Like most English children, I learned foreign languages at 36. When I made my first visit 37 the Unites States, I was 38 I could have a nice easy holiday without any 39 problem. But how 40 I was!
At the American airport, I was looking for a public telephone to 41 my friend Jenny I had 41 . A worker asked if he could 43 me. “Yes,” I said. “I want to give my friend a ring.” “Well, that’s nice. Are you getting married?” he asked. “No,” I answered. “I just want to tell her 44 the phone I have arrived.” “Oh,” he said, “there is a 45 downstairs on the first floor.” “But we’re on the first floor now,” I said. “Well, I don’t know what you are 46 about. Maybe you aren’t feeling too well after your 47,” he said. “You just go and wash up, and you will feel a lot better.” And he went 48 49 me wondering where on earth I was: at home we wash up after a 50 to get the cups and plates clean. How can I wash up at an airport?
At last we did 51. She 52 the misunderstanding(误会): American say “to give someone a 53 ”, but we English say “ to give someone a ring”. When we say “to wash your hands”, they say “to wash 54”. And Englishmen start numbering from the floor, so the 55 floor is the second for Americans.

【小题1】
A.workB.schoolC.homeD.table
【小题2】
A.to B.byC.fromD.on
【小题3】
A.afraidB.worriedC.wonderingD.sure
【小题4】
A.foodB.lifeC.languageD.travel
【小题5】
A.lateB.wrongC.rightD.early
【小题6】
A.sayB.tellC.mean D.call
【小题7】
A.got B.worked C.spoken D.arrived
【小题8】
A.help B.stay with C.lift D.drive
【小题9】
A.by B.in C.with D.on
【小题10】
A.policemanB.shopC.phoneD.gate
【小题11】
A.listeningB.talkingC.saying D.coming
【小题12】
A.phoningB.arrivingC.journeyD.drive
【小题13】
A.offB.backC.insideD.down
【小题14】
A.watchingB.learningC.bringingD.leaving
【小题15】
A.walkB.sleepC.restD.meal
【小题16】
A.meetB.quarrelC.get outD.phone
【小题17】
A.showedB.calledC.explainedD.pardoned
【小题18】
A.visitB.presentC.callD.meal
【小题19】
A.downB.upC.outD.back
【小题20】
A.oneB.firstC.anotherD.down

When I was 16 years old, I made my first visit to Disneyland in America. It wasn’t the first time I had been    36 . Like most English children I learned French   37 school and I had often been to France, so I     38 speaking a foreign language to people who didn’t understand 39 . But   40 I went to America, I was really looking forward to__41_ a nice easy holiday without any  42 problems.
__43__wrong I was! The misunderstanding began   44  the airport. I was looking for a 45__telephone to give my friend Danny a 46 and tell her I had arrived. A   47 old man saw me looking lost and asked   48 __ he could help me.
“Yes.” I said,“I was to give my friend a ring. ”“Well, that’s nice,” he said. “Are you getting   49  ? But aren’t you a bit young?”“  50  is talking about marriage?” I replied. “I just want to give my friend a ring to tell her I’ve arrived. Can you tell me   51  there’s a phone box?”“Oh!” he said, “there’s phone downstairs.”
When at last we did meet up, Danny explained the misunderstanding to me. “Don’t worry,”she said to me, “I had so many   52 at first. There are lots of words which the Americans   53  differently in meaning from us British. You’ll soon get used to   54 funny things they say. Most of the   55 , British and American people understand each other!”

【小题1】
A.outB.awayC.outsideD.abroad
【小题2】
A.fromB.duringC.atD.after
【小题3】
A.get used toB.was used toC.used toD.used
【小题4】
A.EnglishB.FrenchC.RussianD.Latin
【小题5】
A.whenB.whileC.ifD.for
【小题6】
A.buyingB.havingC.givingD.receiving
【小题7】
A.timeB.humanC.languageD.money
【小题8】
A.TooB.What aC.WhatD.How
【小题9】
A.withB.toC.overD.at
【小题10】
A.cheapB.popularC.publicD.good
【小题11】
A.letterB.ringC.newsD.information
【小题12】
A.friendlyB.strangeC.stupidD.tough
【小题13】
A.thatB.ifC.whereD.when
【小题14】
A.to marryB.to be marriedC.marryingD.married
【小题15】
A.YouB.SheC.WhoD.He
【小题16】
A.whereB.in whichC.over thereD.that
【小题17】
A.troubleB.difficultiesC.thingsD.fun
【小题18】
A.writeB.speakC.useD.read
【小题19】
A.everyB.theseC.someD.all the
【小题20】
A.chanceB.situationC.conditionD.time

