I() to Japan, and it is a nice country.
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A、No, I don’t
B、Sorry, I’m not a football fan
C、It is my hobby
D、That’s my favorite
M: Nana is the most popular comic series because Japanese people can sympathize with this love story. Why Japanese people love comics is probably because riley do not show much of what they think or feel. So, they project their thoughts and feelings in comics.
W: Which part of Japan is the most famous? And why?
M: The most famous part in Japan is Tokyo, the center of modern culture in Japan and all Japanese trends are born there.
W: What is the most important festival in Japan and why does it become so significant for the Japanese?
M: In Japan, the most important festival is the New Year's Holidays. Japanese people visit a shrine on New Year's day to pray for health and good future. Also, family gets together and many children receive money. Also, people clean the house before the New Year and eat toshikoshi soba for long life. And on New Year's day people eat osechi ryori, which is very special and delicious. I like New Year very much.
W: If I want to skiing, where should I go?
M: I think Nagano(长野) is the best place to ski in Japan. The reason is because the Winter Olympics were held in Nagano in 1998. The snow there is very soft and beautiful.
W: What kind of food do you like besides Japanese food? Like American food, Chinese food?
M: Recently, young Japanese people eat with their friends at fast food restaurants like McDonalds or Yoshinoya. There are not many university students eating meals at home. I think that I am the same as those students. Also, Japanese like Italian, Chinese, and Korean food. But I like Japanese food the best because foreign food is too strong for me.
W: What do you think about Junlehiro Koizumi? Is he handsome or look old?
M: I think Prime Minister Koizumi is a progressive person rather than a traditional one. He is active and has made good diplomacy, but his idea of tax increase is not good. I think capitalism is going to do big damage to poor people. Koizmni's capitalism is just like that of President George Bush. Is Koizumi handsome? Well, I think he looks not all that bad.
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A.Nana is the most popular comic series in Japan because it's a love story.
B.Nana is the most popular comic series in Japan because its plot is attractive.
C.Japanese people do not like to express their thoughts and feelings before others.
D.Japanese people love comics because they are very funny and interesting.
W: Yes, certainly. I was a marketing consultant, responsible for marketing ten UK hotels. They were all luxury hotels in the leisure sector, all of a very high standard.
M: Which markets were you responsible for?
W: For Europe and Japan.
M: I see from your resume that you speak Japanese. Have you ever been to Japan?
W: Yes, I have. I spent a month in Japan in 2006. I met all the key people in the tourist industry, the big tour operators and tourist organizations. As I speak Japanese, I had a very big advantage.
M: Yes, of course. Have you bad any contact with Japan in your present job?
W: Yes. I've had a lot. The troth is I have become very popular with the Japanese, both for holidays end for business conferences. In fact, the market for all types of luxury holidays for the Japanese has increased a lot recently.
M: Realty, I'm interested to hear more about that, but first, ten me, have you ever traveled on a luxury train? The Orient Express, for example.
W: No I haven't, but I have traveled on a glacier express to Switzerland and I traveled across China by train about 8 years ago. I love train travel. That's why Fm very interested in this job.
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A.Marketing consultancy.
B.Professional accountancy.
C.Luxury hotel management.
D.Business conference organization.
W: I'd be glad to show you around, but I'm very busy right now. Could you come hack about 4:00?
Q: What is the student concerned about?
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A.Making an appointment.
B.How to use the library.
C.Coming back about 4:00.
D.How to choose a course.
W: Are you serious? Everyone I know is lining up to go there and you're actually considering not going?
Q: What does the woman imply?
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A.The opportunity is too rare to pass over.
B.He should line up for the program as others do.
C.He should concentrate on his studies.
D.He should consider going together with others.
听力原文: A famous writer who was visiting Japan was invited to give a lecture at a university to a large group of students. As most of them could not understand spoken English, he had to have an interpreter.
During his lecture he told an amusing story which went on for rather a long time. At last he stopped to allow the interpreter to translate it into Japanese, and was very surprised when the man did this in a few seconds, after which all the students laughed loudly.
After the lecture, the writer thanked the interpreter for his good work and then said to him, "Now please tell me how you translated that long story of mine into such a short Japanese one."
"I didn't tell the story at all," the interpreter answered with a smile. "I just said, 'The honorable lecturer has just told a funny story. You will all laugh, please. '"
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A.To tell a story to a group of students.
B.To translate some books.
C.To act as an interpreter.
