Here is a great argument in favor of foreign travel and learning foreign languages. It is only by traveling in, or living 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 after 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 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 to more people than ever before that the Englishman or Frenchman or German is not some different kind of animal from themselves.
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
Five hundred years ago, news of important happenings--battles lost and won, kings or rulers overthrown or killed--took months and even years to travel from one country to another. The news passed by word of mouth and was never accurate. Today we can read in our newspapers of important e vents that occur in faraway countries on the same day they happen.
Apart from supplying news from all over the world, newspapers give us a lot of other useful in formation. There are weather reports, radio, television and film guides, book reviews, stories, and, of course, advertisements. There are all sorts of advertisements. The bigger ones are put in by large companies to bring attention to their products. They pay the newspapers thousands of dollars for their advertising space, but it is worth the money, for news of their products goes into almost every home in the country. For those who produce newspapers, advertisements are also important. Money earned from advertisements makes it possible for them to sell their newspapers at a low price and still make a profit.
The habit of reading newspapers is ______.
A.widespread
B.found among a few families
C.not popular
D.uncommon
Five hundred years ago, news of important happenings-battles-lost and won, kings or rulers overthrown (推翻) or killed-took months and even years to travel from one country to another. The news passed by word of mouth and was never accurate. Today we can read in our newspapers of important events that occur in far away countries on the same day they happen.
Apart from supplying news from all over the world, newspapers give us a lot of other useful information. There are weather reports, radio, television and film guides, book reviews, stories and, of course, advertisements. The bigger ones are put in by large companies to bring attention to their products. They pay the newspapers thousands of dollars for the advertising space, but it is worth the money, for news of their products goes into almost every home in the country. For those who produce newspapers, advertisements are also very important. Money earned from advertisements makes it possible for them to sell their newspapers at a low price and still make a profit.
Newspapers often have information on gardening, cooking and fashion as well as a small but very popular section on jokes and cartoons(漫画).
What is the text about?
A.Advertisements are the most important part in newspapers.
B.It introduces newspapers past and today and its contents.
C.There is a lot of useful information on newspapers.
D.People like newspapers very much.
Living in a foreign country and going to school with people from various parts of the world has given me the opportunity to encounter and interact with people from different cultures.I would like to share some of my experiences and thoughts with you.When I first arrived.I knew no one and I needed all fingers to communicate what i said in English.All of the foreign students were in the same situation.When we could not find the right word we used strange movements and gestures to communicate our meaning.
Knowing some common phrases.such as How are you? Fine.thank you.and what country are you from?was enough in the beginning for us to make friends with each other.The TV room in the dormitory became our meeting place every evening after dinner.but for the most part their words were just a strange mumble to us.
After a while, bored and a little sad, we slowly began to disappear to our rooms.I thought that all of us were experiencing some homesickness.However, despite my loneliness.I had a good feeling within myself because I was doing what I wanted to do for many years to live and study in a foreign country.
1.When I first arrived in the U.S().
A.I can speak English well
B.I have already had some friends there
C.I needed all my fingers to communicate in English
D.I could find the right word in speaking English
2.Why did we slowly begin to disappear to our room?()
A.Because we wanted to watched to watch television
B.Because we were bored and a little sad
C.Because we were experiencing homesickness
D.Because the TV room has become our meeting place
3.What is the thing I wanted to do for many years? ()
A.To live and study in a foreign country
B.I had a good feeling within myself
C.To understand what the people appearing on the screen said
D.Not to be lovely
4.Which of the following sentence is wrong according to the passage?()
A.Studying in US is one of the best experiences I have ever had in my lifetime
B.I have learned more about foreign cultures than l expected
C.Some common phrases were enough in the beginning for us to make friends
D.Not all the foreign students were in the same situation
5.What is the author's attitude towards studying in a foreign country?()
A.He considered it a good experience
B.He dislike this experience
C.He didn't think it hard living in a foreign country
D.He felt sad when thinking of it
Section A (30 points, 2 points each)
Directions: This part is to test your reading ability.There are 3 tasks for you to fulfill. You should read the materials carefully and do the tasks as you are instructed.
Last night after dinner I told my family the bad news. 1 had this class assignment to monitor our use of energy at home for a week. Our family got an F.
Tuesday night my brother watched the same two hour movie on his TV set that we were watching in the living room. Thursday Mom ran an entire dishwashing cycle for 3cupa, 2plates, a knife and 3 little spoons. That's lot of electricity and hot water down the drain.
Dad drives 28 miles back and forth to work alone. Two men he works with live right nearly, and they could carpool(合伙使用汽车) and save about a thousand gallons of gas a year. And me, I'm guilty too. I went out and left the radio blaring in my room all Saturday morning.
So last night at the dinner table we all agreed to do everything we could to conserve energy. Faster showers. Lower thermostats(温度调节器) . Fuller care (51) It's a fact that this country's using up energy faster than we produce it. I read that we may run out of oil-forever-in thirty years. So terrible. (52) Unless every person in every house on every block does his part, the future looks pretty dim.
I'm getting more and more concerned about the future. Because that's where I'm going to be.
The people in this family______.
A.wasted energy unconsciously
B.had the radio on when they went out
C.watched TV programs separately
D.liked to use hot water while washing dishes
What is the purpose of the talk?
A.To encourage people to participate in a club activity.
B.To introduce a new kind of bicycle.
C.To inform. the beginning cyclists about New Jersey's traffic law.
D.To warn tourists about bicycling on the roadways.
While the supermarkets have been moving in the direction of self-service in exchange for lower prices, smaller enterprises have sprung up to supply home service to those who want it, especially to the many people who now live in rural or suburban areas. Our country district is visited regularly by a grocer, a greengrocer, several bakers, a dispenser of frozen foods and there ice cream men, not to mention the occasional salesman of brushes, insurance, magazines or cars, and that absolutely indispensable country institution, the rural letter carrier.
The accent on service suggests an attempt to blend (混合) the two conflicting foes in the national character-the hard-headed (固执的) drive for business success and the soft religiously inspired urge to serve others. As the recipients of such services we in turn find ourselves wanting to support them all, for if they are taking the trouble to serve us it seems only fair that they should be helped to succeed.
Which of following best describes the main idea of the passage? ______.
A.Americans are the best served in the world
B.The production of services in America has risen from 25% to 35%
C.Supermarkets have moved in the right direction of self-service
D.Service as an ideal of American people has entered into many fields of lives of Americans
【C1】
A.artificial
B.provincial
C.controversial
D.substantial
A.attach
B.pay
C.take
D.approach
The country has ______people and ______money ______spent on tobacco every year.
A. a large quantity of, a number of, are
B. plenty of, a great deal, are
C. a great deal of, plenty of, is
D. a large number of, a large amount of, is
The food industry in our country is developing ______.
A.quickly
B.fast
C.swiftly
D.rapidly