《2025年高中必修课程复习与检测英语》

C
A Japanese passport is the most welcomed worldwide. No fewer than 191 countries admit Japanese visitors without a visa. Yet only 24% of Japanese have one — about half the proportion（比例）of Americans who have a passport. Why do so few Japanese take advantage of their freedom to wander the globe?On paper, Japanese are traveling abroad more often. They took about 20 million overseas trips in 2019, up from 19 million in 2018. But that figure is inflated（扩大）by people travelling for work and by frequent flyers. The share of people with a passport has been slowly falling, from 27% in 2005. Morishita, chairman of a government committee on travel, says that at least two - thirds of Japanese are lukewarm about going abroad. Several facts stop them: pitiful yearly leave, safety concerns, boring foreign food and, above all, the fear of the embarrassment of not being understood. Besides, slow income growth and a weak yen（日元）have made travel less affordable.In the 1980s and 1990s Japanese were eager to explore the world. Students backpacked for weeks with Chikyu no arukikata, a popular travel guide. A strong yen made foreign trips within their means. But that has changed since the late 1990s. They are “just one of many” vacation choices, Morishita explains.The number of Japanese studying abroad has also fallen, from the record high of 82,945 in 2004 to 55,969 in 2016. The shrinking（减少）population of young people is partly to blame. Also, it costs about $ 36,000 a year to study abroad. Meanwhile, Japan’s labour shortage makes foreign study less useful. “You don’t need an education abroad for a good job,” says Suematsu of Tohoku University. A survey in 2019 found 53% of Japanese students are not interested in studying abroad, the highest among the seven countries covered.
28.The underlined word “lukewarm” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to “________”.
A.worried
B.uninterested
C.curious
D.confident
29.It can be learnt that ________.
A.Japanese traveled abroad less from the 1990s
B.Japanese students find it hard to land a job abroad
C.2004 saw the largest number of Japanese overseas students
D.twice as many Americans have a passport as the Japanese do
30.What is the best title of the passage?
A.Saying no to studying abroad
B.Tourism losing attraction in Japan
C.Japanese passports: are they still valuable?
D.Travelling abroad sees a fall in Japan

答案： C）28-30 BCD