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TEXT A

If you like the idea of staying with a family, living in house (guest house 1. 小旅馆2. （大房子旁供客人居住的）客房) might be the answer.[81]Good landladies (a woman from whom you rent a room, a house, etc. 女房东；女地主; a woman who owns or manages a pub or a guest house （酒吧或招待所的）女店主，老板娘)---those who are superb cooks and launderers (洗衣工. thunderer 怒喝的人大声说话的人. blunderer 犯大错的人), are figures as popular in fiction as the bad ones who terrorize（to frighten and threaten people so that they will not oppose something or will do as they are told 恐吓；恫吓；威胁）their guest and overcharge （to make somebody pay too much for something 多收（某人的）钱）them at the slightest opportunity. The truth is probably somewhere between the two extremes. If you are lucky, the food will be adequate, some of your laundry may be done for you and you will have a reasonable amount of comfort and companionship. For the less fortune, house rules may restrict the freedom to invite friends to visit, and shared cooking and bathroom facilities can be frustrating and row-provoking (/ra?/ a serious disagreement between people, organizations, etc. about something 严重分歧；纠纷; a noisy argument between two or more people 吵架；争吵) if tidy and untidy guest (a person who is staying at a hotel, etc. 旅客；房客) are living under the same roof. //

[82]The same disadvantages can apply to flat sharing, with the added difficulties that arise from deciding who pays for what, and in what proportion. One person may spend hours on the phone, while another rarely makes calls. If you want privacy with guest, how do you persuade the others to go out; how do you persuade them to leave you in peace, especially if you are student and want to study?

[83]Conversely, flat sharing can be very cheap, there will always be someone to talk to and go out with, and the chores (A routine task, esp. a household one家务活), in theory, can be shared.//

81.According to the passage, landladies are ________

https://www.sodocs.net/doc/781442485.html,ually strict.

B.always mean.

C.adequately competent.

D.very popular with their guest.

解析：此题答案为：C。推理类。文中提到" Good landladies---those who are superb cooks and launderers, are figures as popular in fiction as the bad ones who terrorize their guest and overcharge them at the slightest opportunity. The truth is probably somewhere between the two extremes. If you are lucky, the food will be adequate, some of your laundry may be done for you and you will have a reasonable amount of comfort and companionship."从原文中可以找到答案：这段话的大意就是：好的屋主和坏的屋主是一样的多。而现实中的屋主就是在两个极端的中间的。如果你足够幸运，你会找到一个比较好的屋主。可用排除法，A，B选项是坏的极端（A指的是bad landladies,为片面信息。B也没有提到，且过于绝对.），D选项是好的极端，：文中提到：“Good landladies---those who are superb cooks and launderers. D, …are figures as popular in fiction as the bad ones who terrorize their guest and overcharge them at the slightest opportunity.“指两种都很常见，而不是受欢迎。”有bad landladies,自然不能说所有的landladies都受到房客的欢迎。

82.What is the additional disadvantage of flat sharing ?

A. Problems of sharing and paying.

B. Differences in living habits.

C. Shared cooking and bathroom facilities.

D. Restriction to invite friends to visit.

解析：A。细节类。由文中第二段可知。“…with the added difficulties that arise from deciding who pays for what,…”（另外一个困难是决定由谁来付钱和付多少…）以及”If you want privacy with guest , how do you persuade the others to go out; how do you persuade them to leave you in peace, especially if you are student and want to study.”在同住的时候生活细节上的一些矛盾。正好对应于A选项。

而B,C,D三个选项，文中并没有提及。故排除。

83.What is NOT mentioned as a benefit of flat sharing?

A. Rent is affordable

B. There is companionship

C. Housework.

D. There is peace and quiet.

解析：D。细节类。题目问的是文中未提及的合租房子的好处。由第三段可

知" Conversely,flat sharing can be very cheap,there will always be someone to talk to and go out with,and the chores,in theory,can be shared. "

flat sharing can be very cheap很便宜，即affordable,对应于A选项，可排除A。

there will always be someone to talk to and go out with是指有人一起说话，出去，有个伴，对应于B选项，排除B.

the chores can be shared家务活可以分担，对应于C选项，故也排除C.

A、B、C都有提到，只有D没有提及。故此题答案为D

TEXT B

(1) Travelling through the country a couple of weeks ago on business, I was listening to the talk of the late UK writer Douglas Adams’master work (杰作) “The Hitchhiker’s (a person who travels by getting free rides from passing vehicles) Guide to the Galaxy”(《银河系漫游指南》) on the radio and thought-I know, I’ll pick up the next hitchhikers I see and ask them what the state of real hitching is today in Britain.

