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专业：综合英语
制卷人：胡江鸿
时间：
2012-9-3
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记叙文
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2010
安徽省卷】
A
Living in a
foreign culture can be exciting, but it can also
be confusing
(
令
人迷惑的
).
A
group
of
Americans
who
taught
English
in
other
countries
recently
discussed
their
experiences.
They
decided
that
miscommunications
were
always possible, even over something as simple as
On her first day in Micronesia, an
island in the Pacific, Lisa thought people weren?t
paying
any attention to her. The day
was hot. She went into a store and asked, “Do you
have cold drinks?
The woman there didn't say anything.
Lisa repeated the question. Still the Woman said
nothing.
She later learned that the
woman had answered her: She had raised her
eyebrows (
眉毛
), which in
Micronesia means
Jan
remembered
an
experience
she
had
in
Bulgaria,
a
country
in
Europe.
She
went
to
a
restaurant
that was known for its cabbage. She asked the
waiter,
have cabbage
today?
He nodded his head. Jan waited,
but the cabbage never came. In that country, a nod
means no.
Tom had a
similar problem when he arrived in India. After
explaining something in class, he
asked
his students if they understood. They answered
with many different nods and shakes of the
head. He thought some people had not
understood, so he explained again. When he asked
again,
they did the same thing. He soon
found out that his students did understand. In
India, people nod
and shake their heads
in different ways depending on where they come
from. You have to know
where a person
is from to understand whether they mean
76. These Americans teaching English in
other countries found that they ______.
A. should go
abroad for vacations
B. needed to learn foreign languages
C. should often
discuss their experiences
D. had problems with communications
77. People in Micronesia show
A.
nodding heads
B. raising eyebrows
C. shaking heads
D. saying
78. Tom
misunderstood his class at first because
A.
he did not know much about Indian culture
B. he didn't explain everything clearly
enough
C.
some students didn't understand his questions
D. he didn't
know where the students came from
79.
Which of the following is TRUE according
to(
根据
) this passage?
A. In Bulgaria, nodding heads means no.
B.
Jan taught English on a Pacific island.
C.
Lisa was trying to buy some cabbage.
D. In India,
only shaking heads means
80. The
passage is mainly about _____.
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专业：综合英语
制卷人：胡江鸿
时间：
2012-9-3
A. body
language in foreign restaurants
B. class discussion in Indian schools
C. miscommunication in different
cultures
D. English teaching in
other countries
B
Once there was a piano player in a
bar(
酒吧
). People came just to
hear him play. But one
night, a lady
asked him to sing a song.
But the lady
told the waiter,
”
The waiter shouted across
the room,
”
So he did. He had never sung in public
before. Now he was singing for the very first
time!
Nobody had ever heard the song
Mona Lisa sung so beautifully!
He had talent(
天赋
)
he was sitting on! He may have lived the rest of
his life as a no-name
piano player in a
no-name bar. But once he found, by accident, that
he could sing well, he went on
working
hard and became one of the best-known singers in
the US. His name was Nat King Cole.
You, too, have skills and abilities.
You may not feel that your talent is great, but it
may be
better than you think. With hard
work, most skills can be improved. Besides, you
may have no
success at all if you just
sit on
your talent.
81. The lady asked the player to sing a
song because _____.
A. she had paid
him for this
B.
she knew him very well
C.
she wanted to have a change
D. she enjoyed his singing
82. Nat King Cole succeeded because
_____.
A. the lady helped him a
lot
B. he caught the chance
C. he continued to play in the bar
D. he stopped
playing the piano
83. The words
A. fail to realize
B. forget to use
C. try to develop
D. manage to show
84. From
the story we know if you have some talent, you
should _____.
A. hide it and
wait
B.
ask others for help
C. pay no
attention to it
D. work hard to
improve yourself
85. Which could be the
best title (
标题
) for the
passage?
A. Sing in the
Bar
B. Achieve
Success in Life
C. Never Lose Heart
D. Find Your
Hidden Talent
D
Doctor Seuss was born in
1904. By the middle 1950s, he had become one of
the
best-loved
and
most
successful
children's
book
writers
in
the
world.
His
books are very popular with young
readers. They enjoy the invented words and
the pictures of unusual funny animals
and plants.
In
1954,
life
magazine
published(
刊登
)
a
report
about
school
children
who
could not read. The
report said many children's books were not
interesting. Doctor Seuss strongly
hoped to help children and decided to
write books that were interesting and easy to
read. He used
words with the same
ending sound, like fish and wish. He did not
receive training in art. Yet, he
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专业：综合英语
制卷人：胡江鸿
时间：
2012-9-3
drew
the pictures for most of his books.
In 1957, Dr. Seuss wrote
The
Cat in the Hat
. He used less than 230
words to write the book
and even a six-
year-old should be able to read it. It was a fun
story and easy to read. Children
loved
it. Their parents loved it, too. Today it is still
one of the stories they like best. The success of
The Cat in the Hat
made him
want to write more books for children. In 1960, he
wrote a book
using less than fifty
words. The book is called
Green Eggs
and Ham
.
In
1984, Doctor Seuss won a Pulitzer Prize
(
普利策奖
). He was honored for
the education
and enjoyment his books
provided American children and their parents.
He died at the age of 87,
but his influence remains. Millions of his books
have been sold
worldwide. People say
his books helped change the way American children
learned to read. Yet,
his books are
loved by people of all ages. Doctor Seuss once
said,
write for people.
91. Doctor Seuss learned from the
magazine that _______.
A. some school children could not read
B.
many children's books were interesting
C. children wanted to learn
to read
D.
a writer for children was wanted
92. People like his books because the
books ______.
A. are cheap
and easy to get
B. were written in
different languages
C. are easy and interesting to read
D.
were written with invented words
93. He
wrote the book
The Cat in the
Hat
at the age of _____.
A. 50
B.
53
C.
56
D.
87
94. Which of the following is TRUE
according to the passage?
A.
Doctor Seuss wrote
Green Eggs and
Ham
with over 230 words.
B. Doctor Seuss wrote books only for
children in the United States.
C.
The Cat in the Hat
was written only for six-year-old
children.
D. His books
provided education and enjoyment for Americans.
95. From the text we know that Doctor
Seuss __________.
A.
won a Pulitzer Prize soon after his death
B. sold millions of his books himself
worldwide
C. changed
American children's way of reading
D.
wrote the largest number of books in the world
【
2010
湖北
·
武汉】
A
One midnight, a little girl woke up to
pass water. She by herself got up and down her
bed,
walked to the bedroom door and
opened it. She looked outside and walked back, for
it was so dark
in the hall that she
feared.
He
r mother said,
“Don?t be afraid, honey. Take courage!”
“What?s courage?” she asked, running to
her mother?s bed.
“Courage
is the brave breath,” her mother
answered.
“Mum, do you have
courage?”
“Certainly.”
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