If you are invited to a party by the Austrians and the suggested dress is "infor
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If you are invited to a party by the Austrians and the suggested dress is "informal(非正式的)" (usually marked in the lower left-hand coner of the invitation) , it may mean dark suit and a white shirt for men and cocktail dress( 短短服) for women. Or again, may mean something considerably less formal. "Formal" means a black tie and evening dress for men and a floor-length dress for women. If a man is in doubt(拿不准) about what to wear, he may come slightly overdressed and then take his coat and tie off when he sees that others are wearing sports shirts. National dress is always acceptable.
小题1:If a lady receives an invitation marked with "formal", she should wear| A．a long dress | B．a cocktail dress | C．a short dress | D．a dark suit |
小题2:Suppose you are a man invited to an informal party by an Austrian, you"d better .| A．wear dark clothes and dark suit | | B．dress yourself in a dark suit and a white shirt | | C．wear a coat and so on | | D．wear sports shirts |
小题3:The general idea of this passage is .| A．men and women should be dressed differently | | B．national dress is always useful | | C．what to wear if a person is invited to an Austrian party | | D．men and women should dress themselves beautifully |
小题4:The meaning of "overdressed" is .| A．dressing oneself a little too formally | B．dressing oneself a floor-length dress | | C．wearing one"s tie | D．dressing a sports shirt |
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答案
小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:C
小题4:A |
解析
试题分析：本文主要讲述的是自澳大利亚参加朋友的邀请的时候所穿的服装的注意点。要分成正式或者非正式两种情况。
小题1:A 细节题。根据文章4,5行"Formal" means a black tie and evening dress for men and a floor-length dress for women.可知A项正确。
小题2:B 细节题。根据文章2,3行it may mean dark suit and a white shirt for men and cocktail dress( 短短服) for women.可知B项正确。
小题3:C 主旨大意题。本文主要讲述的是自澳大利亚参加朋友的邀请的时候所穿的服装的注意点。要分成正式或者非正式两种情况。故C正确。
小题4:A 推理题。根据If a man is in doubt(拿不准) about what to wear, he may come slightly overdressed and then take his coat and tie off when he sees that others are wearing sports shirts.可知如果吃不准，可以先穿得正式一点，看到别人穿得随意，自己可以换下来。故A正确。
点评：本文主要讲述的是自澳大利亚参加朋友的邀请的时候所穿的服装的注意点。要分成正式或者非正式两种情况。本文考查细节题为主，细节题可以在文章中直接找到与答案有关的信息或是其变体。搜查信息在阅读中非常重要它包括理解作者在叙述某事时使用的具体事实、数据、图表等细节信息。在一篇短文里大部分篇幅都属于这类围绕主体展开的细节。做这类题一般采用寻读法即先读题，然后带着问题快速阅读短文，找出与问题有关的词语或句子，再对相关部分进行分析对比，找出答案。 |
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Mini Book Excerpts（节选）
Biography
When Salinger learned that a car park was to be built on the land, the middle-aged writer was shocked and quickly bought the neighboring area to protect it. The townspeople never forgot the rescue and came to help their most famous neighbor.
J.D. Salinger A Life by Kenneth Slawenski（Random House,$27）
Mystery（疑案小说）
“You’re a smart boy. Benny’s death was no accident, and you’re the only who saw it happen. Do you think the murderer should get away with it ? ”The boy was starting stubbornly at his lap again.
A thought suddenly occurred to Annika, “Did you …You recognized the man in the car, didn’t you?”
The boy hesitated, twisting his fingers, “Maybe,” he said quietly.
Red Wolf by Liza Marklund（Atria Books, $25. 99）
Short Stories
She wants to say to him what she has learned, none of it in class. Some women are born stupid, and some women are too smart for their own good. Some women are born to give, and some women only know how to take. Some women learn who they want to be from their mothers, some who they don’t want to be. Some mothers suffer so their daughters won’t. Some mothers love so their daughters won’t.
You Are Free by Danzy Senna （Riverhead Books,$15）
Humor
Do your kids like to have fun? Come to Fun Times! Do you like to watch your kids having fun? Bring them to Fun Times! Fun Times! “amusement cycling” is the most fun you can have, legally, in the United States right now. Why spend thousands of dollars flying to Disney World when you can spend less than half to that within a day’s drive of most cities?
Happy And Other Bad Thoughts by Larry Doyle（Ecco,$14. 99）
小题1:If the readers want to know about the life of Salinger , they should buy the book published by | A．Random House | B．Atria Books | | C．Riverhead Books | D．Ecco |
小题2:The book Happy And Other Bad Thoughts is intended for .| A．young children | B．Disney World workers | | C．middle school teachers | D．parents with young children |
小题3:Which book describes women with characters of their own?
