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   The “challenges” of family holidays are well-known. It's 1 enough getting on with your husband,wife or kids at home,so how can you 2 yourself while travelling with them? Susan M. Shaw,expert on leisure(休閑) at the University of Waterloo,thinks the term “family leisure” is full of 3 . “Research suggests that such 4 do not always make you feel relaxed,” she writes,darkly.

Family holidays probably,don't add much to the sum of human 5 . However,as one of my friends likes to 6 , people don't have children for happiness. Research has shown that 7 are less happy than childless people. 8 , says my friend,having children is best understood as a biological urge. You have them not for the present but for the 9 ,so that your 客從從(基因) will continue to exist when you are gone. And 10 , you go on family holidays not for the present but for the future.

   Thus,the aim of the holiday,much of the time,is to stock up on 11 : to leave all family members with 12 of happiness that they can look back on after the family doesn't exist. Indeed,much of what we remember of our families comes from 13 . On holiday,the family exists more clearly than at any other time: all together for once,14 work,school or friends. On holiday,you are much closer to your 15 . Holiday photographs make that feeling of closeness 16 . In fact,the photographs themselves are perhaps the main 17 of the holiday: that's where the memories get laid down.

   A family holiday is for memories. Once you grasp that,you will not 18 it. I vividly remember,about 30 years ago,returning from an Italian 19 to our handsome brick house. 20 we opened the front gate,my mother said,uThat's the best part of a holiday: coming home." At the time I didn't know what she meant.

1. A. happy   B. hard   C. fortunate   D. strange

2. A. enjoy   B. teach   C. blame   D. hurt

3. A. fun   B. luck   C. questions   D. problems

4. A. relationships   B. terms   C. definitions   D. activities

5. A. population   B. wealth   C. happiness   D. kindness

6. A. argue   B. complain   C. guess   D. predict

7. A. teachers   B. parents   C. husbands   D. wives

8. A. Still   B. Thus   C. Rather   D. Indeed

9. A. dream   B. joy   C. future   D. health

10. A. difficultly   B. similarly   C. sadly   D. quickly

11. A. merftories   B. imaginations   C. information   D. impression

12. A. details   B. photographs   C. description   D. evaluation

13. A. customs   B. language   C. holidays   D. behaviour

14. A. except   B. against   C. despite   D. without

15. A. family   B. friends   C. home   D. cameras

16. A. possible   B. positive   C. better   D. stronger

17. A. function   B. reason   C. aim   D. advantage

18. A. learn from   B. suffer from   C. seek for   D. care for

19. A. vacation   B. meeting   C. performance   D. training

20. A. Because   B. Before   C.If       D.As 

Answer 1

1. B 2. A 3. D 4. D 5. C 6. A 7. B 8. C 9. C 10. B 11. A 12. B 13. C 14. D 15. A 16. D 17. C 18. B 19. A 20. D

話題：家庭、朋友與周圍的人本文是議論文。很多人認(rèn)為跟家人一起度假是種折磨，作者卻認(rèn)為全家人

一起度假很有意義，能留下很多美好的回憶。

1. B. 

2. A.根據(jù)本段開頭的The “challenges” of family holidays 可推 測，這里指平時(shí)在家里跟家人相處己 經(jīng)很“難(hard) ” 了，那么跟他們一起 度假又怎么能“過得愉快(enjoy) ”呢？

3. D.既然跟家人度假是瑣挑戰(zhàn)，那么 “家庭休閑”這種說法本身就有“問題 (problems) ”。

4. D.這里是指度假這些“活動(dòng) (activities ) ”不能總是讓人感到放松。

5. C.根據(jù)下句中的 people don't have children for happiness 可知，作者用“人 們養(yǎng)育孩子不是為了幸福”來反駁全 家度假可能不會增加人們的“幸福 (happiness ) ”總值的觀點(diǎn)。

6. A.舍據(jù)本句開頭的However可知，本 句與上一句是轉(zhuǎn)折對比關(guān)系，故ai^ue (反駁) 符合此處語境。

7. B.根據(jù)上句中的have children與本 句中的childless people可知，這里是 將有孩子的人，即：“父母(parents) ”與 沒有孩子的人作比較。

8. C.根據(jù)上文中的 people don't have children for happiness 及本空后的 having children ... so that your genes will continue to exist when you are gone可知，作者的朋友認(rèn)為人們養(yǎng)育 孩子不是為了幸福，“而是(Rather) ”為了讓自己的基因延續(xù)。

9. C.本段末的 not for the present but for the fbture提示了本題答案。

10. B.根據(jù)上文中的 You have them not for the present ...及本空后的內(nèi)容可 知，度假跟養(yǎng)育孩子“相似 (similarly) ”，都不是為了.現(xiàn)在，而是 為了將來。

11. A.根據(jù)本段中的remember of及 memories可知，很多時(shí)候，度假的目 的就是為了存儲“回憶(memories) ”。

12. B.本段#后兩句出現(xiàn)的photo-graphs提示了本題答案。

13. C.根據(jù)本空后兩句開頭的On holiday可知，我們對家庭的很多回 憶來自“holidays (假期) ”。

14. D. 

15. A.根據(jù)常識我們知道，跟家 人度假的時(shí)候我們身邊“沒有(without) ”工作、學(xué)�；蚺笥眩�因此我 們跟“家人(family) ”更加親近。

16. D.度假時(shí)拍的照片會讓家人之間 的親密感“更加強(qiáng)烈(stronger ) ”。

17. C.根據(jù)本句冒號后的內(nèi)容可知，作 者認(rèn)為度假時(shí)拍的照片也許就是度 假的主要“目的(aim) ”：留住回憶。

18. B.作者認(rèn)為全家人一起度假很有意 義，能留下很多美好的回憶，所以你 一旦認(rèn)識到這一點(diǎn)，你就不會因?yàn)楦?家人度假而“感到痛苦(suffer from) ”。

19. A.根據(jù)下一句中的 That's the best part of a holiday可知，這里是指作者 跟家人從意大利度“假(vacation) ”歸 來.

20. D.“我們打開門”和“媽媽說：‘度假 最好的地方就在于回家’ ”是幾乎同 時(shí)發(fā)生的，故As符合此處語境。