2014高考英语阅读理解抓分练习题及答案.doc

2014高考英语阅读理解抓分练习题（8）及答案 （济南市201*届高三教学质量调研）??? The website FarmersOnly. com calls itself an online dating and friendship finder. The idea started in the mind of a man, Jerry Miller in Ohio. He wondered how farmers could meet new people who understand the life of a farmer. Jerry Miller is not a farmer but he represents a lot of farmers. ??? As he tells it,the idea for the site was planted when a farmer told him one day that she was recently divorced and would like to date. But someone would invite her to meet for coffee at nine o’clock at night, when she had to start her day at five the next morning. ??? So, in 2005, Jerry Miller launched his website. You don’t have to be a farmer to be on FarmersOnly. com. But you do have to have the good old-fashioned traditional values of America’s heartland. ? ??You also have to live in the United States or Canada to be a member of the site. Some services are free, but a full membership costs fifty dollars for a year. As of last week the sire listed more than 58,000 members. Many of them are farmers in the United States. Others are students or workers involved in some way with agriculture. Jerry Miller tells us about thirty marriages in the last year have resulted from his website. ??? Some farmers have also found love through a group,Singles in Agriculture,which was formed as a nonprofit organization in 1986.It organizes gatherings that usually end with a dance, but is not a dating service. The purpose is to support educational and social activities that offer people a chance for friendship. Its website,,says there are more than l,000 members across the nation and as far away as France. (1)Jerry Miller started FarmersO in order to_____________. A. help farmers????????????????? B. support traditions C. understand farmers???????????? D. represent farmers (2)What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 indicate? A. She dislikes city lifestyle.[来源:学,科,网] B. She prefers late night coffee. C. Country life isn’t well understood