题目内容
Born in America,I spoke English,not Chinese,the language of my ancestors.When I was three,my parents flashed cards with Chinese ____ at my face,but I pushed them ____.My mom believed I would learn ___ I was ready.But the ____ never came.
On a Chinese New Year's Eve,my uncle spoke to me in Chinese,but all I could do was ____ at him,confused,scratching my head.“ Still can't speak Chinese?”He____ me,“You can't even buy a fish in Chinatown.”
“Hey,this is America,not China.I'll get some ____ with or without Chinese.”I replied and turned to my mom for ____.
“Remember to ask for fresh fish,Xin Xian Yu,”she said,handing over a $20 bill.I ____ the words,running downstairs into the streets of Chinatown.
I found the fish ____ surrounded in a sea of customers.“I'd like to buy some fresh fish,”I shouted to the fishman.But he ____ my English words and turned to serve the next customer.The laugh of the people behind increased ____ their impatience.With every ____,the breath of the dragons(龙)on my back grew stronger—my blood boiling—____ me to cry out,“Xian Sheng Yu,please.”“Very Xian Sheng,”I repeated.The crowd erupted into laughter.My face turned ____ and I ran back home ____,except for the $20 bill I held tightly in my pocket.
Should I laugh or cry?They're Chinese.I'm Chinese. I should feel right at ____.Instead,I was the joke,a disgrace(丢脸)to the language.
Sometimes,I laugh at my fish ____,but,in the end.the joke is on ____.Every laugh is a culture ____;every laugh is my heritage(传统)fading away.
1.A.custom?? B.games? C.characters?? D.language
2.A.ahead?? B.around?? C.along?? D.aside
3.A.when?? B.before?? C.unless?? D.until
4.A.success?? B.study?? C.time?? D.attempt
5.A.aim?? B.joke?? C.nod?? D.stare
6.A.cared about?? ????????????? B.laughed at?
C.argued with?? ????????????? D.asked after
7.A.right now?? ????????????? B.from now
C.at times?? ????????????? D.in time
8.A.decision?? ????????????? B.permission
C.information?? ????????????? D.preparation
9.A.repeated?? B.reviewed? C.spelled?? D.kept
10.A.farm? B.stand?? C.pond?? D.market
11.A.guessed?? B.forgot? C.doubted?? D.ignored
12.A.by? B.as?? C.with?? D.from
13.A.second?? B.effort? C.desire?? D.movement
14.A.forcing?? ????????????? B.allowing
C.persuading?? ????????????? D.leading
15.A.bright?? B.blank?? C.pale?? D.red
16.A.thrown? B.lost? C.divided? D.reflected
17.A.service?? B.home?? C.risk?? D.root
18.A.trade?? B.deed? C.challenge?? D.incident
19.A.it? B.us?? C.me?? D.them
20.A.open?mouthed?? ????????????? B.tongue?tied
C.empty?handed?? ????????????? D.broken?hearted
1.C
2.D
3.A
4.C
5.D
6.B
7.A
8.B
9.A
10.B
11.D
12.C
13.A
14.A
15.D
16.C
17.B
18.D
19.C
20.B
