1. (2016九上·绍兴期中) 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。

    The government in China ended his one-child policy and let families have two children instead in 2015.

    A Chinese Communist Party statement gave a number of reasons for the change in policy. The statement said the change is meant to balance population development, stop a falling birth rate(出生率)and strengthen the country's labor force(劳动力). China, with the largest population in the world, started the one-child policy in 1980. But the government allowed only a small number of couples to have two children. For example, some families in the countryside could have two children, if the first-born is a girl.

    In 2013, the Chinese government gave other couples a chance to have two children if one of them was an only child.

Jiang Quanbao, a teacher and population expert, explained how Chinese families react(反应) to the newest policy. "Too many young people in the cities are no longer interested in having a second child," he said. "People in the countryside are more interested. But some of them are already allowed to have two children." At the end of 2014, China had a population of 1.37 billion people. A total of 800 million of them have jobs. But the labor market need of labor by the year 2050. With the two-child policy, an increase in births can solve this problem.

    Boys and girls, what do you think of the two-child policy? Do you want to have a new-born brother or sister?

1. （1） Why has the government ended the one-child policy?

   A . Because we have a small population. B . Because millions of people have jobs. C . Because most families want to have a second child. D . Because a falling birth rate must be stopped.
3. （2） How do most young people in the cities react to the two-child policy?

   A . They support the policy. B . They don't know about it at all. C . They are angry with it. D . They aren't interested in it.
5. （3） When will our country be seriously short of labor if one-child policy continues?

   A . In 2013. B . In 2035. C . In 2050. D . In 2070.  
7. （4） What's the order of the following events?

   a. The government allowed all the families to have two children.

   b. China had a population of 1.37 billion people.

   c. Some families in the countryside could have two children.
   

   d. Families could have two children if one parent was an only child.

   A . c d b a B . b a d c C . d c b a D . c a d b