Question

【題目】（改編）Like most English children, I learned foreign languages at school. When I made my first visit to the United States, I was sure I could have a nice and easy holiday without any language problem. But how wrong I was!

At the American airport, I was looking for a public telephone to tell my friend Danny that I had arrived. An American asked if he could help me. “Yes,” I said, “I want to give my friend a ring.”

“Well, that’s nice. Are you getting married?” he asked.

“No,” I replied, “I just want to tell him I have arrived.”

“Oh,” he said, “there is a phone downstairs on the first floor.”

“But we’re on the first floor now,” I said.

“Well, I don’t know what you are talking about. Maybe you aren’t feeling too well after your journey,” he said. “Just go and wash up, and you will feel a lot better.” And he went off, leaving me wondering where on earth I was: At home we wash up after a meal to get the cups and plates clean. How can I wash up at an airport?

At last we did meet. Danny explained the misunderstanding: Americans say “to give someone a call”, but we English say “to give somebody a ring”. When we say “to wash your hands”, they say “to wash up”. And Englishmen start numbering from the ground floor so the first floor is the second for Americans.

【1】The writer is from ____.

A. America B. Britain

C. China D. a country that doesn’t speak English

【2】The writer went to America for __________.

A. education B. business

C. holiday D. friendship

【3】The American thought “a ring” should be a __________.

A. phone call B. present C. person D. letter

【4】 Englishmen usually wash up __________.

A. after dinner

B. after a journey

C. when they are tired

D. before they telephone someone

【5】Which of the following is NOT true?

A.The writer thought his holiday would be easy

B.The writer thought American English is the same as Britain English before his journey.

C.The writer didn’t know English

D.In Britain ‘wash up’means ‘wash the dishes’

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】C

【3】B

【4】A

【5】C

【解析】

試題分析：這篇短文主要介紹了作者以為自己到了美國會(huì)沒有什么語言障礙，但是剛到機(jī)場(chǎng)就不明白美國人在說什么。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文Like most English children, I learned foreign languages at school.像大部分英國孩子一樣，我也在學(xué)校學(xué)習(xí)外語，可知作者是英國人，故選B

【2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)When I made my first visit to the United States, I was sure I could have a nice and easy holiday without any language problem可知作者想去美國度假，故選C。

【3】推理判斷題。根據(jù)短文中美國人問“Well, that’s nice. Are you getting married?”你結(jié)婚了嗎？可知在美國ring是一種東西的意思，對(duì)比選項(xiàng)，故選B。

【4】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)At home we wash up after a meal to get the cups and plates clean.可知在國內(nèi)我們?cè)诔燥埡蟀驯P子碗洗干凈，可知英國人在飯后洗碗，故選A。

【5】推理判斷題。根據(jù)短文第一段可知作者起初認(rèn)為他的旅行會(huì)是簡單而愉快的，故A正確；根據(jù)短文第一段可知作者認(rèn)為沒有語言障礙，故B正確；根據(jù)第一段可知作者是英國人，故C錯(cuò)誤，根據(jù)At home we wash up after a meal to get the cups and plates clean.可知wash up在英國是洗餐具，故D正確，故選C。