Question

After I made it to the city center, I started to feel it might be easy for a foreigner to deal with the great size of Beijing. With growing confidence, I decided to take the subway to the hotel, not realizing that the network didn’t go that far. Impressed with the cleanliness of the station, I bought a ticket and boarded the first train that came along.

After a few minutes I asked in English of course a young man seated next to me where I should get off closest to the Friendship Hotel. Wearing a smart business suit and tie, he would surely speak English, wouldn’t he? Unfortunately, he couldn’t understand me but seemed very friendly. I showed him the room card with all the information of the Friendship Hotel in Chinese characters. He looked at it, and then his eyes moved quickly to the carriage （車廂） subway map. Next, he raised three fingers of his right hand.

In Australia, raising fingers at someone is not usually nice, but this man wasn’t smiling. At the next station he showed me two fingers. Now in Australia, that’s really rude, but I got the message. When we stopped at the third station, he didn’t just point to the door, but got up, took me out of the train, and led me to the top of the stairs, and out onto the street. Then he stopped a taxi and told the driver where to take me.

All this came from a man who couldn’t speak my language, and I couldn’t speak his. I was now speechless, especially when he refused my offer of money. I felt a little embarrassed having even thought he would accept a tip.

This experience made it clear I had to learn some Chinese quickly or my adventures might start turning into bad luck.

1.The author decided to take the subway because ________.

A．he lived near the city center

B．the network covered most of the stops

C．he believed in his ability to deal with the trip

D．he had a good impression of its cleanliness

2.Having been shown the room card, the young man_________.

A．understood the author well

B．still remained puzzled

C．a(chǎn)nswered the author directly

D．pointed at the subway map

3.Which of the following can’t be used to describe the young man?

A．helpful B．rude

C．warmhearted D．caring

4.The author’s purpose of writing this passage is mainly to ________.

A．prove the importance of being careful

B．a(chǎn)ppreciate the kindness of the young man

C．complain some cultural misunderstanding

D．describe one of his adventurous experiences

Answer 1

1.C

2.A

3.B

4.D

【解析】

試題分析:本文主要講述了作者在北京問路的事情。作者并不會講中文，于是在地鐵上他向一位年輕人問路，雖然這位年輕人不會說英語，但是卻親自送作者走出地鐵站并為作者叫了輛計程車去目的地。

1.C 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第一段的With growing confidence, I decided to take the subway to the hotel, not realizing that the network didn’t go that far可知選擇C，作者相信自己能處理好這次旅程。

2.A 推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第二段的He looked at it, and then his eyes moved quickly to the carriage （車廂） subway map. Next, he raised three fingers of his right hand.可知，年輕人看到房卡后就看車廂的地圖，然后伸出三根手指頭。說明年輕人已經(jīng)知道作者的意思，故選擇A。

3.B 推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容可知，年輕人雖然不會說英語卻幫助了作者，由此可判斷選項A、C、D都是正確的。故選擇B，年輕人并不粗魯。

4.主旨大意題。通過對整篇文章的理解可知，作者就是講述了自己在北京的冒險經(jīng)歷，故選擇D。

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