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When I lived in Spain, some Spanish friends of mine decided to visit England by car.
Before they left, they asked me for advice about how to find accommodation (住所). I
suggested that they should stay at "bed and breakfast" houses, because this kind of
accommodation gives a foreign visitor a good chance to speak English with the family.
My friends listened to my advice, but they came back with some funny stories.
"We didn"t stay at bed and breakfast houses," they said, "because we found that most
families were away on holiday."
I thought this was strange. Finally I understood what had happened. My friends spoke
little English, and they thought "VACANCIES" meant "holidays", because the Spanish word
for "holidays" is "vacaciones". So they did not go to house where the sign outside said
"VACANCLES", which in English means there are free rooms. Then my friends went to
house where the sign said "NO VACANCLES", because they thought this meant the people
who owned the house were not away on holiday. But they found that these houses were
all full. As a result, they stayed at hotels!
We laughed about this and about mistakes my friends made in reading other signs. In
Spanish, the word "DIVERSION" means fun.In English, it means that workmen are
repairing the road, and that you must take a different road.When my friends saw the word
"DIVERSION" on a road sign, they thought they were going to have fun.Instead, the road
ended in a large hold.
English people have problems too when they learn foreign languages. Once in Paris,
when someone offered me some more coffee, I said "Thank you" in French. I meant that I
would like some more. However, to my surprise, the coffee pot was taken away! Later I
found out that "Thank you" in French means "No, thank you." |
| 1. My Spanish friends wanted advice about _____. |
| [ ] |
A. learning English
B. finding places to stay in England
C. driving their car on English roads
D. going to England by car |
| 2. "NO VACANCIES" in English means _____. |
| [ ] |
A. no free rooms
B. free rooms
C. not away on holiday
D. holidays |
| 3. When someone offered me more coffee and I said "Thank you" in French, I _____. |
| [ ] |
A. didn"t really want any more coffee
B. wanted them to take the coffee pot away
C. really wanted some more coffee
D. wanted to express my politeness |
| 4. I was surprised when the coffee pot was taken away because I _____. |
| [ ] |
A. hadn"t finished drinking my coffee
B. was expecting another cup of coffee
C. meant that I didn"t want any more
D. was never misunderstood |
答案
| 1-4: BACB |
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Unusual incidents are being reported across the Arctic. Inuit (因纽特人) families going
off on snowmobiles to prepare their summer hunting camps have found themselves cut
off from home by a sea of mud. There are also reports of sea ice breaking up earlier than
usual, carrying seals beyond the reach of hunters. Climate change may still be a rather
abstract (抽象的) idea to most of us, but in the Arctic it is already having great effect-
if summertime ice continues to shrink at its present rate, the Arctic Ocean could soon
become almost ice-free in summer. The knock-on effects (连锁反应) are likely to include
more warming, cloudier skies and higher sea levels. Scientists are increasingly eager to find
out what"s going on in the Arctic.
For the Inuit the problem is urgent. They live in unsteady balance with one of the toughest
environments on earth. Climate change, whatever its causes, is a direct danger to their way
of life. Nobody knows the Arctic as well as the locals, which is why they are not content
simply to stand back and let outsider experts tell them what"s happening. In Canada, where
the Inuit people are trying hard to guard their hard-won autonomy (自治权) in the country"s
newest land, Nunavut, they believe their best hope of survival in this changing environment
lies in combining their ancestral (祖先的) knowledge with the best of modern science. This
is a challenge in itself.
The Canadian Arctic is a vast, treeless polar desert that"s covered with snow for most of
the year. Adventure into this area and you get some idea of the hardships facing anyone who
calls this home. Farming is out of the question and nature offers few pickings. Humans first
settled in the Arctic a mere 4,500 years ago, surviving by taking advantage of sea first. The
environment tested them to the limits: sometimes the settlers were successful; sometimes they
failed and disappeared. But around a thousand years ago, one group appeared that was uniquely
well adapted to deal with the Arctic environment. These Thule people moved in from Alaska,
bringing dogs, iron tools and the like. They are the ancestors of today"s Inuit people. |
| 1. Which of the following is likely to be the effect of climate change? |
| [ ] |
A. Shorter and shorter summertime.
B. Ice-free summer around the Arctic.
C. Lower sea levels.
D. More rainy skies. |
| 2. The Inuit people believe the solution to the climate change problem is _____. |
| [ ] |
A. to change their way of life
B. to do as their ancestors
C. to try to protect the environment from now on
D. to use their ancestral knowledge and modern science |
| 3. It can be concluded from the last paragraph that _____. |
| [ ] |
A. the first settlers in the Arctic survived there quite easily
B. it"s hard to farm in the Arctic due to climate change
C. the ancestors of Inuit people stood out among the settlers
D. the Thule people from Alaska invented iron tools |
| 4. Which of the following is the best title for this text? |
| [ ] |
A. Climate Change and the Inuit
B. Climate Change around the Arctic
C. Global Warming around the World
D. The Inuit and Their Ancestors around the World |
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Millions of people all over the world use the word OK. In fact, some people say the word
is used more often than any other word in the world. OK means all right or acceptable. It
expresses agreement or approval.
