高考英语阅读冲刺：阅读理解1_高考复习指南

高考英语阅读冲刺：阅读理解1

　　B.an early form of language

　　C.a sign that he means to tell you something

　　D.an imitation of the speech of adults

　　8.The problem of deciding at what point a baby’s imitations can be considered as speech________.

　　A.is important because words have different meanings for different people

　　B.is not especially important because the changeover takes place gradually

　　C.is one that should be properly understood because the meaning of words changes with age

　　D.is one that should be completely ignored（忽略）because children’s use of words is often meaningless

　　9.The speaker implies________.

　　A.parents can never hope to teach their children new sounds

　　B.children no longer imitate people after they begin to speak

　　C.children who are good at imitating learn new words more quickly

　　D.even after they have learnt to speak, children still enjoy imitating

　　The greatest recent changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there was an unusual shortening of the time of a woman’s life spent in caring for children. A woman marrying at the end of the 19th century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which custom, chance and health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty. Even while she has the care of children ,her work is lightened by household appliances（家用电器）and convenience foods.