2015揭阳一中、金山中学联考英语试题及答案(2)

To most Chinese students, studying abroad could be a burden. There are lots of difficulties facing them every day---language barrier, culture shock, gaps    16    Eastern and Western lifestyles, expensive tuition fees and endless research projects. 
To Song Yinan, however, studying abroad was a(n)    17    (forget) experience. In her book, Kiki’s London Diary, she tells her stories in    18    optimistic way. 
The language barrier is the biggest difficulty Chinese students will meet abroad. In a story    19    (write) at the beginning of her first term in London, Song suffered some    20   (embarrass) during a welcoming party, __21_____ she was introduced to some drink and wine. 
However, she found that she couldn’t read most of the English names of the drinks and therefore    22    (drink) only cola and fruit juice. She described about    23    red her face was. Song says __24_______ is normal for most Chinese to lose face when they study abroad. And she is happy to share the story with others. 
Throughout the book, readers can feel the optimism and persistence of this girl. Her study and life experiences are sure to delight any Chinese    25   (study) abroad or who plan to do so.


II 阅读（共两节，满分50分）
第一节  阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
                                         A
You often hear about how to reduce sodium(钠) in your diet. “Choose the low-sodium options,” the doctor suggest. My doctor told me just the opposite. I was to eat at least twice or three times the amount of sodium I had previously been consuming (about 500 mg) if I wished to change my body’s current state of degeneration(衰退).
To be honest, I don’t remember when I stopped having enough sodium in my diet. The habit began at a very young age. I never ate salty chips or fatty foods, only sweet candies and pretty much anything but salty foods. I never thought much about it. No one ever advises you to get enough sodium, but you hear all about calcium(钙).
Dizziness upon standing, extremely low blood pressure and pulse, and clubbing fingers are all indicators that your sodium intake is not enough. I grew up thinking that becoming very dizzy after I stand is just a fact of life-- same with my low blood pressure. Once my fingers started to club and my circulation was very bad, I knew something serious was happening.
Later I was recommended to my current doctor who then diagnosed me with POTS (basically I become dizzy upon standing due to low blood pressure). The treatment? Have salty foods to increase blood volume. The funny thing is that my mom was telling me for months that sodium would help. Although I took my mother’s advice, it didn’t really hit home until my doctor recommended the same. What you eat is no laughing matter and it turns out I was doing more harm than good to myself.
Bouillon cubes and salty popcorn are my new best friends, along with light Gatorade. I’m still hesitant about the artificial sweeteners in the Gatorade, but hey, it’s a start. I realize that most people have the opposite problem and need to reduce sodium intake, but all I ask is that you do not go to the other extreme either. There is a happy medium when it comes to our diets.

1. 26. According to Paragraph 1, what was the writer advised to do by her doctor?
2. A. To eat food that is not salty.          
3. B. To consume more sodium than before.
4. C. To avoid doing whatever others often do. 
5. D. To consume at least 500 mg sodium each day.
6. 27. We infer that when the writer was young, she            .
7. A. liked eating all kinds of food
8. B. didn’t know the importance of calcium
9. C. often received advice from her doctor
10. D. didn’t think lacking sodium would be a problem
11. 28. What can we know from Paragraph 3?
12. A. What causes most people to feel dizzy.
13. B. What the harm of having low blood pressure is.
14. C. What will happen if we don’t take in enough sodium.
15. D. When the writer had the habit of taking in little sodium.

29. We can infer from the passage that the writer’s mother            .
A. was very particular about her diet
B. didn’t care about the writer’s health
C. knew what was wrong with her daughter
D. didn’t think a doctor would help her daughter
30. At the end of the passage, the writer concludes that            .
A. taking in salt is very important
B. people like going to extremes
C. people don’t eat healthy food nowadays
D. people should avoid eating something too much or too little


B
Chinese immigrants have lived and worked in America since the 1800s. Today, Asians are America’s fastest growing minority. Almost every major city in the country has an area called “Chinatown.”
From San Francisco to New York, people visit Chinatown for restaurants, grocery stores, herbal cures, and other businesses. But many Chinese have moved out of traditional Chinatown neighborhoods and now live in suburbs just outside the inner city. For example, one of the largest mainly Chinese suburbs is just outside Los Angeles, California. But such areas are very different from the old Chinatown.
Steve Wong is acting director of the Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles. He says Chinatowns in major American cities are now mainly for tourists. He said, “If you walk around Chinatown today in Los Angeles and many other big cities, you have these facades(外观) of Chinese-ness, which sometimes is real and sometimes it's not. And so you have gift shops and Chinese food which is catering towards American tastes. I don't even call it Chinese food”