阅读理解5
Passage 3--(广告学考研学校
机场女孩)
Sixteen-year-old Maria was waiting in line at the airport in Santo Domingo. She was leaving her native country to join her sister in the United States. She spoke English very well. Though she was very happy she could go abroad, she was feeling sad at leaving her family and fiends. As she was thinking all about this, she suddenly heard the airline empl我的心愿
oyee asking her to pick up her luggage and put it on the scales (称).Maria pulled and pulled. The bag was too heavy and she just couldn't lift it up. The man behind her got very impatient. He, too, was waiting to check in his luggage.
Maria,十六岁,她正在圣多明各(多米尼加首都)的机场排队等候。她正要离开自己的祖国去美国和她的姐姐团聚。她的英语讲得很好。虽然她要出国了觉得很高兴,但此时要离开她的家人和朋友也很伤心。正在她想这些的时候,她突然听到机场的工作人员正在叫她把行李放到称上。Maria拉了又拉,包太重,她根本抬不起来。她后面的男人很不耐烦了。他也是等着托运行李的。
"What's wrong with this girl?" He said, "Why doesn't s碟鱼做法
he hurry up?" He moved forward and placed his bag on the counter, hoping to check in fist. He was in a hurry to get a good at.
“这女孩怎么了?”他说道,“她为什么不快点?”他走到前面,把包放在台上,希望能先登记。他急着想要得到一个好的座位。
Maria was very angry, but she was very polite. And in her best English she said, "Why are you so upt? There are enough ats for everyone on the plane. If you are in such a hurry, why can't you give me a hand with my luggage?"
Maria很生气,但她很有礼貌。她用最优美的英语说,“你为什么如此不耐烦?飞机上的每个人都有座位。如果你真的很急,为什么不能帮我搬一下行李?”
The man was surprid to hear Maria speak English. He quickly picked up her luggage and stepped back. Everyone was looking at him with disapproval. (224 words)
这男人听到Maria会讲英语觉得很惊讶。他很快拿起自己的行李退了回去。每个人都很不赞成得看着他。
6.Maria's story happened _ . Ma英语be动词
ria的故事发生在什么时候?
A. when she was leaving America
B. on her way back to Santo Domingo
C. before she left the USA
D. when she arrived at the airport 她到达机场后。
答案:D、
知识点:细节题。
解析:从文章第一段第一句,可以看到“她正在机场“。
解题方法:直接寻找法。到文中找出题目可能在的范围,然后具体寻找与题目相关的句子。
7.You believe that the work of the airline employee mentioned in the story is to ____________________________________________________________ a t the airport.
你认为故事中提到的机场工作人员的工作是什么?
A. help carry people's luggage
B. ask people to pick up the luggage
C. check people's luggage 检查旅客的行李
D. take care of people's luggage
答案:C
知识点:推断题。
解析:在第一段的后半部分说到“让她把行李放称上“,看到这句,考生很可能就会误选成B了。但再深一步思考把行李放称上的原因,就可以知道是为了检张镰斧
查行李,所以选C。
解题方法:推断法。从文中找到与题目相关的句子后,再深入思考一下背后的深层原因。
8."Why are you so upt?" Maria said to the man. She wanted to阑尾的位置图片
tell him that he should not be
. “为什么你如此不耐烦?”Maria对那个男人说。她这么说是要告诉他不
要不高兴。
A. surprid
B. sad
C. unhappy
D. sorry
答案:C
知识点:分析题。
解析:在第二段末尾,“He was in hurry to get a good at.”从这句话可以
看出,这个人很焦急,因为Maria放行李很慢,也阻碍了他,所以他不高兴。
解题方法:代入法。把自己代入文中角色,身临其境地体会人物的想法和心情。
9."Everyone was looking at him with disapproval." This ntence means
that the people around felt ________________________________________曼隆学院
_________________ .
“每个人都很不赞成地看着他”这句话的意思是周围的人为这男人的行为感
到很遗憾。
A. worried about Maria
B. worried about the man
C. sorry for Maria's manners
D. sorry for the man's manners
答案:D
知识点:语义题。
解析:结合上文,可以看出这个男人的做法是不对的,引起默认用户
了周围人的反感,不
是担心,AB两项排除。be sorry for “为感到抱歉“,这儿这可能是为男人
的行为,绝不会是Maria.所以,选D。
解题方法:排除法。将选项与题目对应,一一分析排除。
10.The author mentioned Maria's age at the beginning of the story in order to show that __________________________________________________________ .
作者在故事的开头就提到Maria的年龄是为了表达什么?
A.she was young but behaved properly 她很小,但行为很得体。
B.she would not have left home alone
C.everyone around her was wrong
D.it was not good that nobody offered to help her
答案:A
知识点:推断题。
解析:作者开头就点出Maria的年龄很小。再结合后面的情节,可以推断出她的行为得体,比那个成年男人举止更得体。这是作者想表达的。此题容易误选D。解题方法:结合上下文,把前后文对应,找出内在的联系。
KEY:DCCDA
Passage 4 (英国和法国)
Britain and Fran辣椒辣手
ce are parated by the English Channel, a body of water that can be crosd in as f
ew as 20 minutes. But the cultures of the two countries sometimes em to be miles apart.
英国和法国被英吉利海峡阻隔,游泳穿越该海峡只要不到20分钟的时间。但这两个国家的文化有时相差十万八千里。
Last Thursday Britain and France celebrated the 100th anniversary (周年纪念)of the signing of a friendship agreement called the Entente