高二上学期第三次周考英语
试题
一、听力：(共20题，每小题1分，共20分)
二、阅读理解（每小题1.5分，共22.5分）
a
when cars drive in a circle，do they go around a “traffic circle” or a“roundabout”？the first choice sounds strange to me，as we don't say it in britain．but i've made americans laugh for minutes at a time just by saying“roundabout”before．
irish author george bernard shaw is believed to have said．“england and america are two countries separated by the same language．”this idea might seem strange, but i think of it whenever i have this type of communication problem with my friends from across the atlantic。
often，american people simply don't know who i'm talking about．many times i've had to explain who a british celebrity(名人)is，even though i assume (猜想)that they must be well-known outside of the uk．it's sometimes seems like most americans don't know who uk prime minister david cameron is，yet in the uk we know all about paris hilton and other unimportant us celebrities—hardly fair!
