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Guest: I must be off now. I have an appointment at six.
Host: Well, in that case I won't keep you then. ______.
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Every Chinese-language textbook starts out with the standard phrases (短语) for greeting people;but as an American, I always found myself unable to speak freely when it came to seeing guests off at the door. Just a good-bye would not do, yet that was all I had ever learned from the terrible books. So I would smile and nod,bowing(鞠躬)like a Japanese and searching madly for words that would smooth over the visitor’ s leaving and make them feel they would be welcome to come again. In my unease,I often hid behind the skirts of my Chinese husbandy s kindness.
Then finally, listening to others, I began to pick up the phrases that eased relationships and sent people off not only successfully but also skillfully.
Partings for the Chinese include a lot of necessary habitual practice. Although I’ m not expected to observe or even know all the rules, as a foreigner, I’ ve had to learn the expressions of politeness and protest (抗议，反对)at a leaving-taking.
The Chinese feel they must see a guest off to the farthest possible point-down the flight of stairs to the street below or perhaps all the way to the nearest bus stop. I’ ve sometimes waited half an hour or more for my husband to return from seeing a guest off,since he’ s gone to the bus stop and waited for the next bus to arrive.
That’ s very well,but when I’ m the guest being seen off, my protests are always useless. My hostess or host,or both,insists on seeing me down the stairs and well on my way,with my repeating the “Don’t bother (give the trouble) to see me off” at every landing. If I try to go fast to discourage them from following, they are simply out to the discomfort of having to run after me. Better to accept the inevitable(不可避免的). Besides，that’ s going against Chinese custom, because haste (doing things quickly) is to be avoided. What do you say when you part from someone？ “Go slowly. ” Not farewell or Godspeed (祝福)，but “Go slowly”. To the Chinese it means “Take care” or “Watch your step”，or some such caution，but translated literally(照字面地)it means “Go slowly”.
It is stated clearly that the writer____.
A.is interested in the Chinese-language textbooks
B.is proud of being able to greet people at the door
C.is unsatisfied with the Chinese-language textbooks
D.is afraid of the standard phrases from the textbooks
It can be inferred that the writer ____.A.speaks Chinese
B.lives in the USA
C.dislikes her husband’ s ways of seeing guests off
D.refuses to follow the Chinese custom of seeing guests off
According to the passage all of the following are necessary in the Chinese partings except_____.A.seeing the guests off to the farthest point
B.protesting again and again
C.running after the guests
D.saying “Go slowly”
The Chinese use “ Go slowly” in their partings so as to____.A.slow down the guests
B.ask the guests to take care
C.wish the guests a happy journey
D.warn the guests of danger on their way home
— OK. ()
A.Take it easy.
B.Go slowly.
C.See you.
A.You must be tired.
B.Couldn't you stay a little longer？
C.I'm sorry to have taken up too much time.
D.Go slowly.
The killer bees should not be coming at all. Nature did not put them on this direct path for the United States; human beings did. The killer bees are from Africa. But in 1957 a scientist from Brazil got some of these killer bees for his experiments. The aim was to produce a better bee. However, an accident happened: a guest beekeeper let twenty-six of the queen bees escape by mistake. Before long, groups of killer bees took off for the woods.
Since that time, the wild killer bees have multiplied(繁衍) many times over. By 1998, their population was over 1015. They have spread all over South America, Central America, and most of Mexico. The United States is the next stop.
Are the killer bees really killers？ Yes, they are. In their first thirty years in America, they have killed thousands of hens, pigs, and other animals. While no one knows the exact number, it is believed that several hundred people have also been killed.
So be careful. Killer bees are on the way. Scientists have no idea what to do with them yet. There must be a way.
We know from the passage that killer bees will spread to the United States ______.
A．from north
B．from south
C．from west
D．from east
Washington Irving’s Sunnyside in Tarrytown, New York
Accompanying a plan of Sunnyside (unprinted here), a former residence of Washington Irving in New York, is the following text.We have left out its title, which indicates clearly its purpose, in the hope that the reader will reconstruct it after reading the text.
Sunnyside is one of the few surviving and best-documented examples of American romanticism in architecture and landscape design.Andrew Jackson Downing featured Sunnyside in his Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (1841) as an example of the "progressive improvement in Rural Architecture..." which, he explained, strives to be in "perfect keeping" with "surrounding nature" by its "varied" and "picturesque" outline.'Architectural beauty," he taught, "must be considered conjointly with the beauty of the landscape,"
Walking the 24-acre grounds is a pleasure in every season.Swans glide on the pond Irving called "the little Mediterranean", and a stone flume delights the ear with the sound of rushing water.A path leads up a small rise and from there down into "the glen," and up to the house.Behind the house, another path winds along the Hudson for views of the river at its widest point, the Tappan Zee.
