河北普高专升本英语（阅读理解）模拟试卷16
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Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and to praise or criticize others as they are similar to or different from it. And unfortunately, our picture of the people and the way of life of other countries is often a distorted (扭曲的) one.
Here is a great argument in favor of foreign travel and learning foreign languages. It is only by traveling in, or living in a country and getting to know its citizens and their language that one can find out what a country and its inhabitants are really like. And how different the knowledge one gains this way frequently turns out to be from the second-hand information gathered from other sources! How often we find that the foreigners whom we thought to be such different people from ourselves are not very different after all!
Differences between peoples do, of course, exist and, one hopes, will always continue to do so. The world will be a dull place indeed when all the different nationalities behave exactly alike, and some people might say that we are rapidly approaching this state of affairs. With the much greater rapidity and ease of travel, there might seem to be some truth in this at least as far as Europe is concerned. However this may be, at least the greater ease of travel today has revealed to more people than ever before that the Englishmen or Frenchmen or Germen are not some different kind of animal from themselves.
1.Every country criticizes ways of life in other countries because they are________.(D)
A. distorted
B. normal
C. similar to each other
D. different from its own
解析：根据第一段第一句“Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and to praise or criticize others as they are similar to or different from it．”可知，每个国家都会批评与他们的生活方式不同的国家，赞扬与他们的生活方式相同的国家。故选D。
2.One who travels in a foreign country and learns its language will________.(C)
A. find out what they like
B. argue in favor of this country and the language
C. know the country and its people better
D. like its inhabitants and their language
解析：根据第二段第二句“It is only by traveling in，or living in a country…that one can find out what a country and its inhabitants are really like．”可推知，在国外旅行并学习其语言的人会更好地了解这个国家以及它的民众。故选C。
3.The knowledge one gains by traveling in a foreign country is often________.(D)
A. from second-hand information
B. gathered from other sources rather than from its inhabitants
C. gained from the arguments about the country
D. different from what one had before the travel
解析：根据第二段第二、三句“It is only by traveling in…from other sources!”可推知，一个人通过在国外旅行获得的信息与他旅行前获得的二手信息是不同的。故选D。
4.Differences between peoples________.(A)
A. may gradually disappear because of ease of travel
B. do exist even though different nationalities behave exactly alike
C. will always continue to exist and the world will be a dull place
D. will not exist as one hopes
解析：根据最后一段第三句“With the much greater rapidity and ease of travel…”可推知，民族之间的不同可能会随着旅行的便捷而逐渐消失。故选A。
5.What is the author’s attitude to foreign travel?(A)
A. Supportive.
B. Negative.
C. Indifferent.
D. Not mentioned.
解析：根据文章第二段可知，作者认为通过在国外旅行和学习外国语言，一个人可以更好地了解这个国家以及它的民众，通过这种方式获得的信息与从其他渠道获得的二手信息有很大不同，我们之前认为别的国家的人与自己不同，但其实并没有多大不同。由此可推知，作者
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