Most English people, faced with unappetizing or even inedible food, tend to complain
第1题
A.Iberians
B.Vikings
C.Romans
D.Anglo-Saxons
第2题
Most English people have soup, meat, vegetable and other things at ______ .
A.breakfast
B.teatime
C.dinner
第3题
第4题
A.Complain face-to-face to the waiter
B.Push the bad food to the side of their plate
C.Pull disgusted faces at each other
D.When the waiter asks if everything is all right they smile politely and mutter, ‘Yes, fine, thanks.’
第5题
Across the country, people pronounce English sounds in several different ways and some【B5】vocabulary differences exist, but【B6】the most part, Americans speak one common language. This language is sometimes called American English. However, not everyone in the U.S. is a native speaker of English. Most【B7】to the country are speakers of other languages. There are hundreds【B8】communities around the U.S.【B9】English is not the most commonly used language. Chinese, Italian, German, Armenian, Greek, Vietnamese and French are all spoken in【B10】communities in the U.S. Spanish is the second most commonly spoken language【B11】English in the U.S. It is widely spoken in New York and【B12】the southern part of the country.
For speakers of other languages, learning English is essential,【B13】traditionally teaching people to speak English【B14】a second language was given little【B15】Non-English speakers were expected to "pick up" the language through【B16】in public. Recently, this has changed. Today, most large public schools and community colleges have ESL, English as a Second Language, programs. American English teachers are【B17】of that English students should learn the language the way they will be using it.【B18】, ESL programs【B19】different English lessons to different students. Some programs teach students to communicate in English in public. Other programs teach the kind of English people will need on their jobs. American ESL instructional methods emphasize the importance of communication to language learning. These methods do not【B20】grammatical explanations and translation. The instructional goal is to get the English learners to learn by using their target language.
【B1】
A.primarily
B.primitively
C.precisely
D.personally
第6题
A.Because the English people enjoy comparatively cheap accommodation there.
B.Because a boarding-house can offer bed and breakfast.
C.Because the English people would like to experience the different events from the usual hotels or restaurants.
D.Because there are whole streets of boarding-houses in most beauty spots.
第7题
As a native language, English is spoken by nearly three hundred million people in the U. S. A., England, Australia and some other countries.
For people in India and many other countries, English is often necessary for business, education and other activities (活动). So English is the second language there.
As a foreign language, no other language is more widely studied or used than English. We use it to listen to the radio, to read books or to travel. It is also one of the working languages in the United Nations and is more used than the others.
The native language is a person's ______ language.
A.first
B.only
C.foreign
第8题
In many English homes, people eat four meals a day: breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner.
People have breakfast at anytime from seven to nine in the morning. They eat porridge, eggs or bread. English people drink tea or coffee at breakfast.
Lunch comes at one o'clock. Tea time is from four to five in the afternoon, and dinner is about half past seven. First, they have soup, and then they have meat or fish or vegetables. After that, they eat some other things, like bananas, apples or oranges. But not all English people eat like this. Some of them have their dinner in the middle of the day. Their meals are breakfast, tea, and dinner and all these meals are very simple.
Most English people eat ______ meals a day.
A.two
B.three
C.four
第9题
What might the author most probably continue to talk about in the following passage?
A. What's the most objective way to test one's English standards?
B. How to improve the present low level of language learning?
C. Why have the English standards declined?
D. What are the benefits if Japanese people can learn English well?
第10题
We can learn from the passage that ________.
A) thatched cottages in England have been passed down from ancient times
B) thatching is a building craft first created by the English people
C) the English people have a special liking for thatched houses
D) most thatched cottages in England are located on hillsides