单选题
When I was 16 years old, I made my first visit to the United States. It wasn"t the first time I had been
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. Like most English children I learned French at school and I had often
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to France, so I was used
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a foreign language to people who did not understand
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. But when I went to America I was really looking forward to
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a nice and easy holiday without any
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problems.
How wrong I was! The misunderstanding began at the airport. I was looking for a
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telephone to give my American friend Danny a
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and tell her I had arrived. A friendly old man saw me
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lost and asked
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he could help me. "Yes," I said, "I want to give my friend a ring." "Well, that"s
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." he exclaimed. "Are you getting
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? But aren"t you a bit
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?" "Who is talking about marriage?" I replied. "I
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want to give a ring to tell her I"ve arrived. Can you tell me where there"s a phone box?" "Oh!" he said. "There"s a phone downstairs."
When at last we
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meet up, Danny
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the misunderstandings to me. "Don"t worry," she said to me, "I had so many
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at first. There are lots of words which the Americans
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differently in meaning from
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. You"ll soon get used to
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things they say. Most of the time British and American people understand each other!"
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 根据题意应该选“在国外(abroad)”。aboard为“在……上”的意思。
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 此处是过去完成时态，因此空处应填入过去分词。“去过某地”用have/had been to some place；“去了某地”则应用have/had gone to some place。由句意可知，应选B。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 根据题意应该为“习惯于说外语”，用“be used to doing sth.”的结构。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 根据文章内容可知，作者是英国人，因此应该是给不懂英语的人说外语。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] have a holiday意为“度假”是固定搭配。B．买；C．给；D．收到，均与题意不符。