Take a look at teenagers around, dressed in baggy-pants (寬松褲), drinking soft drinks such as coke, reading Japanese cartoons. Whether you are in Beijing, Wuhan or Hong Kong, you will get the same impression. But should we copy others or should we maintain (保留) our differences?
It sounds convenient that people around the world speak the same language, dress in the same style, eat the same food and play the same games. If the world was like this, you won’t feel strange in any corner of world. But just imagine living in such a strange world. How dull and colorless it would be!
Different kinds of food that people can taste, the colorful and fashionable clothes that we dress in and different languages we speak are all part of the different cultures that our ancestors left us. These differences represent their creativity (創(chuàng)造力) and talent. And we all enjoy different cultures in our daily lives. When you travel to other places, you want to see different things. When you talk to foreigners you expect to listen to interesting stories. These differences in culture are what make life colorful.
But the whole world is shrinking into a small village as globalization (全球化) takes effect and many different cultures are disappearing. In most big cities around the world people wear the same clothes. Fast food stores are everywhere. Hollywood movies are kicking traditional performing arts out of our lives. The colors of our life are disappearing.
There is joke that even the panda and zebra want to live a colorful life. So let’s take action to protect our colorful culture before it becomes as simple as black and white.
It’s not difficult. Learning some folk songs, trying on a traditional clothing and even eating local food instead of going to KFC can help. And we’re sure you will enjoy it.
小題1:The passage is written to _______.
A．explain cultural differencesB．convince readers to maintain cultural differences
C．predict the future of globalizationD．show some cultural phenomena(現(xiàn)象)
小題2:The author thinks that cultural differences _______.
A．make the world colorfulB．make communication difficult
C．only exist in food and clothingD．will never fade away
小題3:The author starts the argument by ________.
A．mentioning certain cultural phenomena
B．mentioning his view at the very beginning
C．mentioning the opposite view at the very beginning
D．giving examples of cultural differences
小題4:The underlined word “shrink” probably means “_______”.
A．expandB．disappearC．become smallerD．grow in number
小題5:The author talks of all the following cultural phenomena except _______.
A．foodB．clothingC．languageD．a(chǎn)rchitecture

小題1:B
小題2:A
小題3:A
小題4:C
小題5:D

試題分析：這篇短文主要討論了人們在飲食，服裝及語言方面的文化差異，告訴我們正是這些文化上的差異才讓我們的世界如此多姿多彩，因此我們要保持自己的文化特點。
小題1:這篇短文主要討論了我們是該模仿他人還是保持自己的文化差異，并建議我們保持自己的文化差異。故選B。
小題2:根據(jù)第二段These differences in culture are what make life colorful. 及本段描述，可知正是文化差異才讓我們的世界多姿多彩。故選A。
小題3:根據(jù)短文第一段描述，可知作者首先列出了一些現(xiàn)象，繼而才提出問題，故選A。
小題4:聯(lián)系下文into a small village as globalization (全球化)描述，可知此處指的是整個世界正在變小，故選C，變得更小。
小題5:這篇短文主要討論了人們在飲食，服裝及語言方面的文化差異，沒有提及建筑上的差異，故選D。
點評：本文中長句較多，一時很難讀懂句子含義，注意多讀幾遍，不要強求非得理解一詞一句的含義，能把握文章大意就行。然后帶著問題閱讀短文，一般就能順利找出答題依據(jù)。對于不能直接找到根據(jù)的問題注意聯(lián)系上下文，根據(jù)短文中心總結(jié)出正確答案。
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