Part V Reading Comprehension (25 minutes, 40 points)
Section A Multiple Choice (5 points)
Directions: There is one passage in this ction with 5 questions. For each question, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
开辟新航路Questions 51-55 are bad on the following passage.
I was dirty, smelly, hungry and somewhere beneath all that, suntanned. It was the end of an Inter-Rail holiday. My body couldn’t take any more punishment. My mind couldn’t deal with any more foreign timetables, currencies or languages.
注释： 1. smelly有使人难受的气味的，臭的。 2.suntanned给太阳晒黑的。 3. punishment惩罚。 4. deal with处理。 5.timetables时间表。 |
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“Never again,” I said, as I stepped onto home ground. I said exactly the same thing the following year. And the next. All I had to do was buy one train ticket and, becau I was under twenty-five years old, I could spend a whole month going anywhere I wanted in Europe. Ordinary beds are never the same once you’ve learnt to sleep in the corridor of a train, the rhythm rocking you into a deep sleep.
注释： 1.home ground 2. rhythm节奏，韵律。 3. rock摇摆，摇动。 |
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Carrying all your posssions无人机的英文 on your back in a rucksack makes you have a very basic approach to travel, and encourages incredible wastefulness that can lead to burning socks that have become too anti-social, and getting rid of books when finished. On the other hand, this way of looking at life is entirely in the spirit of Inter-Rail, for common ns
e and reasoning can be thrown out of the window along with the paperback book and the socks. All it takes to achieve this carefree attitude is one of tho tickets in your hand.
注释： 1.posssions财产。 动物英语单词大全2.rucksack帆布背包。 3.发声器approach方法，步骤，途径。 4.incredible难以置信的，不可思议的。 5.lead to导致。 6.burning socks 于丹庄子心得7.anti-social不擅社交的，非社交的，反社会的。 8.in the spirit of以…的精神、态度。 9.common n常识。 10. reasoning推理。 11.carefree attitude无所谓的态度。 |
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Any system that enables young people to travel through countries at a rate of more than one a day must be pretty special. On that first trip, my friends and I were at first unaware of the possibilities of this type of train ticket, thinking it was just an inexpensive way of getting to and from our chon camp-site in southern France. But the idea of non-stop travel proved too tempting, for there was always just one more country over the border, always that little bit further to go. And what did the extra miles cost us? Nothing.
注释： 1.at a rate of以...速度。2. pretty相当地。3.unaware of未觉察，不知道。4.non-stop中途不停的。5.tempting诱惑人的。 |
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We were not completely uninterested in culture. But this was a first holiday without parents, as it was for most other Inter-Railers, and in organizing our own timetable we left out everything except the most immediately available sights. This was the chance to escape the guided tour, an opportunity to do something different. I took great pride in the fact that, in many places, all I could be bothered to e was the view from the station. We
were just there to get by, and to have a good time doing so. In this we were no different from most of the other Inter-Railers with whom we shared corridor floors, food and water, money and music.
注释： 1.completely十分，完全地。2.be 蚰蜒有毒吗uninterested in对…不感兴趣。3.leave out省去，不考虑。 4.available可用到的，可利用的。5.sights情景，奇观，名胜，风景。6. take pride in对……感到自豪。 7.be bothered to do费劲，费力做某事。8.get by通过，经过。 |
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The excitement of travel comes from the sudden reality of somewhere that was previously just a name. It is as if the city in which you arrive never actually existed until the train pulls in at the station and you are able to e it with your own tired eyes for the first time.
单词注释： 1.previously先前，以前。2.actually实际上，事实上。3.pull in车停下，车进站。 |
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Questions:
51. At the end of his first trip, the writer said “Never again” becau _______.
A. he felt ill
关于颜色的词语B. he disliked trains
C .he was tired from the journey
D. he had lost money
51.C “Never again”在文中出现在第二段的段首，由第一段dirty, smelly, hungry, somewhere beneath all that，suntanned，punishment可以看出作者已经是十分的疲惫。所以C选项是正确。
52. What does the writer mean by “this way of looking at life” in Paragraph 3?
A. Worrying about your clothes. B. Throwing unwanted things away.
C. Behaving in an anti-social way. D. Looking after your posssions.
52.B 第三段第一句话提到Carrying all your posssions on your back in urages incredible wastefulness “抛弃一切不必要的东西轻装旅行”。所以B选项正确。
53. Why did the writer originally buy an Inter-Rail ticket?
最难的脑筋急转弯A. To get to one place cheaply. B. To meet other young people.
C. To e a lot of famous places. D. To go on a tour of Europe.
53.A 文章第四段提到On that first trip，my friends and l…thinking it was just an inexpensive way of getting to and from our chon camp-site in southern France，对于这次旅行，他们不想花太多的钱，只是一次普通的旅行。所以A选项正确。
54. What the writer liked about traveling without his parents was that _______ .
A. he could e more interesting places
B. he could spend more time sighteing
C. he could stay away from home longer
