题目内容
14.America is a mobile society.Friendships between Americans can be close and real,yet disappear soon if situations change.Neither side feels hurt by this.Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two,perhaps a few letters for a while-then no more.If the same two people meet again by chance,even years later,they pick up the friendship.This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand,because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings,extending sometimes deeply into both families.Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes,share their holidays,and their home life.They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality easily.
Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives,they don't show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time.This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time.Sometimes,we,as hosts,will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend.We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends.The Americans,however,express their welcome usually at homes,but truly can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine.They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus.And they expect that we will phone them from there.Once we arrive at their homes,the welcome will be full,warm and real.We will find ourselves treated hospitably.
For the Americans,it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants,except for purely business matters.So accept their hospitality at home!
25.The writer of this passage must beB.
A.an American
B.a Chinese
C.a professor
D.a student
26.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?C
A.Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their families.
B.Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives.
C.Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break.
D.Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy.
27.The underlined words"generous with our time"in Paragraph 3probably meanD.
A.strict with time
B.serious with time
C.careful with time
D.willing to spend time
28.A suitable title for this passage would probably be"D".
A.Friendships between Chinese
B.Friendships between Americans
C.Americans'hospitality
D.Americans'and Chinese's views of friendships.
分析 美国是一个流动的社会.美国人之间的友谊可以接近真实,然而如果情况变化很快消失.任何一方都不觉得受伤害.双方可能在一年或两年交换圣诞问候,也许通信一阵子之后就没有了.如果相同的两个人有再次见面的机会,甚至几年后,他们会继续他们的友谊.这可能对中国人来说是非常难理解,因为我们之间的友谊发展得慢但后来可能成为终身的感情.
解答 25-28 BCDD
25 B.细节理解题.根据文中"This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand,"及"Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives,"可知作者是一名中国人,故选 B.
26 C.细节理解题,根据Once we arrive at their homes,the welcome will be full,warm and real.We will find ourselves treated hospitably.可知,当我们去美国拜访我们的朋友时,我们很有可能在他家受到款待,故选C.
27 D.词义猜测题.根据文中"they don't show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time."说明当美国人忙的时候他们对自己的时间很苛刻,所以可知中国人对待自己的时间是慷概的,故选D.
28 D 主旨大意题.根据文中"America is a mobile society.Friendships between Americans can be close and real,yet disappear soon if situations change."及"This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand,because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings,extending (延伸) sometimes deeply into both families."可知本文主要说的是中美之间对友谊的观点,故选 D.
点评 考察学生的细节理解和推理判断能力,做细节理解题时一定要找到文章中的原句,和题干进行比较,再做出正确的选择.在做推理判断题不要以个人的主观想象代替文章的事实,要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断.
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Early in the age of affluence (富裕) that followed World War II,an American economic analyst declared,"Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life,that we convert the buying and use of goods into habits,that we seek our (51)B satisfaction,our self-satisfaction in consumption.We need things consumed,burned up,worn out,replaced at an ever(52)D rate."Americans have (53)C to the call,and much of the world has followed.
Consumption has become a central pillar of life in industrial lands and is even deeply rooted in social (54)A.Opinion surveys in the world's two largest economies,Japan and the United States,show consumerist definitions of success becoming very popular.
Over consumption by the fortunate in the world is an environmental problem (55)B in severity by anything but perhaps population growth.Their increasing exploitation of resources(56)D to exhaust or unalterably spoils forests,soils,water,air and climate.
Ironically (有讽刺意味的),high consumption may be a(57)A blessing in human terms,too.The time-honored values of integrity of character,good work,friendship,family and community have often been (58)B in the rush to riches.
Thus,many people in the industrial lands have a sense that their world of plenty is somehow hollow.With the(59)D of a consumerist culture,they also think that they have been (60)A attempting to satisfy what are essentially social,psychological and spiritual needs with material things.
(61)C,the opposite of overconsumption-poverty-is no(62)A to either environmental or human problems.It is much worse for people and bad for the natural world too.Peasants who have nothing left cut-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America,and hungry nomads (游牧民) turn their animals out onto African grassland,reducing it to(63)D.
If environmental (64)B results when people have either too little or too much,we are left to wonder how much is enough.What level of consumption can the earth support?When does having more (65)C to add noticeably to human satisfaction?
51.A.natural | B.spiritual | C.cultural | D.actual |
52.A.promising | B.promoting | C.falling | D.increasing |
53.A.proved | B.returned | C.responded | D.persevered |
54.A.values | B.moralities | C.identities | D.problems |
55.A.qualified | B.unmatched | C.compared | D.unprocessed |
56.A.happens | B.manages | C.starts | D.threatens |
57.A.mixed | B.detected | C.counted | D.terrified |
58.A.promoted | B.sacrificed | C.satisfied | D.relieved |
59.A.improving | B.neglecting | C.sponsoring | D.misleading |
60.A.fruitlessly | B.successfully | C.occasionally | D.eagerly |
61.A.As a result | B.For instance | C.Of course | D.From then on |
62.A.solution | B.pollution | C.consideration | D.contribution |
63.A.attraction | B.rubbish | C.homeland | D.desert |
64.A.construction | B.destruction | C.development | D.improvement |
65.A.remain | B.occur | C.cease | D.happen. |