阅读理解。
Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and to
praise or criticize others, as they are similar to or different from it. And unfortunately,
our picture of the people and the way of life of other countries is often a distorted (扭
曲的) one.
Here is a great argument in favor of foreign travel and learning foreign languages.
It is only by traveling in a country and getting to know its inhabitants and their language
that one can find out what a country and its people are really like. And how different the
knowledge one gains this way frequently turns out to be from the second-hand information
gathered from other sources! How often we find that the foreigners whom we thought to
be such different people from ourselves are not very different at all!
Differences between peoples do, of course, exist and,one hopes,will always continue
to do so. The world will be a dull place indeed when all the different nationalities
behave exactly alike, and some people might say that we are rapidly approaching this state
of affairs. With the much greater rapidity (快速) and ease of travel,there might seem to
be some truth in this at least as far as Europe is concerned. However this may be,at least
the greater ease of travel today has revealed (展示) to more people than ever before that
the Englishman or Frenchman or German is not: some different kind of animal from
themselves.
1. Every country criticizes ways of life in other countries because they are _____. [ ]
A. distorted
B. normal
C. similar to each other
D. different from its own
2. One who travels in a foreign country and learns its language will _____. [ ]
A. find out why its people are different
B. argue in favor of this country and the language
C. know the country and its people better
D. like its inhabitants and their language
3. The knowledge one gains by traveling in a foreign country is often _____. [ ]
A. from second-hand information
B. gathered from other sources rather than its inhabitants
C. gained from the arguments about the country
D. different from what one had before the travel
4. In this passage,the author wants to say _____. [ ]
A. differences between peoples will gradually disappear because of the ease of travel
B. differences between peoples do exist even though different nationalities behave exactly
alike
C. differences between peoples will continue to exist and the world will be a dull place
D. differences between peoples will not exist as one hopes
