山西2017年11月成人学位英语考试高分突破试题及答案四
The days of elderly women doing nothing but cooking huge meals on holidays aregone. Enter the Red Hat Society——a group holding the belief that old ladies shouldhave fun.
"My grandmothers didn't do anything but keep house and serve everybody. They were programmed to do that," said Emily Cornette, head of a chapter of the 7-year-old Red Hat Society.
While men have long spent their time fishing and playing golf, women have some times seemed to become unnoticed as they age. But the generation now turning 50 is the baby boomers (生育高峰期出生的人), and the same people who refused their parents' way of being young are now trying a new way of growing old.
If you take into consideration feminism (女权主义), a bit of spare money, and betterhealth for most elderly, the Red Hat Society looks almost inevitable (必然的). In this so-ciety, women over 50 wear red hats and purple (紫色的) clothes, while the women under50 wear pink hats and light purple clothing.
"The organization took the idea from a poem by Jenny Joseph that hegins：‘When Iam an old woman, I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn't go, '" said EllenCooper, who founded the Red Hat Society in 1998. When the ladies started to wear the redhats, they attracted lots of attention.
"The point of this is that we need a rest from always doing something for someoneelse," Cooper said. "Women {eel so ashamed and sorry when they do something for them-selves. " This is why chapters are discouraged from raising money or doing anything use-ful. "We're a ladies' play group. It couldn't be simpler," added Cooper's assistant JoeHeywood.
21.The underlined word "chapter" in Paragraph 2 means __________.
A.a branch of an organization
B.a written agreement of a club
C.a part of a collection of poems
D.a period in a society's history
答案：A
22.From the text, we know that the "baby boomers" are a group of people who __________.
A.have gradualIy become more noticeable
B.are worried about getting old too quickly
C.are enioying a good life with plenty of money to spend
D.tried living a different life from their parents when they were young
答案：D
23.It could he inferred from the text that members of the Red Hat Society are__________.
A.interested in raising money {or social work
B.programmers who can plan well for their future
C.believers in equality between men and women
D.good at cooking big meals and taking care of others
答案：C
24.Who set up the Red Hat Society?
A.Emily Cornette.
B.Ellen Cooper.
C.Jenny Joseph.
D.Joe Heywood.
答案：B
25.Women join the Red Hat Society because __________.
A.they want to stay young
B.they would like to appear more attractive
C.they would like to have fun and live for themselves
D.they want to be more like their parents
答案：C
学位英语考试：2017年成人学位英语考试试题题型详解