电大英语阅读理解电大英语阅读理解.doc

阅读理解 短文理解1 There have been changes in all sorts of different areas of British society. In recent years in the UK we have had a very large increase in the number of couples who get divorced. After 1969 and the Divorce Law Reform Act we had a very rapid increase in the number of divorces. The rate increased steadily and in recent years has increased much more rapidly. But there are also quite a lot of people who do actually get married. At present the marriage rate in the UK is about 70 per cent, which has gone down since the number of people who marry has gone down quite a lot in the last 20 years, but more significantly in the last 10 years. Quite high proportions of people now live together without marrying, and, for example, 40 per cent of children born in the UK are born to couples who arent married or are born to lone parents. There are quite a large number of lone parent families, 90 per cent of these are headed by a woman rather than a man. 1. What does the passage mainly discuss? C. The increasing divorce rate in the UK. 2. During the last ten years, __________. A. the marriage rate has gone down more rapidly in the UK 3. According to the passage, the cohabitation rate in the UK tends to __________. A. soar (急剧上升) 4. According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true? B. The highest divorce rate was around 1969. 5. The last paragraph tells us __________. B. the birth rate in the UK is decreasing rapidly now 短文理解2 People all over the world today are beginning to hear and learn more and more about the problem of pollution. Pollution is caused either by man’s release of completely new and often artificial (人造的) substances into the environment, or by releasing greatly increased amounts of a natural substance (物质)，such as oil from oil tankers into the sea. Whatever its underlying reasons, there is no doubt that much of the pollution caused could be controlled if only companies, individuals and governments would make more efforts. In the