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2016-2017学年高二期末优选卷

高中英语

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WASHINGTON—Laura Straub is a very worried woman. Her job is to find families for French teenagers who expect to live with American families in the summer.

It’s not easy, even desperate.

“We have many children left to place: 40 out of 75,” said Straub, who works for a Paris-based foreign exchange programme called LEC. When exchange programmes started 50 years ago, family life was more accommodating. For one thing, more mothers stayed home.

But now, increasing numbers of women work outside the home. Exchange-student programmes have struggled in recent years to sign up host families for the 30,000 teenagers who annually come from abroad to spend their academic year in the United States, as well as the thousands more who participate in summer programmes.

School systems in many parts of the US, unhappy about accepting non-taxpaying students, have also strictly limited the number of exchange students they accept. At the same time, the idea of hosting foreign students is becoming less exotic.

In searching for host families, who usually receive no pay, exchange programmes are increasingly broadening their appeals to include everyone who has the ability to do it.

“We are open to many different types of families,” said Vickie Weiner, eastern regional director for ASSE, a 25-year-old programme that sends about 30,000 teenagers on academic year exchange programmes worldwide.

“For elderly people, exchange students keep us young; they really do!” said Jean Foster, who is hosting 16-year-old Nina Porst from Denmark.

1．Vickie Weiner is the person who ________.

A．works for a programme called LEC

B．works for a programme called ASSE

C．is 25 years old

D．hosts foreign students

2．From the passage we can learn that at the beginning of the exchange programmes ________.

A．all the families could host foreign students

B．only young couples could host foreign students

C．only those who were retired could host foreign students

D．those who were not too old could host foreign students

3．Which of the following is the best title of this passage?

A．US Struggles to Find Host Families

B．Idea of Hosting Students Is Different

C．Foreign-exchange Program Is Going On

D．Exchange Students Keep Old People Young

【答案】

1．B

2．D

3．A

2．D 推理题。从倒数第三段的句子In searching for host families, who usually receive no pay, exchange programmes are increasingly broadening their appeals to include everyone who has the ability to do it.和最后一段的内容，可知过去的交换项目是那些不是太老的寄宿主人，但是现在面向所有的年龄的人，故选D。