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1、天水一中2011级20132014学年第六次模拟考试英语试题（卷）命题：史兰英 党霞萍 审核： 陈万生第卷第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）AEvery year holidays Broughton teams up with Sopraviva Trekking to offer twelve days of unforgettable adventure in a tropical rain forestDepending on where this years rain forest adventure is located, you
2、may be going to Borneo, Malaysia ,Indonesia, or even to the greatest rain forest of them all, the mighty Amazonian forestYou will fly with your fellow adventurers to one of our special base camps at the edge of the forest, where you will be given five days of survival training ,and talks on the loca
3、l wildlife by trained and experienced expertsYou will also go on walks which take you deeper and deeper under the forest canopy until on your final night you camp out in the rain forest itselfThen you transfer by bus into the forest itselfIf you go on one of the Asian holidays, you will have to walk
4、 the final miles to the camp site itself, to avoid disturbing the local ecologyAll of the Sopraviva sites have been carefully built to conform with the latest regulations, and to cause the minimal amount of disturbance to the local wildlifeFrom the camp ,you will go on daily walking tours to experie
5、nce for yourself the beauty and diversity of the forests, and plants and vegetation that can be found nowhere else on the planetRemember that these adventure holidays take you deep into the wilderness ,and they are not suitable for families with young children or for anyone who is not physically abl
6、e to meet the demands of this kind of adventureAlso remember that in order to preserve the delicate ecological system that you will be walking through ,no more than two dozen guests can stay at any camp at one time, so if you want to go on one of these very special holidays ,you will need to book ea
7、rly!1If you want to go on the camp ,you will first have to Aattend talks on the local wildlife Bhave survival trainingCwalk the final five miles Dbook beforehand2What does the organizer of the camp mainly stress?ADisturbing the local ecology BPreserving the forest environmentCPrivate possessions and
8、 possible dangersDThe survival training3Go on daily walking tours and youll enjoy Athe wilderness Bthe Amazonian forestCthe Asian forest Dthe forest canopy B“Long time no see” is a very interesting sentenceWhen I first read this sentence from an American friends email，I laughedI thought it was a per
9、fect example of ChinglishObviously，it is a word-by-word literal translation of the Chinese greetings with a ruled English grammar and structure! Later on，my friend told me that it is a standard American greetingI was too thrilled to believe herHer words could not convince me at allSo I did a researc
10、h on GooglecomTo my surprise，there are over 60 thousand web pages containing “Long time no see” This sentence has been widely used in emails，letters，newspapers，movies，books，or any other possible placesThough it is sort of informal，it is part of the language that Americans use dailyIronically，if you
11、type this phrase in Microsoft Word，the software will tell you that the grammar needs to be correctedNobody knows the origin of this Chinglish sentenceSome people believe that it came from Charlie Chans moviesIn the 1930s，Hollywood moviemakers successfully created a world wide famous Chinese detectiv
12、e named “Charlie Chan” on wide screensDetective Chan likes to teach Americans some Chinese wisdom by quoting Confucius“Long time no see” was his trademarkSoon after Charlie Chan，“Long time no see” became a popular phrase in the real world with thanks to the popularity of these moviesSome scholars re
13、fer to America as a huge pot of stewAll kinds of culture are mixed in the stew together，and they change the color and taste of each otherAmerican Chinese，though a minority ethnic（少数民族的成员） group in the United States，is also contributing some changes to the stew! Language is usually the first thing to
14、 be influenced in the mixed stewYou can have some other examples than adoptions from Chinese，such as pizza from Italian，susi from Japanese，and dj vu from French etcThere is a long list! Americans do not just simply borrow something from othersThey will modify it and make it their own，so you would no
15、t be surprised to find a tofu and peanut butter hamburger in a restaurant，or to buy a bottle of iced Chinese green tea with honey in a grocery storeSince Americans appreciate Chinese culture more and more nowadays，I believe more Chinese words will become American English in the futureIn this way the American stew keeps adding richness and flavor4The writer himself felt surprised at _Athe Chinglish expression “Long time no see” B“Long time no see” used as standard American EnglishCso many literal translation of the ex