A. Happy And Other Bad Thoughts B. You Are Free
C. J. D. Salinger :A Life D. Red Wolf
小题4:After finishing the book Red Wolf, the readers would learn that . | A．the murderer got away with the crime | | B．Benny died of an accident | | C．the boy helped arrest the murderer | | D．Annika carried out the crime |
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Although the New Year is already here, the great moments of the past year are still in the memory. Let’s look back at some of them.
United States
One of the world’s largest New Year’s Eve parties was held in Times Square, New York. The festival attracted hundreds of thousands of people to watch a brightly-lit ball drop on a landmark building at the stroke (击、打) of midnight.
A great amount of confetti (五彩纸屑) was released from the sky at zero o’clock.
Britain
Painted in shinning colors, blowing whistles, 50，000 party-goers arrived in London’s Millennium Dome to dance in the New Year. The Millennium Dome came to life at midnight as 50 DJs started up, competing on five separate dance floors to warm the crowd into the party mood.
Russia
New Year is the biggest holiday in Russia. It is traditional to put up a tree for celebrations with family and friends.
On the very last day of last year, Russians with a taste for a very cold swim braved freezing temperatures to plant traditional, festival trees on the bed of the Northern Ocean and at the bottom of Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest lake.
Malaysia
Brave skydivers threw themselves off the world’s tallest building near midnight and floated towards the New Year.
The jump from the 452-metre Petronas Twin Tower was called a real leap from one year to the next since the group took off in the last second of the old year and landed a minute later in the New Year. “That was really cool,” said Roland Simpson, “over crowds of onlookers to the landing spot.”
小题1:In New York the brightly-lit ball dropped ____________.| A．form the sky onto the Times Square | | B．into the hundreds of thousands of watchers | | C．to welcome the arrival of Christmas | | D．at the point between the old and the New Year |
小题2:Which of the following is NOT traditional to welcome a new year?| A．Sharing the happiness and excitement together. | | B．Setting up a tree for celebrations. | | C．Planting trees on the bed of a lake. | | D．50 DJs’ competing on five separate floors. |
小题3:People jumping from the tallest buildings _________.| A．spent two different years in the air. | | B．stayed in the sky for two minutes. | | C．landed over people’s heads. | | D．floated away to the new land |
小题4:The passage mainly shows that ________.| A．New Year has been the starting point for people to have dreams. | | B．people in different countries welcomed New Year in different ways. | | C．people’s ways of celebrations are exciting. | | D．the New Year is better than the old year. |
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I consider myself something of an expert on apologies. A quick temper has 36 me with plenty of opportunities to make them. In one of my earlier 37 , my mother was telling me “Don’t watch the 38 when you say, ‘I’m sorry’. Hold your head up and look at the person in the 39 , so he’ll know you 40 it.”
My mother thus made the key point of a(n) 41 apology: It must be direct. You must never 42 to be doing something else. You do not 43 a pile of letters while apologizing to a person 44 in position after blaming him or her for a mistake that turned out to be your 45 . You do not apologize to a hostess, whose guest of honor you treat 46 , by sending flowers the next day without mentioning your bad 47 .
One of the important things we should do for an 48 apology is a readiness to 49 the responsibility for our careless mistakes. We are used to making excuses, which leaves no 50 for the other person to 51 us. Since most people are open-hearted, the no-excuse apology leaves both parties feeling 52 about themselves. That , after all, is the 53 of every apology. It 54 little whether the apologizer is wholly or only partly at fault. Answering for one’s 55 encourages others to take their share of the blame.
| 小题1: | | A．provided | B．mixed | C．compared | D．treated |
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| 小题2: | | A．dreams | B．courses | C．memories | D．ideas |
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| 小题3: | | A．side | B．ground | C．wall | D．bottom |
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| 小题5: | | A．imagine | B．enjoy | C．mean | D．regret |
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| 小题6: | | A．useful | B．successful | C．equal | D．basic |
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| 小题7: | | A．pretend | B．forget | C．refuse | D．expect |
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| 小题8: | | A．hold on | B．put away | C．look through | D．pick up |
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| 小题9: | | A．poorer | B．weaker | C．worse | D．lower |
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| 小题10: | | A．fault | B．reason | C．result | D．duty |
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| 小题11: | | A．cruelly | B．freely | C．roughly | D．foolishly |
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| 小题12: | | A．manners | B．excuses | C．efforts | D．roles |
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| 小题13: | | A．active | B．effective | C．extra | D．easy |
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| 小题14: | | A．raise | B．perform | C．admit | D．bear |
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| 小题15: | | A．situation | B．need | C．sign | D．room |
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| 小题16: | | A．advise | B．forgive | C．warn | D．blame |
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| 小题17: | | A．wiser | B．warmer | C．better | D．cleverer |
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| 小题18: | | A．purpose | B．method | C．end | D．advantage |
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| 小题19: | | A．cares | B．matters | C．depends | D．remains |
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| 小题20: | | A．facts | B．states | C．rights | D．actions |
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For over one hundred and fifty years, Americans of all social classes have worn blue jeans. 小题1: Whether they are worn for work or for fashion today, Strauss’ invention continues to be popular not only among Americans but also among people around the world.