It is three in the morning on a Tuesday, and I’m walking toward table eighteen, the one I call home. I pass the waiters, give a brief nod to the  【小题1】  and take my seat. I  【小题2】  the “usual,” water and peanut butter pie. Yes, I’m at an all-night diner.
I start to take out my books,  【小题3】 full well that I will be  【小题4】 on the same page of Socrates that I’ve been on for the better part of the semester. Of course, it’s   【小题5】  —for my group that is. I wait for the empty chairs around me to be   【小题6】  .
Just as the Muzak songs start to repeat themselves, Shana and Jenny walk in. I am   【小题7】   with the usual big hugs and smiles. 【小题8】 , the diner stops being a twenty-for-hour restaurant with bad service and becomes my place—my home   【小题9】 the prisonlike dorm room. For the next couple of hours, we will joke about people we know, talk about books, reflect on the meaning of life, quote movies and  【小题10】 new private jokes. Table number eighteen is our  【小题11】  home.
During my senior year of college, I started going to the diner for a temporary escape from a dorm room that felt like it was closing in on me. Not to 【小题12】  the phones, the stereo and the computer. How could anyone seriously  【小题13】   to have good study habits? Some friends of mine told me about the place; they went there to study, and they really liked it.
So I tried it. It felt remarkably freeing. I start going there every night (except weekends, of course), and, believe me it was not because the pies were   【小题14】  great either. Maybe it would force me to open my books and my  【小题15】  would improve. Right? Well….
But that’s not the   【小题16】 . I mean, anyone who has gone to college knows that it’s not only about forcing yourself to wake up at 7:45 A.M. (after you had gone to sleep two hours earlier) to listen to a professor spoon-feeding you information  【小题17】 the significance of the Battle of Hastings. It is  【小题18】 about finding a little haven where you can create what will be the most important thing in your life—yourself. At a school of thirty-five thousand people, I found a small place that was as   【小题19】 to me as my Social Security number.
Through laughter, tears, learning, growing and the   【小题20】 free ice cream, we found a sanctuary. A place where we could be ourselves.

【小题21】
A.friendsB.strangersC.regularsD.waiters
【小题22】
A.makeB.takeC.bringD.order
【小题23】
A.rememberingB.knowingC.decidingD.learning
【小题24】
A.stuckB.focused .C.fixedD.turned
【小题25】
A.certainB.earlyC.lateD.clear
【小题26】
A.washedB.cleanedC.filledD.covered
【小题27】
A.armedB.satisfiedC.occupiedD.greeted
【小题28】
A.FinallyB.SuddenlyC.ActuallyD.Particularly
【小题29】
A.away fromB.similar toC.apart fromD.close to
【小题30】
A.createB.playC.writeD.hear
【小题31】
A.innerB.outerC.warmerD.smaller
【小题32】
A.answerB.talkC.mentionD.mend
【小题33】
A.chooseB.determineC.pretendD.expect
【小题34】
A.prettyB.thatC.tooD.rather
【小题35】
A.healthB.friendshipC.conditionsD.grades
【小题36】
A.placeB.benefitC.pointD.view
【小题37】
A.relateB.requiringC.reflectingD.regarding
【小题38】
A.alsoB.stillC. moreD.even
【小题39】
A.availableB.beneficialC.familiarD.encouraging
【小题40】
A.specialB.occasionalC.unusualD.natural

Bowen was grown-up, and for his birthday that year his father gave him a     without any pictures in it!

Bowen’s father found he was not     about it, and told him, “Son, this isn’t just any     book; it’s a magic (有魔力的) book. But to discover its magic you’ll have to     it.”

Well, that was better. Bowen liked     to do with magic. He started reading it,     he wasn’t very willing to.

The next morning, his     asked him, “Have you found the magic     ?”

So… there was a key to find! Bowen flicked through (快速翻阅) the book, but there was no     of the key.

And then his father     him, “You won’t find it like that. You have to read the book. ”

Bowen didn’t have much patience (耐心) , thinking his father just told a     .A little later, his little sister, Rainer, asked him      the book. After several days, she     shouted, “I’ve found the key! ” And she wouldn’t stop     all the places she had visited using the magic key.

This made Bowen read the book again. At first it was a     ; there wasn’t even one single     in the book. But, gradually, Bowen became     the adventurous (冒险的) prince’s life. Then, suddenly, he was there.

The book     was the key!

It was true that every time he     it, he felt going to its valleys and seas, and he lived the adventures of the prince.

From then on, with every new book, Bowen never     being attracted by the letters and words inside.

1.A. diary       B. book           C. box             D. bag

2.A. sad        B. surprised      C. happy D. angry

3.A. ordinary  B. special        C. new     D. famous

4.A. keep     B. take          C. read    D. value

5.A. somebody  B. everything        C. nothing       D. anybody

6.A. though     B. so                C. and          D. or

7.A. uncle       B. father           C. mother               D. aunt

8.A. key        B. page              C. word        D. stick

9.A. mark       B. signal             C. sign          D. way

10.A. asked       B. praised        C. told        D. followed

11.A. will         B. story           C. joke         D. lie

12.A. for          B. of            C. to           D. back

13.A. badly        B. happily               C. slowly         D. quickly

14.A. working out  B. turning down          C. talking about         D. looking for

15.A. pity         B. pleasure              C. success      D. pain

16.A. note         B. picture              C. text          D. title

17.A. interested in  B. busy with   C. tired of      D. good at

18.A. it          B. yourself                C. itself         D. himself

19.A. put        B. opened                C. threw        D. covered

20.A. stopped    B. tried                   C. felt          D. began

 

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