Question

   The British love to think of themselves as polite and everyone knows how fond they are of their “pleases"and “thank yous".Even the simplest business such as buying a train ticket requires__65  seven or eight of these.Another __66   of our good manners is the queue.New?comers to Britain could be forgiven for thinking that queuing rather than football was the__67 national sport.Finally,of course,motorists generally stop at crossings.But does all this mean that the British should consider themselves more polite than their European neighbours?I think not.

Take forms of address (称呼)for example.The average English person__68   he happens to work in a hotel or department store—would rather die than call a stranger “Sir" or“Madam".Yet in some European countries this is the most basic of common address.Our __69  “you" for everyone may appear more democratic,but it means that we are forced to seek out complicated ways to express __70  .I am all for returning to the use of “thee"and “thou"(Thee and thou are old?fashioned poetic words for“you");“you" would be__71   for strangers and professional relationships.

And of course,the English find touching and other shows of friendship truly terrifying.Have you noticed how the British __72   ever touch?Personlly, I find the Latin habit of shaking hands or a friendly kiss quite charming.Try kissing the average English person,and they will either take two steps backwards in horror;or,if their escape is__73   ,you will find your lips touching the back of their head.Now what could be__74  than that ?        

65.A.at least          B. at most         C. less than         D. not more than

66.A.signal            B. scene           C. sign              D. sight

67.A.true              B. original        C. superior          D. advanced

68.A.if                B. whether         C. when              D. unless

69.A.universal         B. unique          C. regular           D. normal

70.A.politeness        B. gratitude       C. democracy         D. consideration

71.A.ordered           B. reserved        C. offered           D. stocked

72.A.highly            B. mostly          C. hardly            D. nearly

73.A.confirmed         B. assured         C. jammed            D. blocked

74.  A. better         B. ruder           C. more polite        D. more frightening 

Answer 1

65---74    ACADA      ABCDB  

解析:

65.  举这个例子是为了说明英国人对礼貌的注重程度，对于买火车票这一小事至少要说七八次“please”and“thank you”，因此答案选A更能体现作者的这种目的。B项at most“最多”；C项less than“不到，少于”；D项not more than“不比……更多”，均不合题意。答案为A。 

66.sign是迹象、征兆或标志，目的是证明什么的正确性，这里说的是另一个表明good manners的标志是the queue，A项signal“信号”；B项scene“一场、一幕、风景”。D项sight“风景”，均不合题意。答案为C。

67.original意为原始的；superior意为优秀的；advanced意为先进的，但根据作者表达意图，主要是为了衬托the queue在英国人眼里的重要性，用football是用广为人知的民族运动来比较，答案为A。 

68.这是一个插入语，起补充说明的作用。我们可以根据插入语与整个句子的关系来判断，一般人是宁死也不称呼陌生人“Sir”or“Madam”的，但在hotel or department工作的人除外，所以答案选D，意为“除非”。答案为D。 

69.you对我们来说是个共同的，一致的称呼，而且此句也给出提示词：democratic，所以这里填universal更合适。B项unique“独一无二的”；C项regular“有规律的，有规则的”；D项normal“正常的”，均与题意无关。答案为A。 

70.因为you是一个共同的，一致的称呼，所以很难找到一个词来表达礼貌，这样选A显得顺理成章。而且本文主要讲的是礼貌问题，而gratitude意为感激；consideration意为体贴，故选A更合适。答案为A。 

71.thee and thou是古英语，一般用于熟悉、亲密的人之间。作者的意思是说，如果现在还用thee and thou的话，you也就只用于职业场所或陌生人了。order是预订的意思；offer意为提供；stock意为存储、储备；reserve有保留之意，相比较而言，reserve与原文意思相符，答案为B。 

72.因为下文列举的是一些令人难以置信的例子，目的是证明作者的观点。下面的例子在人们看来显得不合情理，难以置信，这也正是作者的观点，于是这里选C项hardly意为不合情理，不大可能发生。答案为C。 

73.block表示“阻塞”，这句话的意思是：如果你试图亲吻英国人，他们会惊骇地倒退两步，如果他们没有退路，你会发现你的嘴唇接触的是他们的后脑勺。答案为D。

74.that指的是前一句描述的“Your lips touching the back of the head”，这相对于polite来说是一种相当rude的行为，A项better“更好”；B项more polite“更有礼貌”；D项more frightening“更具有威胁性的”，均不合题意。答案为B。