第三部分：阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。My wife and I us

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第三部分：阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
My wife and I used to feel that it was impossible to be a true friend to someone whose name we didn’t know. How wrong we were! Years of Sunday-morning bus trips through the city with the same group of “nameless” people have changed our thinking.
Before the bus takes off, we all join in a conversation: where’s the silent woman who sits up front and never responds to our cheery greetings? Here she comes. Her worn clothing suggests she doesn’t have much money to spare, but she

always takes an extra cup of coffee for the driver.
We get smiles from a Mexican couple as they get on the bus hand in hand. When they get off, they’re still holding hands. The woman was pregnant late last year, and one day her change of shape confirmed that she’d delivered the child. We even felt a little pride at the thought of our extended family.
For many months, our only sadness lay in our inability to establish the same friendship with the silent woman at the front of the bus. Then, one evening, we went to a fish restaurant. We were shown to a table alongside someone sitting alone. It was the woman from the bus.
We greeted her with friendly familiarity we’d

shown all year, but this time her face softened, then a shy smile. When she spoke, the words escaped awkwardly from her lips. All at once we realized why she hadn’t spoken to us before. Talking was hard for her.
Over dinner; we learned the stay of a single mother with a disabled son who was receiving special care away from home. She missed him desperately, she explained.
“I love him… and he loves me, even though he doesn’t express it very well,” she murmured. “Lots of us have that problem, don’t we? We don’t say what we want to say, what we should be saying. And that’s not good enough.”
The candles flared on our tables. Our fish had never tasted better. But the atmosphere grew pleasant, and when we parted as friends—we shared names.
56.Which of the following might be the best title of this passage?
Friends of the Road               B. The Silent Woman on the Bus
C. Going to Work by Bus              D. Different Kinds of Friendship
57.All the following statements can describe the woman except ______.
A. poor         B. warm hearted          C. silent        D. cold
58. The underlined word “establish” in the fourth passage probably has the same meaning as ______.
A. keep         B. discover        C. set up         D. accept
59. Why did the woman usually keep silence while taking the bus?
A. She was worried about her disabled son.
B. She was sad to see the happy Mexican couple us a single mother.
C. She had difficulty in expressing herself.   D. She was only interested in the bus driver.
60. The woman had the same problem with her son in the way that ______.
A. they both disabled people   B. they both had some difficulty in expressing
C. they both liked bus travel   D. they both brought interest to the passengers

答案

小题1:A
小题2:D
小题3:C
小题4:C
小题5:B

解析

举一反三

Fluency(流利) in another language is one of the most important aims of a newcomer to another country. In addition, understanding the culture and learning to communicate comfortably with people of that culture are as important as learning the rules of the language. Language learning and culture learning go together and may take a long time.
Sometimes people feel that they understand a culture after a few weeks or months. People do learn a lot when they first begin living in another culture, but this is only the first stage of learning. It usually involves(含包) things like learning everyday activities and some basic customs.
To really understand another culture, people have to go beyond the first stage, This is challenge because it is often difficult to know what to learn. Much of what we call “culture” is hard to see.
Culture is like an iceberg. Picture in your mind a huge iceberg in the ocean. The only part of the iceberg that you see is the tip.

You don’t see the rest of the iceberg because it is hidden from sight in the water. It is easy to forget that it is there. Most of the iceberg is deep within the ocean, just as much of a culture is deep within its people.
When you meet someone from another culture， certain culture differences are obvious: You hear another language or you hear your own language spoken with an accent. You see different foods, clothes and sometimes physical characteristics of people. You observe new customs or habits, such as the use of chopsticks, and, bowing or kissing on both cheeks as a greeting. These differences are interesting and important, but they are usually not too difficult to understand. They are visible so they are seen easily and quickly.
The part of culture that is like the underwater part of the iceberg consists of assumptions(设想), communication styles, values, and beliefs about what is right and wrong. The hidden part of culture affects much of a person’s way of thinking and communicating. It is the meaning behind his or her verbal (言语的) and nonverbal language. Learning to communicate well with people from a

nother culture involves becoming aware of the hidden part of culture.
61.What’s the subject of this passage?
A. Learning about culture.          B. Language learning.
C. The hidden part of the iceberg.    D. Fluency in another language.
62.What is learning about culture?
A. Learning the hidden part of the iceberg, which is underwater.
B. Learning everyday activities and some basic customs.
C. Learning the culture of an iceberg.
D. Learning the visible as well as the hidden differences of culture.
63.What’s the writer’s opinion?
A. Communication styles can be easily seen and learned.
B. Language learning is more important than culture learning.
C. Learning about culture is not easy and may take a long time.
D. People usually learn a culture after a few weeks or months.
64.The underlined phrase “consists of” can be replaced by “______”.
A. lies in         B. is made up of         C. agrees with         D. is different from
65.What conclusion can we draw after reading this passage?
A. Values and beliefs are like the tip of the iceberg.
B. People often become aware of the hidden part of culture.
C. The tip of the iceberg is larger than the hidden part.
D. The hidden part of culture has a great effect on people’s communication styles.

