In many parts of Africa, it is thought that an attractive girl should have really shinny skin.

　　On Bali, a little island in Indonesia, they believe that a beautiful woman or handsome man must have perfectly straight, flat teeth. The Balinese believe that teeth with pointed edges make you look like an ugly wild animal. So when a girl or boy becomes a teenager, he or she is taken to a special person in their village who will file off teeth points to make them smooth and flat. There is no anesthetic(麻藥)and this tooth filing is really painful. It is a kind of test. If you can stand it without screaming or crying too much, then you are thought ready to become an adult.

　　In Myanmar, there is a small group of people who are called the “Papaung”. They believe that a woman can only be really beautiful if she has a long neck. I mean a VERY long neck. Now you might think that you are either born with a long or short neck and that there’s nothing whatever you can do about it. But you would be wrong! At around the age of 5, a Papaung girl has heavy metal rings fitted around her neck, tightly between the chin and shoulders. Each year more rings are added and very, very slowly their weight pushes the shoulders down, in this way making the neck look longer. A Papaung woman will wear her neck rings all her life, never once taking them off.

　　So now I’m sure you will all agree that different people have different ideas about what is beautiful.

　　26. What is mainly talked about in paragraph one?

　　A. Women’s design. B. Beautiful body decoration.

　　C. Body decoration. D. Attractive decoration.

　　【答案】C

　　【解析】大意歸納題。第一段講的是如果你在超市里見到一個剃光頭，穿鼻環，胳膊上有紋身并且在購物車里推著一個小孩的女人，你會有什么看法。你認為這樣的裝飾是有魅力的還是丑陋的。由此可見答案選C。

　　27. What does the underlined word “trolley” mean?

　　A. schoolbag B. luggage C. basket D. shopping cart

　　【答案】D

　　【解析】詞義猜測題。由在超市里和“she has a small child”可以推斷出，孩子是在購物車里。

　　28. On Bali, it is believed that _________.

　　A. a person with straight, flat teeth looks ugly

　　B. a person with sharp teeth looks ugly

　　C. a teenager’s teeth points must be filed off with anesthetic

　　D. no one will scream or cry when having his teeth points filed off

　　【答案】B

　　【解析】細節理解題。由“The Balinese believe that teeth with pointed edges make you look like an ugly wild animal.”可知在巴厘島牙齒尖的人被認為是丑陋的。

　　29. Which of the following is NOT true?

　　A. Many people think that a woman with a ring through nose is neither attractive nor ugly.

　　B. Most African people think that a girl with shinny skin is beautiful.

　　C. It is thought that a beautiful woman should have straight, flat teeth on Bali.

　　D. Some people think it beautiful that a woman has a long neck in Myanmar.

　　【答案】A

　　【解析】細節理解題。本文并沒有講到人們對于穿鼻環的女人有什么看法，只是舉這個例子來說不同的人有不同的觀點。所以A得說法不正確。

　　30. What is the best title of the passage?

　　A. Different ideas about beautiful.

　　B. Body Decoration.

　　C. Who is a beautiful woman?

　　D. What is beautiful?

　　【答案】D

　　【解析】標題歸納題。通過本文介紹巴厘島和緬甸人對于美麗的不用看法以及最后的“different people have different ideas about what is beautiful.”可以總結出文章的標題是“什么是美麗?”