Question

Many Chinese students studying abroad like to stay with host families to learn their language and culture. Nowadays, many Shanghai white-collar workers have received native English speaking ___31___(nation) students as their host families, too, in order to learn English from them.

It is usually free for foreign students to stay in a host family in Shanghai, but he/she must take __ 32__ the responsibility of teaching English to at least one certain members of the family. Miss Li has always worried about her ___33___   (limit) English. “I never knew what to say to an English-speaking person,” said she. She has taken a number of English courses, but ___34___ has proved to be useful. Last year, she saw ___35___ advertisement recruiting（征募）host families for foreign students, and that was how Carey (from Chicago, US) came to her home.  Carey is actually not a student, but a manager. She stays in Li's apartment for free,  ___36___ has to teach Li oral English for 1 hour every day. “She could hardly speak Chinese at the beginning, and we had to guess ___37___ each other meant through gestures,” said Li.

Two months later, they could talk to each other    38    gesticulating. Now, Li can communicate with any English-speaking person freely. About one hundred Shanghai families have received foreign boarding students, and the figure ___39___ (rise). However, foreign boarding students can only help improve oral English, but ___40 ___ examination skills.

Answer 1

31. international  32. up  33. limited  34. none  35. an  36. but  37. what  38. without  39. is rising  40. not

解析:

本文讲中国学生在国外学习，喜欢home stay。如今上海的白领免费接收国外学生到家里住，以跟他们学习英语为交换条件。

意图：应用所学的语法知识，例如：介词，不定式，代词，连词，形容词比较级和名词。

31. international根据文章内容，英语为本族语的学生是“国际”学生，作定语用形容词形式。

32. up 因表示“担起责任”是take up the responsibility。

33. limited 在English前作定语用形容词。

34. none上下文看，“没有一种课程”管用。

35. an指看到“一个”广告，表示“一个(块，张等)”用不定冠词。

36. but逻辑转折。免费是有条件的。

37. what引导宾语从句并在从句中作宾语，用what。

38. without指两个月后就“不需要”手势就可以理解了。

39. is rising 由语境可知，指目前或近阶段每一百户人家中接受外国人住的数目“正在上升”。

40. not 通篇讲的都是口语，所以，对应的应试问题就不能解决了。