单选题

Shared Holiday

Spending a holiday with another family sounds like a good idea. It enables your kids to play with other kids, enables you to communicate with other parents, and enables your family to rent a bigger and nicer house. It might be too expensive fur your family to rent such a house on your own. However, not all sharing holidays are pleasant for everyone.
Clare is a mother of four. She used to spend holidays with her friends. However, she found that the experience was painful although her friends are nice people. Her friends rented a nice house and invited her family to join them. The house was much more expensive than Clare was able to pay for. In addition, her children were too yuung to enjoy the holiday. The big problem was that Clare had to share the cooking during the holiday. Her friends left their children with their nanny (保姆)when they were cooking. Keeping up with children was tiring for Clare, because she didn't have a nanny. What's more, her children didn't want to be looked after by her friends. As a result, Clare had to look after her children whenever she had to prepare the dinner. What's worse, Clare's friends paid too much attention to how many ice creams their children had. They even didn't care about Clare's kids at all.
John is a lawyer and father of tour children. He once spent a holiday with one of his best friends. During the holiday, the relationship between John and his wile, became very bad. His friend said that he discovered a whole different side of John.

单选题 From the first paragraph, what is the writer's attitude towards spending holidays with other families?

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。第一段中说Spending a holiday with another family sounds like a good idea. It enables your kids to play with other kids, enables you to communicate with other parents, and enables your family to rent a bigger and nicer house. However, not all sharing holidays are pleasant for everyone．可以得知和别人一起度假虽然有好多的好处，却也并非受到所有人的喜欢，实际就是在暗示A选项的内容。B选项和这句话中所列举的情况矛盾，其实大部分时候挺好的，并非乏味；C选项和It might be too expensive for your family to rent such a house on your own．矛盾。D选项过于夸大了极其个别的情况。

单选题 The writer seems to believe that ______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 推断题。A、C文中并未提及；D过于夸张；只有B可以从第二段中However, she found that the experience was painful although her friends are nice people. The house was much more expensive than Clare was able to pay for. Keeping up with children was tiring for Clare. 可以推断出Clare假期一点都不愉快，即B选项的内容；虽然也提到They even didn't care about, Clare's kids at all．但是D选项的内容超出了文中所表达的意思，文中并没有说到她对朋友们感到生气。

单选题 In the last paragraph, what does tile writer mean by saying "His friend said that he discovered a whole different side of John"?

单选题 The examples of Clare and John are given in order to illustrate that ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 推断题。本文的主题即第一段所讲述的：虽然和人共度假日有诸多好处，可是也有例外的情况。接下来就举了两个例子，一个是Clare，另外一个是John，来为这个主题服务。A、B选项过于绝对化，刚好这两个例子中的家庭都有孩子而已，作出这两个推断显然证据不足；D选项所讲的是适合于所有共度假日的情况，并非Clare和John这两个的特例。