Lesson 2 Utopia
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一、单词拼写
1.A boat is reported to have been in (相撞) with an oil tanker. 答案:collision
2.They could see no (优点) in discussing it further. 答案:virtue
3.Everyone of us should be m to the disabled. 答案:merciful
4.You might want to (跳过)the exercises in this chapter. 答案:skip
5.If we don’t unload it soon,the grain will start (腐烂). 答案:rotting 二、完成句子
1.船的发动机坏了之后,他们只能任凭天气的摆布。
After the boat’s motor failed,they were the weather. 答案:at the mercy of
2.张老师上个月被选为第六任校长。
Mr Zhang the sixth headmaster last month. 答案:was elected as
3.他迫不及待地在朋友面前炫耀他的新车。
He couldn’t wait to his new car to his friends. 答案:show off
4.她连蹦带跳地走着,好跟上他的步伐。
She keep up with him. 答案:was skipping to 5.窗框已经完全烂掉了。
The window frame had completely. 答案:rotted away 三、阅读理解
A
As more and more people speak the global languages of English,Chinese,Spanish,and Arabic,other languages are rapidly disappearing.In fact,half of the 6,000—7,000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century,according to the United Nations Educational,Scientific,and Cultural Organization(UNESCO).
In an effort to prevent language loss,scholars from a number of organizations—UNESCO and National Geographic among them—have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.
Mark Turin,a scientist at the Macmillan Center,Yale University,who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the Himalayas,is following in that tradition.His recently published book,A Grammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers
and Their Culture,grows out of his experience living,working,and raising a family in a village in Nepal.
Documenting the Thangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin,who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the Himalayan reaches of India,Nepal,Bhutan,and China.But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.
At the University of Cambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important materials—including photographs,films,tape recordings,and field notes—which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection.
Now,through the two organizations that he has founded—the Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project—Turin has started a campaign to make such documents,found in libraries and stores around the world,available not just to scholars but to the younger generations of communities from whom the materials were originally collected.Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet,Turin notes,the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities. 1.Many scholars are making efforts to . A.promote global languages B.rescue disappearing languages C.search for language communities D.set up language research organizations
解析:细节理解题。由第二段可知,许多组织和学者付出努力正是为了保持语言的多样性,即为了拯救那些正在消失的语言。 答案:B
2.What does “that tradition” in Paragraph 3 refer to? A.Having full records of the languages. B.Writing books on language teaching.
C.Telling stories about language users. D.Living with the native speakers.
解析:推理判断题。第三段中的that tradition应指上文提到的传统,本句的上文就是第二段中的“documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect”,即完全记录下正在消失的语言以及它们所反映的文化。故选A项。 答案:A
3.What is Turin’s book based on? A.The cultural studies in India. B.The documents available at Yale. C.His language research in Bhutan. D.His personal experience in Nepal.
解析:细节理解题。由第三段最后一句中的“grows out of his experience
living,working,and raising a family in a village in Nepal”可知,Mark Turin的书籍是以他自己在尼泊尔的经历为依据的。 答案:D
4.Which of the following best describes Turin’s work? A.Write,sell and donate. B.Record,repair and reward. C.Collect,protect and reconnect. D.Design,experiment and report.
解析:推理判断题。由短文最后一段中的“were originally collected”“the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities”可推知,C项正确。 答案:C
B
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 days off from our work to act as guides to our friends.It is opposite in America.Americans cannot 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,his 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!
5.The underlined phrase “pick up” in Paragraph 1 may mean “ ”. A.keep out B.give up C.pay no attention to
D.continue
解析:词义猜测题。根据前文的意思可知,美国人的友谊即使暂时疏远的话,彼此并没有受到伤害,所以许多年后再次相遇时,他们仍能继续彼此的友谊。 答案:D
6.Which of the following is the typical way of American hospitality? A.Treating friends at home.
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