参考回答：

1. What happened in a cinema in Denmark

Despite the cinema being nearly empty, the strict assigned seating policy forced all thirty moviegoers to sit in a single, cramped cluster in the middle of a vast auditorium. The author tried to sit a few seats away to give a young couple some privacy, but he was eventually scolded by a local woman and escorted back to his exact assigned seat by usherettes.

2. Why the author felt ashamed

He felt ashamed because his refusal to sit in his assigned seat caused a minor scene. He was publicly signaled out by a stern woman and the usherettes' flashlights, leading the rest of the audience to view him as a "clueless American tourist" who was incapable of following simple, basic instructions.

3. His feelings about the film-watching experience

He found it absurd and ironic. He describes the group as sitting together "like refugees in an overloaded lifeboat." While the lack of privacy was uncomfortable, it triggered a deeper philosophical curiosity in him about why different nations handle simple tasks in such vastly different—and sometimes irrational—ways.

4. Feelings about French people according to the text

The text portrays the French as people who have an inherent cultural inability to queue (wait in line). Even though they try to be orderly at first, they quickly abandon all discipline the moment a bus arrives, turning the situation into a chaotic "fire drill at a lunatic asylum."

5. British people and their eating habits

The British are described as having unconventional and somewhat impractical eating habits. They insist on eating hamburgers with a knife and fork, and they famously turn their forks upside-down, balancing food (like peas) on the back of the fork, which the author finds both amazing and frustrating to watch.

6. Feelings about his first trip to Europe and why

The author was fascinated and filled with a "sense of wonder." He loved the discovery of variety—how Europeans could be so similar in their values (bookish, law-abiding) yet "endlessly, unpredictably different" in their daily habits. To him, the unpredictability made the journey exciting.

7. Why he replied with "a certain pride" about his language skills

He took pride in his "ignorance" because he believes the glory of travel lies in not knowing what is going on. To him, being unable to understand the language restores a "childlike wonder," making him feel like a five-year-old again where every moment is an "interesting guess" rather than a mundane, understood fact.

8. The purpose of describing the TV science program

The author uses the TV program to illustrate the hilarity of total linguistic ignorance. Because he didn't understand Norwegian, he used his imagination to turn a likely boring science show into a surreal, perverted interview about "having sex with lemmings," showing how much fun one can have when they don't understand the reality of their surroundings.

9. Why it is "impossible" to finish the Thomas Cook European Timetable

The author suggests it's impossible to simply "finish" it because the book is a "magical thicket" of possibilities. Every page and city name (like Venice or Paris) whispers romance and adventure, causing the reader to stop and daydream about taking off on a grand journey rather than just reading the data.

10. Feelings about the text and the author

The text is a brilliant piece of travel satire. The author, Bill Bryson, comes across as a witty, self-deprecating, and highly observant traveler. He finds joy in the "friction" of travel—the small misunderstandings and cultural quirks—rather than just the famous landmarks, which makes his perspective both relatable and hilarious.

1. (填空题)

The children wrote each other short messages in a secret _______________ they had made.  

正确答案：

(1) code

2. (填空题)

You should check your homework before handing it in so that you can find your own _______________.   

正确答案：

(1) errors

3. (填空题)

In order to _______________ this conflict, we need to sit down face to face, and examine the issues together. 

正确答案：

(1) resolve

4. (填空题)

We have decided to _______________ the committee's suggestions in full. 

正确答案：

(1) implement

5. (填空题)

The addition of three new machines has increased our _______________ by over 50%.  

正确答案：

(1) output

6. (填空题)

This year, the _______________ convention is being held in Mazatlan, but next year it will be in Cancun.  

正确答案：

(1) annual

7. (填空题)

Death is simply a part of the _______________ of life. 

正确答案：

(1) cycle

8. (填空题)

Sophie did quite poorly on her first two math tests, but on _______________ exams she averaged between 90 and 100%. 

正确答案：

(1) subsequent

9. (填空题)

He has applied for a/an _______________ at a department store.   

正确答案：

(1) job

10. (填空题)

The _______________ crop grown in Colombia is coffee. 

