TEXT A
If you like the idea of staying with a family, living in house might be the answer. Good
landladies---those who are superb cooks and launderers, are figures as popular in fiction as the bad ones who terrorize their guest and overcharge them at the slightest opportunity. The truth is probably somewhere between the two extremes. If you are lucky, the food will be adequate, some of your laundry may be done for you and you will have a reasonable amount of comfort and companionship .For the less fortune ,house rules may restrict the freedom to invite friends to visit, and shared cooking and bathroom facilities can be frustrating and row-provoking if tidy and untidy guests are living under the same roof.
The same disadvantages can apply to flat sharing, with the added difficulties that arise from deciding who pays for what, and in what proportion. One person may spend hours on the phone, while another rarely makes calls. If you want privacy with guest , how do you persuade the others to go out; how do you persuade them to leave you in peace, especially if you are student and want to study?
Conversely, flat sharing can be very cheap, there will always be someone to talk to and go out with, and the chores, in theory, can be shared.
81.According to the passage ,landladies are ____C____
A. usually strict.
B. always mean.
C. adequately competent.
D. very popular with their guest.
解析:C, 排除法。 A指的是bad landladies,片面信息。B没有提到,且过于绝对。D选项:文中提到: “Good landladies---those who are superb cooks and launderers. D, … are figures as popular in fiction as the bad ones who terrorize their guest and overcharge them at the slightest opportunity.“指两种都很常见,而不是受欢迎。”有bad landladies,自然不能说所有的landladies都受到房客的欢迎。
82.What is the additional disadvantage of flat sharing? ____A____
A. Problems of sharing and paying.
B. Differences in living habits.
C. Shared cooking and bathroom facilities.
D. Restriction to invite friends to visit.
解析:由第二段可知。 “…with the added difficulties that arise from deciding who pays for what,…” (另外一个困难是决定由谁来付钱和付多少…)以及”If you want privacy with guest , how do you persuade the others to go out; how do you persuade them to leave you in peace, especially if you are student and want to study.” 在同住的时候生活细节上的一些矛盾。
83.What is NOT mentioned as a benefit of flat sharing? ____D____
A. Rent is affordable
B. There is companionship.
C. Housework.
D. There is peace and quiet.
解析:D。由第三段可知。 “flat sharing can be very cheap, there will always be someone to talk to and go out with, and the chores, in theory, can be shared.” A、B、C 都有提到,只有D没有提及。
TEXT B
(1) Traveling through the country a couple of weeks ago on business, I was listening to the talk of the late UK writer Douglas Adams’ master work “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” on the radio and thought---I know, I’ll pick up the next hitchhikers I see and ask them what the state of real hitching is today in Britain.
(2)I drove and drove on main roads and side roads for the next few days and never saw a single one.
(3)When I was in my teens and 20s, hitchhiking was a main form of long-distance transport. The kindness or curiosity of strangers took me all over Europe, North America, Asia and southern Africa. Some of the lift-givers became friends ,many provided hospitality on the road.
(4)Not only did you find out much more about a country than when traveling by train or plane ,but there was that element of excite
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