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第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节：对话填空(共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)
阅读下面对话，掌握起大意，并根据各题所给字母的提示，在标有题号的右横线上写出一个英语单词的完整、正确的形式，使对话通顺。
(F="foreigner," Y=you)
F: Aloha!
Y: Pardon? What is Aloha?
F: That is H__76___                                               76.________
Y: Hello! What can I do for you?
F: Would you please tell me the way to the c__77__? I’d like to see a movie. 77.________
Y: Movie?
F: Yes.That’s a f___78___.                                          78.________
Y: Go straight ahead and go a__79__three streets. It’s on your left-hand side. 79.________
F: Could you say that again, please?
Y: Go straight ahead and then go over three b__80__. The cinema will be     80.________
on your left. By the way, where are you from?

F: I’m from Hawaii. I’m v___81__your city. I like your city very much.      81.________
Y: I’m glad to hear that. Please follow me. I can take you to the cinema.
F: Sorry, I can’t follow you. What is flat?
Y: Flat means a__82__ I moved there last autumn.                       82.________
F: Do you mean “last f__83__”?                                     83.________
Y: Quite right. Well, your English is quite d__84_ from what my teacher     84.________
teaches.
F: A__85_, I speak American English. You understand British and American
English. That’s great.                                              85.________

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三. 完形填空(20分，每小题2分)
Every year people in many countries___42___English. Some of them learn at school. __43___study by___44___ . But it is too hard__45___learn another language well. People must work very hard.
Why do all these people__46____to learn English? It’s difficult to__47____that question. Many boys and girls learn English at school or at college.___48___it is one of their ___49___.They study their own language ,math and physic…and English. Many adults learn English, because it is___50___in their work. They want to read newspaper, books and some others in English to get more knowledge. And that is why___51___people in the world will learn English.。
(    )42. A. study       B. know       C. understand    D. speak
(    )43. A. Others      B. other       C. The other    D. The others
(    )44. A. they       B. their         C. them        D. themselves
(    )45. A. that       B. as           C. for          D. to
(    )46 A. have        B. wish         C. need        D. want
(    )47. A. think       B. answer       C. ask         D. talk
(    )48. A. because     B. so           C. when        D. why
(    )49. A. subject     B. the subject    C. subjects    D.a subject
(    )50. A. interesting   B. difficult      C. easy        D. useful
(    )51. A. more and more    B. many more     C. fewer and fewer   D. most.

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四．阅读理解(30分，每小题2分)
An important question about eating outside is who pays for the meal. If a friend of yours asks you to have lunch with him, you may say something like this, “I’m afraid of it,I’ll have to be some place cheap, because I have very little money .”The other person may say, “ OK, I’ll meet you at McDonald’s.” This means that these two persons agree to “go Dutch”, that is, each person pays for himself. He may also say, “Oh, no. I want to take you to lunch at Smith’s,” or “I want you to try the Chinese dumplings there. They’re great.” This means the person wants to pay for both of you. If you feel friendly towards this person, you can go with him and you needn’t pay for the meal. You may just say, “Thank you.” That would be very nice.
American customs（风俗） about who pays for dates（约会） are much the same as in other parts of the world. In the old days, American women wanted men to pay for all the meals. But, today, a university girl or a woman in business world will usually pay her way during the day. If a man asks her for a dance outside the working hours, it means “Come, as my guest（客人）.” So as you can see, it is a polite thing to make the question clear at the very beginning
（）52.The passage tells us_______________ .
A. how to eat outside   B. where to eat outside
C. what to eat outside    D. who pays for the meal
（）53.If you have little money, ___________________.
A. you’ll have a cheap meal   B. you’ll borrow some from others      C. you’ll ask your friend to pay for your meal   D. you won’t want your friends to ask you to dinner
( )54.“Go Dutch" in this passage means______________ .
A.去饭馆        B.就餐          C.订餐         D.各自付款
( )55. Sometimes your friend takes you to lunch. It means_______________ .
A. He’s going to lend some money to you      B. He’s going to pay for your meal,too
C. He’ll be angry with you                  D. He can’t understand you
( )56. In America, some girls and women now______________ .
A. Ask men to pay for their meals            B. Try to pay for the men’s meals
C. Try to pay for their own meals          D. Never have anything outside

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II 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分35分）
第一节完形填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21～30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland (since 1437) as well as one of the biggest and most important cities in the country, the seventh biggest in the United Kingdom. The ___21___ of the city is around half a million. It lies in the southeast of ___22___. As the capital city it is also the seat of the Scottish Parliament (created in 1999). It is the second most ___23___ city in the United Kingdom after London, with 13 million visitors a year.
The ___24___ of Edinburgh is 100 square miles (259 square kilometers). The historical centre of the city is divided into two main parts, the Old Town and the New Town. They are ___25___ Princes Street Gardens. Both districts were ___26___ as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995.
Edinburgh is quite famous for its annual Edinburgh Festival held four weeks from early August.
Edinburgh has been connected with many___27___people through its whole history. Famous authors of the city ___28___Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the ___29___ of Sherlock Holmes, or nowadays J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter. As far as the __30__ is concerned, the most famous people connected with Edinburgh are Charles Darwin (the biologist), Alexander Graham Bell (the telephone pioneer), and so on.
21. A. people         B. number      C. area           D. population
22. A. England              B. Britain              C. Wales         D. Scotland
23. A. travelled    B. visited        C. seen           D. explored
24. A. land            B. amount      C. area     D. boundary
25. A. separated by B. divided into       C. divided by D. separated into
26. A. regarded     B. thought      C. listed      D. treated
27. A. great         B. historical    C. famous      D. intelligent
28. A. include      B. contain  C. have          D. are
29. A. author         B. discoverer C. director      D. creator
30. A. science      B. biology  C. art             D. literature

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