2017届高考英语二轮专题总复习阅读能力培养精品系列（五十四）_高考复习指南

2017届高考英语二轮专题总复习阅读能力培养精品系列（五十四）

　　3. Which of the following shows the personality of a person sleeping on his stomach?

　　A. He or she is careful not to offend others.

　　B. He or she doesn't want to stick to his or her opinion.

　　C. He or she can't be successful in any business.

　　D. He or she likes to bring others happiness.

　　4. Why don't you possibly want to make friends with a person who sleeps curled up?

　　A. He or she would rather be alone than communicate with you.

　　B. He or she is rarely ready to help you.

　　C. He or she prefers staying at home to going out.

　　D. He or she wouldn't like to get help from you.

　　5. It appears that the writer tends to think highly of the person who sleeps on one side because ________.

　　A. he or she always shows sympathy for people

　　B. he or she is confident，but not stubborn

　　C. he or she has more strengths than weaknesses

　　D. he or she often considers annoying people

　　The greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there has been a remarkable shortening of the proportion of a woman's life spent in caring for children. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth 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 customs, opportunity 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 can be expected to live another thirty-five years 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 and convenience foods.