Do The English have afternoon tea？

王琴芳

閱讀理解

1. What does the underlined word "posh" in the first paragraph mean？

A. Classic.

B. Rare.

C. Popular.

D. Classy.

2. What's the main idea of the first two paragraphs？

A. The different afternoon tea between different classes is popular in Britain.

B. The informal and formal afternoon tea still exists in Britain.

C. Various people are fond of afternoon tea in Britain.

D. Ordinary people have afternoon tea at different time in Britain.

3. In the third paragraph， the author says "Yes， we do！" means ____________.

A. we grew up in the North of England

B. we do have different characteristics

C. we have had afternoon tea up to now D. we have changed a lot

4. From Paragraph 4 to Paragraph 6 we can know the purpose of the author is ____________ .

A. to describe children's preference to afternoon tea

B. to tell readers how the English love afternoon tea

C. to make the afternoon tea known to the world

D. to introduce various of situations of afternoon tea

5. Where could the following sentence be put in the passage？

"But do we still stop at 4 p.m. for a drink and something to eat？ Yes！ "

A.①

B.②

C.③

D.④

答案與解析

1.D。詞義推測題。從括號中“占總?cè)丝?.1%的上流社會的貴族”可以推測D正確。

2.B。主旨大意題。第二段開頭However之后的內(nèi)容是作者想表達(dá)的重點(diǎn)，所以B正確。

3.C。細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)上下文可知，“Yes，we do！”表達(dá)的是“我們吃下午茶”。

4。D。推理判斷題。文章4-6段介紹的是不同情境下的下午茶，為了支撐1-2段的主題。

5.D。篇章結(jié)構(gòu)題。根據(jù)文章最后一段中兩次提到“may not”，另一句中也用到否定，結(jié)合這個(gè)設(shè)問的句子可以看出是典型的“欲揚(yáng)先抑”的寫作方法。

長難句分析

1. In my house while l was growing up， we would have a big dinner at lunch time （weekendsmainly） and then tea later.在我家里，從我小時(shí)候開始，午餐時(shí)間會吃一頓很豐盛的正餐（主要在周末），然后喝茶。

這是個(gè)復(fù)合句。連詞while引導(dǎo)的時(shí)間狀語表達(dá)“在……期間”，主句謂語動(dòng)詞would have意思是“過去總是有……”。情態(tài)動(dòng)詞would常表示“總會，總是”之義。例如：

He would read on the bus.他總是在公交車上看書。

2. However， if we visit someone in the afternoon （obviously a planned in advance visit），they will make some scones（烤餅），cake，sandwiches and other delicious stuff to be served and lsuppose that is technically“afternoon tea”.然而如果我們下午去拜訪別人（肯定是提前約好的），他們會準(zhǔn)備一些烤餅、蛋糕、三明治還有其他美味的食物，我覺得那才是真正意義上的“下午茶”。

這是個(gè)并列復(fù)合句。除了條件狀語從句之外，主句是兩個(gè)并列句，一個(gè)簡單句一個(gè)復(fù)合句。復(fù)雜句式也是高考常考的考點(diǎn)。