第三部分阅读 (共两节，满分40分)
第一节阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C 和 D 项中，选出最佳选项。
No matter how well you understand a foreign language, misunderstanding still exists between native speake
rs and you. Here is such an example.
Thre
e young
Frenchmen were traveling in Britain. Though they had taken a few English lessons before their holiday, they were often in trouble because of their misunderstanding of English. One day they talked about their misfortunes(不幸) together.
The first Frenchman said, “I once heard someone shout ‘Look out’, I put my head out of a window and a bucketful(一桶) of water fell on me.”
The second Frenchman said, “I was once in a ship and heard the captain shouted, ‘All hands on decks(甲板).’ I put my hands on the deck and someone walked on them.”
The third Frenchman said, “I once called early on an English friend and the maid(女佣) who came to the door said, ‘He’s not up yet.’ When I went again for him, she said, ‘ He’s not down yet’. I said, ‘ If he’s not up and he’s not down, where is he?’ She said, ‘He’s still upstairs now. When I told you he was not up I meant he had not got up yet, so he has not come downstairs by now.’”
31. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. Misunderstanding of English B. Three Young Frenchmen
C. Misfortunes of Three Frenchmen D. A Few English Lessons
32. When someone is calling “look out” to you, he probably wants you to ___________.
A. put your head out of the window B. receive a bucket of water
C. be careful D. go away
33. The sentence “All hands on decks” may mean _______________.
A. you should put your hands on the desk B. everyone should get ready
C. someone walks over one’s hands D. someone is making fun of a foreigner
34. The third Frenchman made a mistake _____________.
A .in visiting a friend at an improper time B. in recognizing the maid
C. in recognizing his friend D
. in telling from “up” and “down”
35. This article is written to tell us _____________.
A. that English is difficult to learn.
B. why we are misunderstood by others
C. however well we know a foreign language, we may still have some misunderstanding of it.
D. to learn English better
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share of winning tickets was bought by people in the town of Nava, in the north-western Asturias region.
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devil was Bessie Coleman．She was the
first black woman to fly an airplane．
born in Texas in 1892, the tenth of 13 children, dreamed of becoming a pilot．To earn money for flying lessons, she washed other people's laundry．At the age of 19 she took a t
rain to Chicago, where she began to study in a beauty school．For five years she worked in a barbershop, and then she looked for a flying school．There were none in the United States that would teach women, but Coleman heard that there were schools in France that would．So she studied the language and sailed off to France．
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