注意：此部分试题在答题卡2上作答 。
American today have different eating habits than they had in the past. There is a wide (36)
of food available. They have a broader (37) of nutrition(营养), so they buy more fresh fruit and (38) than ever before. At the same time, Americans (39)
increasing quantities of sweets and sodas.
Statistics show that the way people live (40) the way they eat. American lifestyles have changed. There are now growing numbers of people who live alone, (41) parents and children, and double-income families. These changing lifestyles are (42) for the increasing number of people who must (43) meals or sometimes simply go without them. Many Americans have less time than ever before to spend preparing food. (44)
. Moreover, Americans eat out nearly four times a week on average.
It is easy to study the amounts and kinds of food that people consume. (45)
. This information not only tells us what people eating, but also tells us about the changes in attitudes and tastes. (46)
. Instead, chicken, turkey and fish have become more popular. Sales of these foods have greatly increased in recent years.
PartⅣ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)
Section A
Direction: In this section, there is a passage with 10 blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word blank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the blank is identified by a letter. Please make the corresponding letter for each item onAnswer sheet 2 with a single line through the center. UUUYou may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
When Carly Fiorina became Hewlett-Packard’s first female chief executive officer, the existence of her househusband, Frank Fiorina, who had retired early from AT&T to support her career, was a mini-sensation(小轰动); now this arrangement isn’t UUU47 UUU at all. Seven of the 18 women who are UUU48 UUU CEOs, of Fortune 500 companies — including Xerox’s Ursula Burns and PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi — have, or at some point have had, a stay-at-home husband. So do scores of UUU49 UUU CEOs of smaller companies and women in other senior executive jobs.
This role change is UUU50 UUU more and more as women edge past men at work. Women now
UUU51 UUU a majority of jobs in the U.S., including 51.4 percent of managerial and professional UUU52 UUU, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Sme 23 percent of wives now earn more than their husband. And this earnings trend is more dramatic among younger people. Women 30 and under make more money, on UUU53 UUU, than their malecounterparts(年龄相当的人) in many large cities in the U.S.
During the recent UUU54 UUU, three men lost their jobs for every woman. Many unemployed fathers have ended up caring for their children full-time while their wives are the UUU55 UUUwage earners. The number of men in the U.S. who UUU56 UUU care of children under age five increased to 32 percent in 2010 from 19 percent in 1998, according to Census figures.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答 。
A) appealing
I) occupations
B) average
J) occurring
C) conflict
K) positions
D) currently
L) primary
E) elementary
M) recession
F) ensure
N) regularly
G) female
O) unusual
H) fill
Section B
Directions:There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D).You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer sheet 2with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
I’ve worked in the factories surrounding my hometown every summer since I graduated from high school, but making the transition(转变) between school and full-time blue-collar work during the break never gets any easier. For a student like me who considers any class before noon to be uncivilized, getting to a factory by 6 o’clock each morning is torture. My friends never seem to understand why I’m so relieved to be back at school or that my summer vacation has been anything but a vacation.
There’re few people as self-confident as a college student who has never been out in the real world. People my age always seem to overestimate the value of their time and knowledge. In fact, all the classes did not prepare me for my battles with the machine I ran in the plant, which would jam whenever I absent-mindedly put in a part backward or upside down.
The most stressful thing about blue-collar life is knowing your job could disappear overnight. Issues like downsizing (裁员) and overseas relocation had always seemed distant to me until my co-workers told me that the until I was working in would shut down within six months and move to Mexico, where people would work for 60 cents and hour.
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