阅读理解。 Gestures (手势) are the silent language of every culture. We point a fin
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| 阅读理解。 |
Gestures (手势) are the silent language of every culture. We point a finger or move another part of the
body to show what we want to say. It is important to know the body language of every country or we may
be misunderstood.
In the US, people greet each other with a handshake in a formal discussion. The handshake must be firm.
If the handshake is weak, it is a sign of weakness or unfriendliness. Friends may place a hand on the other"s
arm or shoulder. Some people, usually women, greet each other with a hug.
Space is important to Americans. When two people talk to each other, they usually stand about 2.5 feet
away and at an angle, so they are not facing each other directly. Americans get uncomfortable when a person
stands too close. They will move back to have their space. If Americans touch another person by accident,
they say, "Pardon me" or "Excuse me".
Americans like to look at the others in the eyes when they are talking. If you don"t do so, it means you are
bored, hiding something, or are not interested. When you stare at someone, however, it is not polite.
For Americans, thumbs (拇指)-up means "yes","very good" or"well done". Thumbs-down means the
opposite. To call a waiter, one might put up one hand to head level or above. To show you want the check,
make a movement with your hands as you are signing a piece of paper. It is all right to point at things but not
at people with the hand and index finger (食指). Americans shake their index fingers at children when they
scold them and pat them on the head when they admire them.
Learning a culture"s body language is sometimes confusing. If you don"t know what to do, the safest thing
to do is to smile. |
| 1. In the US, people usually ____ if you stand too close to them. |
A. feel friendly
B. get uncomfortable
C. keep still
D. hit you angrily |
| 2. If you talk with an American friend, it"s polite to ____. |
A. stare at him/her
B. look at the ground
C. look at him/her in the eyes
D. look here and there |
| 3. When an American gives you the thumbs-up, he, in fact ____. |
A. means that you are number one
B. wants to please you
C. needs to call a waiter
D. expresses his satisfaction with you |
| 4. What"s the main idea of this passage? |
A. People greet each other by shaking hands in America.
B. Every country has its own gestures.
C. Learning a culture"s body language is very important and necessary.
D. It is all right to point at things but not at people with the hand and index finger. |
答案
| 1-4 B C D C |
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| 阅读下面文章，根据要求回答下列问题。 |
British English and American English
Many students want to know the differences between American English and British English. Written English
is more or less the same in both Britain and America, though there are some spelling differences. For example,
the words colour, centre and travelled are spelt color, center, and traveled in American English.
The differences in the spoken language are greater. For example, Americans say dance /dns/, and in southern
England they say /da:ns/. In America, they pronounce not./nt/, in southern England they say /not/. However,
most of the time, people from the two countries do not have any difficulty in understanding each other.
How did these differences come from? There is no quick answer to this question. When people from England
travelled to other countries they took the English language with them. At first, the language stayed the same as
the language used in Britain, but slowly the language began to change from one part of the world.
Sometimes, the English spoken in America or Canada or Australia changed, but sometimes the language
spoken in these places stayed the same while the language in England changed. For example, 300 years ago, the
English talked about "autumn". But Americans still talk about "fall" just as people do in some parts of western
England. In the same way Americans use the expression "I guess" (meaning "I think") just as the British did 300
years ago.
A great many words and expressions have come into the language from American English, for example
movie, gas, store, mail, right away (at once), way of life and so on.
American English has changed over the centuries, too. There are several reasons for this. One of the reasons
is that people travelled to America from all the European countries and from other parts of the world, too. They
started to use English, but they also brought in some words from old French. One of the States in the USA is
called "Florida". In Spanish this is "the land of flowers". There are a great many American Indian words, for
example, "to howl" means "to cry". And "cookbook" is a German word. |
根据文章内容判断下列句子的对(T)与错(F)。
( )1. There are some differences between British and American English. So people from the two countries
can hardly understand each other when talking to each other.
( )2. As time goes by, the English language stays the same.
( )3. Americans usually use "fall" instead of "autumn" when they talk about the seasons.
( )4. "Florida" means"the land of flowers" in American English.
( )5. People who travel to the USA add more words to American English.
根据文章内容，回答下列问题。
6. Which of the following words belongs to British English: movie, gas, mail or petrol?
_______________________________________________________________________________
7. Please give the American way of spelling of the following words: colourful, metre and traveller.
_______________________________________________________________________________ |
| 根据课文内容完成下面短文(注意括号中的提示)。 |
At the end of the 16th century, English was only spoken by people in England. They were native English
speakers. However, 1______ English language has changed quite a lot over the last four centuries. Old English
sounded more 2______ less like German for it was 3______ on German, but modern English sounds more like
French than German 4______ 1ater on England was once ruled by the French.
