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大学英语（一）期末复习 阅读理解 1. Americans with small families own a small car or a large one. If both parents are working, they usually have two cars. When the family is large, one of the cars is sold and they will buy a van. A small car can hold four persons and a large car can hold six persons but it is very crowded. A van hold seven persons easily, so a family of three children could ask their grandparents to go on a holiday travel. They could all travel together. Mr. Hagen and his wife had a third child last year. This made them sell a second car and buy a van. There are seven seats in the van, and the sixth and seventh seats are used to put other things, for a family of five must carry many suitcases when they travel. When they arrive at their grandparents home, the suitcases are brought into the two seats can then carry the grandparents. Americans call vans motor homes. A motor home is always used for holidays. When a family is traveling to the mountains or to the seaside, they can live in their motor home for a few days or weeks. All the members of a big family can enjoy a happier life when they are traveling together. That is why motor homes have become very popular. In America there are many parks for motor homes. 1）From the passage, a van is also called a motor home. A.T B.F 2）Before Mr. Hagen and his wife bought a van, they built a new place for a van. A.T B.F 3）A motor home is usually owned by a family with more than two children. A.T B.F 4）Americans usually use motor homes to drive their children to school every day. A.T B.F 5）Motor homes have become popular because they can let families have a happier life when they go out for their holidays. A.T B.F 2. When we read fascinating stories of animals in their natural settings and see gorgeous colored pictures of the animals, few of us realize what some people went through to make all this possible. To study bats, investigators have to enter caves which can present many problems, including the guan