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While the cities of China have undergone modernization evident in the rising towers and bright lights that have awakened the sleeping country, the countryside remains largely the same.

『Rectangular rows of rice fields litter the landscape separated by long lanes of water designed to provide the constant supply of water that is vital to producing the crop.』①The experience is not unlike driving through the American Midwest, only rice not corn dominates the landscape.

Four years ago, when I last took this trip, the roads were dust and telephone wires did not run parallel to the highway. Bare roads have been replaced by sleek, newly paved highways running from Shanghai to Nanking, to my smaller, home city, Wuhu. Unlike the changes I had heard of and expected in Shanghai, Wuhu was much more of a surprise. The small city where I was born had grown up as I have. There are large high-rise buildings, each ringed with smaller buildings around it, many of these apartment complexes. Little seem ed familiar and I wonder what my grandparent’s flat built of brick and mortar had become.

『Perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised to find out that their home had been demolished and rebuilt as a six story apartment complex as well. 』②Walking up to the second floor I saw my grandfather’s face peering out of the screen door. He began to smile as he saw me, and so did I. Their home is now no different from a western apartment. Equipped with the modern amenities of a gas stove, a toilet, a shower this was indeed different from four years ago.

1. According to the author, dramatic changes took place in.

A. cities but not countryside of China

B. both cities and countryside of China

C. countryside but not in large cities

D. everywhere

2. It can be inferred from the second paragraph that .

A. peasants lead similar life all over the world

B. Chinese irrigating system is more impressing than that in America

C. peasants in Midwest America raise more corns while Chinese peasants raise more rice

D. peasants in Midwest America raise more rice while Chinese peasants raise more corn

3. The author was traveling to Wuhu.

A. in order to take a stop during the trip from Shanghai to Nanking

B. in order to find some place similar to his hometown

C. in order to visit his grand parents

D. in order to find out changes in small cities

4. The author’s grand parents.

A. live in their house of brick and mortar

B. live in an apartment similar to westerners

C. led a totally westernized life

D. was poor as they always were

5. Which of the following is the best title for this passage?

A. Flash back to China

B. From Shanghai to Nanking

C. Wuhu Today

D. Back With My Grand Parents

Vocabulary

1. mortar n. 灰泥

2. amenity n. 便利设施

3. rectangular adj.长方形的

4. litter n.乱七八糟的东西

5. lane n.小路

6. demolish vt.拆除

长难句解析

①【解析】句子的主干是“…landscape separated by…”，“that”引导的定语从句，修饰“water”。

【译文】长方形的稻田杂乱地分布在田野上，田野被一些长长的水槽所隔开，这些水槽是为了提供这些作物生长所必需的水。

②【解析】“as well”作“也，又”讲，一般放在句末，而“as well as”作“也，又”讲放在句中。【译文】也许，对于他们家已被拆除，重新盖起了六层的公寓，我不应该感到惊奇。

答案与详解

【短文大意】本文主要讲述作者回家乡所看到的家乡的巨大变化。

1. A细节题。这道题很简单, 就是考察对第一段那个长句的理解。作者说虽然大城市有巨大

的变化, 但是农村还是老样子。

2. C推断题。美国中西部的农民种植玉米较多而中国农民种植大米较多。根据第二段最后一句: 眼前的景象很容易让人想起美国的中西部地区, 只不过那里到处是玉米, 这儿到处是大米。

3. C推断题。芜湖是作者的家乡，他回去是要看望自己的祖父母。

4. B细节题。作者的祖父母住在一个类似于西方人的房子里面。

5. A主旨题。芜湖，祖父母，旅途都只是文章涉及的一个方面,做标题最适合的还是A选项。

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