Question

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.
【小题1】The writer went to America by __________.

A．plane

B．ship

C．bus

D．train

【小题2】The writer went to America for __________.

A．education	B．business
C．holiday	D．friendship

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

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

【小题4】 Englishmen usually wash up __________.

A．after dinner	B．after a journey
C．when they are tired	D．before they telephone someone

【小题5】 The third floor in England is the __________ floor in America.

A．first

B．second

C．third

D．fourth

Answer 1

【小题1】A
【小题2】C
【小题3】B
【小题4】A
【小题5】D

解析试题分析：这篇短文主要介绍了作者以为自己到了美国会没有什么语言障碍，但是刚到机场就不明白美国人在说什么。
【小题1】细节理解题。根据短文At the American airport, I was looking for a public telephone to tell my friend Danny that I had arrived.中描述到达机场，可知作者是乘坐的飞机，故选A.
【小题2】细节理解题。根据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可知作者想去美国度假，故选C。
【小题3】推理判断题。根据短文中美国人问“Well, that’s nice. Are you getting married?”你结婚了吗？可知在美国ring是一种东西的意思，对比选项，故选B。
【小题4】细节理解题。根据At home we wash up after a meal to get the cups and plates clean.可知在国内我们在吃饭后把盘子碗洗干净，可知英国人在饭后洗碗，故选A。
【小题5】推理判断题。根据And Englishmen start numbering from the ground floor so the first floor is the second for Americans.可知在英国是从地面数楼层的，所以一楼对于美国人就是二楼，由此推测，英国的三楼对于美国人就是四楼。故选D
考点：故事类短文阅读。