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1、专题三 阅读理解(十三)【山东省烟台市2012届高三第一次模拟考试】DIn the past decade, openness has become mainstream, and the vast majority of domestic adoptions (家庭领养) are open ones. Even so, potential adoptive parents and birthparents are often fearful when they first hear of the concept.Making Room in Our Hearls：Keeping Family
2、 Ties Through Open Addption answers the most common questions about the influence of open adoption, and how it affects the lives of everyone related. Duxbury, a family expert who specializes in adoption advice, is also an adoptive parent. Her book opens with her own familys story.Duxbury surveyed 15
3、0 families, but her book is not a collection of data. Instead, it allows these families to share their thoughts and wisdom, their joy and pain；the stories communicate the great happiness families feel at“working together for the sake of the child”and the steady view that the adoptive parents are the
4、 parents. They also touch on problems that can arise from opening closed adoptions.The most convincing advocates for open adoption here are the adopted teens themselves. Commenting on the question people always ask：“Are you confused about who is you realmother?”, Josh, age 2l now. states,“Kids arent
5、 stupid. I think I would be confused if my birthmother was not in my life. But my birthmother is not another parent. Your parents are your parents. My birthmother is really important to me. She is like a speciai aunt, but she is not my parent.”“Openness gives children the gift of possibilities, for
6、now and for the future,” writes adoption expert Patricia Martinez Dorner in her closing thoughts.“It is not a ctre-all, but it creates the possibility for a stronger sense of permanence and identity.” This book is important reading for everyone touched by adoption.71. The first paragraph is written
7、with the aim to .A. advise people to open their adoptionsB. bring in the topic of open adoptionC. explain why open adoption has become mainstreamD. advertise the book Make Room in Our Heart72. What kind of view may both Duxbury and Josh agree with?A. The adoptive parents are the parents.B. Only stup
8、id kids may regard their birthmother as parent.C. A collection of data of adoptive families is useless.D. All adoptive families should share their joy and pain.73. We can leam from the text that kids of“closed adoptions” .A. will not be told the truth of adoptionB. hate their birthparents very muchC
9、. usually have fewer family problemsD. will become stupid with no birthparents74. The adopted childrens attitude towards open adoptio11 is .A. ridiculous B. disapproving C. positive D. uncertain75. We can learn the advantages of open adoptions in .A. paragraph 2 B. paragraph 3 C. paragraph 4 D. para
10、graph 5【答案】71-75BAACD【山东省枣庄市2012届高三第一次模拟考试】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。AJames Arruda Henry, a 98-year-old retired lobsterman, has written and published his first book, In a Fishermans Language, after learning to read at the incredible age of 91MrHenry spent most of his life withou
11、t even his closest family members knowing he was illiterate (文盲）Forced to quit school in the third grade to take some jobs, he kept the secret close to his chest - only telling to his late wifeA family problem in his 90s sparked his encourage to restart his educationHe signed a document he could not
12、 read, MrHenrys granddaughter saidAnd then, after hearing about George Dawson, a son of slaves who learned to read at the age of 98 and went on to write a book of his own, entitled Life Is So Good at the age of 101, MrHenry took up readingIf he can do itIm going to try, MrHenry saidStarting with his
13、 namehe eventually moved on to ABCs and childrens booksHe put them down for four years after the tragic loss of his wifeBut eventually he went back to reading and with the help of his tutor began to record his lifeHe wrote about his familys voyage from Portugal to the UShis many journeys at sea and
14、how he was unable to save another fisherman who had fallen overboardHe became a carpenter and even a professional boxer - and eventually built his own home in Stonington BoroughHis life stories have become so popular, in fact, nearly 800 copies were sold in the first two weeks of the books release l
15、ast monthOne thousand more have since been printed as requests for the book flood in from as far as GermanyAnd now even Hollywood producers have approached MrHenry about optioning the rights to his life story for a big screen adaptation56Which of the following is true of MrHenry?AHe couldnt read when he was retiredBHe was not a good student at schoolCOnly his family members knew he was illiterateDHe published his book at the age of 9157MrHenry made up his mind to study because he Ahad some trouble with his granddaughterBcouldnt sign the document he was givenCwanted
