北舞考研英语阅读精练解析第一篇

　　志向考北舞的同学能否被成功录取，考研英语科目占有至关重要的位置，然后英语阅读又是该科目的重头戏，所以考研英语要想拿高分，先搞定阅读，下面是舞研堂英语辅导专家陈老师针对英语阅读练习整理的一篇阅读精练及答案解析，希望北舞考研的同学们可以在原有基础得到有效提高。

　　Today only one person in five in the United States lives within 50 miles of his birthplace. Since the country was first settled, Americans have moved around a great deal, and are often far away from their parents. Because they have broken ties with their past at a young age, chosen their own occupations, established their own homes and developed their own lifestyles, few American children grow up closely surrounded by grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins as they do in Italy, Nigeria, or India, for example. This along with the fact that modern American families do not have servants has made the “baby-sitter” a vital part of the American scene. A “sitter” is someone who is hired to care for children for a specific length of time—usually relatively short—while the parents are out for an evening, going to a party or a course of study for example. Sometimes the baby-sitter is also hired for longer period, perhaps when the parents are away for a weekend. In such cases the “sitter” is likely to be a mature and motherly woman. For short periods, teen-agers, college students, nursing students, and others are commonly employed on an hourly basis.

　　From the point of view of convenience, the best sitters are often young people who live in your apartment building or close by in the neighborhood. This gives you a chance to meet the parents and see what they are like. If an emergency occurs, young sitters can call upon their parents quickly for help; you do not have to take them far to see them home at night or pay expensive taxi fares. Another advantage is that young people living close by can usually fill in quite readily on short notice or for short periods of time.

　　In an apartment house you can ask the superintendent for permission to post a notice for a baby-sitter by the mailboxes. This is often the best way to find out if there is anyone in the building who is interested in baby-sitting. Retired people as well as students are often glad to earn a little money in this way and can be found by such a note.

　　1. We can infer from the first paragraph that ______.

　　A. the American is a movable and independent nation

　　B. the Americans are often far away from their parents

　　C. the Children in Italy, Nigeria, or India doesn’t feel like living with their parents

　　D. the Americans broke ties with their past at a young age

　　2. A baby-sitter is a person who ______.

　　A. helps to do housework

　　B. is a cleaning woman

　　C. looks after children while their parents are out

　　D. takes care of babies and cooks for the family

　　3. Who can be a baby-sitter?

　　A. Women B. Man C. College student D. All the above

　　4. It is advised that when you are out for short periods, you may hire ______ to be baby-sitters.

　　A. motherly women B. retired people

　　C. young people D. mature women

　　5. The best title for the passage is ______.

　　A. American Families

　　B. Baby-Sitters

　　C. A Way of Earning Money for Young Students

　　D. A Best Way to Find Baby-Sitters

　　答案：

　　1. D。由题干in 1997直接定位于文章第一句to support the Red Cross’s Campaign for a total ban on all anti-personnel landmines，D项是原文的同义改写。

　　2. D。本句中的figures，指的不是前面提到的统计数字，而是后面列举的小女孩Sandra等深受地雷伤害的人;另一个是bring sth. home这个短语是指“活生生的揭示，以强调的形式清楚的表示”。所以本句的意思是亲眼看到被地雷伤害的人使王妃深切感受到了事实。

　　3. C。由some members of the British government定位与第三段第一句，此处表明英国政府批评戴安娜的原因，即政府不支持禁雷。从第三段第二句可知，王妃的出访是得到了外交部的批准的，排除A，B和D是政府在媒体上对王妃的批评之辞，并没有说明真实的原因。

　　4. B。第四段第一句说明了王妃对政府对她的批评所持的态度。brush aside意思是“不理，漠视”，相当于pay no attentionto sth.

　　5. C。文章最后一段用王妃的话总结了她出访安哥拉的意义，即让她有机会贴近普通民众，C项是原文的同义转述。

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