Ⅶ. 阅读理解（共15小题； 第51—55题每小题1分，第56—65题每小题2分，满分25分）。
　　阅读下列短文，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳选项。
　　（A）
　　Key Kids
　　A grandmother friend I chatted with last week told me that she had been a latch-key child and there were lots of benefits. I asked her what the benefits were. She explained that her single mother took a full-time job when she was 9. This meant my friend was alone in the house until about 7 o’clock every night. Her mother wrote out a set of rules, gave her a key, and told her which neighbor to call if there was a problem. These were the days before pagers and cell phones so when she closed and locked the door behind her she was truly alone.
　　Benefits:
　　1. She felt her mother trusted her and expected her to be responsible.
　　"This was a heady feeling. It made me feel good about myself."
　　2. She learned how to cook.
　　On weekends she and her mother prepared simple dishes together until her mother felt her daughter could safely cook supper for both of them. "I felt grown-up because none of my friends could get supper on the table and I could do it! Cooking is still my passion."
　　3. She learned how to be content with just herself.
　　"When supper was cooking and my homework was done I wrote little poems, I wrote my thoughts in my diary, I listened to music, I read. TV was around but we didn't have a set."
　　4. She learned how to deal with new or challenging things by herself.
　　"I didn't have a parent around to tell me what to do if the toilet didn't flush(冲洗) but I remembered my mom using a plunger(橡胶吸盘，俗称“拔子”) and I figured out how to do it."
　　5. She learned how to deal with strong feelings like fear or loneliness.
　　"I was afraid sometimes in the beginning but I taught myself to figure out what was going on when I heard a noise."
　　All these points are worth thinking about. Mothers who don't go to work should try to give their children some of these benefits. An hour in the kitchen helping prepare supper is much better than an hour in front of the TV set.
　　51. Latch-key children were kids ____________________.
　　A. who stayed at home alone
　　B. whose parents had full-time jobs
　　C. who closed and locked the door behind them, when their parents went to work.
　　D. All above
　　52. In the passage,  figured out means______________.
　　A. 搞清楚        B. 计算出    C. 料到   D. 描绘
　　53. When did the friend’s mother go home?
　　A. 9 o’clock in the morning          B. 7 o’clock in the evening
　　C. 7 o’clock in the morning          D. 9 o’clock in the evening
　　54. Which statement is NOT TRUE according to the passage?
　　A. The friend read when she was at home alone.
　　B. The friend wrote diaries when she was at home alone.
　　C. The friend watched TV when she was at home alone.
　　D. The friend listened to music when she was at home alone.
　　55. The writer thinks_______________________________.
　　A. Parents should always make their children alone.
　　B. Parents should give their children keys when they go to work.
　　C. Parent should tell their children how to use a plunger.
　　D. Parents should teach their children some real living experience.
（B）
　　A linguist, an expert on language, is always listening, never off-duty. I invited a group of friends round to my house, telling them that I was going to record their speech. I said I was interested in their regional accents (地方口音), and that it would take just a few minutes. Thus, one evening, three people came to my house and were shown into my front room. In front of each chair there was a microphone at head height, connected to a recorder in the middle of the floor. They sat down, rather nervously and I explained that all I wanted was for them to count from one to twenty. Then we could relax and have a drink.
　　I turned on the recorder and each in turn counted from one to twenty in their best accents. When it was over, I turned the recorder off and brought round the drinks. I joined them in talking and joking freely. Then I left them for a telephone call which lasted some time. The rest of the evening seemed to be spent in total relaxation.
　　Or at least that is how it would appear. For, of course, the microphones were not connected to the recorder in the middle of the room at all but to another one in the bedroom. My friends, having seen the recorder before them turned off, paid no attention to the microphones a few inches from their mouths, thus giving excellent sound quality.
　　I should add, perhaps, that I did tell my friends what had happened to them, after the recording was over, and asked them whether it should be destroyed. None of them wanted to — but for some years after that, it always seemed that when it came to buying drinks, it was I who paid for them. Linguistic research can be a very expensive business.
　

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