2015中职英语期中模拟考试试题：阅读理解（D4）.doc

中职英语期中模拟考试试题：阅读理解 阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，共40分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卷上将该选项标号涂黑。 A About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City when a woman and a young boy sat down at the next table. I couldn’t help overhearing parts of their conversation. At one point the woman asked: So, how have you been? And the boy—who could not have been more than seven or eight years old—replied, Frankly, Ive been feeling a little depressed lately.’’ This incident stuck in my mind because it confirmed my growing belief that children are changing. As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn’t find out we were “depressed” until we were in high school. The evidence of a change in children has increased steadily in recent years. Children don’t seem childlike anymore. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave more like adults than they used to. Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different. Childhood as it once was no longer exists. Why? Human development is based not only on innate (天生的) biological states, but also on patterns of access to social knowledge. Movement from one social role to another usually involves learning the secrets of the new status(身份). Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages: traditionally, we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders.51. According to the author, feeling depressed is _____. A. a normal sign of a psychological problem in a child B. something hardly to be expected in a young child C. a nice phase of childrens mental development D. a strange state present in all humans, including children52. Traditionally, a child is supposed to learn about the adult world _____. A. without contact with society B. gradually and under guidance C. by teaching themselves D. by watching TV 53. The phenomenon that today’s children seem adultlike is attributed by the author to _____.