阅读理解。 The other day, my friend Jane was invited to a 40th birthday party. Th
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| 阅读理解。 |
The other day, my friend Jane was invited to a 40th birthday party. The time printed on the invitation
was 7:0 pm. Jane went off with her husband, expecting a merry evening of wine, food, and song.
By 9:45, everybody was having great fun, but no food had appeared. Jane and David were restless.
Other guests began whispering that they, too, were starving. But no one wanted to leave, just in case some
food was about to appear. By 11:00, there was still no food, and everyone was completely off their heads.
Jane and David left hungry and angry.
Their experience suggests that the words and the printed invitations need to be made clearer. Everyone
reads and understands the invitations differently. Most of us would agree that 6:30-8:30pm means drinks
only, go out to dinner afterwards; 8:00 pm or 8:30 pm means possible dinner, but 9:30 pm and any time
thereafter means no food, oat beforehand, roll up late.
But this is not always the case. If asked to a students" party at 6:30 pm, it is normal for guests not to
appear before midnight, if at all, and no one cares. Being the first to arrive-looking eager-is social death.
When my mother is asked to a party for 6:30, she likes to be them, if not on lime, then no later than seven.
My age group (late thirties) falls somewhere between the two, but because we still think we"re young,
we"re probably closer to student-time than grown-up time.
The accepted custom at present is confusing (混乱的), sometimes annoying, and it often means you
may go home hungry, but it does lend every party that precious element (成分) of surprise. |
| 1. The underlined words "off their heads" probably mean ______. |
A. tired
B. crazy
C. curious
D. hopeless |
| 2. Jane and David" s story is used to show that ______. |
A. petty-goer8 usually get hungry at parties
B. party invitations can be confusing
C. people should ask for food at parties
D. birthday parties for middle-aged people are dull |
| 3. For some young people, arriving on time for a students" party will probably be considered ______. |
A. very difficult
B. particularly thoughtful
C. friendly and polite
D. socially unacceptable |
| 4. According to the writer, people in their late thirties ______. |
A. are likely to arrive late for a party
B. care little about the party time
C. haven" t really grown up yet
D. like surprises at parties |
| 5. What is the general idea of the text? |
A. It" s safe to arrive late just when food is served.
B. It" s wise to eat something before going to a party.
C. It" s important to follow social rules of party-going.
D. It" s necessary to read invitations carefully. |
答案
| 1-5: BBDAC |
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| 阅读理解。 |
Fidenzio Salvatori is determined that the city of Toronto will have an outdoor marketplace for merchants
from its immigrant community, complete with dancing and other forms of amusement from their native
countries. "Toronto is truly multicultural (多元文化的)," he said in a newspaper interview. "It"s a city from
many places, and a multicultural marketplace will help Torontonians to understand and appreciate the rich
variety of cultural groups in our city."
Salvatori, aged 23, will soon complete his studies at the University of Toronto. He was eleven years old
when he came to Canada from Italy with his parents. "Most of Toronto"s immigrants are from lands where
the marketplace has always been part of daily life," he said.
Salvatori has been interested in getting an open-air market for Toronto for the last three years. This year,
with the help of two fellow students, he prepared a proposal on the subject and presented it to the city"s
Executive Committee, asking for their support. The proposal pointed out Toronto"s rich variety of national
groups, "whose customs include market shopping."
Under a Canadian government program for multiculturalism, the three students have received two thousand
dollars with which they will do a study to find out whether Toronto"s immigrant businessmen would support
and open-air market. They hope the merchants will support the plan strongly. "A study done earlier this year
showed that 90 percent of shoppers would be in favor of it," Salvatori said. "At first it would be an experiment.
But we think it will prove to be good business for the merchants, as well as a tourist attraction." |
| 1. What is Fidenzio Salvatori"s purpose of having an outdoor marketplace for Toronto? |
A. To provide different forms of amusement
C. To inspire its immigrant community
B. To keep the cultural variety of the city
D. To satisfy its immigrant merchants |
| 2. Fidenzio Salvatori, with two other students, has got two thousand dollars from the government _____. |
A. to make an experiment
B. to start a marketplace
C. to perform a research
D. to operate a business |
| 3. According to Salvatori, the marketplace may also help to improve Toronto"s ________. |
A. market management
B. community service
C. travel industry
D. city planning |
| 4. It can be inferred from the text that the Canadian government supports _______. |
A. the protection of different cultures
B. the plan of an open-air market
C. the request of merchants
D. the attitude of shoppers |
| 阅读理解。 |
We live in a technological society where most goods are mass-produced by unskilled labor. Because
of this, most people that craft (手艺) no longer exists.
One of the ways these people wrongly support their view is by pointing to 100-year-old homes which
are still solid, and arguing that it is the craftsmanship that is responsible for their durability (持久性). "Homes
in those days were well-built," they say. No doubt these homes were well-built, but what these people have
done is mix up the quality of material used in the house with the quality of the craftsmanship.
Homes today could be built to last just as long as those old homes if people were willing or able to pay
the price. For example, more people can no longer afford solid oak stairways, although they were once fairly
common in older homes. Nor can they afford the high labor cost of employing a carpenter (木匠) to built
the stairway. Yet if someone can pay the high cost, there are still plenty of carpenters around able to make
those stairways. And not only would these carpenters know how to built them, they would probably do a
better job than carpenters of old.
One thing the modern carpenter has which enables him to do a better job is much more advanced tools.
Such tools as laser beams and power planes help them lay out a house better and make more precision cuts
(精确切割) on the wood. Also, it is not uncommon any more to find carpenters with college degrees and
carpenters with a solid knowledge of mathematics, which would enable them to deal with more difficult
house designs.
