Like most English children, I learned foreign languages at school. When I made my first visit to the United States, I was sure I could have a nice and easy holiday without any language problem. But how wrong I was!
At the American airport, I was looking for a public telephone to tell my friend Danny that I had arrived. An American asked if he could help me. "Yes," I said, '1 want to give my friend a ring."
"Well, that's nice. Are you getting married?" he asked. "No," I replied, "I just want to tell him I have arrived." "Oh," he said, "there is a phone downstairs on the first floor." "But we're on the first floor now," I said.
"Well, I don't know what you are talking about Maybe you aren't feeling too well after your journey," he said. "Just go and wash up, and you will feel a lot better." And he went off, leaving me wondering where on earth I was: At home we wash up after a meal to get the cups and plates clean. How can I wash up at an airport?
At last we did meet. Danny explained the misunderstanding: Americans say "to give someone a call", but we English say "to give somebody a ring". When we say "to wash your hands", they say "to wash up". And Englishmen start numbering from the ground floor so the first floor is the second for Americans.
【小题1】The writer went to America by  ______.
A.planeB.shipC.busD.train
【小题2】The writer went to America for______   .
A.education B.businessC.holidayD.friendship
【小题3】The American thought "a ring" should be a________  .
A.phone call B.presentC.personD.letter
【小题4】Englishmen usually wash up________ .
A.after dinner B.after a journey
C.when they are tiredD.before they telephone someone
【小题5】The third floor in England is the ______floor in America.
A.firstB.second C.thirdD.Fourth
Two brothers worked together on a farm.  One was married and had a large  36 . The other had no wife yet. Although they lived in different houses, they shared everything they got from their farm.
One day, the single brother said to himself, "It's not   37 that we share all the rice. I'm   38 and I need less than my brother. " So, every night he took a bag of rice from his store-room and   39 across the field   40  their houses, putting it into his brother's store-room.
At the same time, the married brother thought, "It's not fair to share all the rice. I'm married and I have my wife and children to    41  me when I am    42_. However, my brother has no one to take care of his   43  " So, each night he also took a bag of rice and put it into his brother's store-room.
Several months passed by. They found   44  strange that their rice never became less. Then, one dark night the two brothers ran into each other. Slowly they began to understand what was happening. Their bags fell onto the ground and tears   45  their eyes at once.
【小题1】
A.group.B.familyC.classD.team
【小题2】
A.rightB.popularC.interestingD.wrong
【小题3】
A.poorB.happyC.aloneD.rich
【小题4】
A.jumpedB.playedC.wentD.rode
【小题5】
A.fromB.throughC.offD.between
【小题6】
A.look afterB.look forC.look outD.look at
【小题7】
A.worriedB.oldC.healthyD.dead
【小题8】
A.hopeB.childrenC.farmD.future
【小题9】
A.themB.thisC.itD.that
【小题10】
A.appearedB.filledC.droppedD.rose

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