Take a look at teenagers around, dressed in baggy-pants (宽松裤), drinking soft drinks such as coke, reading Japanese cartoons. Whether you are in Beijing, Wuhan or Hong Kong, you will get the same impression. But should we copy others or should we maintain (保留) our differences?

It sounds convenient that people around the world speak the same language, dress in the same style, eat the same food and play the same games. If the world was like this, you won’t feel strange in any corner of world. But just imagine living in such a strange world. How dull and colorless it would be!

Different kinds of food that people can taste, the colorful and fashionable clothes that we dress in and different languages we speak are all part of the different cultures that our ancestors left us. These differences represent their creativity (创造力) and talent. And we all enjoy different cultures in our daily lives. When you travel to other places, you want to see different things. When you talk to foreigners you expect to listen to interesting stories. These differences in culture are what make life colorful.

But the whole world is shrinking into a small village as globalization (全球化) takes effect and many different cultures are disappearing. In most big cities around the world people wear the same clothes. Fast food stores are everywhere. Hollywood movies are kicking traditional performing arts out of our lives. The colors of our life are disappearing.

There is joke that even the panda and zebra want to live a colorful life. So let’s take action to protect our colorful culture before it becomes as simple as black and white.

It’s not difficult. Learning some folk songs, trying on a traditional clothing and even eating local food instead of going to KFC can help. And we’re sure you will enjoy it.

1.The passage is written to _______.

A．explain cultural differences               B．convince readers to maintain cultural differences

C．predict the future of globalization           D．show some cultural phenomena(现象)

2.The author thinks that cultural differences _______.

A．make the world colorful                  B．make communication difficult

C．only exist in food and clothing              D．will never fade away

3.The author starts the argument by ________.

A．mentioning certain cultural phenomena

B．mentioning his view at the very beginning

C．mentioning the opposite view at the very beginning

D．giving examples of cultural differences

4.The underlined word “shrink” probably means “_______”.

A．expand           B．disappear         C．become smaller     D．grow in number

5.The author talks of all the following cultural phenomena except _______.

A．food             B．clothing           C．language          D．architecture

根据短文内容，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能正确填入相应空格的最佳答案。

Rosa likes making up(编造) stories. At first she thought it was   41 . But now she didn’t think so.

Rosa’s parents were divorced(离婚). Nine months out of the year, Rosa lived with her mother in an apartment on Anderson Street. But when summer    42 , she went to her father’s farm in Arizona.

The farm was great!  rode horses and    43  with some farm work. Her father, however, was so busy that he couldn’t find time to go places with her. When she arrived each summer, her father would meet her at the airport and take her out to eat. And the day she went  44 the city, he would always buy her a present.

   45  summer came to a close, Rosa returned to her mother. At school she heard lots of stories her friends told about their family trips. Rosa wished she had a family trip to talk   46  .

Not long after school began, Rosa was looking through travel magazines in the school library. They talked about many exciting   47 , like England and Germany. When Rosa’s friends asked what she had done that summer, she made up something that was   48 . Remembering the travel magazines she had looked at, she told her classmates that she and her father had gone to   49  .

When the class began studying England, Mr. Thomas asked Rosa to  50  them all the things she could remember about her trip to England!

These days，it is easier for us to travel to other countries than ever before．However，there is a big difficulty that most of us   1    when we meet people in other countries—we cannot communicate with them．There are   2   where English is still not spoken，though it is the most widely known language．So，wouldn't it be   3   if there was one language that could be understood by anyone anywhere in the world?

Esperanto that was created in 1887 may be the world's  4  truly international language．In fact，although   5   artificial（人造的）languages have been already created，only Esperanto has had much success．Its learners say that it is about four times   6    to learn than other languages．Spelling and pronunciation are both easy，too．For example，it does not have silent __7_ like the “h” in “honest”．If you   8   a word，you can spell it without any difficulty．The grammar is also as simple as possible：only sixteen basic   9   ，no irregular verbs（不规则动词），only six verb endings．

In short，Esperanto should be attractive（有吸引力的）as a language to learn，  10   there is a problem：how many people have met anyone who can really speak it? Anyway，we hope that some day one language can be mastered easily by anyone．

1．A．need                      B．miss                    C．face                       D．touch

2．A．offices                     B．schools                 C．cities                     D．places

3．A．safe                     B．nice                     C．funny                    D．difficult

4．A．first                     B．another                  C．last                        D．other

5．A．little                 B．a little                    C．few                       D．a few

6．A．better                      B．easier                    C．slower                    D．shorter

7．A．marks                     B．parts                    C．words                    D．letters

8．A．hear                     B．see                      C．watch                    D．notice

9．A．subjects                   B．sentences                      C．rules                      D．lessons

10．A．and                       B．but                      C．so                         D．because

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　　Rosa liked making up stories. She was so 1 that her classmates believed her from time to time. In fact,the whole class believed her! At first she supposed it was 2 . Now, as she got up to 3 before the class, she knew that make believe stories had some way of coming back to make you sad.

　　Rosa's parents were separated. Nine months out of the year, Rosa lived with her mother in an apartment on Anderson Street. But when summer 4 , she went to her father's farm in Adriana. The farm was great! Rosa rode horses and 5 with some farm work. Her father, however, was so 6 that he couldn't find time to go places with her. When she arrived each summer, her father would 7 her at the airport and take her out to eat. And the day she went back to the 8 , he would always buy her a present.

When summer came to a close, Rosa 9 to her mother. At school she heard lots of stories her friends told about their family trips. Rosa wished she had a 10 to talk about.

Not long after 11 began, Rosa was looking through travel magazines in the school library. They talked about many exciting 12 , like England and Germany. When Rosa's friends asked what she had done that summer, she made up something that was not 13 . Remembering the ravel magazines she had looked at, she told her classmates that she and her father had gone to 14 ! When the class began studying England, Mr. Thomas asked Rosa to tell all the things she could 15 about her trip to England

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