高三英语能力训练三
语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）
Taking a taxi in a certain Eastern European country can be ___1___ shocking experience.It is said ___2___ some taxi drivers have metal wires struck into the paenger seats.And ___3___ a button is pushed, the seat will give you an electric shock.These taxi drivers don’t do this ___4___ fun.They do it to tourists ___5___ argue about the ridiculous（可笑的，荒唐的） fares they charge.Some drivers charge as much ___6___ ten times the legal fare.They have a secret switch which ___7___ (make) the meters much faster.If you refuse to pay, you are really in for a shock.In one case, a German woman had no choice but to pay US $120 for a US $20 ride from the airport.She said that she was really ___8___ (take) for a ride, but what could she do? Besides the electric shock, she was verbally（口头地）abused and threatened with physical ___9___ (violent).She has only one piece of advice for tourists, “Take the bus ___10___ stay at home.”
阅读理解: Betty and Harold have been married for years.But one thing still puzzles old Harold.How is it that he can leave Betty and her friend Joan sitting on the sofa, talking, go out to a ballgame, come back three and a half hours later, and they’re still sitting on the sofa, talking? What in the world, Harold wonders, do they have to talk about? Betty shrugs（耸肩）.Talk? We’re friends.
Researching this matter called friendship, psychologists Lillian Rubin spent two years interviewing more than two hundred women and men.No matter what their age, their job, their sex, the results were completely clear: Women have more friendships than men, and the difference in the content and the quality of those friendships is “marked and unmistakable”.
More than two-thirds of the single men Rubin interviewed could not name a best friend.Those who could were likely to name a woman.Yet three-quarters of the single women had no problem naming a best friend, and almost always it was a woman.More married men than women named their wife/husband as a best friend, most trusted person, or the one they would turn to in time of emotional distre (感情危机).“Most women,” says Rubin, “identifies (认定) at least one, usually more, trusted friends to whom they could turn in a troubled moment, and they spoke openly about the importance of these relationships in their lives.”
“In general,” writes Rubin in her new book, “women’s friendships with each other rest on shared emotions and support, but men’s relationships are marked by
1 shared activities.” For the most part, Rubin says, interactions between men are emotionally controlled ---a good fit with the social requirements of “manly behavior（行为）”.
“Even when a man is said to be a best friend,” Rubin writes, “the two share little about their innermost feelings.While a woman’s closest female friend might be the first to tell her to leave a failing marriage, it wasn’t unusual to hear a man say he didn’t know his friend’s marriage was in serious trouble until he appeared one night asking if he could sleep on the sofa.”
61.What old Harold cannot understand or explain is the fact that______.
A.he is treated as an outsider rather than a husband
B.women has so much to share
C.women show little interest in ballgames
D.he finds his wife difficult to talk to 62.Rubin’s study shows that for emotional support a married woman is more likely to turn to ___.A.a male friend
B.a female friend
C.her parents
D.her husband 63.According to the text, which type of behavior is NOT expected of a man by society?
A.Many of them do not have a best friend
B.Don’t often share their emotional feelings.
C.Complaining about his marriage trouble.
D.Going out to ballgames too often.64.Which of the following statements is best supported by the last paragraph?
A.Men keep their innermost feelings to themselves.
B.Women are more serious than men about marriage.
C.Men often take sudden action to end their marriage.
D.Women depend on others in making decisions.65.The research done by psychologist Rubin centers around _____.
A.happy and succeful marriages
B.friendship of men and women C.emotional problems in marriage D.interactions between men and women
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Keys: 语法填空：
1.a
2.that
3.when
4.for
5.who/that 6.as
7.makes
8.taken
9.violence
10.or
阅读理解
61-65 BBCAB