正确答案：

(1) principal

【2】People came into the cinema, consulted their tickets and filled the seats around us. By the time the film started there were about 30 of us sitting together in a tight pack in the middle of a vast and otherwise empty auditorium. Two minutes into the movie, a woman laden with shopping made her way with difficulty down my row, stopped beside my seat and told me in a stern voice, full of glottal stops and indignation, that I was in her place. This caused much play of flashlights among the usherettes and fretful re-examining of tickets by everyone in the vicinity until word got around that I was an American tourist and therefore unable to follow simple seating instructions and I was escorted in some shame back to my assigned place.

【3】So we sat together and watched the movie, 30 of us crowded together like refugees in an overloaded lifeboat, rubbing shoulders and sharing small noises, and it occurred to me then that there are certain things that some nations do better than everyone else and certain things that they do far worse and I began to wonder why that should be.

【4】Sometimes a nation's little contrivances are so singular and clever that we associate them with that country alone-double-decker buses in Britain, windmills in Holland (what an inspired addition to a flat landscape: think how they would transform Nebraska), sidewalk cafés in Paris. And yet there are some things that most countries do without difficulty that others cannot get a grasp of at all.

【5】The French, for instance, cannot get the hang of queuing. They try and try, but it is beyond them. Wherever you go in Paris, you see orderly lines waiting at bus stops, but as soon as the bus pulls up the line instantly disintegrates into something like a fire drill at a lunatic asylum as everyone scrambles to be the first aboard, quite unaware that this defeats the whole purpose of queuing.

【6】The British, on the other hand, do not understand certain of the fundamentals of eating, as evidenced by their instinct to consume hamburgers with a knife and fork. To my continuing amazement,many of them also turn their fork upside-down and balance the food on the back of it. I've lived in England for a decade and a half and I still have to quell an impulse to go up to strangers in pubs and restaurants and say, "Excuse me, can I give you a tip that'll help stop those peas bouncing all over the table?"

【7】Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.

【8】One of the small marvels of my first trip to Europe was the discovery that the world could be so full of variety, that there were so many different ways of doing essentially identical things, like eating and drinking and buying cinema tickets. It fascinated me that Europeans could at once be so alike-that they could be so universally bookish and cerebral, and drive small cars, and live in little houses in ancient towns, and love soccer, and be relatively unmaterialistic and law-abiding, and have chilly hotel rooms and cosy and inviting places to eat and drink-and yet be so endlessly, unpredictably different from each other as well. I loved the idea that you could never be sure of anything in Europe.

【9】I still enjoy that sense of never knowing quite what's going on. In my hotel in Oslo, where I spent four days after returning from Hammerfest, the chambermaid each morning left me a packet of something called Bio Tex Blå, a "minipakke for ferie, hybel og weekend", according to the instructions. I spent many happy hours sniffing it and experimenting with it, uncertain whether it was for washing out clothes or gargling or cleaning the toilet bowl. In the end I decided it was for washing out clothes-it worked a treat-but for all I know for the rest of the week everywhere I went in Oslo people were saying to each other, "You know, that man smelled like toilet-bowl cleaner."

【10】When I told my friends in London that I was going to travel around Europe and write a book about it, they said, "Oh, you must speak a lot of languages."

【11】"Why, no," I would reply with a certain pride, "only English," and they would look at me as if I were crazy. But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.

【12】I get great pleasure from watching foreign TV and trying to imagine what on earth is going on. On my first evening in Oslo, I watched a science program in which two men in a studio stood at a lab table discussing a variety of sleek, rodent-like animals that were crawling over the surface and occasionally up the host's jacket. "And you have: sex with all these creatures, do you?"the host was saying.

【13】"Certainly," replied the guest. "You have to be careful with the porcupines, of course, and the lemmings can get very neurotic and hurl themselves off cliffs if they feel you don't love them as you once did, but basically these animals make very affectionate companions, and the sex is simply out of this world"

【14】"Well, I think that's wonderful, Next week we'll be looking at how you can make hallucinogenic drugs with simple household chemicals from your own medicine cabinet, but now it's time for the screen to go blank for a minute and then for the lights to come up suddenly on the host of the day looking as if he was just about to pick his nose. See you next week.