(2)I drove and drove on main roads and side roads for the next few days and never saw a single one.

(3)[84]When I was in my teens and 20s, hitchhiking was a main form of long-distance transport. The kindness or curiosity of strangers took me all over Europe, North America, Asiaand southern Africa, Some of the lift-givers (a free ride in a car, etc. to a place you want to get to 免费搭车；搭便车) became friends, many provided hospitality (friendly and generous behaviour towards guests 好客；殷勤; food, drink or services that are provided by an organization for guests, customers, etc. （款待客人、顾客等的）食物，饮料，服务；款待) on the road.

(4)[84]Not only did you find out much more about a country than when traveling by train or plane, but there was that element of excitement about where you would finish up that night. Hitchhiking featured (to have an important part in something 起重要作用；占重要地位) importantly in Western culture. It has books and songs about it. So what has happened to it?

(5)A few years ago, I was asked the same question about hitching in a column

of a newspaper. Hundreds of people from all over the world responded with their view on the state of hitchhiking .

(6)Rural Ireland was recommended as a friendly place for hitching, as was Quebec, Canada-“if you don’t mind being criticized for not speaking French”.

(7)[85]But while hitchhiking was clearly still alive and well (健在) in some places ,the general feeling was that throughout much of the west it was doomed.

(8)With so much news about crime in the media, people assumed that anyone on the open road without the money for even a bus ticket must present a danger. But do we need to be so wary both to hitch (to get a free ride in a person's car; to travel around in this way, by standing at the side of the road and trying to get passing cars to stop 免费搭车；搭便车) and to give a lift?

(9)In Poland in the 1960s,according to a Polish woman who e-mail me,＂the authorities introduced the Hitchhiker’s Booklet. The booklet contained coupons (a small piece of printed paper/ voucher that you can exchange for something or that gives you the right to buy something at a cheaper price than normal 配给券；（购物）票证；（购物）优惠券) for drivers, so each time a driver picked somebody, he or she received a coupon. At the end of the season, drivers who had picked up the most hikers were rewarded with various prizes. E veryone was hitchhiking then”.

(10)[86]Surely this is a good idea for society.[87]Hitchhiking would increase respect by breaking down barriers between strangers. It would help fight global warming by cutting down on fuel consumption as hitchhikers would be using existing fuels. It would also improve educational standards by delivering instant lessons in geography, history, politics and sociology.

(11)A century before Douglas Adams wrote his “Hitchhiker’s Guide”, another adventure story writer, Robert Louis Stevenson, gave us that what should be the hitchhiker’s motto:＂To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”What better time than putting a holiday weekend into practice. [88]Either put it to the test yourself, or help out someone who is trying to travel hopefully with thumb outstreched.( of parts of the body 身体部位stretched or spread out as far as possible

伸展的；张开的)

84. In which paragraph(s) does the writer comment on his experience of hitchhiking?

A. (3)

B. (4)

C. (3) and (4)

D. (4) and (5)

解析：此题答案为C=细节类。题目问的是哪些段落作者对自已拱便车的经历作了评论。

第三段这句话When I was in my teens and 20s ,hitchhiking was a main form of long-distance transport.搭便车是主要的长途交通工具，这是作者的评论，故包括这段。

第四段这句Not only did you find out much more about a country than when traveling by train or plane ,but there was that element of excitement about where you would finish up that night.说搭便车比做火车或飞机能发现更多事情，而且会不知道在哪过夜而带来的激动心情，这也算是评论，故也算是这段。

第三段和第四段中作者提到了他个人的经历并进行了评价，都有出现评价性的形容词.如"The kindness or curiosity of strangers, hospitality, that clement of excitement"；

而第5段讲的是作者调查其他的对搭便车的看法，而不是作者亲身经历的，只是提到了一些事实，第五段无评价性的形容词。故排除第5段。

85. What is the current situation of hitchhiking?

A. It is popular in some parts of the world.

B. It is popular throughout the west.

C. It's popular only in North America.

D. It is popular in Poland.

解析：此题答案为A。细节类。此题问的是搭便车的现状。第七段" But while hitchhiking was clearly still alive and well in some places ,the general feeling was that throughtout much of the west it was doomed. "(虽然搭便车在一些地方仍然存在和普遍.但基本上人们感觉在西方大部分地方这种现象却不复存在了是注定灭亡的）可以选择答案A,而排除B。

Rural Ireland was recommended as f friendly place for hitching,as was

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