Question

【題目】Americans are a strange people. They work like mad, then give away much of what they earn. They play until they are exhausted, and call this a vacation. They live to think of themselves as hard-hearted business men, yet they are push-overs for any hard luck story. They have the biggest of nearly everything including government, motor cars and debts. Yet they like to think of themselves as little people, average men, and they would like to cut everything down to their own size. They show off their tall buildings, high mountains, long rivers, big state, the best country, the best world, the best heaven. Yet they also have the most traffic deaths, the most waste, and the most liars.

When they meet, they are always telling each other, "Take it easy," then they rush off like crazy in opposite directions. They play games as if they were fighting a war, and fight wars as if playing a game. They marry more, and go broke more often. They love children, animals, mother, work, excitement, noise, nature, television shows, comedy, high pace, sports, the underdog, the hero, the flag, Christmas, jazz, shapely women and muscular men, classical recordings, crowds, comics, cigarettes, warm houses in winter and cool ones in summer, thick beefsteaks, coffee, ice cream, informal dress, plenty of running water, do-it-yourself, and a working week limited to forty hours or less.

They crowd their highways with cars while complaining about the traffic, troop to movies and television while blaming the quality and the advertisements, go to church but don't care much for sermons (布道), and drink too much in the hope of relaxing—only to find themselves drunk into even bigger dreams.

There is of course, no typical (典型的) American. But if you added them all together and then divided by 226, 000, 000 they would look something like what this chapter has tried to describe.

【1】What may be the best title of the passage?

A. The Americans. B. Life in America.

C. Strange people. D. Great America

【2】What is the meaning of the underlined sentence in Para.1?

A. They like listening to bad luck stories.

B. They push the interesting stories away.

C. They can easily be moved by sad stories.

D. They are informed of good luck stories often.

【3】Which one of the following is probably NOT what the Americans love?

A. noise B. advertisement

C. smoking D. fresh water

【4】In what way did the author write this passage?

A. By comparison. B. By giving examples.

C. By experimenting. D. By telling stories.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】C

【3】B

【4】A

【解析】

試題分析：本文是一篇說明文，從多方面闡述美國人的不同生活方式。

【1】A 標題題 縱觀全文，本文講的是美國人是奇怪的一種人，他們一邊努力工作，一邊有，把他們獲得的都轉贈出去。所以答案是選A。B項，不是講的是生活，所以排除。C項范圍太廣了，奇怪的人，卻沒有點到是美國人。D選項偉大的美國人，本文沒有體現(xiàn)偉大的支持點，所以排除。

【2】C猜詞題 根據連詞yet表示前后否定，以及前面的句子中的hard-hearted（硬心腸的），不能知道這里面要表達一個熱心的或感動的，一個選項所以答案是C。

【3】B 細節(jié)題 根據第三段中的描述進行排除，文章中有提到了noise, cigarettes=smoke, plenty of running water=fresh water，所以答案選B。

【4】A寫作方法 根據文章的表達，都是使用了一個表示轉折的，那么這就意味著它所采用的是對比的方式。