2022-2023学年中职高一高考班晚自习英语阅读理解练习题+Week+1

阅读理解

Passage 1

America is a mobile society.Friendships between Americans can be close and real,yet disappear soon.They don’t feel hurt.If the same two people meet again even years later, they pick up the friendship.This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand.Friendships between us develop more slowly but may become lifelong feelings,extending(延伸)deeply into both families.

There is another difficult point for us to understand.Although Americans treat friends warmly in their personal everyday lives,they don’t show their politeness to them if it requires a great deal of time. But in China,we are usually generous with our time.We,as hosts,will appear at an airport even in the middle of the night to meet a friend.We may take day off from our work to act as guides to our friends:It is opposite in America,Americans can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily plans. They will probably expect the visitors to get themselves from the airport to the hotels.And they expect the visitors will phone them from there.Once the visitors arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full,warm and real.

For Americans,it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to restaurants,except for business matters.Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes,share their holidays,and their home life.So accept their hospitality(好客)at home and enjoy your visit in America!

1.The underlined phrase “pick up”in Paragraph 1may mean “_______”.

　A.keep out  B.give up C.pay no attention to  D.continue

2.Which of the following is the typical (典型的 )way of American hospitality?

　A.Treating friends at home.

　B.Taking days off to be with friends.

　C.Meeting friends at the airport at midnight.

　D.Sharing everything they have.

3.Which of the following statements in True according to the passage?

　A.Americans are always generous with their time.

　B.Americans don’t feel hurt if their friendships disappear soon.

　C.Chinese friendships develop more slowly but will never disappear.

　D.Chinese friendships are more sincere than American friendships.

4.This passage is most probably written for _______.

　A.American students    B.Chinese students

　C.Chinese visitors to America  D.American visitors to China

Passage 2

Idioms are phrases and sentences that do not mean exactly what they say. Even if you know the meaning of each word you see or hear, you may not understand the idiom because you don't understand the culture behind it.

For example, if an American boy asks his mother what’s for dinner tomorrow, she may say “I’ll play it by ear”, that means she doesn't have plans for dinner and she will decide later.“Play by ear”used to mean playing music using the sheet music, but now people often use it when they’re not talking about music.

There’re many idioms in English. If you learn to use them, your English will be more vivid and colorful. English idioms are more common in spoken English. They can be difficult to remember sometimes. Next time when you hear somebody saying to you, “Give me a hand”, you don’t necessarily stretch out your hand to him/her, but you do need to be helpful. And when the situation is “out of hand”, you usually can do very little to manage all that. What about a “green hand”? It's not about the color of your hand! You’re a green hand when you are very new at your work and don’t have much experience. If you and your partner always “work together hand in glove”, you two definitely work together very well.