山东魏桥中学2012高三英语二轮复习 阅读理解与阅读表达专题（三）学案.docVIP

课题名称 Many people take it for granted that black is a color of bad things while white should always mean something good. This may be because, in their opinion, black is related to darkness and white to purity. However, that is not always the case. Did you know that the same one colour may mean differently in different places of the world? In the English-speaking world, black is the colour of mourning. People wear black clothes at the funeral. Red is concerned with danger or bloodshed (流血). Yellow is the word for fear. If you are afraid, you are yellow. Yet none of these sayings is true outside the English-speaking world. In China and Korea white is the colour of mourning. In Russia, China and some other countries, red stands for beauty, life and excellence. In Italy and Germany, you are yellow with anger, not with fear. Even within the English-speaking area it is not difficult to find colour contradictions (矛盾). A redcap in the United States is a porter in a railway station. In Britain, however, a redcap is a military policeman. Both names are logical because both men wear red caps. Similarly, the British term for an American white collar worker is sometimes called a black-coated worker. One does not have to cross an area to find color differences. Would you rather be red-blooded? If we go back to the origin, we find that both terms are logical as both names suggest. The expression blueblood comes from Spain, where some noble families proudly said that they had blue blood. But then why blue blood? Because they were fairskinned, and it is only natural that their blood vessels (血管) stood out appearing blue. 1. Yellow is concerned with anger in _______. A. Russia B. Britain C. Germany D. China 2. The two meanings of the term redcap form a difference in _______. A. pronunciation B. climate C. logical relationship D. custom 3. Both Britain and America would probably agree that _______. A. black is the color of