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大学英语
A1
一、阅读理解
I shall
never forget one showing which was really a
challenge. I was busy getting ready to show
my winter fashions. Then just a few
days before the presentation, the sewing girls
were called out on
strike. I found
myself left with one tailor and the woman who was
in charge of the sewing room! I was
as
gloomy as my models and sales girls.
Where was the way out this time? I
wondered and worried. I could not help thinking of
the day
when my father had brought me
to the highest spot not far from our home. I was
only ten years old.
square
in the center of our little town and I saw the
crisscross
（十字型）
of twisting streets leading to
the square.
you can't get to
the place where you want to go by one road, try
another.
What
would
be
another
road
this
time?
I
was
almost
certain
we
would
have
to
call
off
the
presentation - or else show the clothes
unfinished. Then it dawned on me. Why not show the
clothes
unfinished?
We
worked at fever pitch
（程度）
,
and exactly right on time, the show took place.
What a show it was! Some
coats had no sleeves; other had only one. Many of
our clothes were still
in
an
early
stage.
They
were
only
patterns
made
of
heavy
cotton
cloth.
But
on
these
we
pinned
sketches and pieces of material. In
this way we were able to show what colors and
textures the clothes
would have when
they were finished.
All in all, the
showing was different. It was so different that it
was a great success. Our unusual
showing caught the attention of the
public, and orders for the clothes poured in.
Father's wise words
had guided me once
again. There is more than one way to the square
and always so!
writer was
busy preparing a show of ______.
ng
tation
scene
nge
答案：
A
writer
found herself left almost on her own because all
her girls were ______.
sewing
strike
holidays
of working
答案：
B
the writer was only a young girl, her
father took her to the highest spot to ______.
her the center of the square
her the danger
of the place
her the ways to the
square
her familiar with the city
答案：
C
writer
decided ______.
to give up the show
postpone the show
call off the presentation
buy some new clothes
答案：
A
the show
was held, it turned out to be ______.
patterns made of heavy cotton clothes
sketches and pieces of material
C.a big failure for the clothes were
not finished
D.a success
because it was so different
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答案：
D
“You’re trying to control my life,”
says my nine
-year-old son
.
“I don’t know why you think you
can do
that, but you can’t.” I received this bit of
information after I asked Gabriele to put his
dirty
socks in the basket. And I get no
sympathy from my
mother, who says,“You
let him have his way
from the
beginning.”
It’s true. I
have always asked Gabriele’s opinion, found out
how he felt about things
- treated him
as my peer, not my child. And what have
I got from my troubles? A lot of back talk. At
least I’m not
alone; it’s a complaint
heard among parents across the cou
ntry.
It’s not just that we’re confused by
the contradictory advice offered in parenting
books. The fact is,
in an effort to
break away from how we were raised -
to
try something more liberal than our parents’
“do it because I say so”approach
- our generat
ionhas gone too
far. “Today’s parents want to be young,
so they try to be friends with their
children,”says Kathy Lynn, a parenting
educator.
“When
it
comes
to
discipline,
our
society
has
gone
from
one
extreme
to
the
other,”says
Ron
Moorish, a behavior
spe
cialist. “We used to use the strap,
to intimidate. Then we had permissiveness,
and now it’s about giving children
choices and allowing them to learn from their own
experiences.”
Real
discipline,
says
Moorish,
is
about
teaching.
“By
correcting
our
children
when
they
do
something
wrong,
we
teach
them
how
to
behave
properly,”he
says.
But
this
only
works,
he
emphasizes, if parents regain their
position of authority. Children will always be
children. The key is
for parents to
choose to take the time to guide and teach their
kids.
Rita
Munday,
a
mother
of
four
children,
couldn’t
believe
the
dramas
that
played
out
in
the
children’s
shoe
store
she
operated.
She
often
saw
children
insist
on
having
the
high
-priced,
brand-
name
shoes.
And
even
when
the
mother
didn’t
wan
t
to
spend
the
money,
she
would
give
in
when the kid started
acting up and throwing shoes around.
Rhonda Radice, Munday’s younger
colleague, is one parent who has bucked the trend
and is proud
of it. “I don’t negotiate
with them. You can’t. I’ve seen paren
ts
come into the store and bribe their
children to behave. You shouldn’t have
to buy love and respect.”
author’s way of treating her son
____________.
shared by
many parents
encouraged by her mother
to be quite successful
little concern for the child
答案：
A
can be
inferred from the passage that __________.
s should learn to make friends with
their children
s need to follow the
advice of parenting books
’s children
enjoy more freedom than the previous
generation
’s
paren
ts are better at raising children
than the previous generation
答案：
C
ing to the
passage, to have “discipline”means that parents
should ___________.
the “do
it because I say so”approach
their children to understand the rules
ate with their children for a decision
allow their children to have their
ways
答案：
B
Ronda
Radice is the parent who has “bucked the trend”,
which of the following can also be cited
as the example for “bucking the
trend”?
s buy whatever their
children want.
s treat their children
as their equals.
s make decisions for
their children.
s maintain authority
over their children.
答案：
D
main point of the passage is to
__________.
e different ways of raising
children
e the problems faced by
today’s parents
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