科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:阅读理解
My friend Dr. Dong had a wonderful chance to go to Seattle to present a paper at a professional meeting. When he got back to Beijing, he told me his experience.
Dr. Dong enjoyed his first days very much. At the medical conference, he felt quite confident in his area of research and was able to perform well in his presentation. But after a few days, he began to feel uncomfortable. His medical English was fine, but the social communication skills were different.
He got more and more worried that he was misunderstanding simple English greetings and table talk conventions(习俗). When someone greeted him with, “Hi, how’s it going?” he thought they had asked him “Where are you going?” and answered with the name of the conference hall, only to get a surprised stare from them. At a western style dinner, a colleague asked, “So how’re you enjoyin’ the States?” he thought he heard, “how are you enjoying your steak?” and answered that he was eating chicken, not beef. That time, they smiled, and patiently repeated the question, then both laughed at the error.
By the end of the meetings, Dr. Dong felt a deep sense of “cultural stress” and was worn out from having to pay attention to so many new expressions and ways of dealing with things. He felt his handshake was not as firm as Americans’, found that people reacted unusually when he modestly insisted his English was not good after they complimented(称赞) him, didn’t know how to accept dinner invitations properly and therefore missed out on going to several lunches, and so on. Eventually, he was so confused that he felt the full impact of “culture shock”.
Why did Dr. Dong travel to Seattle?
A. To improve his spoken English. B. To experience culture shock.
C. To give lectures on his research. D. To attend a medical conference.
Which of the following best describes Dr. Dong’s experience in Seattle?
A. Comfortable—very uncomfortable—uncomfortable.
B. comfortable—very uncomfortable—comfortable.
C. Comfortable—uncomfortable – very uncomfortable.
D. Comfortable—uncomfortable – very comfortable.
Dr. Dong felt a deep sense of “cultural stress” mainly because_______.
A. he was too modest B. he didn’t understand cultural differences
C. he lacked confidence D. he was not good at English listening
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:阅读理解
Why does night fall but never break and day break but never fall?
Why are people who ride motorcycles called bikers and people who ride bikes called cyclists?
In what other language do people drive in a parkway and park in a driveway?
In what other language do they call the third hand on the clock the second hand?
Let’s face it: English is a crazy language. There is no egg in an eggplant, neither pine nor apple in a pineapple and no ham in a hamburger. Sweet-meats are candy, while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But when we explore its paradoxes (探讨它的矛盾), we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, public bathrooms have no baths in them.
And why is it that a writer writes, but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce, and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn’t the plural of booth be beeth? One goose, two geese — so one moose, two meese?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next?
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of human beings. That’s why, when stars are out, they are visible; but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it; but when I wind up this essay, I end it.
According to the passage ______.
A. sweet-meats and sweetbreads are different things
B. there should be egg in an eggplant
C. pineapples are the apples on the pine tree
D. boxing rings should be round
Which of the following includes two items which have the similar meaning?
A. A wise man and a wise guy.
B. Overlook and oversee.
C. Quite a lot and quite a few.
D. Hot as hell and cold as hell.
The underlined words “wind up” in the last paragraph probably mean “______”.
A. blow B. roll up C. get hurt D. finish
Through the many paradoxes in the English language, the writer wants to show that human beings are ______.
A. clever B. crazy C. lazy D. dull
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科目:高中英语 来源:天津市2010届高三下学期第一次模拟考试英语试卷 题型:阅读表达
第Ⅱ卷 (非选择题,共35分)
注意事项:
1.第Ⅱ卷共2页,用蓝、黑色的钢笔或圆珠笔直接答在试卷中。
2.答卷前,请将密封线内的项目填写清楚。
第三部分:写作
第一节:阅读表达(共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分)
阅读下面短文,按照要求完成阅读任务。
Native Tongue
At first Kate thought the Romanian girl could not speak and understand English. Nadia would not reply to anything Kate said. Kate was in charge of showing Nadia around on her first day at Buckminster Grade School. Kate could not figure out why the school had put Nadia in a class where she could not understand what people were saying.
“Why did they do this?” Kate wondered aloud. “I mean, you can’t learn if you can’t understand the teacher.”
Nadia’s voice was a whisper. “I understand English. I will learn.” Nadia’s English was perfect.
Kate was perplexed. She couldn’t understand why Nadia did not like to speak. Then she realized that moving to a new country probably wasn’t the easiest thing to do. There were hundreds of unfamiliar and unusual things to learn all at the same time.
“There’re a lot of new things to learn, huh?” said Kate.
Nadia nodded rapidly. In a quiet voice she replied, “Many things people say, I do not understand. I have been speaking English and Romanian all my life, but I do not know what some children are saying. For example, yesterday a boy asked if I could help him find the USB port on a thin black box he was carrying. Isn’t a port a place for ships? I was confused.”
“Don’t worry,” said Kate. “You’ll figure everything out in time. You see, that thin black box was a computer. A USB port is a place where you can connect other machines to a computer.”
Nadia and Kate were quiet after that. They took notes while the teacher gave a maths lesson. To Kate’s surprise, Nadia put up her hand and offered to answer questions at the blackboard.
Nadia handled every question the teacher gave her. Some of the questions were really difficult, and no one understood what was going on except Nadia and the teacher. When the teacher said that Nadia answered everything correctly, the whole class clapped their hands.
Nadia was smiling when she sat back down next to Kate. “Some things,” she said in a normal voice, “are the same all over the world.”
56. Where did Nadia come from? (Within 5words)
_______________________________________________________________________________57. What made Kate perplexed? (Within 5words)
______________________________________________________________________________
58. Please explain the phrase “figure everything out” in English. (Within 10words)
______________________________________________________________________________
59. Will you please give the reason why Nadia always kept quiet? (Within 15words)
______________________________________________________________________________
60. Did Nadia change a lot after her stay in America, what are they? (Within 20 words)
_______________________________________________________________________________
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科目:高中英语 来源:2013届福建省高一下学期期中考试英语试题(必修Ⅲ) 题型:单词拼写
根据中文或首字母的提示填入单词,注意单词的正确形式(每题1分;共10分)
1. There was a sign in the window of his restaurant: “C______ are God!”.
2. His English was so l ______ that he couldn’t even tell the foreign friend where he was from.
3. To be honest, I was not on the_____(现场) when the accident happened.
4. As far as I know, he has a g_______ for business.
5. Because of the _____ (到场) of the famous football star, everyone cheered up.
6. The disease is s__________ quickly, so we must do what we can to stop it.
7. At first she didn’t like English but g__________ she is interested in it.
8. What she saw t____________ her and she had bad dreams every night after that.
9. The US President Obama said he was_____(给......极深地印象))at the Great Wall.
10. You run first and I can easily catch up with you w_______ 50 meters.
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科目:高中英语 来源:20102011浙江溫州八校高一下学期期末考试英语试题 题型:单词拼写
第一节:单词拼写(共10小题; 每小题0.5分,满分5分)
1. In Africa, still quite a number of children die of h______ because of lack of food every day.
2. Nowadays, China can not only feed herself but also e________ some rice to other countries.
3. Now that you have grown up, you should r__________ on yourself.
4. He is afraid of the dog as he has ever been b___________ by a dog.
5. The bad weather a _________ for the long delay(延迟) of the plane.
6. You’d better a____________ to your mother for your rudeness.
7. Your smoking can be h___________ to the health of your children.
8. Vancouver is s_____________ by mountains on the north and east and the Pacific Ocean on the west.
9. He found his English was so l________ that he couldn’t make himself understood by the foreign customers in the shop.
10. The new hospital will be a great b________ to the town.
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