四川电大高级英语阅读（2）（省）任务四

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单项选择题
一、1. genuine
Awith careful attention
B. real
C. to make someone leave the house
2. paradise
Athe garden where Adam and Eve lived
B. to make someone join the army, navy etc
C. to work or act together; combine
3.intently
A.with careful attention
B. real
C.to make someone leave the house
4. plight
A.to make someone leave the house
B. a very bad situation
C. the garden where Adam and Eve lived
5
evict
A.real
B. to make someone leave the house
C. a very bad situation
二、阅读理解
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When John and Victoria Falls arrived in New York City for one-year stay, they did not bring many things with them. They had planned either to live in a furnished apartment or to buy used furniture. But they soon learned about a new system that more and more people are using. The renting of home furnishings (bed, tables, dishes, and so on) has become one of America’s fastest growing businesses
What kinds of people rent their home furnishings instead of buying them? People who are international business or government officials, foreign students, airline workers, young married couple – people whose job or business may force them to move frequently from one city to another. They save a lot of trouble and the cost of moving their furniture each time. They simply rent new furniture when they reach their new homes. Young people with little money do not want to buy cheap furniture that they may soon dislike. They prefer to wait until they have enough money to buy furniture that they really like. Meanwhile, they find they can rent better quality furniture than they could afford to buy
One family, who now have a large, beautiful home of their own, liked their rented furniture so much that they decided to keep renting it instead of buying new things
1). Which of the following has become one of America’s fastest growing businesses?
A.Selling home furnishings.
B. Renting furnished apartments
C. Selling used furniture
D. Renting home furnishings
2). Why do some people prefer to rent furniture?
A.Because the furniture they get in this way is new
B. Because it saves them a lot of money
C.Because it saves them much trouble and money
D.Because they can always get better quality furniture in this way
3). What can you infer from the passage？
A.The idea of renting furniture is not acceptable
B. Renting furniture is not popular in the couple’s hometown.（
C. Only those who don’t have enough money rent furniture
D.People usually grow to like the furniture they have rented
4). Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage?
A.Rent or Buy?
B. A New Way of Getting Home Furnishings
C. Furnished Apartments
D. A New Idea
5). Young people liked renting home furniture in that _____
A.
<p>They have less money
B. They don’t want to buy old furniture
C. The new furniture is of good quality
D.They don’t have much money and don’t want to buy the cheap furniture
2.
<p>One day a Frenchman went to New York. He didn’t know English at all. When he arrived in New York, he took a bus to his hotel
It was Sunday. He went out for a walk. As he walked along the street, he suddenly remembered that he didn’t know the name of the street. So he wanted to write it down. He looked at the wall near the corner of the street. He saw some English words and wrote them down in his notebook
“Now I know the name of the street,” he said to himself. “It will be easy for me to get back to the hotel.”
He walked for a long time in the city. He felt tired and wanted to go back. He took the notebook out of his pocket and showed the words to a young woman. She read the words in his notebook and looked at the Frenchman. She didn’t know what he wanted
The Frenchman stopped an old man and showed him the words. He didn’t know what the Frenchman wanted, either
At last he saw a young man. He knew some French. When the Frenchman showed him his words and asked him where the street was, the young man laughed, for these were the words in the Frenchman’s notebook: ONE WAY STREET
1). He wrote down the name of the street because he was interested in street names
A.T
B. F
2). The Frenchman went to a hotel after he got to New York
A.T
B. F
3). He looked at the wall and wrote down some English words
A
B
4). The young woman and the old man didn’t help the Frenchman because they didn’t know the way to the hotel
A.T
B. F
5). They young man laughed because what the Frenchman wrote was not the name of the street
A.
B
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In the UK, in the business situations, when you meet someone for the first time you shake hands and say, “How do you do?” This is not really a question, and reply to it is another greeting such as “How do you do?” or “Hello” or “I’m very pleased to meet you” or, if you have met the person sometime before, &#8220;It’s good to see you again&#8221;
You don’t shake hands every time you meet someone, you just greet them. If you are invited to someone’s house for dinner, it is usual to take a present – some chocolates or flowers or, if you know them quite well, a bottle of wine. If you do not know the host well, don’t be the last person to leave. Telephone the next day to thank the host for the meal. English people don’t like to talk about personal things, and tend to avoid religion, politics and money
Good topics for small talk(闲谈) are the weather, holidays, weekend activities, gardens and architecture（建筑物）, especially houses and homes. When you go to a pub or bar, it’s usual to take turns to buy a drink for everyone in your group and pay for the drinks when you get them from the bar and before you drink them
1). The first paragraph tells us how to greet someone in business situations
A. T
B. F
2). If you are invited to someone’s house for dinner, it’s better to leave before the last guest leaves if you don’t know the host quite well
A. T
B. F
3). English people don’t like talking about money and marriage
A.T
B. F
4). In the last paragraph the sentence “…, it’s usual to take turns to buy a drink for everyone in your group…”means it’s usual to go Dutch (平摊费用)
A.T
B.F
5). The subject matter of the passage is British way of greeting people
A.T
B. F