If you walk through the streets of any big city at six or seven in the morning, the chances are that you will see women hurrying along, pushing prams (嬰兒推車). You may see more than one woman   1   on the same door and, as it opens, quickly kiss the child,   2   a package of nappies and hurry off down the street to clock on the early shift in an office, leaving their children to a child – minder – a woman who may be doing the job legally or illegally, well or badly. Brain Jackson, director of the Child – minding Researching Unit, and his colleagues have done a great deal of work in finding out   3   it means for a child to spend the first years of life in the care of a child – minder.

  4   law, anyone who looks after a child for more than two hours a day and gets paid must be registered.  5   the punishment is a 6 pounds fine. Local authorities are responsible for the registration and supervision (監(jiān)管) of minders. The regulations   6   adequate provision (保障) for fire, safety and health. Very few minders can   7   these. Yet, not many districts give financial assistance. “This means,” Brain Jackson says, “that when you have one registered minder tested and proved by the local authorities, you can be sure that you will get a dozen unregistered, illegal minders   8  .”

The researchers found themselves   9   into the role of private investigators when they conduct their   10  . Getting up early to do a “Dawn Watch” following mothers through cold, dark streets and nothing where they left their babies, Jackson says, was a long, slow process.

A. knock         B. stop                      C. stick                     D. stay

A. hand out     B. hand in                 C. hand down            D. hand over

2,4,6

【小題1】A

【小題2】D

【小題3】B

【小題4】C

【小題5】C

【小題6】A

【小題7】C

【小題8】A

【小題9】C

【小題10】B


解析:

    本文講述的是在城市存在的嬰兒看護(hù)的問題,文中提到如何使嬰兒的看護(hù)合法,安全,并且告訴我們要實(shí)現(xiàn)理想的看護(hù),這還將有漫長的路要走。

【小題1】考查動(dòng)詞詞意辨析和語境的理解。表示敲門。

【小題2】考查動(dòng)詞詞組意思辨析和語境的理解。hand out把...拿出來, 分發(fā), 施舍;hand in交上;hand down傳下來, 宣布;hand over移交。表示媽媽們和孩子匆匆吻別,同時(shí)拿出孩子的尿布交給照顧者,然后匆匆上班。

【小題3】考查關(guān)系代詞的用法。What在這里引導(dǎo)賓語從句,并且在從句中做mean的賓語。

【小題4】考查介詞固定搭配和語境的理解。by law表示根據(jù)法律。

【小題5】考查副詞詞意辨析和語境的理解。表示根據(jù)法律,任何人一天看護(hù)孩子兩個(gè)小時(shí)以上,并且得到報(bào)酬的話,必須進(jìn)行注冊登記,否則就是違法的。

【小題6】考查動(dòng)詞詞意辨析和語境的理解。制度中要求有火警,安全和健康的保障。

【小題7】考查動(dòng)詞詞意辨析和語境的理解。從語篇知道,幾乎沒有幾個(gè)看護(hù)可以提供上面的要求。

【小題8】考查介詞短語辨析和語境的理解。at work在工作, 在運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn);in public 公開地, 公然地;in vain徒然;at present現(xiàn)在, 目前。根據(jù)語境表示看護(hù)們在非法的工作.

【小題9】考查非謂語的用法和語境的理解。be forced into被迫。是說研究著們由于種種原因被迫扮演私家偵探的角色。

【小題10】考查名詞詞意辨析和語境的理解。指在進(jìn)行調(diào)查。

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