13.
【连题】 根据以下材料回答第1~5题：
Passage threeSharon Keating was worried about her kids when she got a divorce. Her daughter says,“I was feeling… like down and sad even though I didn’t really show it.
Judith Wallenstein says problems from divorce can last many years. They can show up when the kids are adults. And the kids have their have their own trouble. Wallenstein studied 93 children over a generation. The results can be found in her book.
She says that children of divorce are more likely to have problems with drugs. They are far more likely to seek therapy. About 40 percent of them avoid marriage themselves. When they do marry, fail at nearly twice the usual rate. It is hard for them to trust. They are afraid of failing.
Critics say Wallenstein had too few children in her study. They think that Wallenstein stresses too much from a small study. Other things may be the cause of the kid’s problems. The study does not compare kids from divorced families with kids from “healthy” families.
14.
Which word can best describe the kids from divorced families according to Paragraph 1?
A．Offensive
B．Relieved
C．Depressed
D．Prejudiced
15.
Children from divorced families who marry later will ( )
A．have no trust in other people
B．be more likely to get divorced
C．firmly protect their marriage
D．have stable marriage
16.
Wallenstein’s study showed that ( )
A．divorce left the children many problems
B．all the problems showed up right after the divorce
C．divorce could be avoided
D．divorce made the children mature earlier
17.
Which of the following is critics’ opinion?
A．Healthy families do not have problems.
B．All the related factors were considered in the study.
C．Divorce is the only cause of child problems.
D．The number of families studied was not sufficient.
18.
Today children from divorced families ( )
A．have no more problems
B．are getting more care and help
C．are less able to handle their problems
D．are told not to talk about their problems
19.
【连题】 根据以下材料回答第1~5题：
Passage fourIt is still sometimes difficult to understand why those between ages 10 and 18 would endanger their lives by joining armed forces or rebel groups and become fighting soldiers. The recently published book, Young Soldiers, Why They Choose to Fight by Rachel Brett and Irma Specht, tries to find an answer.
There is no doubt that children fight in most armed conflicts today. While international attention focuses largely on those who are forced into battles, thousands more enlist(应征入伍) voluntarily.
In an attempt to understand the young who take up arms, Brett and Specht interviewed 53 boy and girl soldiers and ex-soldiers from around the world, Afghanistan, Colombia, the Republic of the Congo for example. All interviewees were involved with armed groups before the age of 18 and all classified themselves as volunteers.
What these two field officers heard is “I joined involuntarily—if you have nothing, you volunteer for the army”. Other reasons young people gave are self—defense, revenge, poverty, and unemploy-ment.
But while it is common knowledge that most child soldiers come from poor and disadvantaged backgrounds, Young Soldiers shows that the issue is far more complex. Many poor child do not join the army. The environmental, educational, social, cultural, and highly personal factors determine whether someone decides to join up or not.
The battlefield is not a place children. One young soldier described being there as “too sad an experience”. The authors hope that by understanding why teenagers join up, those child soldiers should know how to discourage others from the same tragedy.
20.
Young Soldiers, Why They Choose to Fight is ( )
A．a book
B．a magazine
C．a news report
C．a TV program
21.
According to Paragraph 3, Brett and Specht’s interviewees ( )
A．join armed forces under 18
B．considered going into the army their duty
C．were only from African countries
D．were mainly the ex-soldiers
22.
The reasons shown in Young Soldiers for children to join the army are ( )
A．very simple
B．very complex
C．unknown
D．unbelievable
23.
The writers of Young Soldiers probably expect that ( )
A．child soldiers would leave armed forces
B．they could find more than 53 interviewees
C．no more children would join armed forces
D．there would be no wars in the world
24.
The tone of the passage is ( )
A．pleasant
B．indifferent
C．humorous
D．objective