Question

    We traveled to Moscow, Russia for a river cruise(乘船游览). I had never been to Russia and my impressions of that _____were formed by what I had heard and seen on television and the newspaper. We were to be_____ up at the airport by a driver who would then take us to the hotel as we decided to take a rest before the cruise. We arrived on time, got our baggage and went to the gate, but no one was holding a sign with our_____ on it.

We had the phone numbers of the driver and the travel agency(旅行社) but our cell phones didn't work in Russia. I_____ a young woman sitting next to me with a cell phone, so I asked her if she could speak English and she replied “Yes.” “Could you please call our driver?  I'll pay for the call.” I asked _____.

 “No problem，” she replied and called both numbers but no one answered. A Russian woman holding a sign with someone's name on it, not_____， must have heard this conversation. She held the_____ and also called both numbers again, no one answered. She shrugged(耸肩) and sat down. Then her phone rang and she had a conversation in spanish.

Then she______ to tell me about the call, but in Russian. I said, “No Russian, English？” “No English, Russian and Spanish.” she said. The _____ woman who had made the first call said she could speak Spanish. So the Russian woman relayed(转达) information from our driver to the young woman in Spanish. Then the young woman told it to me in English.

The three of us ______ each other and realized what had just happened and laughed and hugged each other. Then our driver came.

1.A.ocean B.country C.park D.village

2.A.paid B.wasted C.picked D.trained

3.A.tickets B.numbers C.pictures D.names

4.A.proved B.hoped C.noticed D.wondered

5.A.easily B.politely C.busily D.freely

6.A.mine B.ours C.hers D.theirs

7.A.baggage B.phone C.sign D.seat

8.A.started B.happened C.regretted D.forgot

9.A.old B.young C.big D.small

10.A.looked around B.looked up C.looked for D.looked at

Answer

1.B

2.C

3.D

4.C

5.B

6.B

7.C

8.A

9.B

10.D

【解析】

本文是一篇记叙文。主要阐述了作者去莫斯科旅行的经历。因为语言障碍，作者无法和司机或旅行社取得联系，最终在一位俄罗斯妇女和一位年轻女子的帮助下，作者找到了司机。文章告诉我们，对他人的友好和善意能让我们自己收获很多。