【15】After Hammerfest, Oslo was simply wonderful It was still cold and dusted with greyish snow, but it seemed positively tropical after Hammerfest, and I abandoned all thought of buying a furry hat. I went to the museums and for a day-long way out around the Bygdøy' peninsula, where the city's finest houses stand on the wooded hillsides,with fetching views across the icy water of the harbour to the downtown. But mostly I hung around the city center, wandering back and forth between the railway station and the royal palace, peering in the store windows along Karl Johans Gate2, the long and handsome main pedestrian street, cheered by the bright lights, mingling with the happy, healthy, relentlessly youthful Norwegians, very pleased to be alive and out of Hammerfest and in a world of daylight. When I grew cold, I sat in caf é s and bars and eavesdropped on conversations that I could not understand or brought out my Thomas Cook3 European Timetable and studied it with a kind of humble reverence, planning the rest of my trip.

【16】Thomas Cook European Timetable is possibly the finest book ever produced. It is impossible to leaf through its 500 pages of densely printed timetables without wanting to dump a double armload of clothes into an old Gladstone4 and just take off. Every page whispers romance: "Montreux-Zweisimmen-Spiez-Interlaken", "Beograd- Trieste-Venezia-Verona-Milano", "Göteborg-Laxå-(Hallsberg)-Stockholm", "Ventimiglia-Marseille-Lyon-Paris"5. Who could recite these names without experiencing a tug of excitement, without seeing in his mind's eye a steamy platform full of expectant travelers and piles of luggage standing beside a sleek, quarter-mile- long train with a list of exotic locations slotted into every carriage? Who could read the names "Moskva-Warszawa-Berlin-Basel-Genève"6 and not feel a melancholy envy for all those lucky people who get to make a grand journey across a storied continent7? Who could glance at such an itinerary and not want to climb aboard? Well, Sunny von Bülow8 for a start. But as for me, I could spend hours just poring over the tables, each one a magical thicket of times, numbers, distances, mysterious little pictograms showing crossed knives and forks, wine glasses, daggers, miner's pickaxes (whatever could they be for?), ferry boats and buses, and bewilderingly abstruse footnotes.

1. 一个指定的座位

正确答案: an assigned seat

2. 一个宽敞甚至是空旷的观众席

正确答案: a vast and otherwise empty auditorium

3. 遵守简单的就座指示

正确答案: follow simple seating instructions

4. 一艘超载的救生艇

正确答案: an overloaded lifeboat

5. 一直令我惊讶的是

正确答案: To my continuing amazement

6. 遵纪守法的

正确答案: law-abiding

7. 带着一点骄傲回答

正确答案: reply with a certain pride

8. 就我而言

正确答案: as far as I am concerned

9. 一条步行街

正确答案: pedestrian street

10. 一座历史悠久的大陆

正确答案: a storied continent

1.Why students should be encouraged to develop creativity? Put the following articles in order according to the marks they desreve in your opinion.(From high to low)（100.0分）

