3．The days of elderly women doing nothing but cooking huge meals on holidays are gone．Enter the Red Hat Society-a group holding the belief that old ladies should have fun．
"My grandmothers didn't do anything but keep house and serve everybody．They were programmed to do that，"said Emils Comette，head of a chapter of the 7-year-old Red Hat Society．
While men have long spent their time fishing and playing golf，women have sometimes seemed to become unnoticed as they age．But the generation now turning 50is the baby boomers （生育高峰期出生的人），and the same people who refused their parents'way of being young are now trying a new way of growing old．
If you take into consideration feminism （女權(quán)主義），a bit of spare money，and better health for most elderly，the Red Hat Society looks almost inevitable（必然的）．In this society，women over 50wear red hats and purple （紫色的） clothes，while the women under 50wear pink hats and light purple clothing．
"The organization took the idea from a poem by Jenny Joseph that begins："When I am an old woman，I shall wear purple．With a red hat which doesn't go，"said Ellen Cooper，who founded the Red Hat Society in 1998．When the ladies started to wear the red hats，they attracted lots of attention．
"The point of this is that we need a rest from always doing something for someone else，"Cooper said．"Women feel so ashamed and sorry when they do something for themselves．"This is why chapters are discouraged from raising money or doing anything useful．"We're a ladies'play group．It couldn't be more simple，"added Cooper's assistant Joe Heywood．
24．The underlined word"chapter"in paragraph 2meansA．
A．one branch of an organization
B．a(chǎn) written agreement of a club
C．one part of a collection of poems
D．a(chǎn) period in a society's history
25．From the text，we know that the"baby boomers"are a group of people whoD．
A．have gradually become more noticeable
B．a(chǎn)re worried about getting old too quickly
C．a(chǎn)re enjoying a good life with plenty of money to spend
D．tried living a different life from their parents when they were young
26．It could be inferred from the text that members of the Red Hat Society areC．．
A．interested in raising money for social work
B．programmers who can plan well for their future
C．believers in equality between men and women
D．good at cooking big meals and taking care of others
27．Who set up the Red Hat Society？B
A．Emily Cornette．
B．Ellen Cooper．
C．Jenny Joseph．
D．Joe Heywood．
28．Women join the Red Hat Society becauseC．
A．they want to stay young
B．they would like to appear more attractive
C．they would like to have fun and live for themselves
D．they want to be more like their parents．
分析 本文屬于說明文閱讀，作者通過這篇文章主要向我們描述了紅帽子組織，他們的成員是支持男女平等的人，鼓勵募集資金或做任何有用的事，吸引了許多人的注意．
解答 24．A．詞義猜測題．根據(jù)其定語"of the 7-year-old Red Hat Society"可猜測出這個詞的意思是"某個組織的一個分部"；故選A．
25．D．細節(jié)推斷題．第三段"But the generation now turning 50 is the baby boomers，and the same people who refused their parents'way of being young are now trying a new way of growing old．"說明她們想過一種新的生活；故選D．
26．C．推理判斷題．根據(jù)文章第四段"If you take into consideration feminism （女權(quán)主義），a bit of spare money，and better health for most elderly，the Red Hat Society looks almost inevitable（必然的）．"可推斷出這個組織的成員相信男女平等；故選C．
27．B．細節(jié)理解題．從倒數(shù)第二段"Ellen Cooper，who founded the Read Hat Society in 1998"可知，Ellen Cooper創(chuàng)建了這個組織；故選B．
28．C．細節(jié)推斷題．根據(jù)第一段"Enter the Red Hat Society-a group holding the belief that old ladies should have fun．"可判斷出她們參加這個組織的目的是獲得樂趣和愛；故選C．
點評 考察學(xué)生的細節(jié)理解和推理判斷能力，做細節(jié)理解題時一定要找到文章中的原句，和題干進行比較，再做出正確的選擇．在做推理判斷題不要以個人的主觀想象代替文章的事實，要根據(jù)文章事實進行合乎邏輯的推理判斷．
