2009年北京市西城区中考英语一模试卷(含答案)(7)

Avenue is probably New York's mostshopping street, but if you go, be prepared to “window shop” only. This is shopping for the rich. There are other, lessshopping areas nearby, and you'll soon come across famous stores such as Bloomingdales, Macy's and FAO Schwartz. And if you bring your Rollerblades（轮滑鞋）, you must Central Park. This is a large, open park right in the middle of Manhattan, but if youthat people came here to relax, sit for a few minutes and get away from the rush of New York life, then you'd be wrong. Nobody sits in Central Park. They run, jog, and most of them go rollerblading. When youNew York, you might be tired, even poor and overweight, but you won't be bored!

四、阅读短文回答问题（共10分，每小题2分）

Huihua, a Chinese girl, and Mary, an American student who was studying Chinese in China, were on their way to a bookstore. As they got to the bookstore, they saw a young man walking down the stairs. In his hurry, he missed the last two steps, and fell to the ground. He tried hard to get back to his feet while people around him laughed. Luckily, he seemed to be OK.

Mary was worried. She found Huihua smiling a little and was not comfortable about it. “Tell me, Huihua, how could people laugh when someone fell like that? Do they care at all? Shouldn't they go up and ask the young man whether he was hurt?”

“They knew he wasn't hurt too much. ”Huihua said.

“But I still don't understand. A fall is a fall. In my culture, people would do anything but laugh!”

Chinese Perspective（观点）

This is an example in which the Chinese and the westerners explain a smile differently. Very often, the Chinese people would also laugh or make a joke to ease the embarrassment（缓解尴尬） when they are caught in the embarrassing situation. However, if someone gets hurt seriously, it will not be a laughing matter any more. People will help him instead.

North American Perspective

A westerner would explain laughter in such a situation as a sign of either insensitivity（不关心） or, worse, pleasure that the person falling had hurt himself because that person was disliked. A westerner's reaction would have been to rush over, help the person up, and to ask him, “Are you OK?” If a westerner fell, he, like a Chinese person, might probably make a joke out of the incident（事件） if he was not hurt. If two close friends are walking together, and one but clearly isn't hurt, a common joke is to say“ Have a nice trip”. However, this joke would be made only between two people who knew each other well.

17．Did Huihua help the young man after he fell down in the bookstore?

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18．How did Mary feel about Huihua's attitude towards the young man?

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19．In a westerner's opinion, what does the laughter in an embarrassing situation show?

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20．What does the underlined word “trip” mean?

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21．What is the main idea of the passage?

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五、写作（共15分）

22．根据中文大意和英文提示词语，写出意思连贯、符合逻辑、不少于60词的短文。所给英文提示词语供选用。请不要写出你的校名和姓名。