【解析】本文通过介绍作者在美国出生,小的时候不懂汉语,到唐人街上买鱼被嘲笑的一次经历,反映了作者对中国语言文化传承的反思。
1. 当“我”三岁的时候,父母给“我”看一些卡片,上面有一些中国的汉字,但是“我”都把它们推开了。Chinese characters“汉字”,符合语境。custom“风俗”,game“游戏”,language“语言”,均太抽象,不适合用于卡片,不符合语境。
答案 C
2.由语境可知,此处为转折关系,父母将一些带汉字的卡片给“我”看,但是“我”把它们推开了。push aside“把……推向一旁”,符合语境。push ahead“向前推,推行”,push around“把……推来推去”,push along“离开”,均不符合语境。
答案 D
3.妈妈相信当“我”准备好的时候就会学的。when符合语境。
答案 A
4.由句中的but所表示的转折关系可知这个时间一直没有到来。这里指“我”准备好学习汉语的时候,与上句照应。
答案 C
5.叔叔对“我”说汉语,但是“我”能做的就是盯着他,非常迷惑,直挠头。显然stare (at)“盯着”,符合语境。
答案 D
6.“还不会说汉语啊?”他取笑“我”说,“你甚至在唐人街连条鱼都买不来。”此处是叔叔对“我”善意的嘲笑。故用laugh at“嘲笑”。care about“对……感兴趣,关心”;argue with“与……争吵”;ask after“问候,询问……的健康状况”。
答案 B
7.“嘿,这是在美国,不是中国,我现在用或不用汉语都能立马给你买来(一些鱼)。”right now“立刻,马上”,符合语境。
答案 A
8.“我”说完转向妈妈想征求她的同意。permission“允许,同意”,符合语境。decision“决定”;information“信息”;preparation“准备”。
答案 B
9.“我”重复了一下这几个字,跑下楼到了唐人街。根据语境可知“我”不会说汉语,显然应该是重复妈妈说的,故用repeat。
答案 A
10.“我”找到了那个卖鱼的摊点,有很多顾客围着。stand“售货处,摊点”,符合题意。farm“农场”;pond“池塘”;market“市场”。
答案 B
11.“我”想买些鲜鱼,但是渔夫不理会“我”说的英语,转而去招呼下一位顾客。ignore“忽视,不顾,不理”,符合语境。guess“猜想”;forget“忘记”;doubt“怀疑”。
答案 D
12.后面的人的笑声随着他们的不耐烦而增加。with随着,符合语境。
答案 C
13.随着时间一秒秒的过去,“我”背上龙的气息越来越强烈——“我”的血液沸腾了——迫使“我”大叫起来。second“秒,瞬间”,符合语境。effort“努力”;desire“欲望”;movement“运动”。
答案 A
14.由语境可知,应选forcing“迫使,强迫”。allow“允许”;persuade“说服”;lead“领导”。
答案 A
15.大家突然都大笑起来,“我”的脸红了,两手空空跑回了家。根据上下文可知D项符合语境。
答案 D
16.“我”没有买到鱼,只有兜里紧攥着的那20美元的钞票。empty?handed“空手的”,符合语境。open?mouthed“目瞪口呆的,吃惊的”;tongue?tied“发音不清的,结结巴巴的”;broken?hearted“伤心的”。
答案 C
17.他们是华人,“我”也是,“我”应该感到很自在的,相反,“我”却成了嘲笑的对象,一个给这门语言丢脸的人。feel at home“感觉自在”,符合语境。
答案 B
18.有时“我”也嘲笑自己那次买鱼的事。incident“发生的事,小插曲”,符合语境。trade“贸易”;deed“行为”;challenge“挑战”。
答案 D
19.但是,最终玩笑开到自己身上了。
答案 C
20.每次嘲笑都是文化的缺失,每次嘲笑都是“我”身上民族传统的消失。
答案 B
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Born in Estonia, Kalle Lasn moved to Australia as a young man and then later to Japan, where he founded a marketing research firm in Tokyo.Eventually, Lasn moved to Canada and for several years produced documentaries (纪录片) for public television.In the late 1980s, Lasn made an advertisement that spoke out against the logging industry and the deforestation going on in the Pacific Northwest.When he tried to show his ad on TV, though, no station in this area would give him airtime.In response, Lasn and a colleague founded Adbusters Media Foundation, a company for the "Human right to communicate.
Adbusters produces magazine, newspaper, and TV ads with a social message.Many use humor and irony to make their points: In one, for example, a man chain smokes a brand of cigarettes called "Hope".In another, a child is dressed in an outfit used in fast-food ads.Next to the child is a note from its mother telling the restaurant to leave her child alone.
