阅读理解Task 3 Directions:After reading the following passage，you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements(No.56 to No.60). For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A，B，C and D. You should make the correct choice and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. With the average number of children in a British family falling beneath 2.0，the population of the UK has been falling for quite a few years. The size of the British workforce(劳动力)is becoming smaller and the average age of the workforce is rising. This trend is quite worrying for the British economy. Why aren’t the British having as many children as they used to? Well，there is a whole range of reasons. One of them is that British people are now having at a much older age than before，meaning they have fewer years in which they can have chidren. After years of study at university，they then need a few years of work experience before they can get the job they want. They might then get married，but it’s very expensive to buy a house in the UK.The above also explains why British young people now don’t move out of their parents’ home until they are around 30 years old on average.It is not until they are 30 that they can afford to get married and start a new life in a new home. It’s only after this age that many young people start thinking about having a child. Paragraph 1 tells us that__________ . 

阅读理解When a tsunami happens, the best course of action for people is to________. 

阅读理解What is the tone of the passage?

阅读理解Which of the following is true?

阅读理解US students are also giving government jobs a hard look，according to ______

阅读理解Why does the author mention a steamship?

阅读理解The topic sentence of paragraph 2 is_______.

阅读理解What is the most important task of philosophy according to Socrates?

阅读理解Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? 

阅读理解What happened after the engineer learned "doing nothing" ?

阅读理解When does a baby became frightened of unfamiliar people?

阅读理解What is( are) the advantage(s) of baby-pooling?________. 

阅读理解"A lost generation" in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to

阅读理解ask 1 (2 points each; 10 points in all)Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements (No. 46 through No. 50). For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D、 You should make the correct choice and put the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.Many people are frightened by spiders (蜘蛛).   They are especially afraid of large, hairy ones. The largest and most frighteningof all spiders is the bird-eating spider, which lives in the hot, thick rain forests of northern South America.Bird-eating spiders are a type of tarantula ( 狼蛛). They can bite, and the bite is painful, but it will not kill a grown-up. The poisonous bite of a black widow spider is far more dangerous.Bird-eating spiders often hide in holes and under rocks during the day, but at night they creep out and hunt for insects. As you might guess from their name, they also catch birds and eat them.They have another unusual ability. They can walk up windowpanes (玻璃窗) because of sticky, silky hairs on their feet that cling to glass.This spider lives where the climate is_________.

阅读理解Hemingway might have two kinds of special qualities-courage and endurance-because_______.

阅读理解What did the speech therapist do to help Tom?

阅读理解What does “a strange country “refer to in Para 3?It refers to ____________________ ____________ 

阅读理解To prevent tsunami-damage, the following measures can be taken EXCEPT ________

阅读理解From the story we can learn that Mark Twain_________.

阅读理解The sentence “ therefore Tuangou helps change a traditional distust of goods purchased from unknown sellers” implies that________ .