The modest stone cottage which was later to become Sunnyside was originally a tenant farmer's house built in the late-seventeenth century on the Philipsburg Manor.During the eighteenth century, the cottage was owned by a branch of the Van Tassel family, the name Irving later immortalized in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".
Irving purchased the cottage in 1835 and directed the remodeling, adding Dutch-stepped gables, ancient weathervanes, and developing Gothic and Romanesque architectural features for other parts of the house.He was so pleased with his home that in 1836 he wrote to his brother, Peter: "I am living most cozily and delightfully in this dear, bright little home, which I have fitted up to my own humor.Everything goes on cheerily in my little household and I would not exchange the cottage for any chateau in Christendom."
Today's visitor to Sunnyside sees Irving's home much as it appeared during the final years of his life.The author's booklined study contains his writing desk—a gift from his publisher, G.P.Putnam and many personal possessions.The dining room, in which Irving and his dinner guests often gathered to enjoy the beautiful sunsets over the Hudson River, adjoins the parlor.Here Irving played his flute, while his nieces, Sarah and Catherine, accompanied him on the rosewood piano.The piano and other original furnishings still grace the room.The small picture gallery off the parlor contains some original illustrations for Irving's work.The kitchen was quite advanced for its day, having a hot water boiler and running water fed from the pond through a gravity-blow system.The iron cookstove was also a "modern convenience," replacing the open hearth in the 1850's.
The second floor of the house contains several bedrooms, each of which has its own personal character.The guest bedroom is furnished with a French-style. bed and painted cottage pieces.The ingenious arches in this and other rooms were designed by Irving.His bedroom, where he died in 1859, contains the author's tester Sheraton bed, along with his walking stick and a number of his garments and personal effects.The small, bright room between the bedrooms might have been used by Irving's nephew and biographer, Pierre Munro Irving, who cared for his uncle during the last months of his life.The room was used originally to store books and papers.The bedroom used by Irving's nieces contains an Irving-family field bed with hand-made bobbin lace hangings, a chest of drawers, sewing stands, and an ornamental stove.The guest room contains a cast iron bed probably made in one of the foundries along the Hudson.
Write True (T) or False (F)for the following questions.
1.Sunnyside is the former residence of Washington Irving in Washington D.C.()
2.Sunny side is a typical representative of Romanticism of American city architecture.()
3.According to Andrew Jackson Downing , architectural beauty must be in harmony with the beauty of the surrounding landscape.()
4.During the 18th century ,the cottage was owned by Van Tassel who was mentioned by Irving in his book “the Legend of the Hollow” .()
5.Irving didn’t make any change to the cottage after he purchased it.()
6.Today’s Sunnyside has changed a lot compared with its appearance in Irving’s time.()
7.Sunnyside was built near the Hudson River.()
8.The study , the dining room , the parlor and the kitchen are all on the first floor of Irving’s house.()
9.All the bedrooms on the second floor are almost furnished in the same style.()
10.Washington Irving was cared for by his daughter during the last period of his life.()
A public house which was recently bought by Mr. James is up for sale.He is going to sell it because it is haunted (闹鬼的). He told me that he could not go to sleep one night because he heard a strange noise coming from the bar. The next morning, he found that the doors had been blockedby chairs and the furniture had been moved. Though Mr. James had turned the lights off before he went to bed, they were on in the morning.
He also said that he had found five empty whisky bottles which the ghost(鬼) must have drunk the night before. When I suggested that some villagers must have come in for a free drink, he shook his head. The villagers have told him that they will not accept it even if he gives it away.
1. Mr. James was the owner of the public house.
A：T B：F
2. Mr. James had not turned off the lights that night.
A：T B：F
3. Mr. James built the house.
A：T B：F
4. Mr. James found sixty empty bottles.
A：T B：F
5. The writer of the passage believes Mr. James' story.
A：T B：F
A.study abroad
B.work abroad
C.pay for the debts
D.1earn to paint pictures
I had an experience recently with someone admitting to me that he had made a mistake fifteen years ago. He told me he had been the manager of a certain store in the neighborhood where I grew up; and he asked me if I remembered the egg cartons (in many countries, eggs are sold by the dozen and are put in cartons). Then he related an incident(event, matter)and I began to remember unclearly the incident he was describing.
