题目内容
Rather than ______ in the crowded bus, they preferred ______ home.
- A.to ride , walk
- B.riding , walking
- C.ride , walk
- D.ride, to walk
试题分析：此处考查prefer. . . rather than . . .的用法。这里rather than前后是并列关系，且本句是倒装句。此处rather than后省略了不定式符号to。句意：他们宁愿步行回家也不愿挤公共汽车。
考点：考查动词prefer的用法。
People often say that the Englishman’s home is his castle. They mean that the home is very important and personal to him. Most people in Britain live in houses rather than flats, and many people own their homes. This means that they can make them individual; they can paint them, and change them in any way they like. Most houses have a garden, even if it is a very small one, and the garden is usually loved. The house and the garden are the private space of the individual.
People usually like to mark their space. Are you sitting now in your home or on a train? Have you marked the space around yourself as yours ? If you are on the train you may put your coat or small bag on the seat beside you. If you share a flat you may have one corner or chair which is your own.
Once I was traveling on a train to London. I was in a section for four people and there was a table between us .The man on the space on my side of the table at all. I was angry. Maybe he thought that he owned the whole table .I had read a book about non-verbal communication, so I took various papers out of my bag and put them on his briefcase! When I did this he stiffened and his eyes nearly popped out of his head. I had invaded his space! A few minutes later I took my papers off his case in order to read them. He immediately moved his case to his side of the table. Of course, it is possible that he just wanted to be helpful to me!
If you are visiting another country you may feel that you don’t have any private space. Hotel rooms look much the same in every country in the world. All day long ,you share public spaces with other people. You see the local people in their private spaces and you feel lonely and “outside”. Local people can create their private spaces by talking about things you don’t know about .And you even feel that they like you to be outside them so that they will enjoy being inside even more! This is one of the difficulties of being a traveler !But if you understand it then it helps you .Haven’t you enjoyed being part of a group and “owning” a bit of space?
1.The writer was angry as he was traveling on a train to London because______.
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A．he had no place to sit |
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B．someone had invaded his “space” |
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C．too many people shared a section with him |
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D．some other people talked about things he didn’t know about |
2.“… you feel lonely and ‘outside’” in paragraph 4 means that_______.
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A．you are alone outside the house |
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B．you feel lonely because you travel on your own |
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C．you are alone and therefore you go outside to have some fun |
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D．you feel lonely and you don’t belong to that place or that group of people |
3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
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A．British people dislike marking their space. |
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B．You always feel at home in another country. |
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C．Most British people prefer living in houses to flats. |
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D．You can’t mark your private space in a foreign country. |
4.Tha main purpose of the passage is to tell readers to _______.
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A．own private spaces by living in houses |
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B．have one corner of their own in public places |
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C．realize the importance of “space” in communication |
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D．create their private spaces by talking with local people |
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| For 52 years my father got up every morning at 5: 30 a. m., except Sunday, and went to work.I __1__saw my father home from work ill.He had no hobbies, __2__taking care of his family. For 22 years, __3__I left home for college, my father__4__me every Sunday at 9?00 a. m..He was always interested in my__5__, or how my family was doing, and I never once heard him__6__ about his lot (生活状况) in life.The calls even came when he and my mother were in other states. Nine years ago when I__7__my first house, my father,67 years old, spent three days__8__my house.He would not__9__me to pay someone to have it done.All he __10__was a cup of tea, a paint brush and to talk to him.But I was too__11__.I had a law practice to run, and I could not take__12__ to hold the brush, or talk to my father.__13__things happened several times later. The morning on Sunday.January 16,1996, my father telephoned me__14__, this time from my sister's home in Florida.But the__15__came again at 4?40 p. m.that day.My father was in the__16__in Florida with an aneurysm (动脉瘤). I got on an airplane__17__, and on the way, I__18__of all the times I had not taken the time to talk to my father.I determined that when I arrived, I would__19__for the lost time, and have a nice long talk with him. I arrived in Florida at 11:30 p. m., my father had__20__at 9?12 p. m..This ti  me it was he who did not have ti  me to talk, or to wait for me. | ||||
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