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包钢四中2015-2016学年第一学期11月月考 高三英语试卷 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） (A) When I was 16 years old, I made my first visit to the United States. It wasn’t the first time I had been abroad. Like most of English children, I learned French at school. And I had often been to France, so I was used to speaking a foreign language to people who didn’t understand English. But when I went to America I was really looking forward to having a nice easy holiday without any language problems. How wrong I was! The misunderstanding began at the airport. I was looking for a public telephone to give my friend Danny a call and tell her that I had arrived. A friendly old man saw me looking lost and asked if he could help me. “Yes,” I said, “I want to give my friend a ring.” “Well, that’s nice,” he said, “Are you getting married? But aren’t you a bit young?” “I am not talking about marriage.” I replied, “I only want to give my friend a ring to tell her 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 met, Danny explained the misunderstandings to me. “Don’t worry,” she said to me, “I had so many difficulties at first. There are lots of words which the Americans use differently in meaning from the British. You will soon get used to all the funny things they say. Most of the time British and American people understand each other.” 1. Where was the writer from? A. America B. France C. England D. China 2. The writer wanted ________. A. to buy a ring for his friend B. to make a call to his friend C. to go to the telephone company D. his friend to see him off 3. From the passage we can see that “give somebody a ring” _________ A. has the same meaning in America as in England B. means “call somebody” for the old man C. has two different meanings D. means “be going to get married” in England 4. In the last paragraph, the underlined word “they” refers to________.