The Japanese pay much attention to the luck of telephone numbers. The bath house

The Japanese pay much attention to theluck of telephone numbers. The bath houses, for example, like to use 4626,because when   1   in Japanese, it has the   2   pronunciation as “have a good bath”.   3   the clothesshops and the butcher’s like 4129 better than   4  numberbecause this number can either be read as “good dress”   5    “goodmeat”.

Since these numbers are   6   withsomething   7  , people can remember them very  8 , so they have   9   advertisements for shops.

On the other hand,   10   are alsotelephone numbers which are regarded as forbidden   11   the Japanese people. 1564, for example,has the sound of “kill people”   12   the number 4219 has   13   of “peopledie”.

At   14  ,there are about forty-four million   15   in Japan, yet it is almost   16   foreveryone to get a lucky telephone number. So these   17   have becomecommodities (商品) and can be   18   as goods.The   19   can reach as   20   as 222 thousand Japanese yen (日元).

1.A. read  B.listen   C.hear D.look

2.A. English  B.strange    C.different   D.same

3.A. For   B.Neither    C.Either   D.Both

4.A.any    B.rest   C.other D.anyother

5.A.but B.or C.as D.and

6.A.joined B.connected  C.fixed D.mixed

7.A.to do  B.useful    C.nice  D.important

8.A.hard   B.slowly   C.much    D.easily

9.A.become  B.been  C.had   D.made

10.A.these    B.they  C.those    D.there

11.A.for   B.by C.with  D.to

12.A.but   B.because C.as D.while

13.A.sound   B.meaning    C.that   D.this

14.A.times    B.present  C.last   D.first

15.A.shops   B.Japanese    C.telephones     D.numbers

16.A.possible    B.impossible C.easy  D.necessary

17.A.telephones B.goods    C.shops    D.numbers

18.A.used B.made C.sold  D.stored

19.A.yen  B.money   C.telephone   D.prices

20.A.valuable    B.big    C.high  D.large

试题答案

答案：A;D;D;D;B;B;C;D;A;D;B;D;C;B;C;B;D;C;D;C