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横峰中学高三年级英语第
18
周周练试题
一、
阅读理解（每小题
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分，共
20
分）
A
Thomas James Hanson will remember for a
long time the snowstorm that hit the state of
New York on November 22. The 47-year-
old man from Niagara Falls was stuck in his car on
the highway for almost eight days after
his vehicle was accidentally pushed to the side
of the
road
and
covered
with snow by workers
employed
to remove
the
snow from the streets.
Driving on the Interstate Highway 190 during the
worst of the snowstorm, Mr. Hanson
decided to pull over his old 1993
Volkswagen Passat to the side of the road and wait
for
the weather conditions to improve.
He remained motionless for approximately five
hours
before a snow plow arrived to
clear the way. Unfortunately for the poor man, the
driver
of the gigantic snow removal
vehicle did not see the small car, pushing it into
the ditch
and covering it with more
than 2 meters of snow.
Fortunately
for
the
father
of
two
children,
the
snow
that
was
stacked
over
his
vehicle
was
not
very
dense
and
allowed
for
enough
fresh
air
to
get
through
to
enable
him
to
survive.
He
was
able
to
drink
water
that
he
obtained
by
melting
snow
with
his
lighter
in
an
aluminum
coffee cup, and he ate the few items of
groceries he had bought before going home.
“If I had known I would be
stuck for eight days, I would have bought more
than a jar
of dill
pickles(
咸菜
), a bottle of
ketchup and two sticks of beef
jerky(
牛肉干),” said
the
survivor with a smile.
Thomas
Hanson
had
almost
lost
all
hope
of
being
rescued
when
his
car
was
hit
once
again
this morning by
another snow plow, which revealed the poor man’s
location.
28. What caused
Thomas James Hanson to fall into the ditch
according to the passage?
A. His drunk
driving.
B. The strong
wind.
C. The
slippery road.
D. A snow
removal vehicle.
29. It can be learned
from the passage that _______.
A.
Mr. Hanson had bought some food before the
acciden
t.
B.
Mr. Hanson got rescued
on November 22
eventually
C. Mr. Hanson had enough
bottled water to drink in the car
D. Mr. Hanson was stuck in the car with
his children.
30. Which of
the following can best describe Thomas James
Hanson?
A. Quick-minded.
B. Hard-working.
C. Humorous
D. Careless
31. Which of the following would be the
best title of the passage?
A. Heavy
Snowstorm Caused Disaster to New York
B. Man Found Alive after Being Stuck 8
Days under Snow
C. Thomas
James Hanson
–
a Black Sheep
in the Snow
D. Wonderful Eight Days of
Experience in the Snow
B
I
was born and raised in England in a culture where
privacy and “keeping yourself
to
yourself”
were
valued
traditions.
Speaking
to
strangers
was
not
encouraged.
People
were
most hospitable and
friendly
—
but only once they
had been introduced to new people.
However, I have been lucky enough to
spend some time in both Italy and the US, where
I found traditions of hospitality and
politeness to be very different.
I
experienced
Italian
hospitality
first
－
hand
on
a
crowded
railway
carriage
travelling,
one
afternoon,
from
Genoa
to
Florence.
Sinking
gratefully
into
an empty
seat,
I
was
berated(
斥责
) in
rapid Italian by a gentleman who was returning to
this seat
－
it had not
been “spare” after all. I apologized in
English, and got up to allow him back into the
seat. The gentleman obviously had no
understanding of the English language, but he,
too,
realized my genuine mistake. He
smiled and gestured for me to remain in the seat,
and he
himself remained standing in the
corridor for the remainder of the journey.
The other
occupants of the
carriage smiled and nodded at me and made me feel
quite welcome amongst
them. I feel that
if this had been in England, a foreigner who made
a mistake would not
always be so kindly
treated.
Transport also
featured in the differences I noticed between
English and American
culture. I flew to
New York on a plane with mainly English
passengers. We sat together in
near
silence.
Nobody
spoke
to
me
nor,
as
I
expected,
to
anyone
else
they
did
not
know.
They
felt
it
was
not
polite
to
intrude
on
someone
else's
privacy.
However,
when
I
travelled
across
the United States,
whether by plane or Greyhound bus, I was never
short of conversation.
Conversation was
going on all around me and whoever sat next to me
was happy to introduce
themselves
and
ask
me
about
myself.
They
obviously
felt
it
would
have
been
rude
not
to
speak
to another person,
whether they were strangers or
not.
32. The purpose of the
author is to tell us _________.
A. his traveling experience
B. cultural differences to show
hospitality and politeness
C. the culture shock he experienced in
Italy and the US
D. how to
adapt ourselves to a new culture
33. What do we know about
the occupants of the carriage when the author was
travelling in
Italy?
A.
They all laughed at the author for his mistake.
B.
They would
not bear a mistake like the author's in public.
C.
They were all on the side
of the gentleman.
D. They all showed
their understanding of the author's mistake.
34. The author
probab
ly believes the Italian people
are________.
A.
cold
B.
rude
C.
hospitable
D.
helpful
35. The last
paragraph mainly tells us_____.
A.
the difference between English and American
culture
B. why Americans like to
start a conversation
C.
different attitudes of Englishmen and Americans
towards transport
D. the importance
of privacy among Englishmen.
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