2017届高考英语二轮复习 第一部分 专题增分练 课时33 情态动词和虚拟语气.doc

课时33 情态动词和虚拟语气 Ⅰ.阅读理解 A At railway stations all across Britain next week, groups of students will gather with their backpacks to wait for the trains that will carry them home for Christmas. This is as large a movement of human beings as before, but with more contradictory traffic flows, trains filled with the young pass each other traveling in every direction. At first, I went home every weekend with my washing, but then those visits became less regular. How did I let my parents know I was coming? They had no phone. Perhaps I wrote to them (“Expect me with dirty shirts this Friday afternoon”), but more likely I didnt let them know, and just turned up or didnt turn up, not understanding that my parents hopes of seeing me were a greater disappointment of my carelessness than a spoiled tea. And in all this I suspected I was typical, at least of young men. As for our fathers and mothers, none of them talked of “the empty nest syndrome(综合征)”， even though its possible effect that the main human duty is to protect and feed the young would have suited their generation better than ours. Today, its a condition with remedies,_which will make parents feel more enjoyable in their life. The Mayo Clinic, for example, suggests you try to maintain regular contact with your children through “visits, phone calls, emails, texts or video chats”. If you feel unhappy, lean on loved ones or your mental health providers. Above all, stay positive. Thinking about the extra time and energy you might have to devote to your marriage or personal interests after your last child leaves home might help you adapt to this major life change. What cant be denied, however, is that children often leave home. In modern society, this is what they do. Christmas is the very time when they can be depended on to return. For the non-religious, that may be this seasons true comfort and significance. [语篇解读]　圣诞节前夕英国大批学生要乘火车回家，由此作者想到了