阅读理解 When a Japanese friend of mine first visited Britain and first saw a Britis

阅读理解

When a Japanese friend of mine first visited Britain and first saw a British map of the world, he was

very surprised by what he found . At first, the picture seemed familiar(熟悉) : in the middle of the map, there were two or three small but long red islands lying between an ocean and a continent. But something was wrong; land mass and ocean had changed places. It wasn't Japan he was looking at, it was the British Isles . Japan was out on the edge somewhere .

Until that moment all the maps he had known had set Japan in the middle of the picture and had coloured it red ; yet when he got to Britain, he found that the country in the middle of the map was Britain and that it , too , was painted red .

What my friend had found was a displacement (脱离原位) of his country, and, therefore, of himself as well . That is to say, his country was no longer in its familiar place and he no longer knew where he stood; he was disoriented.

Our sense of ourselves and our place in the world may not , as my friend's experience suggests, come from anything real or actual , for no country is in the middle of the globe, except as a picture in the mind . A map is only a model in which we may set ourselves, it just helps us to feel that we know where we are,

(1) When the man in this story saw a British map of the world, he found himself ________ .

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A．astonished B．comfortable C．disappointed D．encouraged

(2) On a British map of the world ________ .

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A．Japan is painted red

B．Japan is set in the middle

C．Japan is set at one side

D．Japan does not appear at all

(3) To be disoriented means to lose ________ .

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A．one's heart B．control C．one's interest D．one's sense of position

(4) No country is in the middle of the globe ________ .

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A．in fact B．in stones C．in maps D． in pictures

(5) The main idea of this passage is that ________ .

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A．human beings need maps in order to find the middle of the globe

B．Japanese visitors to Britain find that local maps give them sense of displacement

C．our sense of position based on familiar maps often helps to travel from place to place

D．familiar maps give those who use them. an imaginary but comforting sere of position

试题答案

答案：A;C;D;A;C