Question

Here is some information about homes in the United States and the people who live in them.

In the early 1990s, there were more than 91 million homes, or households(家庭) in the US. About 64% of the people in the US own their homes. The rest(其余的) rent(租) their homes. The rented homes are usually apartments(公寓).

74%of the people in the US make their homes in or around cities. 26% live in the country(鄉(xiāng)下). Dogs live in about 40% of all homes in the US and about half that number have cats.

Families in the US are becoming smaller. On the average(平均), 2.64 people lived in a home in the early 1990s. In 1960, the average was 3.5.

Half of the teenagers (青少年) in the US have their own bedrooms.

An American moves(搬家), on the average, twelve times in his or her life. In Japan a person moves about five times, and in England a person moves eight times.

1.Where do most Americans live?

A. Around the country.B. In or around cities. C. In the country.D. In cities.

2.How many American families own a cat?

A. 40%B. 64% C. 20%D. 74%

3.Families in the US are .

A. becoming bigger .B. becoming smaller

C. becoming happy.D. not sure

4.Which of the following is TURE?

A. Americans move more often than the English.

B. The average number in a family now is getting bigger than that in the 1960s.

C. The Japanese move . more often than the British.

D. Most young people of the US have no bedrooms of their own.

5.The best title for the passage is about .

A. Americans moving homes all the time

B. Pets in American families.

C. City families & country families.

D. Americans families.

 

Answer 1

1.B

2.C

3.B

4.A

5.D

【解析】

試題分析：美國人的生活和人口情況是什么樣的呢？有人買房，還有人喜歡租房，大多數(shù)人把家安置在城市里或靠近城市的地方。美國人比英國人更喜歡搬家。美國家庭正在逐漸變小。有一半的青少年有自己的臥室。

1.le in the US make their homes in or around cities. ”可知大多數(shù)人把家安置在城市里或靠近城市的地方。故選B。

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考點(diǎn)：社會(huì)類短文閱讀。