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D

When I was 16 years old, I made my first visit to the United States. It wasn’t the first time I had been abroad. Like most of English children I learned French at school. And I had often been to France, so I was used to speaking a foreign language to people who didn’t understand French. But when I went to America I was really looking forward to having a nice easy holiday without any language problems.How wrong I was. The misunderstanding began at the airport. I was looking for a public telephone to give my friend Danny a call and tell her that I had arrived. A friendly old man saw me looking lost and asked if he could help me.

“Yes”, I said. “I want to give my friend a ring.”

“Well, that’s nice,” he said. “Are you getting married? But aren’t you a bit young?”

“Who is talking about marriage?” I replied. “I only want to give my friend a ring to tell her I’ve

arrived. Can you tell me where there’s a phone box?”

“Oh!” he said, “there’s a phone downstairs.”

When at last we met, Danny explained the misunderstandings to me.

“Don’t worry,” she said to me, “I had so many difficulties at first. There are lots of words

which the Americans use differently in meaning from British. You will soon get used to all

the funny things they say. Most of the time British and American people understand each other!”

53. Where was the writer from?

A. America.     B. France.   C. England.      D. China

54. The writer wanted ______.

A. to buy a ring for his friend     B. to make a call to his friend

C. to go to the telephone company    D. his friend to see him off

54. From the passage we can see that “give somebody a ring” ______.

A. has the same meaning in America as in England

B. means “call somebody” for the old man

C. has two different meanings    D. means “be going to get married” in England

56. In the last paragraph, the underlined word “they” refers to ______.

A. the old man and the boy   B. the Americans   C. the British    D. the French

（贵州省贵阳二中2010届高三第一学期11月月考）

E

During the 20th century there has been a great change in the lives of women. A woman

marrying at the end of the 19th century probably has been in her middle 20’s and would be likely

to have seven or eight children. By the time the youngest was 15, the mother would have been in

her early 50’s and would expect to live a further 20 years, during which chance and health made

it hard for her to get paid work.  Today women marry younger and have fewer children.

Usually a woman’s youngest child will be 15 when she is 45 and she can be expected to live

another 35years and is likely to get paid work until 60.

This important change in women’s life has only recently begun to have its full effect on

women’s economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school and took a fulltime job. However, when they married they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is 16, many girls stay at school after that age, and though women marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Very many more return to work later. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties of family life.

57. We learn from this passage that in the 19th century_____ .

       A. there were more children in the world than there are today

       B. women spent a greater part of their lives raising children than they do today

       C. there were more women in poor health than there are today

       D. women married younger than they do today

 58. One reason why a married woman of today may take a job is that ____.

       A. she is usually younger when her children are old enough to look after themselves

       B. she is obliged to help her husband support the family

       C. she feels lonely at home when her children grow up

       D. she hopes to change the world a bit by doing so

59. Many girls are now likely to ____.

       A. give up their jobs after they get married      B. leave school as soon as they can

       C. marry early so that they can get better jobs  D. continue working until they are going to have a baby

60. Now a husband probably ____ .

       A. plays a greater part in looking after the children   B. does almost all of the housework

       C. feels unhappy about his wife’s going out to work D. takes a part-time job so as to help at home