e now trying a new way of growing old．说明她们想过一种新的生活。
　　53．c[解析]根据第四、五段内容可推断出这个组织的成员相信男女平等。
　　54．B[解析]从倒数第二段…Ellen Cooper，who founded the Read Hat Society in l998可知．Ellen Cooper创建了这个组织。
　　55．c[解析]根据第一段Enter the Red Hat Society--a group holding the belief that old ladies should have fun．及最后一段Women feel SO ashamed and sorry when they do something for themselves.可判断出C正确．
　　56．D[解析]根据第一段which is the opposite of the popularly—held image of unhappy
　　teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels．可知本题正确答案为D。
　　57．B [解析]根据第二段最后一句They don’t want to rock the boat．可知孩子们不想制造麻烦。rock the boat是捣乱、制造麻烦的意思。
　　58．D[解析]根据第三段第一句So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends．及其后的例子可知D正确。
　　59．A[解析]根据最后一段第二句It is possible that the idea of teenage rebellion is not rooted in real facts．可推断出A项正确。
　　60．C [解析]本文主要介绍了家庭和睦的问题，故C项正确。
　　Ⅳ．汉英翻译
　　61．1 wear the same clothes and have the same hairstyle with my friends．
　　62．The UFO landed while the boy was walking on the street．
　　63．He is going to be a journalist in lo years．
　　64．You will get fat if you eat hamburgers every day．
　　65．Do you know the most popular drink in the world—tea was discovered by accident?
　　V．书面表面
　　One possible version:
　　Contribution Wanted
　　The magazine, Senior Middle School Students, is very much liked by middle school students all over the country. In the coming year, we created a new column called The Life of Senior Middle School Students. All the senior middle school students are welcome to write to us. Your compositions can be written in any form, that is--story, essay, or poem. Whichever is OK.
　　You can send your compositions by posting or by e-mail. But you should have done this by the end of December 31, 2009. Please pick up your pens quickly, because there is nothing better than to get your reply.
　　Ⅵ．教学设计
　　Teaching plan (one possible version) :
　　Step 1 :Warming up
　　1. The teacher tells a story of a Chinese at a Western dinner party who made a fool of himself due to the lack of cultural background. The story is: Once a Chinese was invited to an American dinner party. When he saw the napkin on the table, he tied it around his neck just as Chinese parents do to their children when they' re fed. As a result, he made a fool of himself.
　　2. The teacher then presents the tools on the table and shows how to put these knives and forks and how to use them. Then ask one student to imitate him.
　　3. Judge these manners. Which are good and which are bad?
　　◇ Can you speak with your mouth full?
　　◇ Can you use your hand to take food from the plate?
　　◇ Is it polite to touch the glasses when you toast?
　　◇Is it polite to persuade others to drink up after toasting?
　　4. Do Pre-reading, and discuss in groups.

       

　　Ask three students to finish this table.
　　Step 2 : Reading
　　1. Students do scanning for Exercise 2 (3 minutes for scanning). In what order will the following dishes be served at a Western dinner party? Dessert;drink;main course;starter soup.
　　Summarize the main idea of every paragraph.
　　2. With the following questions, listen to the tape and read carefully.
　　(1) Instead of a hot, damp cloth, napkin is often seen at the Chinese dinner party nowadays.
　　What sign do you think it implies? How can you use it?
　　(2)What do soft drinks refer to? Is white or red wine a soft drink?
　　(3) Do people say anything or keep silent when drinking to one' s health or drinking a toast?
　　What do you usually do if you drink a toast?
　　Ask some students to answer these questions.
　　Homework :
　　Preview new words and grammar.