gentleness，play and communication，not with a screen，but with a human being.

【语篇解读】本文论述了如何才能使我们的房子成为家这个命题。

16．Which of the following may serve as the best title of the passage?

A．How to Make a House a Home?

B．What Makes a House a Home?

C．Who Are Homeless，the Poor?

D．What is a Home for?

答案　B　[主旨大意题。文章主要围绕房子和家这个话题展开，即什么使我们的房子成为家。]

17．The purpose of the first paragraph is to________.

A．tell us that where there is home there is love

B．tell us what people think home is

C．show the author's concept of home

D．tell people how to have a happy home

答案　C　[推理判断题。文章第一段作者提出了心中家的概念作为论点。]

18．The underlined word"those"refers to ________.

A．people who build multi­million­dollar houses

B．people who have lost their family members

C．people who don't spend time with the family

D．homeless families living on the street

答案　C　[推理判断题。根据下一句的Parents are unaware，too busy making money outside the home that they don't live in.可以判断这一类人是很少和家庭成员呆在一起的。]

19．Which statement is NOT true according to the passage?

A．A home is a place where you are willing to stay.

B．Even the poorest person can have a happy home.

C．Computers and the Internet are important for a happy home.

D．Sometimes it's the rich that should be pitied.

答案　C　[细节理解题。由最后一段Control of the computer and the Internet is also important to make a house into a home.可知合理使用电脑对家庭也是很重要的。与C选项不符。]

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