D.To give a lecture at a university.
W: I think the most popular prints are those of Cookie Monster, Hello Kitty, and animal characters. And Japanese don't wear bright clothes. Usually they wear dark ones, like black or brown.
M: Who is the most well-known Thai singer in Japan?
W: Tata Young is the most famous Thai singer in Japan. She held a live tour in Tokyo and it was a big success. Her debut album for Japan recorded great sales all over Asia. Her music is played on the Japanese dance scene. Tata Young is so famous, not only in Japan, but also around the world.
M: What is still the tradition nowadays and what is the main reason for the making tea ceremony?
W: In Japan, we send New Years cards to our relatives and friends at the beginning of the year. By making tea ceremony, we regain our composure and we can enjoy drinking tea more.
M: What is "samurai"?
W: Samurai were people who had a special position in traditional Japanese society. Their hairstyle. was called chonmage. They carried an edged tool, called nihonto. There are not any more samurai in Japan now.
M: What do you usually do in nightlife?
W: I usually listen to the radio, play die guitar and the piano at home in the night time. I think many other university students go out to dinner at an Izakaya and drink beer with their friends.
M: What's the population of your country and where do most people live?
W: Most people live in Tokyo: The population of Tokyo is 12 million. And the second largest population is that of Osaka, which is 8.8 million. In Kynto, there are only 1.5 million people.
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A.About some aspects of social life in Thailand.
B.About some aspects of social life in Japan.
C.About what prints are popular among teenagers in Thailand.
D.About what prints are popular among teenagers in Japan.
"Sometimes I feel like I need a translator to understand my own language," says Yoke Fujimura with little anger, a 60-year-old Tokyo restaurant worker. "It's becoming incomprehensible."
It's not only Japan who is on the defensive. Countries around the globe are wet through their hands over the rapid spread of American English. Coca-Cola, for example, is one of the most recognized terms on Earth.
It is made worse for Japan, however, by its unique writing system. The country writes all imported utterances—except Chinese—in a different script. called katakana(片假名). It is the only country to maintain such a distinction. Katakana takes far more space to write than kanji—the core pictograph (象形文字) characters that the Japanese borrowed from China 1,500 years ago. Because it stands out, readers complain that sentences packed with foreign words start to resemble extended strings of lights. As if that weren' t enough, katakana terms tend to get confusing. For example, digital camera first appears as degitaru kamera. Then they became the more ear-pleasing digi kamey. But kamey is also the Japanese word for turtle. "It's very frustrating not knowing what young people are talking about," says humorously Minom Shiratori, a 53-year-old bus driver. "Sometimes I can't tell if they're discussing cameras or turtles."
In a hid to stop the flood of katakana, the government has formed a Foreign Words Committee to find suitable Japanese replacements. The committee is slightly different from French-style. language police, which try to support a law that forbids advertising in English. Rather, committee members and traditionalists hope a sustained campaign of persuasion, gentle criticism and leadership by example can turn the tide.
According to the author, the reason why the Japanese is infected greatly by English is ______.
A.that nothing can prevent it from entering into Japan
B.that English is the most recognized language in the world
C.that the government has not set up a special administration department to control this trend before it becomes popular in Japan
D.not clearly mentioned in this passage
W: Yes, you can. How many stamps would you like?
A: I'd like ten sixty-cent stamps and five airmail stamps, please.
B: Here you arc. Ten sixty-cent stamps and five airmail stamps.
A: I'd like to mail this package to Australia, how much will it be, please?
B: Airmail or surface mall?
A: Airmail, please. How long does it take?
B: It's a light package airmail would cost US $22 since it's going to Australia I would guess it will take about six or seven days to arrive.
A: And the surface mall?
B: Sea mall would be cheaper, but it wouldn't arrive until about 5 weeks later. The rate for that is US $4.5. What's in the package? I need to know that in order to complete this form.
A: A pair of jade earrings, a gold necklace and some fashion dress for my sister who's going to get married. I packed them well, so I'm sure they won't break, but I want to insure them just in case. By the way, how much would an emergent letter to Japan be? B: Let me check for you. A special delivery to Japan would be US $49. They can guarantee delivery tomorrow, is there anything else? A: I'd like to have thirty dollars worth of stamps. I'd miller you pick out some nice commemoratives.
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A.Because she is going to study abroad.
B.Because she is going to get married.
C.Because she asked him for it.
D.Because Christmas is coming.