2007年湖南高考英语阅读填空真题

一、阅读填空题

阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在文后第76至第85小题的空格里填上适当的单词或短语。注意：每空不超过3 个单词。

Host family accommodation, or living with host families, remains popular among language travel students for its advantages. These days, host families are trying to offer more in terms of quality, for they still have something to worry about.

Host family accommodation is often seen as the number-one choice for its advantages in language study, cultural communication and cost of living. Staying alongside host families enables students to get enough practice for the short time of their studying so that their language acquisition is likely to become faster. Living in host families also has the advantage for students of being able to spend a lot of time communicating with their “host parents”, and get to know the local way of life, people and culture. Another advantage is that host family accommodation can sometimes be the least expensive. It attracts students for it ensures them a family type of living at a low cost.

The advantages, however, have not prevented host families form worrying. On one hand, some host families are losing their unique selling point. The problem is that the majority of hosts in big cites, now generally single and young, have less times available for students but the selling point for host family accommodation is communication practice. One the other hand, students’ expectations have risen. They are becoming more demanding and asking for more than ever from their accommodation, as they come mainly from high socio-economic groups in their own countries.

To get out of the difficult situation, host families are now making efforts to improve the quality of service. They are trying to making living conditions better, including broadband Internet service, private bathroom, and access to plenty of hot water for long showers. They are also providing students with structured family activities.

It is believed that host family accommodation will keep the popularity vote with language travel students.

Title: 76. ______

Theme	Host families are improving the accommodation quality
77. _______	1）Language study	78. ______
	2）Cultural communication	(1) 79. _______
		(2) Knowing the local way of life, people and culture
	3）80. _______	Being least expensive sometimes
81. _______	1）Loss of selling point	Hosts’ having less time for students
	2）82. _______	Students’ becoming more demanding
83. _______	Service quality improvement	(1) 84. _______
		(2) Organizing structured family activities
85. _______	Host family accommodation will keep the popularity vote with students.

二、阅读填空参考答案

76. Host Family Accommodation	77. Advantages	78. Possibly becoming faster
79. Communicating with hosts	80. Cost of living	81. Worries/ Problems
82. Rise in expectation	83. Efforts/ Measures	84. Bettering living conditions
85. Conclusion