中考英语复习： 难度较大的阅读文章含答案(一)
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Trying to Find a Parther
One
of
the
most
striking
findings
of
a
recent
poll
in
the
UK
is
that
of
the
people
inbterviewed,one
in
two
believes
that
it
is
becoming
more
difficult
to
meet
someone
to
start
a
family with.
Why are many
finding it increasingly difficult to start and
sustain intimate relationships?Does
modern life really make it harder to
fall in love?Or are we making it harder for
ourselves?
It
is
certainly
the
case
today
that
contemporary
couples
benefit
in
different
ways
from
no longer rely upon
partners for economic security or status.A man
doesn't
expect his spouse to be
in sole charge of running
his household and raising his children.
But
perhaps the knowledge that we can live perfectly
well without a partnership means
that
it takes much more to
persuade people to abandon their independence.
In
theory,finding
a
partner
should
be
much
simpler
these
a
few
generations
ago,your
choice
of
soulmate
（心上人）
was
constrained
by
geography,social
convention
and
family
gh it was never explicit,many marriages
were essentially
arranged.
Now
those barriers have been broken can approach a
builder or a brain surgeon
in any bar in any city on any given
the world is your oyster
（牡蛎）
,you surely
have a better chance of finding a
pearl.
But
it
seems
that
the
old
conventions
have
been
replaced
by
an
even
tighter
constraint:the
tyranny of
choice.
The expectations of partners are
inflated to an unmanageable degree:good
looks,impressive
salary,kind to
grandmother,and right is no room for error in the
first impression.
We
think
that
a
relationship
can
be
it
isn't,it
is
work
to
protect
ourselves
against
future
heartache
and
don't
put
in
the
hard
emotional
labor
needed
to
build
a
strong course,this is
complicated by cost of housing and child-rearing
creates pressure to have a stable
income and career before a life partnership.
does the recent poll show?
is getting more difficult for a woman
to find her husband.
is getting increasingly difficult to
start a familyl.
is getting more difficult for a man to
find his wife.
is
getting increasingly
difficult to develop an intimate relationship with
your spouse.
of the following is NOT true about a
contemporary married couple?
wife doesn't have to raise
the children all by herself.
husband doesn't have to
support the family all by himself.
wife is no longer the only
person to manage the household.
will receive a large sum
of money from the govemment.
of the
following was NOT a constraint on one's choice of
soulmate in the old days?
health condition of his or her
grandmother.
geographical environment.
social convention.
family tradition.
of
the following is NOT expected of a partner
according to this passage?
looks.
impressive career.
C.A high salary.
D.A fine sense
of humor.
word
（
paragraph
2
）
could be best replaced by
A.
B.
C.
D.
第二篇
Milosevic's Death
Former Yugoslav
leader Slobodan Milosevic was found dead last
Saturday in his cell at the
Hague-based
International Criminal Tribunal for the former
64-year-old had been
on trial there
since February 2002.
Born
in
provincial
Pozarevac
in
1941,he
was
the
second
son
of
a
priest
and
a
school
of
his
parents
died
when
he
was
still
a
young
young
Milosevic
was
Slavoljub
Djukic,his
unofficial
was
interested
in
sports,avoided
excursions
（短途旅行）
and used to
come to school dressed in the old-fashioned
way-white shirt and tie.
punc
tilious
（一丝不苟的）
civil
servant.
Indeed that is exactly what he might
have become,had he not married was widely
believed to be his driving force.
At
university
and
beyond
he
did
worked
for
various
firms
and
was
a
communist
party 1986 he was head of Serbia's
Central still he had
not
yet really
been noticed.
It
was
Kosovo
that
gave
him
his
autonomous
province
of
Serbia,Kosovo
was