Adbusters also has a magazine and a web site, the Culture Jammers Network, whose members include students, artists, and activists as well as educators and businesspeople interested in social change.Many of these "culture jammers" are working to raise awareness about different social issues by hosting events like "Buy Nothing Day" , " No Car Day" and "TV Turnoff Week" .Lasn and his partners hope these events will encourage people to think about questions such as;
·What kinds of things are we being encouraged to buy by the media?
·Should cars be our primary means of transportation?
·How are television and radio being used now? How could we be using them?
Some culture jammers are using other methods to challenge how people think.Some pretend to be shoppers.They move items in stores from one shelf to another making it difficult for people to find things easily.Other culture jammers break into large company well sites and jam them so that they become unusable.The goal in both cases ia to prevent "Business as usual" and to gel people to ask themselves questions such as "Why am I shopping here?" or "Why should I buy this product?"
Lasn and members of the Culture Jammers Network want to make people aware of social issues, but they also believe it's important to think of solutions, too."A lot of people tell you everything that's wrong but they never say much about how to fix these problems," says Lasn."But there is plenty we can do.If you start despairing, you have lost everything."
Though many TV stations still won't show Adbusters' " uncommercials" , some cable TV stations have started to.People all over the world have joined the Culture Jammers Network and are doing their part to promote social change.
1.What does the underlined word "rebellion" in Paragraph 1 most probably mean?
A.argument |
B.violence |
C.opposition |
D.protection |
2.What's the main point of the ad for "Hope" cigarettes?
A.Smoking can help to remove your worries and make you hopeful. |
B.Hopefully, the bad taste of the cigarette can help you to quit smoking. |
C.You are hopeless at abandoning the habit of smoking. |
D.Smoking can ruin you if you are hopelessly addicted to it. |
3.Some culture jammers break into websites in order to ________.
A.ask people to be thoughtful consumers. |
B.help make the companies better known. |
C.encourage people to think less and buy less |
D.challenge how people react to sudden changes |
4.It can be inferred from the passage ________.
A.Adbusters Media Foundation was founded to fight against deforestation |
B.More and more people will know about and even become culture jammers |
C.The Culture Jammers Network is made up of annoying trouble makers |
D.People can see some of Adbusters ads on TV stations |
5.Which of the following best describes what Lasn has done?
A.One step at a time. |
B.We can and must change the world. |
C.Accept what you can't change. |
D.Everyone deserves a second chance. |
Dou Kou, a Chinese boy, is called “the youngest writer in the world”. He has written three books till now. Dou Kou was born in Jiangsu in 1994. When he was 7 months old, his parents started working in over 30 different cities, such as Xi’an and Shenzhen. This kind of life gave him things to think and write about. When he was 9 months old, he could speak and at the age of one, he could say five to six hundred words. At three, he could look up words in the dictionary. At four, his father taught him how to learn by himself. His parents like reading very much. So does he. At the age of 5, he began writing fairy tales. At the age of 6, he wrote a novel about his life in different cities with his parents. His fairy tales are all from his life. One day, he found many mice in the house. They only ate their food but also hurt his mother’s hand. So he thought, “If we give mice the stomach of cows, they will eat grass and they will be helpful to people.” This was his first fairy tales Change Stomach for Mice. Now he studies well in a middle school. He has written his third book, the novel called Eyes of Children. He says, “I am not different from other children. I just wrote several books.
1.How many books has Dou Kou written?
A.Three. |
B.Four. |
C.Five |
D.Six |
2.Thanks to his _____, Dou Kou could write his books.
A.mother |
B.father |
C.school life |
D.life in different cities |
3.Dou Kou began to use a dictionary _____.
A.when he wrote fairy tales |
B.before his father taught him how to learn something |
C.after he went to school |
D.after his mother taught him how to learn something |
4.The underlined(划线的) sentences show us that Dou Kou _____.
A.is different from other children |
B.doesn’t tell the truth. |
C.is the same as other children |
D.likes his books |
5.Which is the best title?
A.Three Books by a child |
B.How to Write a Fairy Tales |
C.How Clever the Boy is |
D.Dou Kou, the Youngest Writer |