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阅读理解训练（6）阅读理解阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项Education in the United States is compulsory for children up to about the age of sixteen. Most young people stay in school longer than that. Most graduate from high school at the age of 17 or 18. Almost half of these high school graduates continue their education at a college or university. Education for most young people in this country is free up to the time they graduate from high school. There are private schools, but most parents send their children to public schools, where students do not pay tuition. When young people go to college, however, they must pay tuition at a public university or a private university. University costs are going up a lot：private universities have become very expensive because the government does not help them. Who pays? The parents of children in college may have to pay more, or often students may have to find jobs. These students have to worry about assignments and grades and also about their jobs. If they work too much at their jobs they may be absent from class or miss assignments or make too many errors on tests. They may even fail their courses and have to leave the university.For many students, the problem of getting an education is not just a problem of homework and exams. They also have to make money to pay for tuition. And professors dont teach them how to do that! 1．In the United States, almost half of the high school graduates________.A．go to colleges and universitiesB．need not pay any tuitionC．have to enter open universitiesD．work hard to avoid errors on tests答案：A　本题考查细节题。

由文章第二段第一句“Almost half of these high school graduates continue their education at a college or university”可知，几乎有一半的中学生毕业都在大学或学院里继续深造 2．Which of the following statements is NOT true?A．Most parents prefer to send their children to public schools rather than to private schools due to tuition. B．Education is not free until the students graduate from high school.C．University costs are on the increase.D．The students may be absent from class if they work overtime.　 答案：B　本题考查细节理解由文章第二段第二句“Education for most young people in this country is free up to the time they graduate from high school.”可知，在这个国家，大多数年轻人接受的免费教育可持续到中学毕业，而这正与B的意思相反，因此B是正确答案。

3．The private university students have to pay more money for tuition because________.A．the government does not finance the private universities B．none of companies support the private universities C．the teaching quality of the private universities are superior to public onesD．they have some trouble in passing the exams答案：A　本题考查细节理解由文章第二段第五句“University costs are going up a lot; private universities have become very expensive because the government does not help them.”可知，私立大学学费高昂的原因是政府不资助私立学校4．The main idea of the passage might be________.A．selecting a good university costs in the United States B．the increase on university costs in the United StatesC．the argument about education in the United StatesD．the problem of getting an education in the United States答案：D　本题考查主旨大意。

纵观全文，一直谈论的都是在美国教育中遇到的问题，因此D项是正确答案阅读理解练习阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项Australia---The vote for euthanasia(安乐死)was finally taken at 3:45 this morning. After six months’ argument and final 16 hours’ hot debates, Australia’s Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die. The bill was passed by the vote of 15 to 10. Almost immediately word flashed on the Internet and was picked up, half a world away, by John Hofsess, the director of the Right to Die Society of Canada. He sent it on through the group’s on-line service, Death NET. Hofsess says, “We posted it all day long, because this isn’t just something that happened in Australia. It’s world history.” The full import may take a while to understand. The NT Rights of the Terminally III law has left physicians and citizens trying to deal with its moral and practical meaning. Some have breathed sighs of relief, but others, including churches, right to life groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste(匆忙,急忙) of its passage. But the tide is unlikely to turn back. In Australia — where an aging population, life extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their part — other states are going to consider making a similar law to for euthanasia. In the US and Canada, where the right to die movement is gathering strength, observers are waiting for the dominoes(多米诺骨牌) to start falling. Under the new Northern Territory law, an adult patient can request death — probably by a deadly injection or pill — to put an end to suffering. The patient must be diagnosed as incurably ill by two doctors. After a “cooling off” period of seven days, the patient can sign a certificate of request. After 48 hours the wish for death can be met. For Lloyd Nickson, a 54 year old Darwin man suffering from lun。