1．Why did the writer choose to travel to Venice?

　　A．Because there was something he wanted to do.

　　B．Because Venice is small and he wouldn't get lost there.

　　C．Because he began to consider himself grown up.

　　D．Because he knew the language spoken there well.

　　解析：选B　细节理解题。根据第一段第二句和第二段的最后两句可知作者之所以选择那里是因为那里地方小，不容易迷路。

　　2．From the article, we can know that .

　　A．the writer liked the art all the time

　　B．the writer didn't like going to the museum before

　　C．the writer went everywhere on foot

　　D．the writer did everything alone

　　解析：选B　推理判断题。从最后一句中的"...for the first time I hadn't been forced into it."可知作者第一次没被强迫进入(博物馆)，故可以推出作者以前是不太喜欢去那里的。

　　3．The writer was disappointed because .

　　A．he wandered around without much purpose

　　B．he paid 6 to go into a church

　　C．the Italian boys were not interested in making new friends

　　D．the absence of cars made him less likely to be run over

　　解析：选C　推理判断题。从第四段第三、四句可知那些意大利男孩是对价格便宜的酒感兴趣而不是交朋友。

　　4．How many days did the trip last?

　　A．One day.　　　　　　　　B．Two days.

　　C．Three days. D．Four days.

　　解析：选C　推理判断题。从第四段倒数第二、三句"By the close of the second day ... We visited the Peggy Guggenheim Museum of Modern Art the next day."不难推知作者在那里待了三天。

　　Ⅱ.任务型阅读

　　As we all know, different countries have different cultures. The cultures of the East and the West really distinguish each other a lot. 1.

　　The origin of the eastern cultures is mainly from two countries: China and India. Both of the two cultures are fostered by rivers - the Yellow River in China and the Hindu River in India. 2.

　　Then in Tang Dynasty of China, the Chinese culture gradually went overseas to Japan, mixed into the Japanese society and shaped the Japanese culture nowadays. Though a bit different from the Chinese one, it belongs to the same system.

　　When the two mother rivers gave birth to the Eastern culture, another famous culture was brought up on the Mesopotamian Plain - the Mesopotamian Civilization. This civilization later on developed into the cultures of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. 3.

　　Like the Chinese culture, the European one also crossed waters. When the British settled down in America, their culture went with them over the Atlantic Ocean. So the American culture doesn't distinguish from the European one a lot.

　　4． Take the language system for example. In the East, most languages belong to the pictographic language while the Western languages are mostly based on the Latin system. Other causes like human race difference count as well. But what's more, due to the far distance and the steep areas between the East and West, the two cultures seldom communicate until recent centuries. So they grew up totally in their own ways with almost no interference (干扰) from the other.

　　The differences are everywhere. 5. But different cultures make the world of 21st century more colorful. The cultural gap should not be the obstacle (障碍) to the civilization of human being. It ought to be the motivation of our going farther.

　　A．Let us work together to keep a variety of culture.

　　B．And these two are well­known as the base of the European culture.

C．One important thing is to learn about other cultures.