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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 Dso4A.sincerely Bexactly Creally Dactually5A.determined Bshocked Cexcited Ddisappointed6A.once Ball Ctimes
