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广东20111高考英语一轮复习单元测试 Unit4 Sharing 新人教版选修7

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10.A.Lucky B.Young

C.Ordinary D.Unsuccessful

11.A.practise B.change

C.admit D.decide

12.A.willing B.anxious

C.likely D.clever

13.A.improved B.achieved

C.set D.reached

14.A.although B.until

C.when D.unless

15.A.aware of B.worried about

C.familiar with D.accustomed to

三、阅读理解

专题训练（八）说明文的阅读(3）

阅读下列材料，然后按要求完成读写任务。

Abby Subark is a mother of two from Boston.“For my kids,I,m nervous.I don,t know if they,ll be able to achieve their American dream.” She may be right.More than hard work or education,the best way to get rich in America is to be born rich.

It is the case that somebody who is in the upper third of income,with poor scores at the bottom on tests when they are in the eighth grade,is more likely to go to college and finish college than a poor kid with the top scores.That,s what the working persons children are up against.

The Economic Policy Institute finds it would take a poor couple with 2 children 9 or 10 generations to achieve middle class status.Thats about 200 years.The typical feature of American opportunity has always been the ability to do better than your parents.But compared with similar developed countries,the United States ranks fifth out of six for socalled intergenerational mobility.(变动)

If you look at the mechanisms(机制)for upward mobility that were so readily available 50 years ago,they are becoming out of reach,like plentiful factory jobs with good wages and affordable education and health care.

White families are twice as likely as blacks to be upwardly mobile.For most people in America today,where you end up depends on where you start.

If you started in the middle–income class,about 40 to 45 percent of what you are making right now is due to the fact that your parents were in the middleincome class.The rest is up to you.

But for the millions of people who find themselves below the poverty line and the millions more who are the working poor,their starting point for the American dream leaves them painfully far away from the middle class.

根据所读短文，选择最佳答案。

1．The main idea of the passage is __________.

A．How the middle class comes about in the U.S.

B．It,s hard to realize the American dream for the poor.

C．Wealth and social status depend on family background.

D．Upward mobility in America has never been easy.

2．Which of the statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A．People used to have job opportunities and welfare for upward mobility.

B．A great many poor people can hardly realize theirAmericandream.

C．You can make all your dreams come true in America if born rich.

D．Rich kids are more likely to go to college than poor kids.

3．The underlined sentence “where you end up depends on where you start” most probably means_________.