Ⅱ.完形填空(共20小題;每小題1分，滿分20分)

　　閱讀下面短文，理解大意，從題中所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中選出一個最佳答案。

　　Everything speeds up with people's lives.People often eat fast food __16__nice meals cooked by their mother__17__. They go to a shop, where the meal is__18__cooked. They can take__19__from the shelf when they__20__their dollar and in ten minutes eat it and__21__their dinner. This is not good for__22__. People move a great__23__from city to city，__24__their jobs. Airplanes go__25__between cities. Every twenty­five seconds planes are taking off from airports. When people move__26__the cities, they leave their old friends__27__. They leave their old mother and father, their children, and leave their__28__. People become without roots, without a place__29__they can really call“home”. This has very__30__effects. One thing is that the old people often live so far from their children that，__31__they become old, there is nobody to__32__them. Brothers and sisters move far away from each other. They telephone each other. Families become very__33__. Society does not have the__34__ways any more, the ones which kept people__35__together. Many people feel rather lonely today.

　　16.A.without B.together with

　　C.instead of D.as

　　答案：C　句意：吃快餐而非媽媽在家做得香噴噴的飯菜。instead of“而不是”，符合句意。

　　17.A.at school B.at home

　　C.in the hotel D.in the restaurant

　　答案：B　由首句可知，人們追求吃飯速度必然到飯店吃快餐，而不吃“家里”母親煮的可口飯菜。

　　18.A.already B.still

　　C.not D.just

　　答案：A　already指“已經(jīng)做了”;still“仍然”;not在此指“沒有做”;just指“剛做”。結(jié)合語境“他們?nèi)ワ埐恕�已�?jīng)煮好'的商店”，可知already符合句意。

　　19.A.them B.it

　　C.everything D.little

　　答案：B　該空替代上文的meal。

　　20.A.put B.get

　　C.set D.pay

　　答案：D　由下文的their dollar可推知用pay，指付款。

　　21.A.finish B.cook

　　C.fetch D.bring

　　答案：A　他們來飯店是吃飯的而不是做其他事。本句意為“他們十分鐘之內(nèi)就吃完飯”。

　　22.A.families B.children

　　C.old people D.business

　　答案：A　人們都到外面吃飯，必然對“家庭”不利。

　　23.A.many B.much

　　C.deal D.far

　　答案：C　a great deal意為“許多次”，修飾動詞。