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63. When do the shops close on Sundays?
A. 5:00pm. B. 5:35pm. C. 5:45pm. D. 6:00pm.
64. The museum has the right to__________.
A. open and examine your bags luggage
B. stop you taking pictures in the galleries
C. refuse to receive visitors with disabilities
D. ask you to hand in pictures you have drawn in the galleries
65. The text is probably taken from _________.
A. a news magazine
B. a language dictionary
C. an information leaflet
D. a textbook about tourism D
As thousands of overseas students do battle with the English language in schools across the UK,many face a struggle with a culture for which they are totally
unprepared.Misunderstandings can occur, which ,if not sorted out ,can ruin a student’s trip.
Much of this is a result of false thinking and expectations of British families and the way they live. Last summer in a college in Kent,Ali,a Middle East student in his
forties wrote before his arrival to request a family willing to discuss the day’s news,no meat in his food and no alcohol. Then ,after his second day in England,his host rang
the college to say he wouldn’t eat the food she’d cooked for him.In fact he had bought some food and asked her to cook it for him.
The college solved the problem by Ali taking lunch and evening meals at the college,where he cluld try out the food by eating a little at a time,and only take
breakfast with his host. And it worked! “They later got on like a house on fire.” Said Tony, one of his British classmates. “He had just not got on with the food.”
EFL(English as a Foreign language) communities can be close-knit—when a Japanese student was shot dead in the United States some years ago agter mistakenly entering the wrong house in fancy dress on the way to a Halloween party, and did not understand the word “freeze!”,the US became a no-go area. After the event, the Japanese stopped all their courses and the US was declared “unsafe”.
So concerned（关心）has the UK EFL industry become to improve students’ understandings about the British culture that the British Counil carried out research among foreign students to determine what they felt were the most important factors in their stay.They found that ,altough EFL courses were heavily praised, what concerned students was the quality of host families and welfare during their stay.
The result of their study helped a Homesa Code of Practice. Since its launch（推出）earlier this year, some 20,000 certificates have been sent out to hostfamilies who have signed the Code.It has also been sent to 1,000 overseas travel agents.The aim is to make it serve as an international quality assurance scheme（质量保证体系）.
66. We learn from the text that the problems foreign students have during their stay in England are mostly caused by________.
A. their poor English level
B. the British way of cooking
C. their unfamiliarity with the British culture
D. their misunderstanding of British families’ attitudes towards them.
67. Ali didn’t eat the food in the host family because _________.
A. he didn’t get on well with his host
B. he couldn’t eat the meat served
C. he didn’t like the way it was cooked
D. he couldn’t come back from school on time
68. When Tony said that “they later got on like a house on fire” (paragraph 3),most probably he meant_________.
A. Ali never touched the food his host cooked
B. Ali and his host later became close friends
C. Ali ofter quarreled with his host family
D. Ali left host family and moved to live elsewhere
69. The underlined word “it”(paragraph 5)refers to ________.
A. the certificate
B. the EFL course
C. the Homestay Code of Practice
D. the result of the British Council’s study
70. The example of a Japanese student is given in the text to show that__________.
A. America is a dangerous
B. Americans are unfriendly to foreign students
C. Japanese students are inadequate in their English
D. missunderstandings can occur between foreign students and native speakers E
The folm The Tides of Kirawira,which won two prizes at a recent televisio festival, was made by Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone.The couple are in England to visit friends and family before heading back to Tanzania for their next film. Their work takes them to some of the world’s least-knownareas but they still find themselves drawn back to England,particularly to Cornwall,where their work and personal relationship developed.
“We met in London when Mark was studying biology and I was at the Royal College of Art studying photography.” says Victoria. “We both learned to dive at the same pool in London and went on diving weekends in the country. It was a terrible place, freezing cold,where we dived in wet suits full of holes.But that is where our relationship developed.”
After completing their studies they took part in the management of a conservation area（保護區）in the mouth of the River Fal in Cornwall. “We were shocked.Nobody seemed to understand the river’s ecological（生態的）importance. So we thought ,why don’t we make a film to show people what a special place it is? Neither of us had any experience of filming but we took part-time jobs until we had enough cash to buy an underwater camera and xome film.” A television company agreed to provide money for the work and the film they produced about the
underwater life of the River Fal was shown on television and won a number of prizes.
By then ,they both knew they wanted to work with wildlife in distant places around the world.Alkan Root,a famous East Arfican wildlife film-maker, asked them to work for him. That was seven years ago and the job took them to the Serengeti to film crocodiles（鳄鱼）.Their films,Here Be Dragons and Devil Fish,were very successful.
“We love Africa but we have to come back to England every year,” says Victoria. “We need to return to see our friends and family. For us,Africa is temporary and England means permanence.It’s the difference between living in a tent in Tanzania and a house in Cornwall. We are lucky…we have the best of both worlds.”
71. Mark and Victoria have returned to England to__________.
A. appear on television
B. make a film about Cornwall
C. have a break between films
D. receive a prize for their new film
72. Victoria ragards her weekends learning to dive as _________.
A. a waste of time