• A.With the development of the society , creativity has become one of the crucial ability that students should have. From my perspective, developing students’ creativity is really important. There exists lots of reasons for doing so. First of all, creativity is necessary for scientific research, because it can promote the development of science and technology. Research needs new ideas and methods , which are more likely to come from students 'creativity. Advances in science can make great contributions to a country's prosperity. What's more, creativity can help students dealing with a variety of difficulties. When they face with new difficulties, they should turn to creativity for possible solution.In addition, creativity may make students’ life more interesting and colorful .As a result,they may feel much happier than other people . In conclusion ,it is really important to pay attention on student’s creativity. Schools can provide some lectures about creativity to students.In the same time, students should learn to figure out problems in unique ways to develop their creativity. The more creative students become ,the more prosperous a country will be.
• B.Undoubtedly,creativity is essential to personal growth and social development. Therefore,students should be encouraged to cultivate creativity . For one thing,a creative student stands a better chance of outperforming their peers. The ability to generate fresh and unique ideas can help students to achieve a better academic performance and also obtain more opportunities to show their talents. Sparkling thoughts within their minds will also stimulate students to apply what they have acquired into practice,which can further sharpen their minds and improve their practical skills . For another,students with innovative capabilities could also contribute more to social development. In the 21"century,China has achieved enormous progress in every aspect. Though the feat is remarkable,China still confronts challenges,such as unequitable development of the economy and technological difficulties. To handle all these pressing problems for the steady growth of the Chinese society ,students, the major workforce that will shape the future of China ,should possess the ability to come up with novel ideas and innovative solutions. All in all , creativity is important not only for students’ personal growth in life but also for the thriving of the whole nation in the upcoming future .
• C.As us well know, students have longtime in schools to contract knowledge. But they hardly have chance to touch new knowledge board en the school. As the saying goes, “creative is the begining of knowledge 's river.” Only students should be encouraged to develop creativity , they become the teenagers command unique knowledge. They can counter new things in the world. There are some reasons can predict it, Firstly, encourage students to develop creativity can develop morden technology.In fact, the quality of students don't know how to link with life and knowledge. Because they have less creativity .On the contatry, the morden technology is based from our lives. Secondly, creativity is most important ability in own life. When you face to face problems ,you need to turn on your math to fund the ways of go out. Finally,creativity is different to study ability, is a deeply ability. Who have more creativity ,who will more easy to achieve success To sum up, creativity is a important ability that everyone need to have. So develop creative can promote our creativity of our country
• D.As the saying goes, “Creativity is the first power of development .”With the fast pace of soceity,creativity is demanded everywhere . In my opinion ,it is creativity which is the common characteristic for excellent students.Above all , creativity is the most important skill to achievements. For example,in the competition ,a student has the innovation spirit is the winner of the game. Secondly, creativity is of great important in our future work . Because corporation like to fire someone with innovation skills than those who is normal .Thirdly, creativity can help us more surprised in our daily life .For instance,when you want to give your friends birthday gifts , you should give something new to make them surprise and impressed ,like hand-made by yourself Simple put, there is the stage for creativity in much more aspect in our lives.Studying,working ,making friends, all demand us to make new things. Being a potential successful people, our students should have creativity is a powerful characteristic in the path for future .On the contray, no creative spirit will implete individual development , even the society.
• E.Creativity is the most treasur in the word .APPLE creatived new iphone and ipad, because its amazing creativity. The company has most treasure is their skill. Huawei because IC, their Mate remove tip cover before use.Art as same.Painting because it’s only one brain has bigger price. Students in school study encouraged about science, art, create can has a better future. Creativity can create bigger treasure.Company just take short treasur. American be the first country in the world because its science. Google, Apple, Windows and so on. We need more ceatis science company to help treas ur develop. Alibaba,Tengxun, Huawei are the biggest secience companes in China. They have many scence, but they have many problems and same .China have many students. Everyone can chang the world by creat y.2020,something wrong,something fine.In2021,we will can have a better day about sun,water, and new life.If you want eveything be fine.You shoud be happy and encouraged if you study and creative .

正确答案：BADCE

一.单选题（共4题,100.0分）

1

A、The man had an attitude problem.

B、The man made little contribution to the company.

C、The man paid attention to trivial things.

D、The man got a poor evaluation from his colleagues.

正确答案： A

2

A、They reject employees' reasonable arguments for work enficiency.

B、They make unhelpful decisions for solving problems.

C、They favor some employees' suggestions over others'.

D、They use manipulative language to mask their irrational choices.

正确答案： D

3

A、It is a good qualiy in the workplace.

B、It is more important now than ever.

C、It is a must for rational judgment.

D、It is more of a sin than a virtue.

正确答案： D

4

A、Making rational and productive decisions.

B、Focusing on employees' career growth.

C、Preserving their power and prestige.

D、Smoothing relationships in the workplace.

正确答案： C

正确答案：immigrated

2.She continually failed to gain promotion because of her______.

正确答案：sex

3.The growth of our company has been seriously _______________ by the poor state of the economy. 

正确答案：constrained

4.This ESL program puts a lot of _______________ on speaking and listening skills.

正确答案：emphasis

5.Her tennis _______________ has improved a lot since she began taking private lessons. 

正确答案：technique

6.The _______________ he received after his presentation were highly favourable.

正确答案：comments

7.She made a delicious cake that had chocolate ice cream on one _______________, and vanilla ice cream on another. 

