【正文】 gD．libraries should have food courts to attract more readers【答案】A【解析】盡管剛開始對于購書節(jié)的發(fā)展該有不確定的因數(shù)，但后來的情況說明讀書在洛杉磯很受歡迎。45．The outdoor book festival attracts____．A．a(chǎn)utograph seekers and authors onlyB．people with different interestsC．people who love Los AngelesD．people who like cooking【答案】B【解析】第二段談到本次購書節(jié)吸引了眾多的讀書愛好者，星期六達到了70，000，星期天達到了75，000，以詞可推斷出B正確。Passage ThreePeople joke that no one in Los Angeles reads；everyone watches TV, rents videos，or goes to the movies．The most popular reading material is ic books，movie magazines，and TV guide s．City libraries have only 10 percent of the traffic that car washes have．But how do you explain this? An annual book festival in west Los Angeles is flourishing year after year．People wait half an hour for a parking space to bee available．This outdoor festival，sponsored by a newspaper，occurs every April for one year’ s attendance was estimated at 70，000 on Saturday and 75，000 on Sunday．The festival consisted of 280 exhibitors．There were about 90 talks given by authors，with an audience questionandanswer period foilowing each talk．Autograph(親筆簽名)seekers sought out more than 150 food court sold all kinds of popular food and diverse foreign foods，from American hamburgers to Hawaiian shave ice drinks．Except for a $7 parking fee，the festival was free．Even so，some people avoided the food court prices by staying away and having their own sandwiches and came from all over California．One couple drove down from San Francisco．“This is our sixth year here now．We love it，”said the husband．“It’s just fantastic to be in the great outdoors，to be mnong so many books and authors，and to get some very good deals，too．”The idea for the festival occurred years ago，but nobody knew if it would succeed．Although book festivals were already popular in other US cities，would Los Angeles residents wele one?“The citizens of the city are very unpredictable，”said one of the festival founders．44．The underlined sentence in the first paragraph implies that____．A．city libraries have a very limited number of readersB．only a small proportion of the readers go to libraries by carC．city libraries provide fewer places for Car washesD．city libraries have fewer parking places【答案】A【解析】第一段第三行談到去圖書館借書的車輛僅占全部交通的10%，此句暗示圖書館的讀者非常有限。43．The school insists that students should____．A．leave the school if they fail to respect a womanB．a(chǎn)ttend the preparatory classes in the summer before enrollingC．do their homework to review what they have learnedD．e to the school on Sundays【答案】B【解析】第三段談到學校要求學生在入學之前上一個學習班。42．What does Mr．Leonard expect from those lowtesting students?A．The highest scores．B．The best ．Respectfulness and discipline．D．Willingness to learn by themselves.【答案】C【解析】文章第二段第二行談到，Mr Leonard 看重的不是學生的分數(shù)，而是守紀律，尊敬別人。故D正確。故B正確。37．The two businessmen behaved differently because____．A．they followed their own greeting customsB．they were not used to the strange atmosphereC．they couldn’t speak each other’ S languageD．they had never met each other before【答案】A【翻譯】兩位商人問好的方式不同是因為他們的風俗習慣不同38．Paragraph 4 tells us that when visiting a foreign country,．it is very unmon for one to encounter embarrassing situationsB．it is hard for one to adapt to the material aspects of life thereC．people often expect tO meet differences in customsD．people expect the same kind of food and weather【答案】C【解析】文章第四段主要講述了游訪異國他鄉(xiāng)，肯定在文化風俗上會有沖突。IV．Reading Comprehension(60 points)Directions：There are five reading passages in this part．Each passage is followed by four questions．For each question there are four suggested answers marked A，B，C and D．Choose one best answer and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet．Passage OneBefore the conference began，a Japanese businessman was introduced to an American businessman at the lounge．The Japanese businessman，arms extending downwards from his shoulders，bowed from his waist toward the American businessman to whom he was just introduced．His eyes were directed ahead，his face showed no particular expression．The American businessman stood straight．His eyes focused on the Japanese man’S eyes．He smiled and put out his right hand．Both men smiled briefly in embarrassment．The Japanese man straightened up and put out his right hand．The American withdrew his hand and bowed his head．A broader smile of embarrassment．a(chǎn)nd some noise from each mannot really words，just some sounds from their throatsindicating disfort．They were in the course of a conflict of customs；they had different habits for greeting people they were being introduced to．When people are planning to go to another country,they expect to encounter certain kinds of differences．They usually expect the weather and the food to be different．They expect to find differences in some of the material aspects of life，such as the availability of cars，electricity，and home heating ，without knowing the details，they expect differences in customs．Customs are the behaviors that are generally expected in specific situations．American men，for example，shake hands with each other when first introduced while Japanese men bow．36．When introduced to the Japanese businessman，the American businessman put Out his right hand because____．A．he felt a little bit nervousB．he wanted to express his disfortC．he felt a little offended by the Japanese manD．he wanted to shake hands with the Japanese man【答案】Ｄ【翻譯】美國人的風俗習慣是與對方握手,以此來表示友好,而日本人的習慣是鞠躬。動詞give 是短暫性動詞。34．A．practiceB．traditionC．habitD．culture【答案】B【解析】傳統(tǒng)上，把鉆石作為禮物始于1477年，當奧地利的王子把一枚鉆戒送給勃艮第的Mary時。根據(jù)日常推測及平時積累可以推測出是最早，選first31．A．questionedB．believedC．suspectedD．confirmed【答案】A【翻譯】 古羅馬人相信大石頭被打成小星星，落到地球上。Cut??into，“切割”，本題考查動詞短語的固定搭配。Grade鑒定，分等級。26．A．whoB．whichC．thatD．he【答案】A【解析】空格前是一個人的名字，故可判斷為 who引導定語從句。block堵塞；街區(qū)?！窘馕觥靠疾榻樵~的區(qū)別，A．under“在??之下“B．over”“C．beyondD．withinBeyond 超出，超過 正確23．A．preciseB．certainC．clearD．correct【答案】A【解析】to be precise 精確的，確切的24．A．buriedB．blockedC．built