16.In the late summer of 2004,days before I was to move to a city in China,to teach English for a year,I spoke to an acquaintance who had spent a few years in the country.
"Holidays are hard,"he said."But strangely,not so much Christmas.Christmas isn't that bad.It's Thanksgiving that's hard."
At the time,surviving the holidays was the least of my worries.I was moving to a country where I didn't speak the language,understand the culture,or know the history,in order to do a job that I had never done and didn't know how to do.And not only that,I was going to a city that I hadn't even heard of,and could find no information about online.Other than that,I was completely equipped.
Within a couple of months,the euphoria of being in China had worn off,and I found myself settling into a routine.I taught two hour-long classes of 15and 16-year-olds,and,because I assigned no homework and rarely gave out tests,spent the afternoons either reading or making a halfhearted attempt to learn Chinese.
When Thanksgiving came around,I decided it'd be easiest if I just ignored it.In China,this isn't difficult; unlike Christmas,which many Chinese people cerebrate with decorations,music,and festivities,Thanksgiving slips past unnoticed-it's just another Thursday.
And so it was.As I sat on my sofa,however,watching another film from the James Bond box set I bought for 12 dollars at a local shop,I felt a sense of shame.What was I doing?It was Thanksgiving,damn it.I needed to have a proper Thanksgiving dinner.
There was only one problem.As in most small Chinese cities,there's no turkey,or cranberry sauce,or stuffing,yams,pumpkin pie,or anything else.In fact,in the entire city of 700,000 people,there was exactly one restaurant whose food even resembled,at a distance,Thanksgiving fare.
Kentucky Fried Chicken.And so that's where I headed.

26.Before beginning his teaching in a Chinese city,the writerC.
A.made few preparations
B.little expected the hardships 
C.turned to one friend for information
D.was full of curiosity
27.The underlined word"euphoria"in the 3rd paragraph probably meansA.
A.pleasure.
B.worries.
C.satisfaction.
D.hope
28.From the passage we can know that the writer usually spent a day byC.
A.watching films from the James Bond box
B.learning Chinese with passion in the afternoons
C.giving two-hour lessons for teenagers
D.occasionally marking the students'homework
29.KFC became the writer's final choice on Thanksgiving Day becauseA.
A.its food was a bit similar to Thanksgiving dish
B.its atmosphere was suitable for foreigners in China
C.Western holidays were less attractive to Chinese
D.Turkey or related food was not available in China
30.The purpose of the passage isB
A.to explain a foreigner's dull work experience           
B.to describe a foreigner's lonely Thanksgiving Day
C.to prove a foreigner's wrong cultural concept
D.to present some hard problems for a foreigner.

分析 本文描述了一位在中國南京教書的老外生活,因?yàn)槲幕牟町、?xí)俗的不同等使得他的異國生活顯得特別乏味和無聊,尤其是度過圣誕節(jié)時(shí)的場景更令他觸景傷情.

解答 26-30  CACAB
26.C. 細(xì)節(jié)理解題.根據(jù)開頭一段中I spoke to an acquaintance who had spent a few years in the country.可知,作者在出國來到中國之前曾經(jīng)找過熟人了解情況;故選C.
27.A.詞義猜測題.根據(jù)第三段中最后一句Other than that,I was completely equipped.可知,在這之前作者也是做了比較充足的準(zhǔn)備的,這說明一開始他是比較期待和向往的,結(jié)合euphoria"后面一句 I found myself settling into a routine可知,此處應(yīng)該指的是他的熱情被慢慢地消耗掉;故選A.
28.C.細(xì)節(jié)理解題.根據(jù)第四段最后一句I taught two hour-long classes of 15and 16-year-olds,and,because I assigned no homework and rarely gave out tests
  spent the afternoons either reading or making a halfhearted attempt to learn Chinese.可知,作者打發(fā)時(shí)間的方法主要是上課和讀書、學(xué)漢語,所以選C.
29.A.細(xì)節(jié)理解題.根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段最后一句In fact,in the entire city of 700,000 people,there was exactly one restaurant whose food even resembled,at a distance,Thanksgiving fare.可知,在一個(gè)擁有70萬人口的城市,還有一家飯店其食物是比較像感恩節(jié)風(fēng)格的餐廳的,故選A.
30.B.寫作意圖題.根據(jù)最后兩個(gè)段落內(nèi)容的描述可知,作者的筆下充滿了孤獨(dú)、惆悵和思家的情感,所以推出本文的寫作意圖應(yīng)該是描述一位老外在中國城市的孤獨(dú)無聊的節(jié)日生活.故選B.

點(diǎn)評(píng) 本文屬于故事類閱讀,在閱讀此類文章時(shí)首先迅速瀏覽全文內(nèi)容,掌握文章的大意,了解所介紹人物的事跡,了解人物的思想感情,再結(jié)合題干要求,閱讀文章相關(guān)內(nèi)容,做出有針對(duì)性的選擇.

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