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Foreign Languages Department LIFE UPPER INT U1B Reading

LIFE UPPER UNIT 1B READING EXERCISE

READING_A Confused Generation
PART A: Choose the best answer.
1. What is the passage mainly about?
(A) Child-raising in China 6. The pronoun “us” in line 24 refers to
(B) Socio-cultural change in China (A) Bella.
(C) Problems in Bella’s family (B) Bella’s parents.
(D) Nursing homes in China (C) children.
(D) Bella’s father.
2. According to the first paragraph,
which one is NOT true? 7. It is understood from the last
(A) Bella’s English teacher’s name is paragraph that
Zhou Jiaying. (A) Bella’s parents are helping her with
(B) Society in China is changing. her homework.
(C) Respect in family is an old value. (B) Bella agrees with her parents’
(D) Money has become a new value. opinions.
(C) Bella’s mother feels a bit disappointed.
3. According to the second paragraph, (D) Bella is a rebellious teenager.
(A) nursing homes are in bad condition
in China. 8. The word “burden” in the third
(B) children are not responsible for paragraph is closest in meaning to
caring for their parents. (A) a difficult responsibility.
(C) nursing homes have always been (B) necessity.
popular in China. (C) failure.
(D) Bella’s grandfather is in a nursing (D) ambition.
home.
9. It is understood from the passage that
4. Bella wants to earn money so that (A) families in China are all positive
(A) she can live in a nursing home. about cultural change.
(B) she can take her grandfather out of (B) teenagers in China do not want
the nursing home. any responsibilities.
(C) she can put her parents in a good (C) cultural change is being
nursing home. questioned in China.
(D) she can buy a nursing home. (D) parents have serious fights with
children in China these days.
5. What does Bella’s father think about
her future ambition? 10. The pronoun “them” in line 35 refers to
(A) Bella is selfish. (A) five years.
(B) Bella can teach them many things. (B) Bella’s lessons.
(C) Her family is a burden for Bella. (C) teenagers.
(D) Bella should look after her family in (D) Bella’s parents.
the future.
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Foreign Languages Department LIFE UPPER INT U1B Reading

PART B: Match the following words taken from the passage with their definitions.
1. confused (adj) _____ A) people living together in communities

2. value (n) _____ B) unable to understand something or think clearly about it

3. society (n) _____ C) lack of success

4. rebellious (adj) _____ D) the quality of being useful or important

5. failure (n)_____ E) unwilling to obey rules or accept standards of behavior, dress

etc.
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Foreign Languages Department LIFE UPPER INT U1B Reading

LIFE UPPER UNIT 1B READING EXERCISE_ANSWER KEY

PART A: Choose the best answer.

1. B 6. B
2. A 7. C
3. D 8. A
4. C 9. C
5. B 10. D

PART B: Match the following words taken from the passage with their definitions.
1. B
2. D
3. A
4. E
5. C