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（2007广东高考题型） Women of Achievement 完型填空：每小题2分，共20分 Joan of Arc was a very brave French lady who fought for her country. She wanted to help the French people and 21 them from war. It was a long time ago and the English were 22 France. Joan did not like the English because they treated the French very badly. The French soldiers tried to 23 the English out of France but they didn’t have good 24 and they lost every war against the English. Joan thought she would be a good soldier but women were not allowed to be soldiers then, so Joan dressed up and 25 as a man. She found the courage to do this because she believed that God had sent her. She had many good ideas for attacking the English army. So the French soldiers began to win the war against England. 26 , things went wrong later on. She was 27 by the English. The church decided she had not behaved as a woman 28 , so they killed her. But her spirit 29 the French soldiers who were finally able to end the English rule in France. Much later, the English were 30 when they understood she was only attacking them because she was fighting for her own country. Now the Church has made her a saint! 21. A. support B. save C. deliver D. free 22. A. attacking B. campaigning C. fighting D. ruling 23. A. pull B. push C. press D. strike 24. A. women B. leaders C. people D. welfare 25. A. behave B. perform C. speak D. walk 26. A. However B. Instead C. Then D. As a result 27. A. killed B. found C. closed D. caught
28. A. could B. might C. should D. ought 29. A. achieved B. inspired C. respected D. woke 30. A. sorry B. considerate C. angry D. indifferent 阅读理解：每小题也是2分，共40分（包括信息匹配） A The greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there has been a remarkable(great) shortening of the proportion（比例）of a women’s life spent in caring for children. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or more lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which custom, opportunity and health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and can be expected to live another thirty-five years and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty. Even while she has the care of children, her work is lightened by household appliances（家用电器）and convenient foods. This important change in women’s life-pattern has only recently begun to have its full effect on women’s economic(经济) position. Even a few years ago most girls left school at the first opportunity, and most of them took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen, but many girls stay at school after that age, and though women tend to marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Very many more afterwards return to full or part-time work. . Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband and wife accepting a greater sharp share of the duties and satisfactions of family life, and with both husband and wife sharing more equally in providing the money, and returning home, according to their abilities and interests of each of them. 41. For women at the beginning of the twentieth century the time spent taking care of children____ A. was shorter than in previous centuries B. was longer than in previous centuries C. was considered to be surprisingly long D. accounted for a great part of their lives 42. When she was over fifty, the late nineteenth century mother___________ A. would be healthy enough to take paid employment B. was usually expect to die fairly soon C. would expect to work until she died D. could rarely find a job even if she wanted one 43. One reason why today’s mother may take a job is that she ___________ A. is younger when her children are old enough to look after themselves B. does not like her own children C. need not worry about her children’s food D. likes to share more equally in money with husband 44. The new life-pattern reflected(反映) in the relationship in marriage is the result of _______ A . husband’s finding greater satisfactions of family life B. wives’ abilities in running the home C. women’s improved economic position D.husband and wife fighting for their own interests 45. Which of the following should be the best title for the passage? A. Social Changes in Women’s Lives B. Women’s Time Spent taking Care of Children C. Women D. Women’s Marriages and Jobs B J.K. Rowling is the writer of Harry Potter, which is now one of the best-sellers in the world. J.K. Rowling was born in Bristol on July 31st, 1965. She has one sister who is two years younger than her. Both girls loved listening to their father reading bedtime stories to them. They especially loved stories about magical worlds. Rowling wrote her first story, called Rabbit, at the age of six. After she graduated from the university, Rowling worked as a translator in London . During this time, on a long trip in the summer of 1990, the idea came to her of a boy who has magic but doesn’t know it. In 1992 Rowling began to teach English. She lived with her baby daughter, Jessica, and spent much time finishing the first Harry Potter book for young readers. It appeared in June 1997. To her surprise, the book was greatly successful. The film came out in November 2001. Now Harry&
