高中英语真题：高考真题周周练(7)

高考真题周周练（7）

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A

Arriving in Sydney on his own from , my husband, Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children.

During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to discov er that his suitcase was gone. He was extremely worried as th e suitcase had all his important papers, includi

ng his passport (护照).

He reported the case to the police and then sat there, lost a nd lonely in a strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of g etting all the paperwork organised again fr

om a distant country while trying to settle down in a new one. Late in the evening, the phone rang. It was a stranger. He was trying to pronounce my husband's name and was asking him a lot of questions. Then he said they had found a pile of p apers in their trash can (垃圾

桶) that had been left out on the footpath.

My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holdi ng all his papers and documents (文

件). Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and foun d a pile of unfamiliar papers. Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign addresses o n most of the documents. At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his ne w telephone number to a friend.

That family not only restored the important documents to us that day but also restored our faith and trust in people. We sti ll remember their kindness and often send a warm

wish their way.

21. What did Rashid plan to do after his arrival in ?

A. Go shopping.

B. Find a house.

C. Join his family.

D. Take a vacation.

22. The girl's parents got Rashid's phone number from ______ .

A. a friend of his family

B. a policeman

C. a letter in his papers

D. a stranger in

23. What does the underlined word “restor

ed” in the last paragraph mean?

A. Showed.

B. Gave back.

C. Delivered.

D. Sent out.

24. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A. From India to .

B. Living in a New Country.

C. Turning Trash to Treasure.

D. In Search of New Friends.

B

As more and more people speak the global languages of E nglish, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are ra pidly disappearing. In fact, half of the 6,000-

7,000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the United Nations Educ ational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

In an effort to prevent language loss,

scholars from a number of organizations — UNESCO and N ational Geographic among them — have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect. Mark Turin, a scientist at the Macmillan Centre, , who spec ializes in the languages and oral traditions of the Him alayas, is following in that tradition. His recently published boo k, A Grammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and Their Culture, grows out of his experienc