a younger age. Moreover, after a decline（衰退）in the early 1970s, the rate of marriage in the United States is now increasing. Even the divorce（离婚）rate needs to be taken in this pro- marriage context: some 80 percent of divorced individuals remarry. Thus, marriage remains by far the preferred way of life for the vast majority of the people in our society.
What has changed more than marriage is the nuclear family. Twenty- five years ago, the typical American family consisted of the husband, the wife, and two or three children. Now, there are many marriages in which couples have decided not to have any children, and there are many
marriag es where at least some of the children are from the wife’s previous marriage, or the husband’s, or both. Sometimes these children spend all of their time with one parent from the former marriage; sometimes they are shared between the two former spouses （配偶）．Thus, one can find every type of tamely arrangement. There are marriages without children; marriages with children from only the present marriages; marriages with “full - time” children from both the present and former marriages; marriages with“full-time”children from the present marriage and“ part-time”children from former marriages. There are stepfathers, stepmothers, half-brothers and half-sisters. It is not all that unusual for a child to have four parents and eight grandparents! These are enormous changes from the traditional nuclear family. But even so, even in the midst of all this, there remains one constant: most Americans spend most of their adult lives married.
47．By calling Americans a marrying people the writer means that ________.
A. Americans are more traditional than Europeans
B. Americans expect more out of marriage than Europeans
C. there are more married couples in the USA than in Europe
D. more of Americans, as compared with Europeans, prefer marriage and they accept it at a younger age
48．Divorced Americans _______.
A. prefer the way they live
B. will most likely remarry
C. have lost interest in marriage
D. are the majority of people in the society
49．Which of the following can be presented as the picture of today’s American families？
A. Various types of family arrangements have become socially acceptable.
B. A typical American family consists of only a husband and a wife.
C. Americans prefer to have more kids than before.
D. There are no nuclear families any more.
50．Though great changes have taken place in the structure of American families, ________.
A. the majority of Americans still have faith in marriage。