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阅读下列短文，从[A]、[B]、[C]三个选项中选择一个正确答案。

In the early days of the old West in North America, life was difficult. People lived on farms far away from other families. And there were some big problems. For example, how did one family make a house?
What did families do to build houses? They asked for help. They invited their friends and neighbors to a work party for a few days. The women cooked together. The men worked on the building. For the children it was like a holiday. Together these people built a house or a barn (谷仓). At another time the family with the new house would help their neighbors. A work party is really cooperation. To cooperate means "to work together". Many people can work together, hen the big job becomes a small job for many workers. Working together can be fun too.
Today there isn't much cooperation. People don't work together very much. Some people don't know their neighbors. Why don't we work with other people? It can be fun. Life can become easier too.

单选题 Why did people have big problems in the early days of the old West in North America? [A] Because they didn't work. [B] Because life was too easy. [C] Because people lived far away from each other.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[名师解析] 文章第一段第三句提到人们有很大的麻烦，看一下本句的前面和后面，就可以发现，前面一句说人们住得很远，所以住得远就是产生麻烦的原因。做阅读题时，尤其当题目是有关因果等关系时，应该先在文中找到相关的句子，然后在此句前后找一下其原因或结果。

单选题 How did one family build houses? [A] They did it by themselves. [B] They asked the police to help. [C] They asked other families to come to help.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[名师解析] 有关如何建房的内容在第二段，第二段开头就有一句设问，先提出问题，然后自己回答——人们互相帮忙，所以C项是正确的。

单选题 What did the children do when their parents were working?

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[名师解析] 人们在建房时各有分工，这在第二段中可以看见，妇女烧饭，男人造屋，而对儿童来说，这就像是个节日，能够让儿童感到像是节日的，最有可能的就是能够在一起玩了，而选项A“帮助父母”在文中并没有提到，B项“呆在自己家中”同样没有提到，因此C项最有可能。

单选题 If family A helped family B to build their houses, what would family B do? [A] They will prepare a lot of food for family A. [B] They will give family A money. [C] They will also help family A next time.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[名师解析] 文中第二段提到“At another time the family with the new house would help their neighbors”，也就是说，这次邻居帮了某家，这家下次也会来帮助他们的邻居的。以此为前提，题干中的假设就不难解出。

单选题 What is a cooperated group for? [A] To do more things. [B] To turn big work into small work. [C] To give people a chance to get together.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[名师解析] 文中第二段先对“cooperation”作了明确定义，说是“work together”，接下来then后面跟着的是cooperation的作用：让大工作变成小工作。本题问cooperation是 for(目的是)什么的，也就是问其作用，因此B是正确的。而A项和C项文中找不到信息支持。

单选题 What is true from the text? [A] Cooperation is not funny. [B] Today there is still much cooperation. [C] Some people today even don't know who their neighbors are.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[名师解析] 本题主要是针对最后一段提的问。出题一般都是按文章顺序出的，一般来说，最后一题如果不是对文章的总结性提问，那便是针对最后部分。因此，本题可以在最后一段中寻找信息。第二段最后一句说“一起工作也可以是有趣的”，因此A项排除。最后一段第一句说今天人们不怎么合作了，因此B项也排除。故C项是正确的，这在最后一段第三句中可以找到。