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【題目】America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while — then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending (延伸) sometimes deeply into both families.

Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality (好客) easily.

Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may begenerous with our time. Sometimes, we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at homes, but truly can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine. They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably.Z*X*X*K]

For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality at home!

【1】The writer of this passage must be ______.

A. an American B. a Chines

C. a professor D. a student

【2】Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their families.

B. Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives.

C. Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy.

D. Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break.

【3】The underlined words “generous with our time” in Paragraph 3 probably mean ______.

A. strict with time B. serious with time

C. careful with time D. willing to spend time

【4】A suitable title for this passage would probably be “______”.

A. Friendships between Chinese

B. Friendships between Americans

C. Americans’ hospitality

D. Americans’ and Chinese’s views of friendships

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】C

【3】D

【4】D

【解析】試題分析：短文大意：美國是一個流動的社會。美國人之間的友誼可以接近真實，然而如果情況變化很快消失。任何一方都不覺得受傷害。雙方可能在一年或兩年交換圣誕問候，也許通信一陣子之后就沒有了。如果相同的兩個人有再次見面的機會，甚至幾年后，他們會繼續(xù)他們的友誼。這可能對中國人來說是非常難理解，因為我們之間的友誼發(fā)展得慢但后來可能成為終身的感情。

【1】B細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章的第一段：This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand,故選B。

【2】D細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章的第一段：If the same two people meet again by chance，even years later，they pick up the friendship.可知同兩個人甚至數(shù)年后有機會再見面，他們還會繼續(xù)他們的友誼，故選D。

【3】D詞義猜測題。generous with our time 的意思是樂意跟我們花費時間，故選D。

【4】D:標題歸納題。本文在談論中國和美國對友誼的觀點不同，故選D。

【名師點評】做標題類題型的常用方法：做標題類的題型時常用略讀法，即通過略讀文章，快速找出各個段落的主題句。把各個段落的主題句聯(lián)系起來就能概括出文章的中心。文章的標題是中心思想最精煉的表達形式，選擇的標題意義范圍要能涵蓋全文，不能太大，也不能太小。命題人在出這類題時，常常利用生活常識編造干擾項，把文中的細節(jié)當主旨；或利用局部信息編造超出文章范圍的標題或不能涵蓋文章中心意義的標題來考查考生的理解程度，因此考生要特別留意。針對上述情形，要做好標題歸納題，還要注意用“三性一法”法，即“概括性、針對性、醒目性和逆推法”。