Every family members know: Divorce will impose serious harmful effects on all of them.（)

访谈：并记录相关内容。1.How many people are there in your family？2.Do your family members

访谈：并记录相关内容。

1.How many people are there in your family？

2.Do your family members often watch TV？ How many hours do they spend watching TV every day on average？

3.What kind of TV programs do your family members like to watch？

4.Do your family members often watch TV together？

A．Stopping familiar monologues every day

B．A sudden change of a family member’s energy cycle

C．Being aware of energy cycles of other family members

D．Trying to control the energy cycles of other members

The most fundamental group to which a person belongs is the family. The institution of the family exists in almost every human culture. It is considered by behavioral scientists to be one of the oldest institutions in human history.

The family unit serves many important functions. The performance of these functions is he reason for the family's importance. Above all , the family serves as a mechanism of species survival (生存，幸存) .

Families also have important economic functions. In primitive societies, the tasks of gathering food and providing shelter were divided among family members. Today, both husband and wife may work and share the duties of homemaking and child rearing.

In addition to its survival and economic functions, the family gives its members social status. In many societies, a person is not considered a complete member until he has married and produced children. Finally, the family helps to meet the basic emotional needs of a person through the love and support received from parents, siblings (兄弟姐妹)， and relatives.

21. Which of the following best states the main idea of the passage？ ____________.

A. The family has changed greatly over time

B. Many of the functions of the family today are being performed by government agencles

C. The most important role for the family is to gather food

D. The family has served many useful functions throughout history

22. According to the passage, which of the following is an example of the role of the family in giving status？____________.

A. A child is taught to respect his elders

B. A couple work for several years to save for the purchase of a home

C. A politician makes a campaign commercial with his family

D. A mother comforts a child after he skins his knees

23. It can be concluded from the passage that the family is ____________.

A. undergoing many changes

B. the only useful social institution

C. likely to exist in future societies

D. not the same today as it was in the past

24. As it is used in the second paragraph of the passage, the word "mechanism" means ____________.

A. parts of an organism or system which work together

B. racial group united by language, religion, custom, etc.

C. the people living in one place, district or country, considered as a whole

D. a worker skilled in using or repairing machines or tools

25. Based on the information in the passage, you can infer that the passage is 一一一一一一·

A. about the family's mechanism of species survival

B. about the social, economic, and emotional usefulness of family throughout human history

C. about duties of the family shared by both husband and wife

D. about the emotional needs received from parents, siblings, and relations

Passage Five

In every language there are two great classes of words which, taken together, consist of the whole vocabulary. First, there are those words with which we become acquainted in daily conversation, which we learn, that is to say, from the members of our own family and from our familiar associates, and which we should know and use even if we could not read or write. They concern the common things of life, and are the goods in trade of all those who speak the language. Such words may be called "popular", since they belong to the whole people; and are not the exclusive possession of a limited class.

On the other hand, our language includes a large number of words which are comparatively seldom used in ordinary conversation. Their meanings are known to every educated person, but there is little occasion to use them at home or in the market-place. Our first acquaintance with them comes not from our mother's lips or from the talk of our school-mates, but from books that we read, lectures that we bear, or the more formal conversation of highly educated speakers who are discussing some particular topic in a style. raised above the habitual level of everyday life. Such words are called "learned". And the distinction between them and "popular" words is of great importance to a right understanding of the language.

51. One class of words can be learned ______.

A. through everyday life

B. without too much practice

C. from popular songs

D. with a dictionary in one's hand

The intimate style. is used between family members and very close friends. ()

All the members of the family sit down together and are on their best ____.

A: act

B: action

C: activity

D: behavior

to generation.()

rd, Please make me a smartphone”. This young kid is asking such a wish from God, because he sees that his parents at home are completely glued to this magical device called smartphone and has no time to look up at him. The smartphone is getting more attention in the house than the child. His parents are present there physically, but their minds are somewhere else. It’s so true that this device has become an inseparable part of our day to day life, and we are addicted to it. We will start feeling restless if we do not look to our phone after a few minutes. We react faster to a phone beep or a message compared to a call by a family member from a different room. We all need to come out of this head-down syndrome. We all need to connect and communicate in real world. We need to put this technology to good use and not become a slave. So what shall we do？ It’s simple: the solution is called “digital break”. This means, when you return home from work, you simply turn off or mute all your digital devices for a few hours every day, or at least once in a while. What do you do then？ You can share your time with the family, chatting with your wife or husband, playing games with your kids, doing things with other family members, etc. in real life. You will soon realize the world outside the smartphone is much more enjoyable

1.The kid is 5 years old.()

2.The kid asked God for a smartphone.()

3.Smartphones have become an inseparable part of our daily life.()

4.We all need to connect and communicate in virtual world.()

5.The only solution to the head-down syndrome is called “digital break.()

A.Members of my family have used this radio to listen to the news for generation.

B.Members of my family have used this radio to listen to the news of generations.

C.Members of my family have used this radio to listen to the news for generations.

m their friends, family members and colleagues.()