翻译硕士英语阅读理解专项强化真题试卷26 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1. 
    Chris Hrapko isn’t afraid of tough conversations. As the founder of a nonprofit social-service agency, she battles bureaucracies on behalf of the homeless and the working poor. But there is one conversation Hrapko avoided. When her 92-year-old mother fell and broke her hip earlier this year, Hrapko knew it would affect her independent mother’s living arrangements and health. But Hrapko, 51, was clueless about her mom’s wishes. “We talked about a lot of things,” she says, “but we never talked about a future in which my mom faced a problem that could leave her disabled, bedridden or on life support. “    A recent survey by AARP found that nearly 70 percent of adult children have not talked to their parents about issues related to aging. Some children avoid this most intimate of conversations because they believe their parents don’t want to talk. Others think they know what their parents want. And some simply don’t want to face the very real truth that if you are lucky enough to have parents who live well into their senior years, chances are good that disease, injury, frailty, eve
n loneliness, will affect a parent’s well-being.    While it’s clear that having a conversation with aging parents is important, there is no blueprint on how to do it well. What works for one family may not work for yours. The key is to be flexible, says Mary Anne Ehlert, founder of Chicago-based Protected Tomorrows, an advocacy firm for families with special needs. She has found that one of the best ways to get the conversational ball rolling is to talk about your parents’ and what they would do if faced with a situation in which people they loved could no longer care for themselves. “ Ask your parents for advice; seek their wisdom in helping you help them,” Ehlert says.    It’s also important for adults to be honest about what they are prepared to do for their parents. As parents age and become frail, many will need help with personal hygiene. It’s these kinds of issues that can make the most devoted child balk. “Before you agree to be a caregiver, make sure you understand what you may be in for,” says Monika White, president-elect of the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers. “ Adult children need to acknowledge their own limitations and then be prepared to make some type of arrangement for the things they simply can’t do. “    Realize that there is no such thing as one conversation about aging. “ N
o one resolves the future in one afternoon of talk,schedule是什么意思英语” says psychologist Brian Carpenter of Washington University in St. Louis. “It’s a process. “ One strategy is to schedule time to talk about a specific subject, such as wills or living arrangements.
 
1． According to the first paragraph, Chris Hrapko______.
A．avoided talking about the issue of aging with her mother
B．realized that her mother wanted to talk to her about the future life
C．believed that her mother didn’t want to talk to her about the aging issue
D．knew that the injury would cause her mother lonelier than before
正确答案：A
解析：推理判断题。文章第一段谈到Hrapko只避免一种谈话，后文开始描述她92岁高龄的母
亲骨折的事情，以及之后的“We talked about a lot of things，”she says，“but wenever talked about a future in which my mom faced a problem that could leave her disabled，bedridden or on life support．”从此可以推断出Hrapko并没有和母亲进行过有关衰老的谈话。 
2． Many adult children have not talked to their parents about aging not because______.
A．some children think that their parents don’t want to talk
B．some children believe that they know their parents well
C．some children are not lucky enough to have parents who live well into their senior years
D．some children shun the reality that their parents need help
正确答案：C
解析：事实细节题。由文章第二段中间的“…because they believe their parents don’t want totalk．Others think they know what their parents want．And some simply don’t want to facethe very real truth that…”可知成年子女只是想避免面对父母晚年会出现各种状况这一事实，而非他们的父母晚年已经出现问题，因此选C。 
3． We can learn from paragraph 3 that______.
A．Chris Hrapko needs to seek advices from the expert and follow them step by step
B．Talking about your parents’ personal values may make the conversation disputable
C．It is unadvisable to talk about your parents’ future life where you cannot take care of them
D．talking with your parents about their aging but find an appropriate way
正确答案：D
解析：事实细节题。由第三段最后一句“Ask your parents for advice；seek their wisdom in help—ing you help them，”Ehlert says．可知人们就父母晚年生活这个问题，需要询问父母的意见。因此选
D． 
4． The underlined word “balk”(Para. 4)most probably means______.
A．lazy
B．stop
C．joy
D．disappoint
正确答案：B
解析：原文第四段第三句中提到“正是由于这样一些原因使一些满怀热情的年轻人……”，根
据一、二句，可以知道子女应该诚实的考虑自己准备为父母做些什么，随着父母年老体弱，他们的个人卫生都会需要人照顾，所以这可能会成为年轻人照顾父母的阻力，因此可以推测出“balk”是“停止；犹豫”的意思。因此选B。 
5． Which of the following is true of the text?
A．Chris Hrapko’s mother refused to talk about the future problem with her daughter.
B．Mary Anne Ehlert advised people to communicate with their parents on their own way.
C．Monika White thought that if people cannot meet their parents’ need, they cannot be a good caregiver.
D．Brian Carpenter suggested that people should spend more time in communicating with their parents.
正确答案：B
解析：原文第三段讲到与年迈的父母谈一谈是非常重要的，其中在最后一句“Ask your parents for advice；seek their wisdom in helping you help them”Mary Anne Ehlert表示在照顾年老的父母这一问题上，需要寻求父母的意见，因此选B。 
    Less than five years ago. Scottish Opera was trapped in a financial quagmire from which few thought it could recover. Today, however, the national company seals its comeback by announcing its most wide-reaching program to date. In an interview with The Times, Alex Reedjik, general director of Scottish Opera, explained that a series of collaborations with other companies would enable it to maximize its output without compromising its budget. He admitted that the partnerships were borne of financial necessity, but argued they would allow the company to reach greater audiences than ever before. “Collaborations are the way forward,” he said. “We have often done co-productions in the past but they are more important to us now to enable us to achieve all of our hopes. The problem is that sets are very expensive. If you can share those costs with another organization and not impact on artistic integrity, that is a positive, welcome and necessary thing.    Highlights of the 2009-10 season will include a new co-production with New Zealand Opera of Rossini’s The Italia
n Girl in Algiers, and a joint venture with Opera North The Adventures of Mr. Broucek, by Leos Janacek, featuring a 40-strong choir singing Hussite hymns, along with bagpipes and an organ. An unashamedly Italianate season this Autumn begins with a revival of Giles Havergal’s popular 1994 production of The Elixir of Love. There will also be a revival of the Tony-award winning director Stewart Laing’s production of Puccini’s La Boheme.    The turnaround in the company’s fortunes is striking. In 2005, the year before Mr. Reedjik joined the organization, Scottish Opera was forced to make half of its staff, including the entire chorus , redundant and abandon its main-scale productions for a season after accumulating debts of a-round ￡4.5 million. The company’s core grant, which at that time came from the Scottish Arts Council(it is now funded directly by the government)had not risen for several years. However, it had also haemorrhaged funds by staging the hugely expensive Ring Cycle, and according to some critics , had been overspending on props, with rumors of cast members wearing ￡ 300 designer shoes.    A ￡ 7 million rescue package put together by the then Labor-led Scottish Executive saved the company from going dark on a permanent basis, but the ease with which it almost went under forced a ret
hink of priorities. While the company continues to stage several major productions each season, it has also introduced smaller touring works—the acclaimed Five: 15 series—which pairs leading writers with composers to create 15-minute chamber pieces that could be developed into longer productions. The aim, says Mr. Reedjik, is to put on as much opera in Scotland as possible without breaking the bank. So far the strategy seems to be working, with audiences averaging at around 95 ,000 people in the past three years, a rise of almost 50 per cent compared with 2004 -05, the season before the company went dark. “What we are trying to do now is live within our means and raise as much as possible from philanthropic means,” said Mr. Reedjik. “ We seemed to have dropped out of the news for dumb stuff—now we’re in the news for our interesting work. “