D
While we are still children ,most of us live at home with our parents, more or less peacefully . But as we become teenagers , things change ,and we begin to grow apart from our parents . This means we are almost ready to leave the house where we grew u p and make a new home of our own .
All humans must do this ,but they don’t all do it in the same way . If ,for instance ,you belong to a primitive tribe (原始部落) ，then as you grew up ,you’d learn the skills you needed as an adult---how to catch fish ,how to keep the house and look after children . You would be ready to marry in your early teens and you would build a house and live near your family in the village.
This seems a very old way of life , but it is what humans have been used to through hundreds of years. And it is what we are still used to in the 21st century ,for man hasn’t changed in the short time since he became civilized(文明的). But could you leave home and lo ok after yourself during the teen years ? Most people would not do very well . Why ? Because although man hasn’t changed very much , the society he lives in has changed greatly ,which means that we have to learn more and m ore before we are ready to leave our parents’ shelter( 居所 ) and live alone .
However ,sometimes it is very frustrating to live at parents’ home . Parents can be very upset about late nights ,criticizing friends and always saying that we are noisy and dirty . But we still need our emotional (情感的 ) shelter till we finish our studies , and that is why we usually stay in our parents’ home until we feel grown up enough to deal with living alone .
【小题1】When does the relationship with parents start changing ?
A. When we are children. B. When we become teenagers.
C. When we are alone. D. When we get married.
【小题2】For most teenagers of the 21st century ,making a new home of their own may be ________.
A. difficult B. unimportant C. impossible D. quite easy
【小题3】Why must we know more to be able to live alone ?
A. Because we are becoming less talented.
B. Because our society has changed a lot.
C. Because not enough is taught in our schools.
D. Because man has never really been civilized.
【小题4】From the passage ,we know living at parents’ home when we become teenagers _______.
A. is always pleasant B. must be very exciting
C. makes us feel lonely D. may be annoying
【答案】
【小题3】细节理解题。根据第三段Because although man hasn’t changed very much , the society he lives in has changed greatly ,which means that we have to learn more and more before we are ready to leave our parents’ shelter( 居所 ) and live alone . 描述，可知是因为人虽然没有变，但是我们的社会已经改变了。故选B。
【小题4】细节理解题。根据短文最后一段描述，可知当我们长大后还住在父母的家里面会很令人烦恼。故选D。
E
By the time Rihanna was seventeen ,she had released (发行) her first album and had an international hit with her first single (单曲) Pon de Replay.
Rihanna was born in Saint Michael , Barbados in 1988 . She grew up there with her two younger brothers . As a child , she loved singing . She formed her first group with frie nds from secondary school when she was just fifteen . In 2004 friends introduced the group to American record producer Evan Rogers ,who was on holiday in Barbados . Rogers thought Rihanna could be a star in America,so she moved there aged sixteen to take up music after she finished school. Rihhanna lived with Rogers and his wife . Then she worked for Def Jam Recordings and started working on her first album , Music of the Sun .It came out at in 2005 and got into the top ten . Over 69,000 copies of the album were sold in the first week alone . It went on to sell over two million copies worldwide and Rihanna quickly became a big star . Her second album , A Girl Like Me ,came out a year later and included the song SOS , which was her first number one hit in America. In 2007 Rihanna brought out her third album , Good Girl Gone Bad ,which had more dance music than the first two albums.
Rihanna sold more than fifteen million album and forty - five million singles worldwide between 2005 and 2010 ,the most of any artist at the same time . However ,she manages to find time for her charity work ,too . She has performed in several concerts to raise money for charity and in 2006 she created her Believe Foundation to help sick children . She also took part in Gucci’s activities to raise money for children in Africa.
【小题1】What had Rihanna released before she was seventeen ?
A. An al bum but no singles.
B. A single but not an album.
C. An album and at least one single.
D. Two album and a single Pon de Replay.
【小题2】Why did Rihanna move to America ?
A. To try to become a famous singer.
B. To form her first music group.
C. To meet the record producer Evan Rogers.
D. To record her album ,A Gir l Like Me ,with the help of Rogers.
【小题3】Which is true about Rihanna’s first album ?
A. It included her first number one hit in the US.
B. It sold69,000 copies in total.
C. It made Rihanna a star.
D. It came out before she finished school.
【小题4】It can be learnt from the text that Rihanna ______.
A. Wants to start a charity to help sick children
B. Has helped to raise money for African children
C. Has organized some concerts to raise money for charity
D. Is producing another album for her Believe Foundation
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