正确答案：layer

8.The only _______________ that I can see of cutting the education budget is that our children will suffer. 

正确答案：outcome

9.You shouldn't mix chemicals together in science class unless you know how they will _______________.  

正确答案：react

10.I _______________ regularly with my counterpart in the head office in Toronto. 

正确答案：correspond

11.The _______________ between smoking and cancer is too strong to ignore.

正确答案：link

12.Much of the modern _______________ used today in wristwatches was developed in Switzerland.

正确答案：technology

13.He _______________ a lot of time and money to helping people with AIDS.

正确答案：contributed

14.You'd better _______________ that everything the salesman promises is written into the contract.

正确答案：ensure

15.The grizzly bear's amazing sense of smell helps _________ for its poor eyesight, which is one of the most important factors of their survival in history.

正确答案：compensate

16.Over time, the world's human population has _______________ from rural to urban areas.

正确答案：shifted

17.My golf _______________ was really slow, so we had to let a number of people play through.

正确答案：partner

18.She didn't say she wanted to break up, but she certainly seemed to ____________ it when she said that it might be good for us to see other people.

正确答案：imply

19.Students in our program will be graded according to the _______________ described in the course outline.

正确答案：criteria

20.You'd better _______________ for the course pretty soon before it fills up.

正确答案：register

From each paragraph, find a word that means …

1.Approval or praise expressed by clapping.

正确答案：

applause

2. A large area of land, especially in relation to its appearance.

正确答案：

 landscape

3. A person who watches a show, game, or other event

正确答案：

 spectator

4. A figure with six straight sides and angles.

正确答案：

hexagon

二. 判断题（共4题，50分）

5. The Paris Summer Games 2024 marked the second time Paris hosts this international sporting event.       

正确答案:错

6. Paris is implementing various changes to its urban landscape, including opening 55km of new bike paths to connect venues.  

正确答案:对

7. Breakdancing and skateboarding are two of the four additional sports

included in the Paris Summer Games 2024.       

正确答案:对

8. Each medal for the Paris Summer Games 2024 contains a piece of the

Tower of Pisa as a special decoration.   

正确答案:错

1.Mikhail Gorbachev is _______________ with helping to bring about the end of    communism in Europe.

正确答案:credited

2.She _______________ the doctor during the operation.

正确答案：assisted; assists

3._______________ valid results is a major goal of all research.

正确答案：Achieving ; achiveing;Obtaining

4.World chess champion Gary Kasparov was recently beaten by a machine which was able to _______________ its moves almost instantly.

正确答案：compute

5.Teachers in the program are _______________ by the students at the end of each session.

正确答案：evaluated

6.Fire crews rushed to the _______________ of the plane crash.

正确答案：site

7.Vitamins are best _______________ through fresh fruit and vegetables, rather than by taking pills.

正确答案：obtained

8.Calcium is the _______________ mineral needed for building and maintaining strong bones.

正确答案：primary

9.Local _______________ are delighted with the new water park for children.

正确答案：residents

10.The government has _______________ a couple of changes to the driver's licensing procedure in an attempt to reduce the number of accidents involving new drivers.

正确答案：instituted

1.One of the _______________ of studying English in Victoria is that you have the opportunity to speak English outside of class. 

正确答案：

benefits

2.The cat slowly _______________ the bush where the mouse was hiding. 

正确答案：

approached

3.A department store spokesman says that their new outlet will _______________ more than 75 permanent jobs in the city.

正确答案：

create

4.The government recently passed _______________ which prohibits tobacco advertising at sporting events.

正确答案：

 legislation

5.There are many things you can do in your everyday life to help protect the _______________, such as recycling or riding a bicycle. 

正确答案：

environment

6.The _______________ of the river is somewhere in the mountains.

正确答案：

source

7.You must _______________ to our offer within 30 days or it will be withdrawn. 

正确答案：

respond

8.The government has announced a special program to help _______________ new small businesses.

正确答案：

finance

9.It is the _______________ of our government that no one should be without food or shelter.  

正确答案：

policy

10.The oldest _______________ to win a medal in the Olympics was Oscar Swahn, who won a silver medal in shooting at the age of 72.

正确答案：

 individual