Question

【題目】Read the following passage and complete it with proper sentences in the box.

【1】. Living in a modern Asian city is not very different from living in an American city.【2】.

In many different parts of the world, farmers and their families live in villages or towns. But in the United States, each farm family lives on its own fields, often beyond the sight of any neighbors. Instead of traveling from a village to the fields every morning, American farmers stay on their land the whole week.【3】. Their children take buses to large schools for all the farm families living in the area.

【4】. Today there are cars, good roads, radios and television sets. And of course there are modern machines for farming. All of these have changed farm life.

For many years, however, farming in America was often a lonely way of living.【5】. They learned to try new methods, and to trust their own ideas instead of following older ways.

A. They travel to the nearest town at weekends for shopping or for lunch.

B. Farmers had to do with their own problems, instead of getting help from others.

C. Of course life keeps changing for everyone, including farmers.

D. All big cities are quite similar.

E. The same cannot be said about living on farms, however

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】 D

【2】 E

【3】 A

【4】 C

【5】 B

【解析】

本文主要講述了美國(guó)農(nóng)民的生活情況，他們喜歡居住在自己的田地中，喜歡嘗試新的方法，不遵循守舊。

【1】根據(jù)下文Living in a modern Asian city is not very different from living in an American city.可知上文是All big cities are quite similar. 所有的大城市都很相似。故選D

【2】根據(jù)In many parts of the world, farmers and their families live in villages or towns（在世界許多地方，農(nóng)民和他們的家人居住在村莊或者城鎮(zhèn)中。）可知上文是The same cannot be said about living on farms, however然而，在農(nóng)場(chǎng)生活也是如此。故選E。

【3】根據(jù)上文Instead of traveling from a village to the fields every morning, American farmers stay on their land the whole week.可知下文是They travel to the nearest town at weekends for shopping or for lunch. 他們周末去最近的城鎮(zhèn)購(gòu)物或午餐。故選A

【4】根據(jù)下文Today there are cars, good roads, radios and television sets. And of course there are modern machines for farming. All of these have changed farm life. 可知上文是Of course life keeps changing for everyone, including farmers當(dāng)然，每個(gè)人的生活，包括農(nóng)民，都在不斷變化。.故選C

【5】根據(jù)下文They learned to try new methods, and to trust their own ideas instead of following older ways可知上文是Farmers had to do with their own problems, instead of getting help from others.

農(nóng)民必須解決自己的問題，而不是從別人那里得到幫助。故選B。