The problem of modern quality, then, really boils down to the problem of material, for the modern
carpenter is just as able to produce craftsmanship as the carpenter of fifty years ago, but only if given proper
material. |
| 1. Compared to the carpenters in the past, modern carpenters are ______. |
A. more successful
B. more learned
C. more imaginative
D. more hardworking |
| 2. what does the underlined word "they" (paragraph2) refer to? |
A. Carpenters who are fond of oak stairways.
B. Carpenters who have college degrees.
C. people who think highly of carpenters of old
D. people who think that modern material is of low quality. |
| 3. What does the third paragraph mainly discuss? |
A. People in the past preferred to use oak to built stairways.
B. It is now expensive to employ a carpenter.
C. Modern houses last as long as the old one.
D. Good carpenters still exist in modern times. |
| 4. What would be the best title for the text? |
A. Is Craft Dead?
B. Craft, Back to life?
C. History of craftsmanship
D. Carpenters Today and Yesterday |
| 阅读理解。 |
If you ask people to name the one person who had the greatest effect on the English language, you will
get answers like "Shakespeare," "Samuel Johnson," and "Webster," but none of these men had any effect at
all compared to a man who didn"t even speak English -William the Conqueror.
Before 1066,in the land we now call Great Britain lived peoples belonging to two major language groups.
In the west-central region lived the Welsh, who spoke a Celtic language,and in the north lived the Scots,
whose language, though not the same as Welsh, was also Celtic.In the rest of the country lived the Saxons,
actually a mixture of Anglos, Saxons,and other Germanic and Nordic people,who spoke what we now call
Anglo-Saxon (or Old English ), a Germanic language. If this state of affairs had lasted, English today would
be close to German.
But this state of affairs did not last. In 1066 the Normans led by William defeated the Saxons and began
their rule over England.For about a century,French became the official language of England while Old English
became the language of peasants. As a result,English words of politics and the law come from French rather
than German. In some cases,modern English even shows a distinction (区别) between upper-class French
and lower-class Anglo-Saxon in its words.We even have different words for some foods, meat in particular,
depending on whether it is still out in the fields or at home ready to be cooked,which shows the fact that the
Saxon peasants were doing the farming, while the upper-class Normans were doing most of the eating.
When Americans visit Europe for the first time, they usually find Germany more "foreign" than France
because the German they see on signs and advertisements seems much more different from English than
French does.Few realize that the English language is actually Germanic in its beginning and that the French
influences are all the result of one man"s ambition. |
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| 1. The two major languages spoken in what is now called Great Britain before 1066 were _____. |
A. Welsh and Scottish
B. Nordic and Germanic
C. Celtic and Old English
D. Anglo-Saxon and Germanic |
| 2. Which of the following groups of words are,by inference,rooted in French? |
A. president,lawyer,beef
B. president, bread,water
C. bread,field,sheep
D. folk,field,cow |
| 3. Why does France appear less foreign than Germany to Americans on their first visit to Europe? |
A. Most advertisements in France appear in English.
B. They know little of the history of the English language.
C. Many French words are similar to English ones.
D. They know French better than German. |
| 4. What is the subject discussed in the text? |
A. The history of Great Britain.
B. The similarity between English and French
C. The rule of England by William the Conqueror.
D. The French influences on the English language. |
| Reading comprehension. |
Answer the following questions by using the information taken from a dictionary page. (You may
read the questions first.)
jaguar n.a type of large,yellow-colored cat with black markings found in the southwestern region of
the U.S. and in Central and South America.
jargon 1 n.speech that doesn"t make sense.2 n.an unknown language that seems strange or impossible
to understand 3 n. a language made up of two or more other languages: His jargon was a
mixture of French and English. 4 n the special vocabulary of a field or profession: Her report
on computers was filled with jargon.
jaunt 1 n.a trip taken for fun.2.v. to go on a brief pleasant trip:We jaunted to the country last Saturday.
javelin 1 n.a spear most commonly used as a weapon or in New Orleans and is characterized by
rhythmic beats.2 n. popular dance music influenced by jazz.3 n.slang empty talk.4 adj. of or
like jazz:a jazz band,jazz records.
jennet n. a small Spanish horse. | | 阅读理解诶。 | Tristan da Cunha, a 38-square-mile island, is the farthest inhabited island in the world, according to the
Guinness Book Records. It is 1,510 miles southwest of its nearest neighbor, St. Helena, and 1, 950 miles
west of Africa. Discovered by the Portuguese admiral (葡萄牙海军上将) of the same name in 1506 and
settled in 1810, the island belongs to Great Britain and has a population of a few hundred.
Coming in a close second-and often wrongly mentioned as the most distant land-is Easter Island, which
lies 1, 260 miles east of its nearest neighbor. Pitcairn Island, and 2, 300 miles west of South America.
The mountainous 64-square-mile island was settled around the 5th century, supposedly by people who
were lost at sea. They had no connection with the outside world for more than a thousand years, giving them
plenty of time to build more than 1, 000 huge stone figures, called moat, for which the island is most famous.
On Easter Sunday, 1722, however, settlers from Holland moved in and gave the island its name. Today,
2,000 people live on the Chilean territory (智利领土). They share one street, a small airport and a few hours
of television per day. | | 1. It can be learned from the text that the island of Tristan da Cunha _____. | A. was named after its discoverer
B. got its name from Holland settlers
C. was named by the British government
D. got its name from the Guinness Book of Records | | 2. Which of the following is most famous for moat? | A. Tristan da Cunha.
B. Pitcairn Island.
C. Easter Island.
D. St. Helena. | | 3. Which country does Easter Island belong to? | A. Britain.
B. Holland.
C. Portugal.
D. Chile. | 最新试题
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