Ⅲ.Reading Comprehension(30point,2points each)

从下列每篇短文的问题后所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，并在答题纸上将相应的字母涂黑。

Passage one

Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.

Michael Stadtlander set Toronto’s restarant world on fire in the 1980s with his original food, and eastablished a national and international fame. In 1994,however,he decided to leave the city restaurant scene and seek a quiet life in the country, where he has been preparing meals on his farm two hours borth of Toronto and asks guests to bring their own wine.

Not long ago, Stadlander was charged with selling liquer without a licence, He said when a guest asked for wine at a dinner in December, he provided two bottles from his private stock.But the customer turned out to be an undercover Ontario Provincial Police(OPP)officer who returned a few days later along with four armed officers to seize 83 bottles of wine,and to search the farmhouse for records. The punishment could run as high as $100,000 in fines and a year in jail.

When Mr and Mrs Smisth arrived at the farm on a weekend befre Christmas, they said that it was their annual celebrstion and asked if they could get some wine.Nobuyo,Stadtlander’s wife,told them the policy was thar guests peovide their own..

Given the occasion, though, Stadtlander agreed to provide a bottle of white wiee from own cellar,at cost,as a favor, Later, Mr Smith asked for a second bottle and a detailed receipt that included the price of thr wine.He turned out to be OPP Detective Paul Smith and “his wife,”an assistant who went as a witness.

“I was shocked,”Nobuyo Stadtlander recalls.”How could thy do this to us when we did them a favor?We sold them our wine at our cost.”.But Mr.Smith say,” No.they made $20.”

Stadtlander is determined to prove his innocence and continue the business.

“People who live in the area have been very supportive,” he says.”And when this is over,I want my wine back.”

21.Stadtlander was accused because________.

A. be offered too much wine for a guest

B. be asked guests to bring their own wine

C. be charged too much for the wine offered

D. be sold wise to his guests without a license

22.In the 1980s,Stadtlander________.

A. threw his original  restaurant menu into the fine

B. made his restaurant well-known around the world

C. sought for a quiet life in the central part of the city

D. opened one resyaurant after another home and abroad.

23.IT turned out that Mr. and Mrs. Smith were________.

A. two farmers

B. two witnesecs C. hasbend and wife D. police officers

24.Nobuy Studtlander claimed that in the wine case they made________.

A.$1.20 B. no money C.$100,000 D. a lot of money

25.Which of the following could be used as evidence against Stadtlander?

A. What Stadtlander’s wife said

B. The second bottle of wine

C. The records from the farmhouse.

D.A receipt with the wine price.

Passage Two

Questions26 to 30 are based on the following passage.

A recent study shows that sixteen out of every 100 American couoles have violent confrontations of one sort or another during the course of a year. In six of these cases there is severe kicking, biting, punching or hitting with objects. Almost four of every 100 wives are seriously beaten by their husbands. three of every 100 children are kicked or punched by their parents. More than a third of all brothers and sisters severely attack each other.

As expected, the incidence of violence is highest among the urban poor (many of them minoroties).blue-collar workers, people under 20 or without religious beliefs, families with a husband who is jobless and those with four to six children. But the study also showed that violence occurs among wealthy families as well. Indeed, the wife of a university president once quietly called Straus, one of the sociologists who conducted the study, to ask what she could do about her husband, who often beat her. Straus suggested seeking assistance from marriage advisors.

Steaus and his colleagues found out that there are various root causes that give rise to such behavior.“The reason are mixed –psychological, sociological, situational,” says Straus.“The husband, for example, may feel under particular stress because be has been out of work too long. Violence may also be an echo of the past,” Straus explains.“When Mummy gives her two-year-old a slap（巴掌）for putting something dirty in his mouth, he is learning from infancy that those who love you hit you.” Another reason may be the worsening economic situations.“If we have a real economos decline, It’s going to get worse,” economic situations.“If we have a real economic declines,it’s going to get worse,” says Gelles, one of Straus” colleagues.

These sociologists have no easy answer to violence in the American family. While they welcome such move as the opening of shelters for beaten wives and the establishment of a National Center for Child Abuse and Neglect, they belive that there must be more basic attack on vilolence,including the reduction of “macho”（大男子主义）themes on the television,the outlawing of physical punishment in schools and perhaps even the wlimination of death senernces.As Straus explains,“Volence is an acceptable solution to problems in American society,And that is how it is used in families.

26.Which of the following statements is true?

A. More than a third of brothers attack sisters in American families.

B. Almost four percent of husbands are seriously beaten by their wives.

C. Six out of one hundred couples experience severe domestic violence.

D. Six percent of American couples have some kind of domestic violence.

27.The  example concerning a university president’s wife shows that_________

A. domestic violence is found in well-to do families as well

B. the incidence of violence is highest among urban families

C. marriage advisons’ assistance is the best solution to violence

D. domestic vilence exists regardless of age, race,and social status.

28.What Gelles says shows that________.

A. vilence is responsible for the decline of economy

B. violence may be a reflection of one’s past experience

C. violence is related to the economic situation of the time

D. violence is the best form of emotional release for a husband

29.The word “outlawing” in line5 of the last paragraph means________.

A. making something illegal

B. freeing someone from prison

C. learning something from law

D. throwing someone out of court

30.According to the sociologists, it is impossible to curb domestic violence unless________.

A. more shelters for beateb wives are opened

B. children are protected by a National Center

C. violence is not accepted as a solution to problems

D. Americans get tougher with violent behaviors