2. I suggested that they stay at bed and breakfast houses because ______.

　 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

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

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　　 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 ‘Mo, thank you.’

4. The underlined word effective in this passage means ______.

　 A. actual　　　　 B. striking　　　　　 C. existing　　　　　 D. having an effect

3. According to the author, reading good literature ______.

　 A. produces new income　　　　　　　　　　 B. is quite useless

　 C. satisfies the curious　　　　　　　　　　 D. opens new worlds to us(眼界)

2. The author implies that good literature ______.

　 A. must deal with social problems　　　　　　 B. must teach a lesson

　 C. is varied in subject and in content (内容)　　 D. is always exciting and heart--warming

1. The sentence “People who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read” suggests that ______.

　 A. reading stimulates(激发) a desire to travel

　 B. reading broadens(扩大) a person’s experience

　 C. people who read much live longer

　 D. people who read are more relaxed

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　　 In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. To have read Gulliver’s Travels is to have had the experience of listening to Jonathan Swift, of learning about man’s inhumanity (残酷) to man. To read Huckleberry Finn is to feel what it is like to drift (漂流) down the Mississippi River on a raft (木排). To have read Byron is to have suffered his rebellions with him and to have enjoyed his nose-thumbing at (对……的蔑视) society. To have read Native Son is to know how it feels to be frustrated (受挫折) in the particular way in which Blacks in Chicago are frustrated. This is effective communication (交流). It enables us to feel how others felt about life, even if they lived thousands of miles away and centuries age. It is not true that “We have only one life to live.” If we read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

5. The merchant’s answer showed that be ______.

　 A. was very happy　　　　　　　　　　 B. believed the nobleman

　 C. was angry with the nobleman　　　　　 D. had　 kind heart

4. It is probable that the nobleman ______.

　 A. had no brother who was hanged　　　 B. had a very good brother

　 C. knew the soup was too hot　　　　　 D. had never eaten soup