湖北省八校2007届高三英语第二次联考试卷

发布时间:2009-07-14 共13页


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  As thousands of overseas students do battle with the English language in schools across the UK, many face a struggle with a culture for which they are totally unprepared. Misunderstandings can occur, which, if not sorted out, can ruin a student’s trip.
  Much of this is a result of false thinking and expectations of British families and the way they live. Last summer in a college in Kent, Ali, a Middle East student in his forties wrote before his arrival to request a family willing to discuss the day’s news, no meat in his food and no alcohol. Then, after his second day in England, his host rang the college to say he wouldn’t eat the food she’d cooked for him. In fact, he had bought some food and asked her to cook it for him.
  The college solved the problem by Ali taking lunch and evening meals at the college, where he could try out the food by eating a little at a time, and only take breakfast with his host. And it worked! “They later got on like a house on fire,” said Tony, one of his British classmates. “He had just not got on with the food.” EFL (English as a Foreign Language) communities can be tightly connected — when a Japanese student was shot dead in the United States some years ago after mistakenly entering the wrong house in fancy dress on the way to a Halloween party, and did not understand the word “freeze!”, the US became a no-go area. After the event the Japanese stopped all their courses and the US was declared “unsafe”.
  So concerned has the UK EFL industry become to improve students’ understandings about the British culture that the British Council carried out research among foreign students to determine what they felt were the most important factors in their stay. They found that, although EFL courses were heavily praised, what concerned students was the quality of host families and welfare during their stay.
  The result of their study helped to produce a Homestay Code of Practice. Since its launch (推出) earlier this year, some 20,000 certificates have been sent out to host families who have signed the Code. It has also been sent to 1,000 overseas travel agents. The aim is to make it serve as an international quality assurance scheme (质量保证体系).
65.We learn from the text that the problems foreign students have during their stay in England are mostly caused by ___________.
A.their poor English level
B.the British way of cooking
C.their unfamiliarity with the British culture
D.their misunderstanding of British families’ attitudes towards them
66.Ali didn’t eat the food in the host family because __________.
A.he didn’t get on well with his host
B.he couldn’t eat the meat served
C.he didn’t like the way it was cooked
D.he couldn’t come back from school on time
67.When Tony said that “they later got on like a house on fire”, most probably he meant __________.
A.Ali never touched the food his host cooked
B.Ali and his host later became close friends
C.Ali often quarreled with his host family
D.Ali left the host family and moved to live elsewhere
68.The example of a Japanese student is given in the text to show that __________.
A.America is a dangerous country
B.Americans are unfriendly to foreign students
C.Japanese students are inadequate in their English
D.misunderstandings can occur between foreign students and native speakers

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