B

You’re going to a foreigner’s party. You must be excited about it. Wait a minute! Do you know what kind of gift you can send to your foreign friends? Here are some tips.

In some western countries, some gifts like kites, chopsticks, or an erhu may be people’s favorites.

Use beautiful paper to wrap the gifts. Remember not to use white, black or brown paper.

For Japanese, gifts like tea or pens are nice. They don’t like big gifts.

For Frenchmen, gifts like candy, perfume (香水)，wine or books are perfect.

British people and Americans like flowers, wine and chocolate, and you can relax and take it easily at their parties.

In Arab countries, it’s not polite to send a gift to someone when you meet him or her for the first time. Isn’t that interesting? You can give a gift when you meet a second time.

46. In some western countries, _______ may be people’s favorite gift(s).

A.                B.                C.                D.

47. What does the underlined word “wrap” mean in Chinese?

A. 装饰           B. 衬托           C. 捆绑           D. 包裹

48. According to the passage, tea is a good gift for _______.

A. Japanese         B. Frenchmen       C. Americans       D. British people

49. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. In some western countries, an erhu is not a good gift.

B. It’s not a good idea to send flowers to an American girl.

C. People from different countries have different favorite gifts.

D. In Arab countries, we should send a gift to everyone we meet.

50. What is the passage mainly about?

A. Some tips about the kind of gift we can send to our foreign friends.

B. Some ideas about how to make friends with people from other countries.

C. Some kinds of parties to celebrate one’s birthday.

D. Some popular gifts for American people.

Ⅳ.词汇运用(每小题1分，满分10分)

A. 根据句意和所给的首字母提示，补全句子中的单词。

51. Laura is going to o _______ a welcome party for her friends.

52. Luckily, I have a very u _______ boss.

53. It was c _______ of him to leave the door unlocked.

54. You’ve got a lot of e _______ of teaching.

55. We are going to have a m _______ next week.

B. 根据句意，用所给单词的适当形式填空。

56. He fell ill last week. This week he feels even _______ (bad).

57. There were many famous _______ (predict) that never came true.

58. I am sure she did _______ (good) in the last exam.

59. The station was _______ (crowd) and Linda couldn’t see Tom anywhere.

60. She said that she _______ (forget) to ask him for his address.