I was about eight years old at the time. I went into the store with my mother to do some shopping. On that particular day, I must have found my way to the food department where the incident took place.
There must have been a special sale on eggs that day because there were lots of eggs in dozen and half-dozen cartons. The cartons were put three or four feet high. I must have stopped in front of the piles of egg cartons. Just then a woman came by pushing her shopping cart and knocked off the cartons. For some reason, I decided it was up to me to put the eggs back together, so I went to work.
The manager heard the noise and came rushing over to see what had happened. When he appeared, I was on my knees looking at some of the cartons to see if any of the eggs were broken, but to him it looked as though I was the one who just did it. He severely reprimanded me and wanted me to pay for any broken eggs. I tried to explain, but it did no good. Even though I quickly forgot all about the incident, it is plain that the manager did not.
According to this passage, many people will have a good opinion of those who ______.
A．have never made any mistakes
B．often make mistakes but correct them in no time
C．admit their mistakes
D．forget other people's mistakes easily
SECTION B INTERVIEW
Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.
Now listen to the interview.
听力原文：Interviewer: Mrs.. Leech, can you describe some of the things your school does with aggressive children？
Mrs. Leech: Well, you must realize that when he comes here he is meeting other aggressive children, and aggressive children all together usually sum each other up.
Interviewer: Uhumm.
Mrs. Leech: And they find that aggressiveness here doesn't pay off because you can be jolly sure there's one tougher and worse than he is.
Interviewer: Uhumm.
Mrs. Leech: So I usually have, eh,... I say usually,...
Interviewer: Uhumm.
Mrs. Leech: Sometimes have organized fights. I...
Interviewer: Organized fights？ You actually...
Mrs. Leech: Yes.
Interviewer: You actually encourage the children to ...
Mrs. Leech: We have a ring and we have a bell.
Interviewer: A boxing ring？
Mrs. Leech: Yes!
Interviewer: Uhumm.
Mrs. Leech: And er... they must conform, they must keep to the rules, and when they have either lost or won, we discuss after a) what it is like to be the winner and b) what it is like to lose. And we carry on with our discussion and go on to what it is like in life.
Interviewer: Hmm.
Mrs. Leech: We must win or lose and we must do each very gracefully.
Interviewer: Can you give some reason why children are aggressive.
Mrs. Leech: If a child is one of six or seven children.., er... it's pretty sure that he is naughty and aggressive because he is crying out for attention and in this large family he's found that a jolly good way of getting attention is to shout, be naughty. At least mummy turns round and says, "Be quiet,...
Interviewer: Uhumm.
Mrs. Leech: Be a good boy, or you'll get this or that.
Interviewer: So some children are aggressive simply in order...
Mrs. Leech: To gain attention!
Interviewer: To gain...
Mrs. Leech: Aggressiveness usually is that. It's...
Interviewer: Uhumm.
Mrs. Leech: It's really the children crying out and saying, "Look at me, please."
Interviewer: Umm.
Mrs. Leech: I'm not saying it's the answer in all circumstances but it usually is.
Interviewer: Can you give some of the advantages of your school, as compared with ordinary schools.
Mrs. Leech: The classes are smaller for one thing.
Interviewer: How small？
Mrs. Leech: Er... we only have groups up to five or six.
Interviewer: Uhumm. And in a normal school？
Mrs. Leech: Oh, well.., that varies, of course, but it could be thirty to forty.
Interviewer: Uhum.
Mrs. Leech: Urn... here he does have individual attention every day.
Interviewer: Er... do you think the work is important？
Mrs. Leech: I du. Er... without our unit or something similar...
Interviewer: The unit is the school？
Mrs. Leech: Yes, the whole unit.
Interviewer: Uhum.
Mrs. Leech: I think a lot of children would be left and then perhaps at the age of sixteen, we wonld have our juvenile delinquent. I'm not saying we're curing them all.
Interviewer: Uhum.
Mrs. Leech: But I think at least with the unit available to these children, they have had a chance to make good.
Interviewer: Ummm.
Mrs. Leech: I'm not saying it always pays off, but they have had a chance.
What sort of children attend Mrs. Leeches school？
A．Naughty and violent.
B．Slow and retarded.
C．Wicked but clever.
D．Deserted but aggressive.
