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重庆缙云教育联盟2022-2023学年(下)期末质量检测
高二英语
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4.全卷共10页,满分120分,听力部分另行测试,考试时间100分钟。
第二部分 阅读(共两节,满分50分)
第一节(共15小题:每小题1.5分,满分37.5分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
When I was sixteen years old, I made my first visit to the United States. It wasn’t the first time that I had been abroad. Like most English children, I learned French at school. I had often been to France, so I was used to speaking a foreign language to the people who didn’t understand English. But when I went to America, I was really looking forward to having a nice easy holiday without any language problems.
How wrong I was! The misunderstandings (误解) began at the airport. I was looking for a public telephone to give my American friend Jenny a call and tell her that I had arrived. A friendly old man asked me if he could help me.
“Yes,” I said, “I want to give my friend a ring.”
“Well, that’s nice,” he said. “Are you getting married?”
“Who is talking about marriage?” I replied. “I only want to give my friend a ring to tell her I’ve arrived. Can you tell me where there’s a phone box?”
“Oh!” he said, “there’s a phone downstairs.”
When at last we met, Jenny explained the misunderstandings to me.
“Don’t worry,” she said to me. “I had so many difficulties at first. There are lots of words which the Americans use differently in meaning from the British. You’ll soon get used to all the funny things they say. Most of the time British and American people understand each other!”
1.The writer thought ________ in America.
A.he wouldn’t have any language difficulties
B.he would not understand the Americans
C.the Americans might not understand him
D.he would have difficulty at the airport
2.From the passage we know that “give somebody a ring” ________.
A.means the same in America as in England
B.means “call somebody” to the old man
C.has two different meanings
D.means “be going to get married” in England
3.I