When I was 16 years old, I made my first visit to the United States it wasn't the first time I had been 56Like most English children I learned French at school and I had often 57 to France, I so I was used 58 a foreign language to people who did not understand 59 . But when I went to America I was really looking forward to 60 a nice easy holiday without any 61 problems.
How wrong I was ! the misunderstanding began at the airport. I was looking for a 62 telephone to give my American friend Danny a 63 and tell her I had ar- rived. A friendly old man saw me 64 lost and asked 65 he could help me.
"Yes," I said, "I want to give my friend a ring. " "Well, that's 66 " he exclaimed.
"Are you getting. 67 ? But aren't you a bit 68 ?" "Who is talking about mar- riage?" I replied. "I 69 want to give a ring to tell he I've arrived. Can you tell me where there's a phone box? Oh!" he said, " There's a phone downstairs. "
When at last we 70 meet up, Danny 71 the misunderstandings to me. " Don't worry," she said to me. "I had so many. 72 at first. There are lots of words words which the Americans 73 differently in meaning from 74 . You'll soon get used to 75 things they say. Most of the time British and American people understand each other !"
56. A. out B. aboard C. away D. abroad
57. A. been B. gone C. got D. come
58. A. to speak B. for speaking C. to speaking D. to speaking of
59. A. Russian B. French C. English D. Latin
60. A. buyingB. having C. giving D. receiving
61 A. time B. human C. money D. language
62 A. perfectB. popular C. public D. pleasant
63 A. ring B. letterC. word D. message
64 A. looking B. looking like C. to look D. feeling like
65 A. that B. ifC. where D. when
66 A. well B. strange C. niceD. funny
67 A. to marry B. marrying C. to be married D. married
68. A. small B. smartC. little D. young
69. A. very B. just C. so D. just now
70. A. did B. couldC. do D. can
71. A. described B. explainedC. talked D. expressed
72. A. trouble B. difficulties C. fun D. things
73. A. write B. speakC. use D. read
74. A. British usB. us BritishC. us Britain D. we British
75. A. such B. these C. some D. all the
完型填空題答案
56.D根據題意應該選在國外，abroad後置。選項B aboard爲“在……上”的意思。
57.A應選完成時的狀態。去過某地用have/had been to someplace。
58.C 根據題意應該爲習慣於說外語，用be used to doing的結構。
59.C根據文章內容應該是給不懂英語的人說外語。
60.B have a holiday爲度假的固定短語.B選項爲買，C爲給，D爲收到，與題意不符。
61.D根據文章意思爲沒有語言問題。應選語言。A爲時間;B爲人類;C爲金錢。
62.C 根據文章意思應該打公用電話。選項C爲公共的。A爲完美的;B爲流行的;D爲高興的，愉快的。
63.A根據上下文作者是要打電話，只有ring有電話的意思。B爲信件;C爲單詞，字;D爲信息。
64.B根據文章內容應該是看上去的意思，同時see g sth.表狀態。D爲感覺像，與題意不符。
65.B根據文章意思應該是問是否需要幫忙。只有if有是否的意思。
66.B根據上下文，由於老人聽錯了意思，所以覺得奇怪。選項A、c都有好的`意思，D爲有趣的，這裏選奇怪的最符合文意。
67.B結婚用get married。
68.D根據上下文應選年輕的意思，A：small：小的，B：smart：靈巧的，C：little：少的。
69.B jUSt用在這裏表示僅僅的意思，very：非常的，so：所以，just now爲剛纔的意思。
70.C表示強調的時候，通常用do，由於本文用過去時態，所以選did。
71.B根據文章意思應該是向她解釋。Describe：描寫，形容;talk：談話;express：表達。
72.B根據文章意思應該選困難，由於和many連用要用可數名詞，trouble：困難，不可數，fun：趣事，things：事情。
73.C根據文章應該是在甩法上不同。write：寫，speak：說，read：讀。
74.C我們英國人在這裏，US British，Britain爲英國。
75.A這句話的意思是習慣他們所說的這些東西，特指這種用such。some：一些;all the：所有的。