1______ Some people say it came from the Native American Indian tribe known as the
Choctaw (乔克托语). The Choctaw word "okeh" means the same as the American word okay.
Experts say early explorers in the American West spoke the Choctaw language in the nineteenth
century.
But many people doubt this. Language expert Allen Walker Read wrote about the word "OK"
in reports published in the 1960s. He said the word began being used in the 1830s. 2______ Some
foreign-born people wrote "all correct" as "o-l-l-k-o-r-r-e-c-t", and used the letters OK. Other
people say a railroad worker named Obadiah Kelly invented the word long ago. They said he put
the first letters of his name-O and K-on each object people gave him to send on the train.
3______ The organization supported Martin Van Buren for president in 1840.They called their
group the OK club. The letters were taken from the name of the town where Martin was born-Old
Kinderhook, New York.
Then there is the expression A-OK. It is a space-age expression. It was used in 1961 during the
flight of astronaut Alan Shepard. He was the first American to be launched into space. His flight
ended when his spacecraft landed in the ocean, as planned. Shepard reported, "Everything is A-OK."
4______ One story says it was first used during the early days of the telephone to tell an operator
that a message had been received.
There are also funny ways to say okay. 5______ These expressions were first used in the 1930s.
Today, a character on the American television series "The Simpsons" says it another way. He says
okely-doke. |
A. Some people say okey-dokey or okey-doke.
B. Still others say a political organization invented the word.
C. Therefore, it has become popular in that area from then on.
D. But many experts don"t agree on what the expression means.
E. Still, language experts do not agree about where the word came from.
F. It was a short way of writing a different spelling of the word "all correct".
G. However, some experts say the expression did not begin with the space age. |
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Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and to
praise or criticize others, as they are similar to or different from it. And unfortunately,
our picture of the people and the way of life of other countries is often a distorted (扭
曲的) one.
Here is a great argument in favor of foreign travel and learning foreign languages.
It is only by traveling in a country and getting to know its inhabitants and their language
that one can find out what a country and its people are really like. And how different the
knowledge one gains this way frequently turns out to be from the second-hand information
gathered from other sources! How often we find that the foreigners whom we thought to
be such different people from ourselves are not very different at all!
Differences between peoples do, of course, exist and,one hopes,will always continue
to do so. The world will be a dull place indeed when all the different nationalities
behave exactly alike, and some people might say that we are rapidly approaching this state
of affairs. With the much greater rapidity (快速) and ease of travel,there might seem to
be some truth in this at least as far as Europe is concerned. However this may be,at least
the greater ease of travel today has revealed (展示) to more people than ever before that
the Englishman or Frenchman or German is not: some different kind of animal from
themselves. |
| 1. Every country criticizes ways of life in other countries because they are _____. |
| [ ] |
A. distorted
B. normal
C. similar to each other
D. different from its own |
| 2. One who travels in a foreign country and learns its language will _____. |
| [ ] |
A. find out why its people are different
B. argue in favor of this country and the language
C. know the country and its people better
D. like its inhabitants and their language |
| 3. The knowledge one gains by traveling in a foreign country is often _____. |
| [ ] |
A. from second-hand information
B. gathered from other sources rather than its inhabitants
C. gained from the arguments about the country
D. different from what one had before the travel |
| 4. In this passage,the author wants to say _____. |
| [ ] |
A. differences between peoples will gradually disappear because of the ease of travel
B. differences between peoples do exist even though different nationalities behave exactly
alike
C. differences between peoples will continue to exist and the world will be a dull place
D. differences between peoples will not exist as one hopes |
| Reading comprehension. |
According to legend, the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, Italy, which connects the Palazzo Ducale to an
ancient prison, got its name because the walk across it gave prisoners on their way to jail a final chance
to appreciate the beauty of the city.
The view from the bridge today, however, is more likely to be of a giant billboard selling Bulgari or
Coca-cola. Beyond the billboards, monuments are being restored. The money comes from advertising
profits.
But when the Coke billboards went up this summer on buildings near the Piazza San Marco, which is
at the historic heart of Venice, there was a public debate.
"We can"t commercialize everything," said Alessandra Mottola Molfino, a Venetian. "The lesson that
goes out is that a price is for everything."
"We couldn"t stay quiet," said Maria Camilla Bianchini d"Alberigo, president of a heritage protection
association. "Too much is too much."
There needed to be rules, she added, rules that prevent the advertising billboards clashing (冲突) with
the monuments of the city.
City of officials, however, argue that without these ads, the city could not afford to maintain its heritage.
