Question

   The British love to think of themselves as polite and everyone knows how fond they are of their “pleases"and “thank yous".Even the simplest business such as buying a train ticket requires__65  seven or eight of these.Another __66   of our good manners is the queue.New?comers to Britain could be forgiven for thinking that queuing rather than football was the__67 national sport.Finally,of course,motorists generally stop at crossings.But does all this mean that the British should consider themselves more polite than their European neighbours?I think not.

Take forms of address (稱呼)for example.The average English person__68   he happens to work in a hotel or department store—would rather die than call a stranger “Sir" or“Madam".Yet in some European countries this is the most basic of common address.Our __69  “you" for everyone may appear more democratic,but it means that we are forced to seek out complicated ways to express __70  .I am all for returning to the use of “thee"and “thou"(Thee and thou are old?fashioned poetic words for“you");“you" would be__71   for strangers and professional relationships.

And of course,the English find touching and other shows of friendship truly terrifying.Have you noticed how the British __72   ever touch?Personlly, I find the Latin habit of shaking hands or a friendly kiss quite charming.Try kissing the average English person,and they will either take two steps backwards in horror;or,if their escape is__73   ,you will find your lips touching the back of their head.Now what could be__74  than that ?        

65.A.at least          B. at most         C. less than         D. not more than

66.A.signal            B. scene           C. sign              D. sight

67.A.true              B. original        C. superior          D. advanced

68.A.if                B. whether         C. when              D. unless

69.A.universal         B. unique          C. regular           D. normal

70.A.politeness        B. gratitude       C. democracy         D. consideration

71.A.ordered           B. reserved        C. offered           D. stocked

72.A.highly            B. mostly          C. hardly            D. nearly

73.A.confirmed         B. assured         C. jammed            D. blocked

74.  A. better         B. ruder           C. more polite        D. more frightening 

Answer 1

65---74    ACADA      ABCDB  

解析:

65.  舉這個例子是為了說明英國人對禮貌的注重程度，對于買火車票這一小事至少要說七八次“please”and“thank you”，因此答案選A更能體現(xiàn)作者的這種目的。B項at most“最多”；C項less than“不到，少于”；D項not more than“不比……更多”，均不合題意。答案為A。 

66.sign是跡象、征兆或標志，目的是證明什么的正確性，這里說的是另一個表明good manners的標志是the queue，A項signal“信號”；B項scene“一場、一幕、風(fēng)景”。D項sight“風(fēng)景”，均不合題意。答案為C。

67.original意為原始的；superior意為優(yōu)秀的；advanced意為先進的，但根據(jù)作者表達意圖，主要是為了襯托the queue在英國人眼里的重要性，用football是用廣為人知的民族運動來比較，答案為A。 

68.這是一個插入語，起補充說明的作用。我們可以根據(jù)插入語與整個句子的關(guān)系來判斷，一般人是寧死也不稱呼陌生人“Sir”or“Madam”的，但在hotel or department工作的人除外，所以答案選D，意為“除非”。答案為D。 

69.you對我們來說是個共同的，一致的稱呼，而且此句也給出提示詞：democratic，所以這里填universal更合適。B項unique“獨一無二的”；C項regular“有規(guī)律的，有規(guī)則的”；D項normal“正常的”，均與題意無關(guān)。答案為A。 

70.因為you是一個共同的，一致的稱呼，所以很難找到一個詞來表達禮貌，這樣選A顯得順理成章。而且本文主要講的是禮貌問題，而gratitude意為感激；consideration意為體貼，故選A更合適。答案為A。 

71.thee and thou是古英語，一般用于熟悉、親密的人之間。作者的意思是說，如果現(xiàn)在還用thee and thou的話，you也就只用于職業(yè)場所或陌生人了。order是預(yù)訂的意思；offer意為提供；stock意為存儲、儲備；reserve有保留之意，相比較而言，reserve與原文意思相符，答案為B。 

72.因為下文列舉的是一些令人難以置信的例子，目的是證明作者的觀點。下面的例子在人們看來顯得不合情理，難以置信，這也正是作者的觀點，于是這里選C項hardly意為不合情理，不大可能發(fā)生。答案為C。 

73.block表示“阻塞”，這句話的意思是：如果你試圖親吻英國人，他們會驚駭?shù)氐雇藘刹�，如果他們沒有退路，你會發(fā)現(xiàn)你的嘴唇接觸的是他們的后腦勺。答案為D。

74.that指的是前一句描述的“Your lips touching the back of the head”，這相對于polite來說是一種相當(dāng)rude的行為，A項better“更好”；B項more polite“更有禮貌”；D項more frightening“更具有威脅性的”，均不合題意。答案為B。