Task 3
Directions:
The following is a passage about Changes in the American Family. After reading it, you are required to complete the outline below it (No. 46 through No. 50). You should write your answers briefly (in no more than 3 words) on the Answer Sheet correspondingly.
The traditional American family used to have a working father, a housewife -mother, and two or three children. But in the last twenty or thirty years, this picture has changed. Now we have many different kinds of families, many combinations of people living together besides this traditional one. For example, you have lots of what are called single-parent families, where you find children living with just one of their parents, usually after a divorce. And then there are plenty of married couples who for one reason or another don’ t have any kids, so it’s just the husband and wife. And sometimes adult children who have been living alone for years, in
Task 3
Directions: The following is a Discussion about People’s Attitude Towards the Change of Languages. After reading it, you are required to fill the blanks below it (No. 46 through No. 50). You should write your answers briefly in no more than 3 words on the Answer Sheet correspondingly.
Languages are changing all the time, and the English language is no exception. Some people welcome change as healthy; other people regard it as inevitable, but do not welcome it; still other people welcome certain changes but not all’; and still other people regard all changes as bad.
Professor Randolph Quirk pointed out: "Some people imagine that there is one linguistic form on any given occasion, and that language is invariant. They imagine that the form they may have learnt in school is somehow correct and that any difference from it is only private and personal and certainly wrong. Now, for many years, we have been trying to
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