Question

One day, I heard an American boy say to a Chinese girl student, “You speak very good English.” But the girl answered, “No, no. My English is very poor.” The foreigner was quite   16    at the answer. Thinking he had not made    17    understood or the girl had not   18    him clearly, he said, “Yes, indeed, you speak very well.”   19    the girl still kept saying, “No.” In the end the American boy could not understand and didn’t know   20    to say.

What’s wrong with the girl’s answer? She didn’t   21   a compliment (恭維) in the same way as the American people do. She should answer, “Thank you” instead of “No”. She   22   understood what the American boy had said, but she thought she should be modest. In the   23   , people will feel proud and  24    when they are praised . So if someone says the   25    you have cooked are very delicious, you should say, “Thank you.”

In our country we think being modest is a virtue (美德) and being proud is a bad thing , but in my opinion, being confident does not   26   being proud, so sometimes you should be confident   27   being modest.

   28   you are modest and say, “No, I’m afraid I can’t do it well”, while working in a western country, the others may think that you really cannot do it. If you often say “No”, you will certainly be looked down upon by   29  . When asking for a job, if one says something like “Yes, I can certainly do it” instead of “Let me have a try”, he or she will   30    get it. So in the west, you should be brave to show your self-confidence.

1.A. excited        B. surprised    C. relaxed          D. frightened

2.A. itself     B. herself      C. himself          D. themselves

3.A. heard      B. watched      C. listened to      D. looked at

4.A. Though     B. Although     C. Or               D. But

5.A. when       B. which        C. what             D. how

6.A. receive        B. accept       C. refuse           D. disagree

7.A. hardly     B. really       C. rarely           D. badly

8.A. east       B. south        C. west             D. north

9.A. dutiful        B. modest       C. shameful         D. confident

10.A. dishes        B. cups         C. glasses          D. bowls

11.A. think     B. say          C. ask              D. mean

12.A. as soon as    B. as well as   C. instead of       D. in spite of

13.A. Unless        B. Until        C. Whether          D. If

14.A. another       B. the other    C. the others       D. others

15.A. fail to   B. expect to    C. succeed in       D. believe in

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.B

2.C

3.A

4.D

5.C

6.B

7.B

8.C

9.D

10.A

11.D

12.C

13.D

14.D

15.B

【解析】短文屬于議論文。作者通過對中西方文化的差異的描述，闡明自己的觀點：有時候我們應該用自信代替謙虛。

1.由于文化背景不同，外國人對中國人的回答感到驚訝。

2.made oneself understood （使他人）明白，此處需要用he的反身代詞。

3.這里是“沒聽清”的意思，強調聽的結果，用hear；前面用了had，動詞用過去分詞，構成過去完成時。

4.男孩原以為女孩不明白，重復一篇后，仍舊未聽到女孩符合常理的回答，這是出乎男孩意料的。前后意思有所轉折，因此用but。

5.what to say“不知說什么”，其中what是say邏輯賓語；且say是及物動物，必須跟賓語，排除A、D選項；這里的說話內容沒有選項，也排除which。

6.根據句意，“像美國人那樣…”指的是“接受恭維”，排除C、D；accept“接受”，receive“接收”。

7.根據情節，她不是不明白男孩所說的話，因此使用肯定結構。

8.這里面的內容，屬于西方文化。

9.通過第三段和最后一段可知，西方人想表現“自信”。

10.這里指飯菜。

11.這里是“意思是，意謂”。

12.這是作者的觀點：用自信代替謙虛。

13.本段做了幾個并排的假設，此處要跟下文一致，用If。

14.表示復數，泛指他人。

15.expect to do 期待去做；期望做某事。