Native Tongue
At first Kate thought the Romanian girl could not speak and understand English.Nadia would not reply to anything Kate said.Kate was in charge of showing Nadia around on her first day at Buckminster Grade School.Kate could not figure out why the school had put Nadia in a class where she could not understand what people were saying.
“Why did they do this?”Kate wondered aloud.“I mean,you can't learn if you can't understand the teacher.”
Nadia's voice was a whisper.“I understand English.I will learn.”Nadia's English was perfect.
Kate was perplexed.She couldn't understand why Nadia did not like to speak.Then she realized that moving to a new country probably wasn't the easiest thing to do.There were hundreds of unfamiliar and unusual things to learn—all at the same time.
“There're a lot of new things to learn,huh?” said Kate.
Nadia nodded rapidly.In a quiet voice she replied，“Many things people say,I do
not understand.I have been speaking English and Romanian all my life,but I do not know what some children are saying.For example,yesterday a boy asked if I could help him find the USB port on a thin black box he was carrying.Isn't a port a place for ships?It made no sense to me.”
“Don't worry,”said Kate.“You'll figure everything out in time.You see,that thin black box was a computer.A USB port is a place where you can connect other machines to a computer.”
Nadia and Kate were quiet after that.They took notes while the teacher gave a maths lesson.To ?Kate's? surprise,Nadia put up her hand and offered to answer questions at the blackboard.
Nadia handled every question the teacher gave her.Some of the questions were really difficult,and no one understood what was going on except Nadia and the teacher.When the teacher said that Nadia answered everything correctly,the whole class clapped their hands.
Nadia was smiling when she sat back down next to Kate.“Some things,”she said in a normal voice,“are the same all over the world.”
At the beginning of Nadia's first day at school,she was_____________.
A.disappointed         B.helpful         C.lively         D.shy
2.The underlined word“_________perplexed”probably means___________.
A.puzzled              B.angry           C.shocked        D.serious
3.We can infer from the passage that______________.
A.Nadia did not like Kate
B.Nadia had lived by the sea before
C.Nadia had never seen a computer before
D.Nadia spoke in a soft voice out of politeness          
4.Which of the following statements is true?        
A.Nadia was better at maths than other students.        
B.Nadia found some of the maths questions difficult.        
C.Nadia was encouraged to answer questions in class.        
D.Nadia understood the maths teacher better than other teachers.
5.What is the message of the story?
A.Talking about something familiar gives you confidence in communication.
B.Answering questions in class makes you better understood by classmates.
C.Language plays an important role in communication between cultures.
D.Mathematics helps to improve communication between cultures.

1----5     DACAA      

1.要求考生根據(jù)細(xì)節(jié)進(jìn)行判斷。文章開(kāi)始說(shuō)Kate問(wèn)她什么問(wèn)題她都不回答，但后來(lái)發(fā)現(xiàn)她英語(yǔ)很好。據(jù)此我們可以推斷出她比較shy。答案為D。 
2.這是一道詞義理解題。perplexed對(duì)大部分考生來(lái)說(shuō)是一個(gè)生詞�？梢越Y(jié)合前后兩句來(lái)理解。既然Nadia's English was perfect.Kate 就不理解她為什么不愛(ài)說(shuō)話了。couldn't understand why 說(shuō)明Kate感到茫然。答案為A。 
3.要求考生根據(jù)細(xì)節(jié)進(jìn)行推理判斷。Nadia描述電腦時(shí)使用的詞是a  thin black box,說(shuō)明她從未見(jiàn)過(guò)電腦。答案為C。 
4.這是一道細(xì)節(jié)理解題。在數(shù)學(xué)課上，Nadia表現(xiàn)不凡。有些題很難，只有她和老師能明白。說(shuō)明她的數(shù)學(xué)比其他同學(xué)好。答案為A。 
5.考查對(duì)文章主旨的概括能力。從Nadia頭一天入學(xué)，一開(kāi)始不說(shuō)話，到后來(lái)數(shù)學(xué)課上表現(xiàn)
出眾，回到座位上時(shí)已經(jīng)對(duì)自己充滿自信的描述，作者想闡明的是談?wù)撟约菏煜さ脑掝}能為
交流帶來(lái)自信這樣一個(gè)主題。答案為A。 
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Still ,her answer surprised me: “Green tea,” 
As long as I can remember she didn’t even drink    Indian tea.  
I dutifully bought a big packet of Longjing and headed home to hear the story. My mother and her brother, both regular newspaper readers, believed that Chinese green tea was the wonder drug for all illnesses 
At the turn of the century, China was not really familiar to the average Indian, It was a strange country 
How things change [And how soon] 
Now every town of any size seems to have a “China Market”. And everyone is talking about China 
The government of India has planned to send a team to China to see how things are done A minister once said that India must open the doors for more foreign investment（投資）and such a step would “work wonders as it did for China”.  
But it’s a two-way street, I just heard about a thousand Shenzhen office workers who have gone to Rangalore to train in software. Meanwhile, all the IT majors are setting up a strong presence in China, 
No wonder that trade, which was only in the millions just ten years ago, is expected to his about us$15 billion for last year and us$20 billion by 2008, a goal set by both governments, 
No wonder, my colleague wrote some weeks ago about this being the Sino-Indian（中�。ヽentury as the two countries started on January I the Sino-Indian Friendship Year, 
小題1:But what is still a wonder to me is my mother drinking Chinese tea.
Why did the mother ask for Chinese green tea? 
A．she was tired of Indian tea
B．she had a son working in China.
C．she believed it had a curing effect
D．she was fond of Chinese products,
小題2:What does the author mean by “it’s a two-way street’ in paragraph 10? 
A．China and India have different traffic rules
B．Tea trade works wonders in both India and China
C．Chinese products are popular in both China and India,
D．The exchanges between India and China benefit both
小題3:hat do we know about the Indian IT industry? 
A．It will move its head office to Shenzhen
B．It is seeking further development in China
C．It has attracted an investment of US$15 billion
D．It caught up with the US IT industry in2008.
小題4:In the text the author expresses_____, 
A．his concern for his mother’s health
B．his support for drinking Chinese green tea
C．his surprise at China’s recent development
D．his wonder at the growth of India’s IT industry

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