Question

When I was fourteen years old, I made my first visit to the United States. It wasn’t the first time I had been abroad (Like many English children, I had often been to France). So when I went to America I thought I would have a nice easy holiday without any language problem.

How wrong I was! The misunderstanding began at the airport. I was looking for a public telephone to tell my American friend Danny that I had arrived. A friendly old man saw me looking lost and asked if he could help me.

“Yes,” I said, “I want to give my friend a ring.”

“Well, that’s nice,” he said, “Are you getting married? But aren’t you too young?”

“Who is talking about marriage?” I replied, “I only want to give my friend a ring to tell him I’ve arrived. Can you tell me where there is a phone box?”

“Oh,” he said, “there is a phone downstairs.”

When at last we met, Danny explained the misunderstanding to me.

“Don’t worry,” he said to me, “I had so many difficulties at first. There are lots of words which Americans use differently in meaning from British people. You’ll soon get used to all the funny things they say. Most of the time, British and American people understand each other.”

1.The writer was from________.

A. JapanB. FranceC. AmericaD. England

2.The writer thought ________ in America at first.

A. he wouldn’t have any language difficulties

B. he would be lost and he had to call the police for help

C. he wouldn’t understand the Americans

D. he would have a terrible holiday

3.The writer wanted to ________ at the airport.

A. have a mealB. buy a mapC. call his friendD. find an old man

4.According to（根據） the friendly old man, “give somebody a ring” means “________”.

A. make a telephone call to somebody

B. be going to get married

C. buy a ring for somebody

D. ask somebody to wear a ring

5.The underlined word “they” refers to ________.

A. the old man and the boy B. the British

C. the French D. the Americans

 

Answer 1

1.D

2.A

3.C

4.B

5.D

【解析】

試題解析：本文大意：當我十四歲時，我第一次去美國，像許多英語國家的孩子一樣，我經常去法國，所以當我去美國時，我認為我會過一個沒有任何語言問題的美好容易的假期。誤會在機場開始，我正在找一個公共電話告訴我的美國朋友丹尼我已經到了，一個友好的老人見我看上去迷路了，問我是否能幫我，我說我想給我的朋友打電話，他說很好，問我結婚了嗎，我是不是太年輕了？我回答到，誰在談婚姻啊，我只是想給我的朋友打電話告訴他我已經到了，您能告訴我哪有電話亭嗎？他說樓下有一個。當我最后和丹尼見到時，他給我解釋了誤解。他說開始他也有很多困難，有許多美國人使用的單詞意思與英國人用的不一樣，不久就會習慣他們說的有趣的事情的，多數情況下，英美人能彼此聽明白。

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