内容正文:
第二部分实战演练國
Week Twelve
人与社会
历史与文化
Monday
◆答案P210
■阅读理解
伦敦出租车司机
O关键词:taxi drivers
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The English are often described as
3.What does the underlined word "cabby"
unfriendly people who don't talk to strangers.
mean?
But not London taxi drivers.I once asked one
A.Taxi.
B.Stranger.
cabby to describe his life to me and he didn't
C.Taxi driver.
stop talking until Iarrived home half an hour
D.Londoner.
later.He told me many interesting stories and
4.Why did the taxi driver wait for the
this is one of them."Some strange things
woman?
happen late at night.The other day I was taking
A.Because she had left her dog with him.
a woman home from a party.She had her little
B.Because she had not paid him.
dog with her.When we got to her house,she
C.Because she wanted to go out again.
found that she'd lost her key.So,I waited in
the cab with her dog while sheclimbed in
D.Both A and B.
through the window.”
5.Why do you think the woman didn't go out
"I waited and waited.After half an hour of
of the house again?
ringing the bell I decided to find out what was
A.Because she didn't want to pay the taxi
going on.I tied the dog to a tree and started to
driver.
climb in through the window.The next thing I:
B.Because she was so tired that she had
knew was that the police came.They thought I
forgotten about the taxi driver.
was to rob the house!Luckily,the woman
C.Because she wanted to keep the taxi
came downstairs.She'd gone to sleep and
forgotten about me and the dog.I was in such a
driver waiting.
hurry to get away that I forgot toask her for
D.Because she wanted to go to sleep first.
the fare.”
1.What does the writer think of the London
见微知者
taxi driver?
①climb in through the window通过窗户爬
A.They are unfriendly.
进去
B.They like to talk to strangers.
②tie..to..把…系在…上
C.They talk too much.
D.They are not English.
③ask sb.for sth.向某人要某物
2.From the passage,we know
④keep sb.doing sth.让某人持续做某事
A.the writer is the taxi driver's friend
异曲同工
B.the writer often travels