题目内容
While living in a foreign country, one______ a special dish from home now and then.
A. wishes B. hopes C. desires D.cooks
【解析】C考查动词词义辨析。句意：一个生活在国外的人有时会非常渴望吃上一顿家乡菜。A,B两项后加for+名词宾语，cook烹调不合题意；desire渴望，想要符合题意。
下面是美国著名游记作家Bill Bryson的几本作品，首先请阅读它们的封面信息：
| A. |
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail | B. |
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America | C. |
I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after 20 Years Away |
| D. |
The Road Less Traveled: 1000 Amazing Places off the Tourist Trail | E. |
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe | F. |
The English Landscape: Its Character and Diversity |
下面是对这几本书的简要介绍，请把它们对应的封面信息找出来：
In this collection, Bill Bryson is writing from home. We find he assesses life both in New England and in the contemporary United States. With the telescopic perspective(远望视角) of one who has stepped out of the American mainstream and come back after 20 years, Bryson holds the mirror up to U.S. culture and feel strange to his motherland.
This book is a guide to the world’s unspoilt sights and experiences. It presents one thousand fresh and fascinating alternatives to hundreds of well-known tourist destinations and sights, including alternatives to the Carnival in Rio and the beaches of Thailand, the most-visited national parks, over-rated restaurants and holiday sites.
Returning to the U.S. after 20 years in England, Bill Bryson decided to reconnect with his mother country by hiking the length of the 2100-mile Appalachian Trail. Awed by merely the camping section of his local sporting goods store, he still goes into the wilderness and learns hard lessons about self-reliance.
A travelogue by Bill Bryson is as close to a sure thing as funny books get. This book is no exception. Following an urge to rediscover his youth, the author leaves his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a journey that takes him to across 38 states in the country, which is like a small town in his opinion.
Born in Iowa, Bryson backpacked through Europe as a young man. While living in England some 20 years later, he revisited many of the same places from arctic Norway’s northern lights to romantic Capri in Italy. Here he jumps back and forth between old memories and new experiences.
Russia and the United States have completed the largest spy exchange since the Cold War．On Friday, at an airport in Vienna, Austria, an American plane and a Russian plane landed, parked side by side and exchanged occupants．
The United States freed ten admitted Russian agents．The men and women were arrested in late June and pleaded（承认） guilty on Thursday．
In exchange, Russia freed four Russians serving prison sentences on charges of spying for the West．The men include Igor Sutyagin, an armed researcher who always denied the charges．Some considered him a political prisoner．
The United States deported（驱逐） nine Russian and an American citizen born in Peru．Some raised children while living quiet lives as married couples．
Russia’s Foreign Ministry praised the exchange, saying, “The action improved Russian-U．S．relations．”
The group was accused of trying to gain information on American nuclear weapons, foreign policy and politics for the SVR — Russia’s foreign intelligence service．
The ten were only charged with plotting（阴谋） to act as undeclared foreign agents．They were not charged with the more serious crime of spying, so the extent（程度） of their success as spies is not clear．
One of the Russians, Anna Chapman, drew attention with her looks and stories of her New York party life．Hr lawyer, Robert Baum, said she had not passed secret information to Russia or received any payment．He also said, “She was accused of communicating with a Russian official through a laptop to laptop communication, without the government specifying the nature of the communication．”
【小题1】The underlined word “occupants” in the first paragraph probably refers to _____．
| A．the pilots of the planes |
| B．the passengers on board the planes |
| C．the spies of Russia and the United States |
| D．the officials of Russia and the United States |
A．Altogether fourteen spies were exchanged．
B．Anna Chapman wrote stories about her New York party life．
C．One of the Russian spies was an American born in Peru．
【小题3】The way both countries are handling the issue suggests that _____．
| A．neither side is interested in starting a fight |
| B．neither side is in need of spies now |
| C．the two countries are finding faults with each other |
| D．the two countries are in a cold war now |
| A．an advertisement | B．a newspaper ad |
| C．a book review | D．a news report |
Sometimes, while living in a foreign country, one ________special dish from home.
|
A．wishes |
B．desires |
C．cooks |
D．brings |