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When I lived in Spain, some Spanish friends of mine decided to visit England
When I lived in Spain, some Spanish friends of mine decided to visit England
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When I lived in Spain, some Spanish friends of mine decided to visit England by car. Before they left, they asked me for advice on how to find accommodation(住所). (76)
I suggested that they should stay at bed and breakfast houses, because this kind of accommodation gives a visitor a good chance to speak English with the family.
My friends listened to my advice, but they came back with some funny stories.
"We didn’t stay at bed and breakfast houses," they said, "because we found that most families were away on holiday."
I thought this was strange. Finally I understood what had happened. My friends spoke little English, and they thought "VACANCIES" meant "holidays", because the Spanish word for "holidays" is "vacancies". So they did not go to houses where the sign outside said "VACANCIES", which in English means there are open rooms. (77)
Then my friends went to a house where the sign said "NO VACANCIES", because they thought this meant the people who owned the house were not away on holiday.
But they found that these houses were all full. As a result, they stayed at hotels!
We laughed about this and about mistakes my friends made in reading other signs. In Spanish, the word "DIVERSION" means fun. In English, it means that workmen are repairing the road, and that you must take a different road. When my friends saw the word "DIVERSION" on a road sign, they thought they were going to have time. Instead, the road ended in a large hold.
English people have problems too when they learn foreign languages. Once in Pads, when someone offered me some more coffee, I said, "Thank you," in French. I meant that I would like some more, however, to my surprise the coffee pot was taken away! Later I found out that "thank you" in French means "No, thank you."
选项
A、learning English
B、finding places to stay in England
C、driving their car on English roads
D、going to England by car
答案
B
解析
细节题。由第一段的第二句话:“Before they left,they asked me for advice on how to find accommodation(住所).”可知西班牙朋友想知道有关英国住所的问题。
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