单选题Directions: Read the following text. Choose
the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the
ANSWER SHEET. For many parents,
summer is oppressive not mostly because of the heat but because of scheduling.
The lengthening days are a hint of the specter of more than 50 million
school-age {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}with six more hours of
{{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}time than usual. It's a child-care
chasm that I usually end up crossing by building an emergency bridge made of
cash: for more baby-sitting, more late {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}}
{{/U}}, more hastily put-together sort of activities. {{U}}
{{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}no matter how unprepared I am, I'll never be
arrested for my choices. That's what {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}}
{{/U}}to Deborah Harrell, who was taken into custody earlier this month,
officially for unlawful conduct toward a child, also known as {{U}}
{{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}her 9-year-old daughter in a park in North
Augusta, S.C., for several hours {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}she
was at work. Her kid had a cell phone, and the McDonald's Harrell works at was
{{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}, but the girl was there without
adult {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}for much of the day, a
{{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}said. The mom's
{{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}led to a round of national hair
pulling about "How a person could even do that" {{U}} {{U}} 12
{{/U}} {{/U}}"How a person could even report that". {{U}} {{U}}
13 {{/U}} {{/U}}, about 40% of parents leave their kids on their own, at
least for a while, {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}the American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Three states have even {{U}}
{{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}a minimum age for being home alone, {{U}}
{{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}from 8 years old in Maryland to 14 in
Illinois. Kids have raced around outside by themselves since
the dawn of time. That's why those on the free-range end of the child-raising
spectrum blamed the busybody who {{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}}
{{/U}}Harrell. {{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}}she was doing exactly
what child-protective-service agencies have asked U.S. citizens to do,
especially since data {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}that
child-abuse reports {{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}to go down over
summer but child-abuse incidents do not.
【答案解析】[解析] Her kid had a cell phone, and the McDonald's Harrell works at was ______，她的孩子有手机，她工作的麦当劳就在______。A．come by“得到”；B．go by“顺便走访”；C．close by“在附近”；D．far away“很远”。根据文章背景我们知道答案应该是close by(在附近)。
【答案解析】[解析] 上文提到：But no matter how unprepared I am, I'll never be arrested for my choices. That's what happened to Deborah Harrell, who was taken into custody earlier this month...可见Harrell因为忽视儿童被捕了，故该空应填入C．arrest，与上一段的arrested照应，属于原词复现。
单选题
A.then
B.than
C.or
D.so
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 根据背景："How a person could even do that" ______ "How a person could even report that".我们发现前后两句几乎是一致的，故该空逻辑关系属于并列；而选项中表示并列的只有or，故C为答案。