[考研英语]模拟试题.doc

In the United States, the first day nursery was opened in 1854. Nurseries were established in various areas during the1half of the 19th century; most of2were charitable. Both in Europe and in the ., the daynursery movement received great3 during the First World War, when4 of manpower caused the industrial employment of unprecedented numbers of women. In some European countries nurseries were established 5 in munitions(军火) plants, under direct government sponsorship. 6 the number of nurseries in the . also rose 7 , this rise was plished without government aid of any kind. During the years following the First World War, 8 , Federal State and local governments gradually began to exercise a measure of control 9 the day nurseries, chiefly by 10 them and by inspecting and regulating the conditions within the nurseries.
The 11 of the Second World War was quickly followed by an increase in the number of day nurseries in almost all countries, as women were 12 called up on to replace men in the factories. On this 13 the . government immediately came to the support of the nursery schools, 14 $ 6000000 in July, 1942, for a nursery school program for the children of working mothers. Many states and munities 15 this Federal aid. By the end of the war, in August, 1945, more than 1000000 children were being cared 16 in daycare centers receiving Federal 17. Soon afterward, the Federal government18 cut down its expenditures for this purpose and later 19them, causing a sharp drop in the number of nursery schools in operation. However, the expectation that most employed mothers would leave their 20 at the end of the war was only partly fulfilled.
1. [A] latter [B]other [C] late [D] first
2. [A] those [B]them [C] whose [D] which
3. [A] impetus [B]input [C] imitation [D] initiative
4. [A] sources [B]abundance [C] shortage [D] reduction
5. [A] hardly [B] entirely [C] only [D] even
6. [A] Because [B] As [C] Since [D] Although
7. [A] unanimously [B] sharply