a "4: 2 : 1"home is the description given to households in which there are four

grandparents cared for by two working age parents, who themselves have one child.

By 2050, it's predicted that a quarter of China's population will be 65 or older. The

predicted decline in the number of people of working age is thought to have persuaded

the government to drop the one-child policy.

1. When was the baby death rate for both boys and girls equal?

A. In the 1970s. B. In the 1980s.

C. In the 1990s. D. In the 2000s.

2. What makes the one-child policy abolished according to the passage?

A. The decline of birth rate.

B. The rise of baby death rate.

C. The change of family structure.

D. The decline of working age people.

3. The passage sums up the one-child policy by .

A. number B. example

C. contrast D. analysis

B

lt's a little hard to figure out the rules for sure, but the baby African buffalo( 7K午)

seems to have the upper hand. The two stand a couple feet apart, staring at each other.

Behind them, their mothers look on with the kind of indifference(不关心) of mothers

everywhere who see their kids playing a harmless game.

The alarm went off about half an hour ago, the second time tonight. Here, one

bell means "elephant", two, "rhino" (犀牛), and three and four, 1 really can't

remember for what, because when you're awoken by bells in the middle of the night,

your first thought won't be "Animal! ". But as soon as I realized it was the rhino alarm,

I was running for the stairs.

Yet I'm the only one watching the animals stare-down. Either everyone else died

of a heart attack when the bells went off, or l was the only one in the entire hotel who

didn't turn the alarm switch to off before going to bed.

The Ark, a hotel shaped like the biblical ark(圣经的方舟) , lies in the highlands of