There has been a lot of unfair and biased criticism of families who welcome foreign students into their homes. I should like to tell you of my own personal experiences, which are not so different from my neighbors’ experience, I might add.
A host family is sent students by school or college and their homes are regularly inspected by the accommodation staff. If a home is below the required standard, the family is removed from the school’s accommodation list. Apart from this, the host family is obliged to follow certain rules, as laid down by the school.
The problem is that the host family cannot inspect students or refuse to accept the ones who look dirty, unreliable or noisy. And they don’t seem to follow any rules at all in their behavior to the host family. We are often treated like servants or hotel staff, which is rude and bad manners.
The fee paid to a host family only just covers the actual cost of providing meals etc. A hostess is lucky to make more than a pound or two "profit" on each student. One has to remember that she has to wash their clothes, allow them to have hot baths, pay for their lighting and the heating in their bedrooms, and cope with damage to furniture, bedding and carpets.
Another thing is that most of them do not want to be part of the family. They prefer to be out with other students causing annoyance to local residents in the town center. They remain in their bedrooms all morning and afternoon if they can, resting before the evening so that they can go out until the early hours of the morning.
Bedrooms like pigsties(豬圈). Food, empty bottles and waste paper all go under the bed. When taken to task the reply is invariably that they don’t understand or that the school has told them they may do as they wish.
Not only that, but we have to put up with their complaints about the food, the weather and even our TV programs. It’s time foreign students were taught to be polite and to behave properly, as well as how to speak English!
1. The author’s attitude towards foreign students as mentioned in the passage is ____.考試大
A) critical
B) questioning
C) approving
D) objective
2. By "biased" (Line1, Para.1) the author means ____.
A) supreme
B) partial
C) preferable
D) prejudiced
3. Which of the following is mentioned in the second paragraph?
A) The accommodation standard is set up by the staff of a hotel
B) A host family usually has no alternative but to accept the student assigned
C) A student is sometimes treated rudely, like a servant
D) A host family may reject any student candidate who looks undesirable
4. The passage tell us ____.
A) foreign students keep good terms with their hostesses
B) foreign students come to stay with their host families to learn English
C) a hostess does not make much profit because she has to buy new furniture
D) the local TV programs are very popular among foreign students
5. The main purpose of the author in writing this passage is ____.
A) to criticize foreign students for not sharing housework with their hostesses
B) to suggest that a new accommodation standard be laid down
C) to complain about the irresponsibility of foreign students
D) to give an account of his personal experiences with foreign students
1.A) critical, 批判的、批評的. D不能搭配題干中的attitude towards foreign students, 又因本文立場明確, 故B也不對. A是完全不對.
2.D) prejudiced, 有成見的. 出現(xiàn)地點：There has been a lot of unfair and biased criticism of families who welcome foreign students into their homes. 通過unfair and可推斷出biased也為反面意思, 只有D是反面意思. 這幾個詞可以記一記.
3.B) A host family usually has no alternative but to accept the student assigned對應原文第三段第一句The problem is that the host family cannot inspect students or refuse to accept the ones who look dirty, unreliable or noisy. 第二段和考試*大第三段亦剛好可以用來解釋ACD為什么是錯的。。。
4.標準答案為B) foreign students come to stay with their host families to learn English, 怕是又錯了。。。偶覺得該選C)a hostess does not make much profit because she has to buy new furniture. 首先A和D都是明顯錯的, B中的learn English只是最后一句有所提及, It’s time foreign students were taught to be polite and to behave properly, as well as how to speak English, 但這個learn English和stay with their host families的關系并非B所講的那樣. C對應原文第四段, 最多是because后面的內(nèi)容不全面, 但比ABD看起來要好。。。個人意見, 歡迎討論。。。
5.C)to complain about the irresponsibility of foreign students, 本文的主旨.
A host family is sent students by school or college and their homes are regularly inspected by the accommodation staff. If a home is below the required standard, the family is removed from the school’s accommodation list. Apart from this, the host family is obliged to follow certain rules, as laid down by the school.
The problem is that the host family cannot inspect students or refuse to accept the ones who look dirty, unreliable or noisy. And they don’t seem to follow any rules at all in their behavior to the host family. We are often treated like servants or hotel staff, which is rude and bad manners.
The fee paid to a host family only just covers the actual cost of providing meals etc. A hostess is lucky to make more than a pound or two "profit" on each student. One has to remember that she has to wash their clothes, allow them to have hot baths, pay for their lighting and the heating in their bedrooms, and cope with damage to furniture, bedding and carpets.
Another thing is that most of them do not want to be part of the family. They prefer to be out with other students causing annoyance to local residents in the town center. They remain in their bedrooms all morning and afternoon if they can, resting before the evening so that they can go out until the early hours of the morning.
Bedrooms like pigsties(豬圈). Food, empty bottles and waste paper all go under the bed. When taken to task the reply is invariably that they don’t understand or that the school has told them they may do as they wish.
Not only that, but we have to put up with their complaints about the food, the weather and even our TV programs. It’s time foreign students were taught to be polite and to behave properly, as well as how to speak English!
1. The author’s attitude towards foreign students as mentioned in the passage is ____.考試大
A) critical
B) questioning
C) approving
D) objective
2. By "biased" (Line1, Para.1) the author means ____.
A) supreme
B) partial
C) preferable
D) prejudiced
3. Which of the following is mentioned in the second paragraph?
A) The accommodation standard is set up by the staff of a hotel
B) A host family usually has no alternative but to accept the student assigned
C) A student is sometimes treated rudely, like a servant
D) A host family may reject any student candidate who looks undesirable
4. The passage tell us ____.
A) foreign students keep good terms with their hostesses
B) foreign students come to stay with their host families to learn English
C) a hostess does not make much profit because she has to buy new furniture
D) the local TV programs are very popular among foreign students
5. The main purpose of the author in writing this passage is ____.
A) to criticize foreign students for not sharing housework with their hostesses
B) to suggest that a new accommodation standard be laid down
C) to complain about the irresponsibility of foreign students
D) to give an account of his personal experiences with foreign students
1.A) critical, 批判的、批評的. D不能搭配題干中的attitude towards foreign students, 又因本文立場明確, 故B也不對. A是完全不對.
2.D) prejudiced, 有成見的. 出現(xiàn)地點：There has been a lot of unfair and biased criticism of families who welcome foreign students into their homes. 通過unfair and可推斷出biased也為反面意思, 只有D是反面意思. 這幾個詞可以記一記.
3.B) A host family usually has no alternative but to accept the student assigned對應原文第三段第一句The problem is that the host family cannot inspect students or refuse to accept the ones who look dirty, unreliable or noisy. 第二段和考試*大第三段亦剛好可以用來解釋ACD為什么是錯的。。。
4.標準答案為B) foreign students come to stay with their host families to learn English, 怕是又錯了。。。偶覺得該選C)a hostess does not make much profit because she has to buy new furniture. 首先A和D都是明顯錯的, B中的learn English只是最后一句有所提及, It’s time foreign students were taught to be polite and to behave properly, as well as how to speak English, 但這個learn English和stay with their host families的關系并非B所講的那樣. C對應原文第四段, 最多是because后面的內(nèi)容不全面, 但比ABD看起來要好。。。個人意見, 歡迎討論。。。
5.C)to complain about the irresponsibility of foreign students, 本文的主旨.