【正文】 sts, but also serve outside diners. Hotel guests have their meals free, so they naturally go to the free dining rooms to have their meals. The most they would do to show their good faith is to wave their registration(登記) card to the waiter. With such a loose check, you can easily use any old registration card to take a couple of friends to dine free of charge.The Finnish workers are paid by the hour. They are very much on their own as soon as they have agreed with the boss on the rate. From then on they just say how many hours they have worked and they will be paid accordingly.With so many loopholes(漏洞) in everyday life, surely Finland must be a heaven to those who love to take_“petty_advantages”. But the strange thing is, all the taxi passengers would always e back to pay their fare after they have attended to their business。詞義猜測題。第三段中提到旅館中的顧客可以在旅館的餐廳免費就餐，下一段中提到雇主只是根據(jù)雇工說出的工作時間支付報酬，由此可判斷C項不正確。56．B。南通調(diào)研測試)The thing is, my luck’s always been ruined. Just look at my name: Jean. Not Jean Marie, or Jeanine, or Jeanette, or even Jeanne. Just Jean. Did you know in France, they name boys Jean? It’s French for John. And okay, I don’t live in France. But still, I’m basically a girl named John. If I lived in France, anyway.This is the kind of luck I’ve had since Mom filled out my birth certificate. So it wasn’t any big surprise to me when the cab driver didn’t help me with my suitcase. I’d already had to tolerate arriving at the airport to find no one there to greet me, and then got no answer to my many phone calls, asking where my aunt and uncle were. Did they not want me after all? Had they changed their minds? Had they heard about my bad luck—all the way from Iowa—and decided they didn’t want any of it to rub_off_on them?So when the cab driver, instead of getting out and helping me with my bags, just pushed a little button so that the trunk(汽車后備箱) popped open a few inches, it wasn’t the worst thing that had ever happened to me. It wasn’t even the worst thing that had happened to me that day.According to my mom, most brownstones in New York City were originally single－family homes when they were built way back in the 1800s. But now they’ve been divided up into apartments, so that there’s one—or sometimes even two or more families—per floor.Not Mom’s sister Evelyn’s brownstone, though. Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Ted Gardiner own all four floors of their brownstone. That’s practically one floor per person, since Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Ted only have three kids, my cousins Tory, Teddy, and Alice.Back home, we just have two floors, but there are seven people living on them. And only one bathroom. Not that I’m plaining. Still, ever since my sister Courtney discovered blow－outs, it’s been pretty frightful at home.But as tall as my aunt and uncle’s house was, it was really narrow—just three windows across. Still, it was a very pretty townhouse, painted gray. The door was a bright, cheerful yellow. There were yellow flower boxes along the base of each window. These flowers were obviously newly planted, since it was only the middle of April, and not quite warm enough for them.It was nice to know that, even in a sophisticated(世故的) city like New York, people still realized how homey and weling a box of flowers could be. The sight of those flowers cheered me up a little.Like maybe Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Ted just forgot I was arriving today, and hadn’t deliberately failed to meet me at the airport because they’d changed their minds about letting me e to stay.Like everything was going to be all right, after all.Yeah. With my luck, probably not.I started the steps to the front door of 326 East Sixty－Ninth Street, and then realized I couldn’t make it with both bags and my violin. Leaving one bag on the sidewalk, I dragged the other up the steps with me. Maybe I took the steps a little too fast, since I nearly tripped and fell flat on my face on the sidewalk. I managed to catch myself at the last moment by grabbing some of the fence the gardeners had put up...57．Why did the author go to New York?A. She intended to go sightseeing there.B. She meant to stay with her aunt’s family.C. She was homeless and adopted by her aunt.D. She wanted to try her luck and find a job there.58．According to the author, some facts account for her bad luck EXCEPT that ______.A. she was given a boy’s name in FrenchB. the cab driver didn’t help her with her bagsC. her sister Courtney discovered blowoutsD. nobody had e to meet her at the airport59．The underlined phrase “rub off on” in Paragraph 2 probably means “______”．A. have an effect on B. play tricks onC. put pressure on D. throw doubt on60．From the passage, we can know that ______.A. the author left home without informing her motherB. the author arrived in New York in a very warm seasonC. her aunt’s family lived a much better life than her ownD. her aunt and uncle were likely to forget about her arrival[答案]本文是一篇文學作品，主人公Jean認為Jean這個名字給她帶來了很多不幸。58．C。詞義猜測題。根據(jù)文章第五段和第六段可以看出Jean家居住條件擁擠，不如her aunt’s family的條件好。鄭州畢業(yè)班質(zhì)量檢測)[答案]76．hardly→hard。可數(shù)名詞前通常帶冠詞，這里表泛指，用a。any of后的名詞應為復數(shù)，因此把house改為houses。介詞of多余，因此去掉of。前后句為轉(zhuǎn)折關系，因此把so改為but。陜西)假定你是李華。Hi, Grown－up，___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________