《2024年走进重高培优测试九年级英语全一册人教版》

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British people pride themselves on their polite manners toward one another in public. (1) _______ Usually, if they want to ask a stranger for the time, they would start by saying “Sorry to bother you. Do you know what time it is?”. If they’re five minutes late for an appointment(约会）, they would generally greet the person by saying “Sorry, I’m late!”.
They use the word “sorry” in so many different situations that the meaning of the word has changed a little over time. (2) _______ ①feeling sad for someone else because of their problems or bad luck; ②feeling regret because you’ve done something wrong. Now, think about this. Normally, when they want to ask a stranger a question, they start with “Sorry to bother you.”. In this situation, they aren’t saying sorry because they feel sad for that person or because they feel regret.
(3) _______ And why do British people use it so much? Well, in the British culture, saying “sorry” is a way to be polite, especially to people who they don’t know very well. (4) _______ In a recent experiment, an actor went up to different strangers on a rainy day to ask if he could use their mobile phones in order to make a call. When he went up to one group of strangers and asked them without saying “sorry” first, he was only 9 percent successful in borrowing their phones. However, when he said “sorry” to another group of strangers about the bad weather before asking if he could use their mobile phones, he was 47 percent successful. (5) _______

答案： 1.E　2.B　3.A　4.D　5.C