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网络学院一年级英语期末复习题 复习范围英语第1册课后练习 2005．5． Part I Reading Comprehension (15%) Directions: There are three reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D; Choose the best answer to each question. Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage: Daily social relations in France have always been dominated by family ties. The family has been the focus of the individuals loyalty and affection, of his economic interest, and even of his legal duty. Many an older Frenchman has spent his youth in a world where he was expected to regard cousins, uncles and grandparents as more important to him than friends of his own age, and where the familys needs and demands were put before those of the local community or even of the State. The main change since the war is that the focus of loyalty has been steadily narrowing from the extended family to the nuclear family, i.e. the home cell of parents and children. In the rural areas the traditionally big peasant families have been losing their influence as the young drift away to the town. As property gives way to income and family management disappears, the tight network of the big family gathering has become less necessary for the individuals future, and also less easy to maintain. Many younger couples today prefer pleasure traveling, or a weekend cottage shared with a few friends, to the traditional big family reunions on Sundays and in August. But old values are still there. Clan (氏族) loyalties towards more distant relatives may become weak, an adults ties with his own parents and even with their parents often remain remarkably strong. And if many younger people are today trying to lead more emotionally independent lives, it is often not without a sense of guilt, or an awareness of the pain it causes to their parents. This may be so in any country: it is especially sharp in France. 1. In France, people used