Question

I was brought up in the British, stiff upper lip style. Strong feelings aren’t something you display in public. So, you can imagine that I was unprepared for the outpouring of public grief(悲傷) at a Chinese funeral.

My funeral.editorial team leader died recently after a short illness. He was 31. The news was so unexpected that it left us all shocked and upset. A female colleague burst into tears and cried piteously at her desk. Somehow we got through the day's work. The next day was the funeral.

Our big boss stepped forward to deliver a eulogy and was soon in tears. She carried on, in Chinese of course, but at the end said in English: "There will be no more deadlines for you in heaven." Next came a long-term colleague who also dissolved in tears but carried on with her speech despite being almost overcome by emotion. Then a close friend of the dead man paid tribute(哀悼), weeping openly as he spoke. Sorrow is spreading. Me and women were now sobbing uncontrollably. Finally, the man's mother, supported between two women, addressed her son in his coffin. At one point, the mother almost collapsed and had to be held up. We were invited to step forward to each lay a white rose on the casket. Our dead colleague looked as if he was taking a nap. At the end of the service I walked away from the funeral parlor stunned at the outpouring of emotion.

In the UK, families grieve privately and then try to hold it together and not break down at a funeral. Here in China it would seem that grieving is a public affair. It strikes me that it is more cathartic to cry your eyes out than try to keep it bottled up for fear of embarrassment, which is what many of us do in the West.

Afterwards, a Chinese colleague told me that the lamenting at the funeral had been restrained(克制) by Chinese standards. In some rural areas, she said, people used to be paid to mourn noisily. This struck me like something out of novel by Charles Dickens. But we have all seen on TV scenes of grief-stricken people in Gaza and the West Bank, in Afghanistan, Iraq and the relatives of victims of terrorist bombings around the world. Chinese grief is no different. I realized that it's the reserved British way of mourning that is out of step with the rest of the world.

It was our newspaper's production day. We were bussed back to the office to resume work. No more deadlines for our former colleague, but we had to pull together to put the newspaper to print. The boss invited the team to go out for dinner after work. We relaxed, smiled, joked. There was no mention of the funeral or our poor colleague. Enough sorrow had been shed already. We needed a break.

1.The underlined words “stiff upper lip style” in Paragraph 1 mean “________”.

A．cold-blooded                       B．warm-hearted

C．light-hearted              D．self-controlled

2.At the funeral, ________.

A. five individuals made speeches

B. the boss’s speech was best thought of

C. the writer was astonished by the scene

D. everyone was crying out loudly

3.According to the writer, people in the West ________.     

A. are not willing to be sad for the dead

B. cry their eyes out at the public funeral

C. prefer to control their sadness in public

D. have better way to express sadness

4.It is implied that ________.  

A. Chinese express their sadness quite unlike other peoples

B. the English might cry noisily for the dead in Dickens’ time

C. victims of terrorist bombings should be greatly honored

D. English funeral culture is more civilized than the others

5.This passage talks mainly about________.       

A. an editor’s death                      B. bad funeral customs

C.cultural differences             D. western ways of grief 

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.D

2.C

3.C

4.B

5.C

 【解析】

試題分析：文章介紹了中英兩國葬禮文化中的不同表現(xiàn)。

1.推斷題：cold-blooded冷血的；warm-hearted熱心的；light-hearted省心的；self-controlled自我控制的。“stiff upper lip style”意為：堅定沉著，D項更為貼近，故選D。

2.細節(jié)題： 根據(jù)文章第3段最后一行 At the end of the service I walked away from the funeral parlor stunned at the outpouring of emotion. 可知C正確。

3.細節(jié)題：根據(jù)文章第4段第1句In the UK, families grieve privately and then try to hold it together and not break down at a funeral. 和最后一句It strikes me that it is more cathartic to cry your eyes out than try to keep it bottled up for fear of embarrassment, which is what many of us do in the West. 可知C正確。

4.推斷題：A項說中國人的悲傷表達方式不同于其他國家的人，在第5段中有一句Chinese grief is no different，克制A是錯的；B項在狄更斯時代英國人可能因死亡大聲哭泣，在第5段中 In some rural areas, she said, people used to be paid to mourn noisily. This struck me like something out of novel by Charles Dickens. 可知B是正確的；C項在恐怖爆炸中的犧牲者是光榮的，文中并沒有提到是否是光榮的，只說他們的親屬是悲傷的，故C項是錯誤的；D項英國人的葬禮文化比其他國家的要文明，文中并沒有說英國的葬禮文化更文明，故D項是錯誤的。因此選B。

5.推理題：根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容可知中國葬禮文化和英國的葬禮文化的不同。故選C。

考點：考查政治經(jīng)濟文化類閱讀