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　　2017年英語四級閱讀試題練習

　　part 1

　　Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.

　　What makes Americans spend nearly half their food dollars on meals away from home? The answers lie in the way Americans live today. During the first few decades of the twentieth century, canned and other convenience foods freed the family cook from full-time duty at the kitchen range.

　　Then, in the 1940s, work in the wartime defense plants took more women out of the home that ever before, setting the pattern of the working wife and mother. Unless family members pitch in with food preparation, women are not fully liberated from that chore.

　　It's easier to pick up a bucket of fried chicken on the way home from work or take the family out for pizzas or burgers than to start opening cans or heating up frozen dinners after a long, hard day. Also nowadays, the rising divorce rate means that there are more single working parents with children to feed. And many young adults and elderly people, as well as unmarried and divorced mature people, live alone rather than as a part of a family unit and don't want to bother cooking for one. Fast food is appealing because it is fast, it doesn't require any dressing up, it offers a "fun" break in the daily routine, and the outlay of money seems small. It can be eaten in the car-sometimes picked up at a drive-in window without even getting out-or on the run. Even if it is brought home to eat, there will never be any dirty dishes to wash because of the handy disposable wrappings. Children, especially, love fast food because it's finger food, no struggling with knives and forks, no annoying instructions from adults about table manners.

　　52. Americans enjoy fast food mainly because ________.

　　[A] it can be eaten in the car

　　[B] it is much more tasty than home-made food

　　[C] one only uses his fingers while eating it

　　[D] it is time-saving and convenient

　　53. It can be inferred that children ________.

　　[A] want to have freedom at table

　　[B] wash dishes after each meal

　　[C] are not good at using forks and knives while eating

　　[D] take eating time as a fun break

　　54. Many Americans are eating out and not cooking at home nowadays because ________.

　　[A] they want to make a change after eating the same food for years at home

　　[B] the food made outside home tastes better than food cooked at home

　　[C] many of them live alone or don't like taking trouble to cook

　　[D] American women refuse to cook at home due to women's liberation movement

　　55. According to the text, a drive-in window is a ________.

　　[A] car window from which you can see the driver

　　[B] window in the restaurant from which you get your meal in the car

　　[C] place where you check the mechanic condition of your car

　　[D] entrance where you return the used plates after eating

　　56. The expression "pitch in with" (Line 2, Para. 2) probably means________.

　　[A] complain

　　[B] enjoy

　　[C] help

　　[D] deny

　　Passage One

　　52. D 細節(jié)題。由文章第三段第四句提到的fast food is appealing because it is fast, it doesn't require any dressing up...可知，D正確。

　　53.C 推斷題。文章第三段最后一句提到no struggling with knives and forks，由struggling一詞可推斷，孩子們不擅長使用刀叉吃飯，所以C正確。

　　54. C 推斷題。文章第三段提到，現(xiàn)在很多人都獨自居住，他們不愿意為自己一個人烹制食物，所以C正確。由于題目問的是nowadays的情況，所以可排除強干擾項D。

　　55. B 推斷題。文章第三段倒數(shù)第三句提到sometimes picked up at a drive-in window without even getting out, 由句中的without even getting out 可以推斷，drive-in window 是免下窗口，即司機可以不用下車就能拿到食物，所以B正確。

　　56. 語義題。文章第二段第二句意為“只要家庭成員不準備食物，婦女們就無法完全從家務雜事中解放出來�！庇纱送茢啵琾itch in with應意為“幫助”，故選C。

　　part 2

　　Until the 1980s, the American homeless population comprised mainly older males. Today, homelessness strikes much younger part of society. In fact, a 25-city survey by the U. S. Conference of Mayors in 1987 found that families with children make up the fastest growing part of the homeless population. Many homeless children gather in inner cities; this transient(變化無常的) and frequently frightened student population creates additional problems — both legal and educational — for already overburdened urban school administrators and teachers.

　　Estimates of the number of homeless Americans range from 350,000 to three million. Likewise, estimates of the number of homeless school children vary radically. A U.S. Department of Education report, based on state estimates, states that there are 220,000 homeless school-age children, about a third of whom do not attend school on a regular basis, But the National Coalition for the Homeless estimates that there are at least two times as many homeless children, and that less than half of them attend school regularly.One part of the homeless population that is particularly difficult to count consists of the “throwaway” youths who have been cast of their homes. The Elementary School Center in New York City estimates that there are 1.5 million of them, many of whom are not counted as children because they do not stay in family shelters and tend to live by themselves on the streets.Federal law, the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987, includes a section that addresses the educational needs of homeless children. The educational provisions of the McKinney Act are based on the belief that all homeless children have the right to a free, appropriate education.