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B. common
C. in common
D. with common
When I lived in Spain, some Spanish friends of mine decided to visit England by car. Before they left, they asked me for advice about how to find accommodation (住所). I suggested that they should stay at ‘bed and breakfast’ houses, because this kind of accommodation gives a foreign visitor a good chance to speak English with the family. My friends listened to my advice, but they came back with some funny stories.
“We didn’t stay at bed and breakfast houses,” they said, “because we found that most families were away on holiday.”
I thought this was strange. Finally I understood what had happened. My friends spoke little English, and they thought ‘VACANCIES’ meant ‘holidays’, because the Spanish word for ‘holidays” is ‘vacaciones’. So they did not go to house where the sign outside said ‘VACANCLES’, which in English means there are free rooms. Then my friends went to house where the sign said ‘NO VACANCLES’, because they thought this meant the people who owned the house were not away on holiday. But they found that these houses were all full. As a result, they stayed at hotels!
We laughed about this and about mistakes my friends made in reading other signs. In Spanish, the word ‘DIVERSION’ means fun. In English, it means that workmen are repairing the road, and that you must take a different road. When my friends saw the word ‘DIVERSION’ on a road sign, they thought they were going to have fun. Instead, the road ended in a large hold.
English people have problems too when they learn foreign languages. Once in Paris. when someone offered me some more. coffee, I said ‘Thank you’ in French. I meant that I would like some more, However , to my surprise the coffee pot was taken away! Later I found out that ‘Thank you’ in French means ‘No, thank you.’
【小题1】My Spanish friends wanted advice about ______.
| A.learning English | B.finding places to stay in England |
| C.driving their car on English roads | D.going to England by car |
| A.they would be able to practise their English |
| B.it would be much cheaper than staying in hotels |
| C.it would be convenient for them to have dinner |
| D.there would be no problem about finding accommodation there |
| A.no free rooms | B.free rooms |
| C.not away on holiday | D.holidays |
| A.fall into a hole |
| B.have a lot of fun and enjoy yourself |
| C.find that the road is blocked by crowds of people |
| D.have to take a different road |
I ______.
A didn’t really want any more coffee B. wanted them to take the coffee pot away
C. really wanted some more coffee D. hadn’t finished drinking my coffee
When Christina Brouder was five years old, a drunk driver ran over her as she and her father were crossing the street in front of their home.Hurt badly, the young girl was forced to spend a long time in a full-body cast(石膏) to recover from her injuries.Mostly, she traveled between the hospital and her home.Once out of the cast, Brouder sat in a wheelchair for almost a year.
In spite of the horrible accident, Christina was grateful for her recovery.She was so grateful, in fact, that she and her four talented siblings(兄弟姐妹)( three sisters and a brother) started a music group, Gilbride.The group performed at local hospitals and nursing homes, performing for the patients.Among them, the children could sing, dance and play about 20 different musical instruments.At their first show in 1988, held at Montefiore Hospital, the kids were 2,3,6,8 and 9 years old.That year alone, the group made over a hundred appearances.
From the local public entertainment places, the group expanded to charity performances.They also entertained people at Disney World, Radio City Music Hall, and even the White House.
Christina balanced her happy and successful musical career with academics.First graduating from New York City’s High School of Music and Art,and then from Fordham.In 2000,as t he youngest graduate from Fordham,1 8一year—old Christina and her siblings went on tour for a year.Not pleased with the applause she received from the audience, she entered Pace University Law School.On May 19,Christina Brouder realized part of her dream when at only 22,she received Health Law Certificate(文凭).
【小题1】What happened to Christina when she was five years old?
| A.She was coldly deserted by her father. |
| B.She got a strange and serious disease. |
| C.She had to give performances to make a living. |
| D.She was seriously injured in a traffic accident. |
| A.thankful and hardworking | B.a little shy but gentle |
| C.a 1ittle stupid and 1azy | D.sad and bored with her 1ife |
| A.were talented in music |
| B.were interested in sports |
| C.were enthusiastic about writing |
| D.had the ability to draw very well |
a.She graduated from Fordham.
b.Christina received Health Law Certificate.
c.Their first show was held at Montefiore Hospital.
d.She and her siblings entertained at the White House.
| A.d,a,b,c | B.d,c,b,a | C.c,d,a,b | D.c,b,d,a |
Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy-five, he gave £ 12,000 to the village school to buy land and equipment (设备) for a children’s play ground.
As a result of his kindness, many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman, During their talk, Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be a hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy-five, Johnson had a sense of humor (幽默). He liked whisky (威士忌酒) and drank some each day. “I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening.” He told the newspaperman, thinking of evening glass of whisky.
The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy-five and has a daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection.
【小题1】Johnson became a rich man through .
| A.doing business | B.making whisky |
| C.cheating | D.buying and selling land |
| A.had no children. | B.was a strange man. |
| C.was very fond of children. | |
| D.wanted people to know how rich he was. |
| A.should have reported what Johnson had told him. |
| B.shouldn’t have asked Johnson what injection he had. |
| C.was eager to live a long life. |
| D.should have found out what Johnson really meant. |
| A.he liked drinking a glass of whisky in the evening. |
| B.he needed an injection in the neck. |
| C.a daily injection in the evening would make him sleep well. |
| D.there was something wrong with his neck. |