giving up their childhoods.
Okay, so kids are forced to grow up quickly for a variety of reasons. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Well, it depends on the situation and on the child. As you might guess, the ones who suffer the most are the kids who reverse roles with a parent. Because role reversal happens in cases where the parents have the most problems and are the least capable, their children often feel more isolation. They may be embarrassed by the situation at home. They may feel confusion about how regular kids or teens are supposed to act. But many kids with adult responsibilities see their duties at home as barriers to a happy social life. They can’t go out and have fun. They feel a lot of frustration and a lot of stress.
14. What did Bill do to help out in the family? (C)
15. Which of the following about role reversal is not true? (C) 16. What is the passage mainly concerned with? (B)
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the following conversation. M: You’re going to wear out the computer’s keyboard! W: Oh, hi.
M: Do you have any idea what time it is? W: About ten or ten-thirty? M: It’s nearly midnight.
W: Really? I didn’t know it was so late.
M: Don’t you have an early class to teach tomorrow morning?
W: Yes, at seven o’clock. My computer class, the students who go to work right after their lesson. M: Then you ought to go to bed. What are you writing, anyway? W: An article I hope I can sell.
M: Oh, another of your newspaper pieces? What’s this one about? W: Do you remember the trip I took last month? M: The one up to the Amazon?
W: Well, that’s what I’m writing about—the new highway and the changes it’s making in the Amazon Valley.
M: It should be interesting.
W: It is. I guess that’s why I forgot all about the time. M: How many articles have you sold now? W: About a dozen so far.
M: What kind of newspapers buy them?
W: The papers that carry a lot of foreign news. They usually appear in the big Sunday editions where they need a lot of background stories to help fill up the space between the ads. M: Is there any future in it?
W: I hope so. There’s a chance I may sell this article to a news service. M: Then your story would be published in several papers, wouldn’t it?
W: That’s the idea. And I might even be able to do other stories on a regular basis. M: That would be great.
17. What is the woman’s occupation? 18. What is the woman writing about?
19. Where do the woman’s articles usually appear? 20. What does the woman expect?
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1. 解除病人的痛苦是医生的职责。 (relieve)
It is a/the doctors’ responsibility/duty to relieve patients of their pain. Or: Relieving patients’ pain is a/the doctors’ responsibility/duty.
2. 先进的电脑技术正在逐渐改变我们的购物方式。 (way)
Advanced computer science is gradually changing/transforming the way we shop/do shopping. Or: …changing/transforming our way of doing shopping.
3. 大多数孩子很少与父母和老师之外的成年人有密切的接触，他们对大人的生活鲜有概念。 (idea)
Most children have so little close contact with adults except/apart from their parents and teachers that they have little idea (of) what adult life is like. Or: …have little idea of adult life.
4. 志愿者活动不仅能使青少年学到如何帮助残疾人，还可以提高他们与陌生人合作的意识。 (Not only…)
Not only can volunteer activities enable teenagers to learn how to help the disabled, but they can also raise teenagers’ awareness to cooperate with strangers.
Or: Not only can volunteer activities make teenagers learn how to help the disabled, but they can raise teenagers’ awareness to cooperate with strangers as well.
