Question

When a Japanese friend of mine first visited Britain and first saw a British map of the world, he was very upset by what he found. At first the picture seemed familiar: in the middle of the map, there were two or three small but long red islands lying between an ocean and a continent. But something was wrong: landmass and ocean had changed places. It wasn’t Japan he was looking at; it was the British small islands. Japan was out on the edge somewhere.

Until that moment all the maps he had known had located(标出位置)Japan in the middle of the picture and had colored it red; yet when he got to British, he found that the country in the middle of the map was Britain and that it, too, was painted red.

What my friend had found was a displacement(移换位置)of his country, and, therefore, of himself as well. That is to say, his country was not longer in its familiar place and he no longer knew where he stood: he was “disoriented”.

Our sense of ourselves and our place in the world may not, as my friend’s experience suggests, come from anything real or actual, for no country is in the middle of the globe, except as a picture in the mind. A map is only a model in which we may locate ourselves; it just helps us to feel that we know where we are.

1. When the man in this story saw a British map of the world, he found himself ________________.

A. uneasy　　　　　　　　　　 B. comfortable　　　　　　　　　　 C. disappointed　　　　　　 D. encouraged

2. On a British map of the world, ________________.

A. Japan is painted red　　　　　　　　　　　　　　   B. Japan is located in the middle

C. Japan is located at one side　　　　　　　　　　　　    D. Japan does not appear at all

3. “To be disoriented” means to lose________________.

A. one’s heart　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　   B. control

C. one’s interest　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　    D. one’s sense of position

4. No country is in the middle of the globe________________.

A. in fact　　　　　　   B. in places　　　　　　　　   C. in maps　　　　　　　　    D. in pictures

5. The main idea of this passage is that________________.

A. human beings need maps in order to find the middle of the globe

B. Japanese visitors to British find that local maps give them a sense of displacement

C. our sense of location based on familiar maps often helps us to travel from place to place

D. familiar maps give to those who use them an imaginary but comforting sense of location(位置)

 

Answer 1

答案：A;C;D;A;D
提示：

1 文章第一句给出了1题的答案，注意同义词的代换。 2 文章第一段最后一句给出了2题答案，本题选C 3 该短语是“转向”的意思 4 没有一个国家处于中心位置。 5 文章主旨题，选D。