My grandfather is eighty years old now. He always complains about how fast things have changed, and he often says that life used to be better.

?? Families aren’t families they used to be. A lot of families have broken up. If husband and wife have problems with their marriage, they no longer stay together. And mothers used to stay at home and take care of their children, but now not any more. Everyone is busy working. Mother used to spend all day cooking in the kitchen. But now the family don’t eat home-cooked food any more.

?? And the cars! No one walks any more. More and more people drive. Students used to walk 5 miles to school every day, even in winter. But nowadays students don’t. And in school, children don’t have to think any more.. In math class, for example, they used to add, subtract, multiply and divide(加减乘除)in their heads. Instead, they use calculators.

?? And people today have TV and computers, and they don’t talk to each other any more. They are too busy to talk, too busy to eat, too busy to think.

?? Life used to be simple, but it isn’t any more.

1.What does my grandfather think of the life now?

A. He thinks the life now is very good.??

B. He thinks the life now is worse than it used to be.

C. He thinks the life now is better than it used to be.

D. He thinks the life is the same as it used to be.

2.What does the underlined word “marriage” mean in Chinese?

A. 生活??????? B.工作?????? C.婚姻?????? D.家庭

3.What has happened these years according to the passage?

A. Children don’t have to think any more in school.

B. Students use calculators in math class.

C. Some used to walk to school, but now they don’t.?

D. All of above.

4.What changes have happened to some families?

a. People have TV.??

b. People like to eat home-cooked food.

c. Lots of families have computers.

d. Lots of couples(夫妇)live apart because of unhappy problems.

A. a, b, d????????? B. b, c, d??????? C. a, b, c????? D. a, c, d

5.Which is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Life now is much simpler.?

B. People have too much time to talk with each other now.

C. The writer’s grandfather only complains and pays no attention to better life now.

D. Lots of mothers stay at home and look after their children.

句子翻译 按所给的汉语，用英语完成下列句子。（本大题共9分，每小题1.5分）

1.这个男孩很聪明,但我怀疑他是否会在学习上有巨大的成功

 Although the boy is clever, I doubt whether ____________________in his study or not.

2.我们仔细地将第一次实验的结果与第二次的做了比较.

   We carefully ______________________________with that of the second one.

3.他们搬家住到市中心后,问题开始出现了.

   _______________________after they moved house to live in the city centre.

4.他们过去常常为看什么电视节目彼此争吵。

  They used to _______________________________what TV programmes to watch.

5.他们无法确定这场比赛是否能够现场直播.

They weren’t sure if ____________________________.

6.我认为这部小说不值得看.

 I don’t think this novel____________________.

My grandfather is eighty years old. He sometimes complains（抱怨）about how fast things have changed.

He often says that families aren’t the families they used to be. A lot of families have broken up（破裂）. If husband and wife have problems with their marriage, they will no longer stay together. And mothers used to stay at home to take care of their children, but now they’re busy working. They have no time to look after children at home. What’s more, more and more people drive. We used to walk five miles to school every day, even in winter. But now children don’t. And in school, children don’t have to think more as we used to. In math class, for example, we used to add, subtract, multiply and divide（加、减、乘、除）using our heads. But now most students use calculators. Most families have computers now. In the past, we didn’t have computers. We even had no lights. My mother to spend all day cooking in the kitchen. But now few people eat home-cooked food. And people seldom talk to each other. They are too busy to talk, too busy to eat, too busy to think… Life used to be simple, but it isn’t any more.

根据短文内容，判断句子是否正确，正写（A），错写（B）。（10分）

1.The writer’s grandfather thinks people now are much busier than they used to be.

2.Students have to think more at school now than past.

3.．People like to eat home—cooked food now.

4.．Lots of couples（夫妇）don’t live together because of unhappy problems.

【小题】5．People have too much time to talk with each other now.