Question

Dear Lan Lan,

I’m now writing to you at Hartsop, a village in the Lake District, a place to have most beautiful scenery（景色）in English couple here to spend Christmas with them. This was planned for overseas students to know British way of life by living with British families.

We came two days before Christmas and during our stay, we have had everything we expected. Christmas turkey, Christmas cake, Christmas puddings, Christmas parties and Christmas gifts under the Christmas tree. All are exciting and amusing（有趣的）, but above all these, we are deeply touched by the hospitality（好客）of the family, Roger and Anne Marie.

Anne Marie was a nurse and all these days, she had been busy cooking meals, washing dishes and showing us around. Roger, who was a doctor, knows a lot about China and still wants to know more. He plays us Chinese music and it seems to me he does better in that than we do. In the evenings, we all sit around the fireplace with Tim, a lovely dog, by our side. Like long-time-no-see friends, we talk about all the things that have happened or we hope to happen in our lives. There is always so much to tell and to know.

After three months away from home, we are again feeling how sweet a home can be. Roger and Anne Marrie are not like most of the other people we have met who always make us feel we are foreigners in a foreign country. They show such kindness to us that they bring us a person-to-person feeling, instead of a British-to-Chinese feeling. They make us believe that though there are differences of languages and cultures, one may always expect to find in every corner of the world the feeling of love and being loved.

How I wish Mum and Dad could meet them! How I wish you were here with me! How strange it is that the more I feel at home here, the more I miss my real home and all of you. We always talk about “when we go back home next year…” and soon we will turn this into “when we go back home THIS year…” for the New Year’s Day is coming. Miss you.

                                                                   Love

Cao Wen

 

61. The writer is        now in England.

  A. a Chinese visitor to an English family        B. a Chinese student studying

  C. a Chinese teacher working                       D. a Chinese student living

62. In Hartsop, Cao Wen felt       .

  A. rather at home       

  B. the English home better than her home

  C. she was a foreigner in a foreign country

  D. she was one member of the family

63. It seems that Roger       .

  A. can speak Chinese very well

  B. knows something about Chinese for a long time

  C. once lived in China for a long time

  D. can do everything better than the Chinese

64. When you are away from home, it is good for you to have the feeling       .

  A. of being alone                              B. of going home soon

  C. of love and being loved                 D. as a foreigner

65. In the writer’s opinion, the best home is       .

  A. the home they stayed in England

  B. the home that you left behind

  C. Chinese home

  D. one’s own home

Answer 1

BABCD

61. 文中所給人物姓名及幾個提示詞如 “over-seas students” “British-to-Chinese feeling”可判斷出作者是求學國外的中國學生。

62.從After three months away from home, we are again feeling how sweet a home can be.這一句，以及文中其他敘述可以看出，Cao Wen有在家的感覺。故選A。

63.此題可用“略讀求解法”。直接找文中有 “Roger”的信息，在第二、三自然段，即可找到答案。

64.從第五段可以找到答案。

65.文章是以一封信的格式來寫的，思鄉之情溢于言表。尤其最后一段中提及“越在此呆得自在，越思念我真正的家”。由此可見，世上所有的地方，都不及自己的家好。