题目内容：

第一节：阅读表达(共5小题;每小题3分，共15分)

阅读下面的短文，并根据短文后的要求答题(请注意问题后的英文提示和字数要求)。

[1]I remember a time I went shopping on my first visit to Macau．Coming from

cold and cloudy England. I was prepared for the sun and dressed in a T-shirt and a short

skirt．Not having much chance to enjoy the sun in the UK and having naturally fair

skin，my legs are very white．In the UK this is not a fashionable(时尚的)look at all．

Most women spend every sunny day out in the sun trying to get darker skin．The darker　　

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[2] As 1 walked around one shop，the two shop assistants didn’t take their eyes off

me the whole time，talking quietly in Chinese．I began to feel uncomfortable and asked

my friend if we could leave．After we left the shop，she asked me what was wrong．I

told her 1 was embarrassed that they were talking about my white skin．My friend

laughed．“They weren’t laughing at you．They were saying how nice your legs are．

Many Chinese women want to have white skin like yours．In fact，there are many beauty products in the shops to make skin whiter and a lot of money is spent on them．”

[3]It just goes to show that we always think what others have is better．The grass

is always greener on the other side．If the women of the West and East thought the

same way，Western women wouldn’t spend so much money on cream that makes skin

darker and women from the East wouldn’t need to use cream that makes skin whiter．   

1.Fill in the blank in Paragraph 1 with proper words．(Please answer within 6

words．)

                                             

2.Why did the writer wish to 1eave the shop as soon as possible?(P1ease answer 

within 15 words．)  

                                   

3.Which sentence in the text is the closet in meaning to the following?

We always think what others have is better．(You cannot just repeat the same

sentence．)

                                              

4.What is the main idea of Paragraph 37(Please answer within 20 words．)

                                            

5.Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 into Chinese．