Two men had great 5______ (影响) on the English changes. One was Samuel Johnson, who wrote his
dictionary and the other was Noah Webster, 6______ wrote The American Dictionary of the English Language
7______ gave American English its own 8______ (身份).
Today, the largest number of people 9______ (speak) English may be in China. A lot of Chinese people
speak English 10______ a foreign language. |
| 根据课文内容，完成短文。 |
Several days before July 28, 1976 many strange things happened in Tangshan. They were signs for an
(1)e______. A smelly gas came out from the cracks of wells and animals became too (2)n______ to eat.
But people who lived there didn"t think (3)m______ of that. At 3:42 a.m. that day, the earth began to shake.
In fifteen seconds, a large city lay in (4)r______, and the number of people injured or killed (5)r______
more than 400,000. Water, food and (6)e______ were cut off and the railway tracks were (7)u______ pieces
of steel. Later that afternoon, another big earthquake hit the city. More people were killed or (8)i______ and
more buildings fell down. But all hope was not lost. Very soon the army sent a lot of soldiers to help, and
teams were (9)o______ to dig out the trapped and bury the dead. By and by things improved and the city
began to (10)b______ again. |
| 阅读理解。 |
Rescue teams headed for a southern Turkish city destroyed by a strong earthquake that killed more than
100 people.
Civil defense officers said a 50-strong emergency group with police dogs was sent to Adana to look for
survivors in the fallen buildings.
Turkey"s Red Cross Muslin aid organization sent 400 tents, 2,000 blankets and two moveable kitchens
to Adana, where officials used television to attract people to spend the night outdoors for fear of aftershocks.
A British embassy spokesman in Ankara help London had offered help to the Turkish Government after
Saturday"s quake, which measured 6.3 0n the Richter scale. Electricity was cut off and telephone contact
was irregular.
Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz said hospitals were struggling to treat 800 people injured. "The top need is
providing electricity for urgent treatment in the hospitals," he said.
Yilmaz was going later in the day to visit Adana, a region of several million people at the center of the
quake, an officer told reporters. He said the latest reported death number was 104.
Television showed pictures of sad people digging through the ruined buildings with their bare hands. A
mother ran through the streets holding a child with head wound.
State hospital officials made urgent requests for blood donors. The quake was also felt in Cyprus, Syria
and Israel, although the deaths and damage were reported only in Turkey. Thousands of people tried to run
away from Adana. At least 16 aftershocks rocked the area after the first quake struck around 5 p.m. |
| 1. Officials used TV to attract people, because they were afraid that _____. |
A. the injured would feel sad
B. people would feel lonely
C. the quake would happen again
D. people loved watching TV |
| 2. When did the earthquake happen? |
A. On Friday.
B. On Saturday.
C. On Sunday.
D. On Monday. |
| 3. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? |
A. Many houses fell down.
B. More than 200 people died.
C. Hospitals were busy treating injured people.
D. A lot of blood was needed. |
| 4. Which of the following should be the best title for the text? |
A. A new trouble in Turkey
B. Help is needed
C. Turkish earthquake kills 104
D. More earthquakes are coming |
| 阅读理解。 |
How much paper do you use every year? Probably you can"t answer that question quickly. In 1990 the
world"s use of paper was about one kilogram for each person in a year. Now some countries use as much
as 100 kilograms of paper for each person in a year. The amount of paper a country uses shows how far
advanced the country is, some people say. It is difficult to say whether this is true: different people mean
different things by the word "advanced". But countries like the United States, England and Sweden certainly
use more paper than other countries.
Paper, like many other things that we use today, was first made in China. In Egypt and the West, paper
was not very commonly used before the year 1400.
The Chinese first made paper about 2,000 years ago. China still has pieces of paper which were made
as long ago as that. But Chinese paper was not made from the wood of trees. It was made from the hair
like parts of certain plants.
Paper was not made in southern Europe until about the year 1100. Scandinavia-which now makes a
great deal of the world"s paper-did not begin to make it until 1500. It was a German named Schaeffer who
found out that trees could be made into the best paper. After that, the forest countries of Canada, Sweden,
Norway, Finland, and the United States became the most important in paper making. Today in Finland,
which makes the best paper in the world, the paper industry is the biggest in the land. |
| 1. The underlined word"advanced" in the first paragraph probably means ____. |
A. big
B. small
C. developed
D. beautiful |
| 2. The man who first made paper from trees was a (an) ____. |
A. Chinese
B. Egyptian
C. Canadian
D. German |
| 3. Which country makes the best paper in the world today? |
A. Canada.
B. Finland.
C. Sweden.
D. Norway. |
| 4. Which of the following statements is NOT true? |
A. Scandinavia began to make paper after the year 1500.
B. Canada, Sweden and Norway have a lot of trees in their country.
C. The earliest paper in the world was made from the wood of trees.
D. Schaeffer was a German. |
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