Levi Strauss was born in Germany in 1829. 小题2: He grew up in Kentucky before moving to New York in 1847. Before becoming an American citizen and moving to the West in 1853, Strauss worked in his brother’s dry goods business. This gave him a chance to produce his famous invention. After the gold rush of 1849, Strauss decided to move to the West to seek his fortune.
Strauss did not want to be a person who searched an area for minerals. Instead, he knew he could make a good living by selling supplies to the miners. At first, he planned to sell sewing supplies and cloth. 小题3: When he heard miners complaining that their clothes were easily broken or they usually tore their pockets during mining, he decided to use a special fabric to make pants for the miners. These pants proved so popular that he quickly ran out of materials to make more.
In 1873, Strauss received a letter from a Jewish tailor named Jacob Davis who had invented a process of connecting pockets with copper rivets(铆钉). This made the pants last a long time. Because Davis did not have the money to patent his idea, he offered to share it with Strauss if Strauss would agree to pay for the patent. 小题4:
By the time Strauss died in 1902, he had made a great contribution to American fashion.
小题5: The business has been growing ever since and Levi Strauss" company is now one of the largest clothing companies in the world.| A．As a young boy, he moved with his family to the United States. | | B．Nobody knew what kind of material was suitable. | | C．He did and Levi jeans have been made with metal rivets ever since. | | D．However, he did not get much business for those products. |
E. He also made a great contribution to America"s clothing industry.
F. Since they were invented by Levi Strauss, they have become a symbol of American consumer culture.
G. As the business grew, Strauss got much money from it. |
Of course, the main difference on the Chinese dinner table is chopsticks instead of knife and fork, but that’s only superficial. Besides, in decent restaurants, you can always ask for a pair of knife and fork, if you find the chopsticks not helpful enough. The real difference is that in the West, you have your own plate of food, while in China the dishes are placed on the table and everyone shares. If you are being treated to a formal dinner and particularly if the host thinks you’re in the country for the first time, he will do the best to give you a taste of many different types of dishes.
The meal usually begins with a set of at least four cold dishes, to be followed by the main courses of hot meat and vegetable dishes. Soup then will be served (unless in Guangdong style restaurants) to be followed by staple food ranging from rice, noodles to dumplings. If you wish to have your rice to go with other dishes, you should say so in good time, for most of the Chinese choose to have the staple food at last or have none of them at all.
Perhaps one of the things that surprise a western visitor most is that some of the Chinese hosts like to put food into the plates of their guests. In formal dinners, there are always “public” chopsticks and spoons for this purpose, but some hosts may use their own chopsticks. This is a sign of genuine friendship and politeness. It is always polite to eat the food. If you do not eat it, just leave the food in the plate.
People in China tend to over-order food, for they will find it embarrassing if all the food is consumed. When you have had enough, just say so. Or you will always overeat!
小题1:What’s the main difference on dinner table between China and West is ___________.| A．On Chinese dinner table, chopsticks replace knife and fork. | | B．The host will do the best to give you a taste of many different types of dishes. | | C．You’re treated to a formal dinner for the first time. | | D．You have your own plate of food in West while in China everyone shares the dishes. |
小题2:If you have a dinner in a Chinese home, in which order will the food be served in China?
a. a set of four cold dishes.
b. staple food such as rice, noodle or dumplings.
c. the main courses of hot meat and vegetable dishes.
d. serving soup.| A．acbd | B．cabd | C．acdb | D．cadb |
小题3:According to the passage, we can infer that ___________.| A．Chinese all think it impolite for guests to ask for a pair of knife and fork. | | B．Chinese think it impolite for guests to leave food in the plate. | | C．People in China tend to over-order food, for they will find it embarrassing if all the food is consumed. | | D．Chinese think it polite to put food into the plated of the guests with their own chopsticks. |
小题4:The sentence, in passage 2, “you should say so in good time” means ______________.| A．you should say so happily | | B．you’d better say so | | C．you should say so early | | D．you should say so kindly. |
小题5:The “public chopsticks and spoons” are used to ______.| A．show the politeness to the guests. | | B．put food into the plates of their guests | | C．share the food together | | D．show the genuine friendship and politeness |
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