四、阅读理解
After I made it to the city centre, I started to feel it could be easy for a foreigner to deal with the great size of Beijing. With growing confidence, I decided to take the underground to the hotel. Surprised by the cleanliness of the station, I bought a ticket and boarded the first train that came along.
After a few minutes, I asked a young man seated next to me in English where I should get off closest to the Friendship Hotel. Wearing a smart business suit and tie, he would surely speak English, wouldn't he? Unluckily, he couldn't understand me but seemed very friendly. I showed him the room card with all the information of the Friendship Hotel in Chinese characters (汉字). He looked at it, and then his eyes moved quickly to the carriage (车厢) underground map. Next, he raised three fingers of his right hand.
In Australia, raising fingers at someone is not usually nice, but this man wasn't laughing at me. At the next station he showed me two fingers.
Now in Australia,
that'
s really rude,
but I got the message. When we stopped at the third station, he didn't just point to the door, but got up, took me out of the train, and led me to the top of the stairs, and out onto the street. Then he stopped a taxi and told the driver where to take me.
All this came from a man who couldn't speak my language, and I couldn't speak his. I was now surprised, ▲ , especially when he refused my offer of money.
This special experience makes it clear that I have to learn some Chinese quickly so that I can better enjoy the wonderful time with these lovely Chinese people.
(
A
) 1. After being shown the room card, the young man
.
A. knew what the writer meant
B. still felt unsure
C. answered the writer directly
D. advised the writer to look at the underground map
(
D
) 2. From the underlined sentence, we know that
.
A. the writer got a message from other people
B. the writer didn't know what the young man wanted to do
C. the writer was very angry because the young man was impolite
D. the writer knew the young man's purpose and accepted the cultural differences
(
A
) 3. Which of the following can be put in " ▲ "?
A. but I felt more moved B. and it made me crazy
C. so I asked him many questions D. but he did a lot for me
(
B
) 4. What's the best title for this passage?
A. A Young Man B. A Special Experience
C. A Chinese Lesson D. A Room Card
