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1、最新2018年12月大学英语六级考试阅读模拟题及答案5 大学英语六级查询入口四六级考试网权威发布2016年12月大学英语六级考试阅读模拟题及答案5，更多2016年12月大学英语六级考试阅读模拟题及答案5相关信息请访问大学英语四六级考试网。【新东方】四六级秋季定制班！权师助你高分过关点击免费试听！Does Travel Broaden The Mind?One often hears it said that travel broadens themind: if you stay in your own country the whole time, your ideas remain nar

2、row; whereas if you travelabroad you see new customs, eat new foods, do newthings, and come back home with a broader mind.But does this always or even usually happen?An acquaintance2 of mine who lives in England andhad never been outside it until last summer, decided to go over3 to France for a trip

3、. When hereturned, I asked him how he liked it.“Terrible, ”was his answer.“ I couldnt get a nice cup of teaanywhere . 4 Thank goodness Im back. ”I asked him whether he hadnt had any good foodwhile he was there .“Oh, the dinners were all right, ”he said.“I found a little place where theymade quite go

4、od fish and chips. Not as good as ours, mind you5, but they were passable. Butthe breakfasts were terrible: no bacon or kippers. I had fried eggs and chips, but it was quite a6 business getting them to make them. They expected me to eat rolls. And when I asked formarmalade , they brought strawberry

5、jam. And do you know, they insisted that it wasmarmalade? The trouble is they dont know English. ”I thought it useless to explain that we borrowed the wordmarmalade from French, and that itmeans, in that language, any kind of jam. So I said,“But didnt you eat any of the famousFrench food?”“What? Me?

6、”he said.“Of course not! Give me good old English food every time!None of these fancy bits for me! ”Obviously travel had not broadened his mind.This does not, of course, happen only to Englishmen in France: all nationalities, in all foreigncountries, can be found judging what they see, hear, taste a

7、nd smell according to their ownhabits and customs. People who are better educated and who have read a lot about foreigncountries tend to be more adaptable7 and tolerant8, but this is because their minds havealready been broadened before they start travelling. In fact, it is easier to be broad-minded

8、about foreign habits and customs, if ones acquaintance with these things is limited to booksand films. The American smiles tolerantly over the absence of central heating in most Englishhomes when he is himself comfortably seated in his armchair in his centrally heated house inChicago; the English ma

9、n reads about the sanitary arrangements in a certain tropical country,and the inhabitants of the latter read about London fogs, and each side manages to bedetached and broad-minded. 9 But actual physical contact with things one is unaccustomed tois much more difficult to bear philosophically.Perhaps

10、 the ideal would be if travel could succeed in making people tolerant of the habits andcustoms of others without abandoning their own. The criterion for judging a foreigner couldbe: Does he try to be polite and considerate to others? Instead of: Is he like me?True o r Fa lse :1. It is often said tha

11、t if you travel abroad to see many new things, your mind will bebroadened.2. The Englishman had a happy life when he travelled to France .3. The wordmarmaladeis originally a French word, which means any kind of jam.4. In the view of the author, people often judge things according to their own habits andcustoms.5. The author thinks that people who are better educated and read a lot are easily to betolerant.6. Tea , bacon, kippers, chips are all typical English food.参考答案：1. T 2. F 3 . T 4 . T 5 . T 6 . T推荐访问:2018年12月大学英语六级考试阅读模拟题及答案52016英语六级12月真题2017年12月六级模拟题 第 4 页 共 4 页