2016届高考英语二轮复习冲刺练：11 阅读+完形+语法填空_高考复习指南

2016届高考英语二轮复习冲刺练：11 阅读+完形+语法填空

　　C．wants to make her children live alone when they are young

　　D．is grateful for her mother's teaching her to cook

　　答案　D　[推理判断题。根据最后一段“Nowadays，I don't need help to cook a meal.I can cook for me alone or for a group of people；it doesn't matter.All has been done because of my mother.”可知，现在作者做饭不需要帮助。给她自己做饭或者给一群人做饭都没问题。这一切都是因为她的妈妈。由此可推知，作者对妈妈教她做饭这一经历心存感激。]

　　体裁：说明文　话题：社会现象　词数：390　时间：8′

　　It's midnight in Taiwan.While some people are slowly walking home through the busy streets，or getting ready to hit the club scene，others are on their way to a more unusual place—a bookstore.The Eslite store in central Taipei opens 24 hours and has more visitors than most Western bookstores could dream of during their daytime hours.Here，young and old sit side－by－side on small steps or around reading tables，deeply absorbed in literary worlds.Others stand and some sit on the floor，all reading in silence as soft classical music flows out from the speakers.

　　The Eslite Group，which runs the five－story store，opened its first branch in Taipei in 1989.Today，25 years on，the company runs 42 stores in Taiwan，one in Hong Kong and has powerful plans to expand in Chinese mainland.The chain's rise comes at a time when bookstores in the United States and Europe are struggling to survive，with some forced to wind__up due to growing pressure from online competitors like Amazon.In the United Kingdom，a third of all independent bookstores have closed down in the last decade.