题目内容
B. leaves
C. has left
D. has been away
将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词,每个单词或词组只能填一次
| A. replied B. friendly C. explained D. like E. looking forward to F. relationship G. each other H. language I. differently |
When I was sixteen years old, I made my first visit to the United States. It wasn’t the first time I had been abroad.
Just ____51____ most English children, I learnt French at school and I had often been to France, so I was used to speaking a foreign ____52____ to the people who didn’t understand English. But when I went to America, I was really ____53____ having a nice holiday without any language problems.
How wrong I was! The misunderstanding (误解) began at the airport. I was looking for a public telephone to give my American friend Tina a ring and tell her that I had arrived. A ____54____ old man saw me looking like being 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’s talking about marriage?” I ____55____. “I just want to give my friend a ring to tell her I have arrived. Can you tell me where there’s a phone box?”
“Oh!” He said. “There is a phone downstairs.”
When at last we did meet up, Tina ____56____ the misunderstanding to me. “Don’t worry,” she said to me. “I had many difficulties at first. There are lots of words which the Americans use____57____ in meaning from the British. You will soon get used to all the funny things they say. But most of the time British and American people can understand ____58____.”