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【题目】Americans are a strange people. They work like mad, then give away much of what they earn. They play until they are exhausted, and call this a vacation. They live to think of themselves as hard-hearted business men, yet they are push-overs for any hard luck story. They have the biggest of nearly everything including government, motor cars and debts. Yet they like to think of themselves as little people, average men, and they would like to cut everything down to their own size. They show off their tall buildings, high mountains, long rivers, big state, the best country, the best world, the best heaven. Yet they also have the most traffic deaths, the most waste, and the most liars.

When they meet, they are always telling each other, "Take it easy," then they rush off like crazy in opposite directions. They play games as if they were fighting a war, and fight wars as if playing a game. They marry more, and go broke more often. They love children, animals, mother, work, excitement, noise, nature, television shows, comedy, high pace, sports, the underdog, the hero, the flag, Christmas, jazz, shapely women and muscular men, classical recordings, crowds, comics, cigarettes, warm houses in winter and cool ones in summer, thick beefsteaks, coffee, ice cream, informal dress, plenty of running water, do-it-yourself, and a working week limited to forty hours or less.

They crowd their highways with cars while complaining about the traffic, troop to movies and television while blaming the quality and the advertisements, go to church but don't care much for sermons (布道), and drink too much in the hope of relaxing—only to find themselves drunk into even bigger dreams.

There is of course, no typical (典型的) American. But if you added them all together and then divided by 226, 000, 000 they would look something like what this chapter has tried to describe.

【1】What may be the best title of the passage?

A. The Americans. B. Life in America.

C. Strange people. D. Great America

【2】What is the meaning of the underlined sentence in Para.1?

A. They like listening to bad luck stories.

B. They push the interesting stories away.

C. They can easily be moved by sad stories.

D. They are informed of good luck stories often.

【3】Which one of the following is probably NOT what the Americans love?

A. noise B. advertisement

C. smoking D. fresh water

【4】In what way did the author write this passage?

A. By comparison. B. By giving examples.

C. By experimenting. D. By telling stories.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】C

【3】B

【4】A

【解析】

试题分析：本文是一篇说明文，从多方面阐述美国人的不同生活方式。

【1】A 标题题 纵观全文，本文讲的是美国人是奇怪的一种人，他们一边努力工作，一边有，把他们获得的都转赠出去。所以答案是选A。B项，不是讲的是生活，所以排除。C项范围太广了，奇怪的人，却没有点到是美国人。D选项伟大的美国人，本文没有体现伟大的支持点，所以排除。

【2】C猜词题 根据连词yet表示前后否定，以及前面的句子中的hard-hearted（硬心肠的），不能知道这里面要表达一个热心的或感动的，一个选项所以答案是C。

【3】B 细节题 根据第三段中的描述进行排除，文章中有提到了noise, cigarettes=smoke, plenty of running water=fresh water，所以答案选B。

【4】A写作方法 根据文章的表达，都是使用了一个表示转折的，那么这就意味着它所采用的是对比的方式。