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【題目】Stayathome kids are named “generation nini” in Spain. They are those adults who still live at home and are neither working nor studying. But the problem is by no means limited to Spain. It is a worldwide problem.

In Italy, they are known as “bamboccioni” or big babies. There nearly 60 percent of 1834yearold adults still live in their parents' home, up from almost 50 percent since 1983. Once kept there by the love for their mama's homecooked food, the economic crisis has seen a rise in adults left unable to hold down a steady job or afford a home of their own. Last year, an Italian government minister admitted that his mother washed his clothes and made the bed for him until he was 30. He demanded a law forcing young Italians to leave their parents' home at 18 to stop them becoming hopelessly dependent on their parents.

In the UK, the government has made the term NEETS—not in employment, education or training for these children. In England alone the percent of NEETS aged 19－24 surged to 18.8 percent of the age group—in the last quarter of 2010, up 1.4 percent on the same period a year before. The number of British men in their 20s living with their parents has risen from 59 percent to 80 percent in the past 15 years, while the number of women has risen from 41 percent to 50 percent. The average age of the firsttime house buyers is now 38.

In the US, the problem is known as the “full nest syndrome (綜合癥)”. Adults there are left struggling to support adult children who have stayed at home with student debts and facing few job opportunities in a weak economy. A recent study showed almost a third of American adults aged 34 and under are living with their parents.

【1】“Big babies” mentioned in Paragraph 2 refer to those adults who ________.

A. are poorly educated

B. are not as smart as others

C. lose their job in the bad economy

D. rely on their parents for a living

【2】The Italian government minister thinks that ________.

A. parents should make their children feel hopeless

B. young people should live on their own after 18

C. parents should never make the bed for their children

D. it is OK for adult children to live with their parents

【3】The underlined word “surged” in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by “________”．

A. jumped B. reduced

C. recovered D. moved

【4】What does the last paragraph tell us?

A. Some American adult children are a burden to their parents.

B. American parents are happy to live with their children.

C. America has the most adult children compared with other countries.

D. It is a tradition for adult children to live with their parents in America.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】B

【3】A

【4】A

【解析】本文屬于社會類。越來越多的成年孩子住在父母家里，這種現(xiàn)象在全世界都很普遍。

【1】D

推理判斷題。根據(jù)第一段的“They are those adults who still live at home and are neither working nor studying.”可知這些成年孩子是無收入來源、依靠父母生存的人。故選D。

【2】B

細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段的“He demanded a law forcing young Italians to leave their parents' home at 18 to stop them becoming hopelessly dependent on their parents.” 他要求有一項法律迫使年輕的意大利人在18歲離開父母的家，以阻止他們完完全全依賴父母。分析句意可知是讓他們不再依靠父母，獨自生活。應(yīng)選B。

【3】A

【名題點睛】詞義猜測型----依據(jù)語境猜測詞義策略。

語境既上下文。由于上下文中的生詞不是孤立存在的，其詞義與句中其它詞的詞義或具體的語境有著密切的聯(lián)系。因此在閱讀過程中，許多生詞的詞義可以充分利用上下文中相關(guān)的詞匯，短語并結(jié)合具體的語境來推測。

【解題剖析】此題屬于猜測詞義中的---依據(jù)語境猜測詞義。答案需要推斷1.4percent上升至18.8 percent和jump的關(guān)系。

【答案定位】。根據(jù)第三段中的“In England alone the percent of NEETS aged 19－24 surged to 18.8 percent of the age group—in the last quarter of 2010, up 1.4 percent on the same period a year before.”可推知：1.4percent上升為18.8 percent和jump的關(guān)系。

【推理關(guān)系】題干The underlined word “surged” in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by “________”． 文章內(nèi)容18.8 percent of the age group—in the last quarter of 2010,up 1.4 percent on the same period a year before” 可知這里是指由1.4%激增到了18.8%。

【4】A

推理判斷題。根據(jù)末段的“Adults there are left struggling to support adult children” 那里的成年人仍在努力撫養(yǎng)已成年的孩子。分析本句可知這些無收入來源的美國成年孩子成了他們父母的負擔。而A項.一些美國成年的孩子是父母的負擔。故選A。