Many have been damaged by centuries of wear and are even a threat to public safety.
"I can"t turn down the image of bottle when there are pieces of the Palazzo Ducale falling to the ground,"
said Renata Codello, a Culture Ministry official.
The Culture Minister has a budget of about $ 47 million (315 million yuan) for restoration of monuments,
but Italy has a rich architectural heritage, and funds are always tight．Of that amount, $ 1.8 million was given
to the entire Vector region, which includes Venice.
Two years ago, the city signed an agreement with the Dotter Group, a company responsible for the
restoration of the Bridge of Sighs and the Palazzo Ducale．It allows it to sell ad space.
But there is a condition in the agreement: The ads should not offend public taste.
In August, Venice banned US actress Julianne Moore"s Bulgrari ad from a billboard in the Piazza San
Marco.
The photo shows a naked Moore covered with lion cubs, handbags and jewelry, Mayor Giorgio Orsoni
called the image too racy (猥亵) and unsuitable for the Piazza San Marco.
"I take account of the fact that Venice is part of the real world…but we cannot accept these Hollywood-
style images. There arc intelligent sponsors, and we need to come up with advertising that suits Venice, not
Times Square," he said in a speech. |
| 1. The article is mainly about _____ in Venice. |
| [ ] |
A. restoration of cultural heritage
B. widespread commercialization
C. the conflict between ads and cultural heritage
D. the difficulty of restoring monuments |
| 2. In the first paragraph, the beautiful view from the Bridge of Sighs is mentioned to _____. |
| [ ] |
A. introduce other monuments of the ancient city
B. show how much many ancient structures need restoring
C. indicate that the view is blocked by huge ads
D. create interest in the famous city |
| 3. From the article we can conclude that Rcnata Codello _____ the advertising. |
| [ ] |
A. is in favor of
B. is worried about
C. objects to
D. doesn"t mind |
| 4. Why do many Venetians complain about the ads? |
| [ ] |
A. They are intolerant of commercialization.
B. They feel the ads are damaging the city.
C. The ads are usually racy and in an American style.
D. The ads don"t present a traditional view of Venice. |
| 5. It can be inferred from the passage that _____. |
| [ ] |
A. Hollywood stars" ads cannot go up in Venice
B. the mayor of Venice is expecting new advertising
C. the Dotter Group may stop its restoration work for lack of funds
D. people can buy Bulgaria or Coca-cola on the Bridge of Sighs |
| 阅读理解。 |
Situated in the South West of England, between Exeter and Plymouth, Torquay is one of the most popular
holiday resorts in Britain. It provides sophisticated (精致) entertainment, sports of every kind and cultural
facilities, all set in a position of outstanding natural beauty. Visitors can choose between luxury hotels by the
sea, with private suites (套房), swimming pools, and comfortable but less expensive guest houses. There are
camping sites, too, and hundreds of houses displaying "B & B" signs.
As well as a number of small quiet bays, which are ideal for beach barbecues (野餐) away from the crowds,
Torquay has large sandy beaches where you can buy refreshments (饮料) and hire deck chairs, boats and even
beach houses. There are large areas of grassland overlooking the sea, and miles of winding cliff paths for
walkers who just want to enjoy the scenery and what is often said to be the healthiest air in the country. For the
sportsmen and women there are opportunities not only for golf, tennis, but also for water-skiing, hang-gliding
(悬挂式滑翔机) and deep-sea fishing.
After a day in the open air, there"s lots to do in the evenings, too. There are plenty of discos, the occasional
opera or ballet, and summer variety shows in the seafront theatres. For the children, there is a beautiful model
village with a complicated railway layout which is remarkably realistic-especially when the lights are all on at
night.
Of course, there"s no need to spend your whole holidays in Torquay. Only a short drive away is Dartmoor
National Park, where you can walk for miles through dramatic (戏剧性的), unspoiled (未损坏的) countryside,
or picnic by beautiful rivers and streams. Or, nearer to home, you can sail across Tor Bay to the lovely old
fishing village of Brixham.
Torquay seems to have something for everyone. But don"t take my word for it-come and see for yourself. |
| 1. Which of the following best explains what "B & B" means on the signs? |
| [ ] |
A. Bed and breakfast.
B. Breakfast and bathroom.
C. Bathroom and barbecue .
D. Beautiful and British. |
| 2. According to the first two paragraphs, Torquay might be described as _____. |
| [ ] |
A. comfortable and expensive
B. crowded and lively
C. dramatic and beautiful
D. natural and healthy |
| 3. What is special about the model village? |
| [ ] |
A. It opens at night.
B. It has some toys for the children.
C. It"s in the open air.
D. It has a nearly real railway system. |
| 4. What is the purpose of writing this passage? |
| [ ] |
A. To introduce the geography of Torquay to students.
B. To make some places known to visitors.
C. To show the beauty of resorts.
D. To attract more tourists. |
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