Question

If you were walking around a supermarket and saw a woman with a shaved head, a ring through her nose, a tattoo(文身)design on her arm and she had a small child in her shopping trolley, what would your opinion be? Do you think this kind of body decoration is attractive or ugly? Different people have different ideas. The following are some examples of body decoration from around the world.

In many parts of Africa, it is thought that an attractive girl should have really shiny skin.

On Bali, a little island in Indonesia, they believe that a beautiful woman or handsome man must have perfectly straight, flat teeth. The Balinese believe that teeth with pointed edges make you look like an ugly wild animal. So when a girl or boy becomes a teenager, he or she is taken to a special person in their village who will file off teeth points to make them smooth and flat. There is no anesthetic (麻藥)and this tooth filing is really painful. It is a kind of test. If you can stand it without screaming or crying too much, then you are thought ready to become an adult.

In Myanmar? there is a small group of people who are called the "PapaungThey believe that a woman can only be really beautiful if she has a long neck. I mean a VERY long neck. Now you might think that you are either born with a long or short neck and that there's nothing whatever you can do about it. But you would be wrong！ At around the age of 5, a Papaung girl has heavy metal rings fitted around her neck, tightly between the chin and shoulders. Each year more rings are added and very, very slowly their weight pushes the shoulders down, in this way making the neck look longer. A Papaung woman will wear her neck rings all her life, never once taking them off.

So now I'm sure you will all agree that different people have different ideas about what is beautiful.

5.    What is mainly talked about in Paragraph 1? 

A.    Women's design,

B.    Beautiful body decoration.

C.    Body decoration.

D.    Attractive decoration.

6.    What does the underlined word "trolley" mean?

A. School bag.       B. Luggage.

C.  Basket.    D.  Shopping cart.

7.    On Bali, it is believed that . 

A.    a person with straight, flat teeth looks ugly

B.    a person with sharp teeth looks ugly

C.    a teenager's teeth points must be filed off with anesthetic

D.    no one will scream or cry when having his teeth points filed off

8.    Which of the following is NOT true? 

A.    Many people think that a woman with a ring through her nose is neither attractive nor ugly.

B.    Most African people think that a girl with shiny skin is beautiful.

C.    It is thought that a beautiful woman should have straight, flat teeth on Bali.

D.    Some people think it beautiful that a woman has a long neck in Myanmar.

Answer 1

【文章大意】本文是一篇說(shuō)明文，介紹了不同地方對(duì)美的不同看

法。比如在非洲，人們認(rèn)為漂亮的女孩得擁有光澤的皮膚。而在印度尼西亞的巴厘島上，人們認(rèn)為扁平的牙齒好看，認(rèn)為尖尖的牙齒使人們看上去像野獸……

C段落大意題。文章開頭描述了一位婦女的裝扮，然后詢問人們對(duì)此的看法，引出body decoration這一話題，故選C項(xiàng)。

D詞義猜測(cè)題。根據(jù)上文a supermarket可知，作者是描述在超市購(gòu)物的婦女，由此推斷她是把小孩放在購(gòu)物車中，故選D項(xiàng)。

B 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段中的"The Balinese believe that teeth with pointed edges make you look like an ugly wild animal."可知，他們認(rèn)為牙齒尖的人難看，故選B項(xiàng)。

A細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第二 、三段內(nèi)容可知，B 、C選項(xiàng)正確；根據(jù)第四段內(nèi)容可知D選項(xiàng)正確；而A選項(xiàng)內(nèi)容在文中沒有提及，故選A項(xiàng)。