When I was 16 years old, I made my first visit to the United States it wasn't the first time I had been 56Like most English children I learned French at school and I had often 57 to France, I so I was used 58 a foreign language to people who did not understand 59 . But when I went to America I was really looking forward to 60 a nice easy holiday without any 61 problems.

How wrong I was ! the misunderstanding began at the airport. I was looking for a 62 telephone to give my American friend Danny a 63 and tell her I had ar- rived. A friendly old man saw me 64 lost and asked 65 he could help me.

"Yes," I said, "I want to give my friend a ring. " "Well, that's 66 " he exclaimed.

"Are you getting. 67 ? But aren't you a bit 68 ?" "Who is talking about mar- riage?" I replied. "I 69 want to give a ring to tell he 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 70 meet up, Danny 71 the misunderstandings to me. " Don't worry," she said to me. "I had so many. 72 at first. There are lots of words words which the Americans 73 differently in meaning from 74 . You'll soon get used to 75 things they say. Most of the time British and American people understand each other !"

56. A. out B. aboard C. away D. abroad

57. A. been B. gone C. got D. come

58. A. to speak B. for speaking C. to speaking D. to speaking of

59. A. Russian B. French C. English D. Latin

60. A. buyingB. having C. giving D. receiving

61 A. time B. human C. money D. language

62 A. perfectB. popular C. public D. pleasant

63 A. ring B. letterC. word D. message

64 A. looking B. looking like C. to look D. feeling like

65 A. that B. ifC. where D. when

66 A. well B. strange C. niceD. funny

67 A. to marry B. marrying C. to be married D. married

68. A. small B. smartC. little D. young

69. A. very B. just C. so D. just now

70. A. did B. couldC. do D. can

71. A. described B. explainedC. talked D. expressed

72. A. trouble B. difficulties C. fun D. things

73. A. write B. speakC. use D. read

74. A. British usB. us BritishC. us Britain D. we British

75. A. such B. these C. some D. all the

答案

56.D根据题意应该选在国外，abroad后置。选项B aboard为“在……上”的意思。

57.A应选完成时的状态。去过某地用have/had been to someplace.

58.C 根据题意应该为习惯于说外语，用be used to doing的结构。

59.C根据文章内容应该是给不懂英语的人说外语。

60.B have a holiday为度假的固定短语。B选项为买，C为给，D为收到，与题意不符。

61.D根据文章意思为没有语言问题。应选语言。A为时间;B为人类;C为金钱。

62.C 根据文章意思应该打公用电话。选项C为公共的。A为完美的;B为流行的;D为高兴的，愉快的。

63.A根据上下文作者是要打电话，只有ring有电话的意思。B为信件;C为单词，字;D为信息。

64.B根据文章内容应该是看上去的意思，同时see sb.doing sth.表状态。D为感觉像，与题意不符。

65.B根据文章意思应该是问是否需要帮忙。只有if有是否的意思。

66.B根据上下文，由于老人听错了意思，所以觉得奇怪。选项A.c都有好的意思，D为有趣的，这里选奇怪的最符合文意。

67.B结婚用get married.

68.D根据上下文应选年轻的意思，A：small：小的，B：smart：灵巧的，C：little：少的。

69.B jUSt用在这里表示仅仅的意思，very：非常的，so：所以，just now为刚才的意思。

70.C表示强调的时候，通常用do，由于本文用过去时态，所以选did.

71.B根据文章意思应该是向她解释。Describe：描写，形容;talk：谈话;express：表达。

72.B根据文章意思应该选困难，由于和many连用要用可数名词，trouble：困难，不可数，fun：趣事，things：事情。

73.C根据文章应该是在甩法上不同。write：写，speak：说，read：读。

74.C我们英国人在这里，US British，Britain为英国。

75.A这句话的意思是习惯他们所说的这些东西，特指这种用such.some：一些;all the：所有的。