【小题1】Days and nights z___________ by and everything changed before my eyes.
【小题2】 After a hard day of work, the man arrived home and his face looked tired and w________. 
【小题3】 Firefighters could use RealCine to train safely, without the risk of getting i_________.
【小题4】In defeat, the Kangaroos found something more ____________（珍贵的）than victory.
【小题5】It was said that he had been __________（允许）into Nanjing University.
【小题6】Single women were allowed to take part in their own c___________ at a separate festival.
【小题7】I have been invited to your school to talk to you about the s____________ of the Olympic games.
【小题8】 When the woman could not completed her long distance phone call, she called one of the _____________（操作人员）for help.
【小题9】 The woman ___________（起诉）of stealing in a grocery proved innocent at last. 
【小题10】 He became captain of the Brazilian football team and scored the w_________ goal.

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    Beijing, China successfully hosted the 29th Olympic Games in 2008. We began to learn more about the history and (1) ________ of the honourable games.

    The ancient games were held at Olympia in Greece every four years from 776 BC to AD 394. At that time, by (2) ________ the athletes were all male and they had to complete (3)________ no clothes. Single women were allowed to take part in their own (4)________ at a separate festival in (5)________of the wife of the Greek good Zeus.

    In 1896, the (6)________Olympic flame restarted to be lit in Athens. It was a Frenchman, Pierre de Coubertin, who made important contributions to the activity. After 32 year’s (7)________, the People’s Republic of China returned to the Games and played an important role in them. In Beijing 29th Olympic Games Chinese athletes made glorious achievements and won the most gold (8)________.

The Olympians from all over the world brought joy to people across the world with their (9)________ to push the (10)________ of human achievement.

1.Days and nights z___________ by and everything changed before my eyes.

2. After a hard day of work, the man arrived home and his face looked tired and w________. 

3. Firefighters could use RealCine to train safely, without the risk of getting i_________.

4.In defeat, the Kangaroos found something more ____________（珍贵的）than victory.

5.It was said that he had been __________（允许）into Nanjing University.

6. Single women were allowed to take part in their own c___________ at a separate festival.

7.I have been invited to your school to talk to you about the s____________ of the Olympic games.

8. When the woman could not completed her long distance phone call, she called one of the _____________（操作人员）for help.

9. The woman ___________（起诉）of stealing in a grocery proved innocent at last. 

10. He became captain of the Brazilian football team and scored the w_________ goal.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, many people thought that the Americanfamily was falling apart.A century later, we know that this was not the case. However,although the family is still alive in the United States, its size and shape were very different100 years ago.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, there were mainly two types of families in theUnited States: the extended and the nuclear. The extended family usually includesgrandparents, parents, and children living under the same roof. The nuclear familyconsists of only parents and children.

Today there are many different kinds of families. Some people live in “traditional” families, that is, a stay-home mother, a working father, and their own biologicalchildren. Others live in two-paycheck families, single-parent families, adoptive or foster,families, blended families (where men and women who were married before marry againand combine the children from previous marriages into the new families），childlessfamilies, and so on.

What caused the structure of the family to change? In the early 1900s the birthratebegan to fall and the divorce rate began to rise. Women were suddenly choosing to go tocollege and take jobs outside the home. In the 1930s and 1940s, many families faced seriousfinancial, or money problems during the Great Depression, when many people lost theirjobs. During World War II（1939-1945)，5 million women were left alone to take care oftheir homes and their children. Because many men were at war, thousands of these "war widows" had to go to work outside their home.

During the next ten years, the situation changed. There were fewer divorces, andpeople married at a younger age and had more children than the previous generation. It wasunusual for a mother to work outside the home during the years when her children weregrowing tip. Families began leaving cities and moving into single-family homes in thesuburbs. The traditional family seemed to be returning.

In the years between 1960s and 1990s, there were many important changes in thestructure of the family. From the 1960s to the early 1970s, the divorce rate doubled andthe birthrate fell by half. The number of single-parent families tripled, and the number ofcouples living together without being married doubled again. In fact, the single-parenthousehold, once unusual, has replaced the "traditional" family as the typical family in theStates. If we can judge from history, however, this will probably change again in thetwenty-first century.

The Changes of the American Family

American women experience a great variety of lifestyle. A typical American woman may be single. She may also be divorced or married. She may be a homemaker, a doctor or a factory worker. It is very difficult to generalize about American women. However, one thing that many American women have in common is their attitudes about themselves and their roles in American life.

Historically, American women have always been very independent. The first settlers to come to New England were ten young couples that had left behind their extended families. The women were alone in a new, undeveloped country with their husbands. This has two important effects. First of all, this was the uncivilized environment that demanded every person to share in developing it and in survival. Women worked with their husbands and children to make themselves accepted in this new land. Second, because they were in a new land without the established influence of older members of society, women felt free to step into non—traditional roles.

This role of women was strengthened in later years as Americans move west again, leaving families behind and meeting a new environment. Even later, in the east, as new settlers arrived, women often found jobs more easily than men. Women became the supporters of the family.

Within the established lifestyle of the industrialized twentieth century, the strong role of women was not attractive as in the early days of the country. Some women stepped into the men’s jobs as factory and business workers. After the war, some women stayed in these positions, and others left their jobs with a new sense of ability.

1.A typical American woman is______________.

A．single or married                       B． divorced

C．sure about herself and her role             D． all of the above

2. During the industrialized twentieth century, the role of women__________.

A．was found out

B．was as important as before.

C．declined

D．was stronger than that of the early days

3. Women took part in men’s job during the time of_________.

A．the Second World War

B． the Westward Movement

C． the early immigration

D． the industrialized twentieth century.