2020屆高考英語閱讀理解之主旨大意題復習

54. it can be concluded from the passage that the author believes that _____.
   a. children should leave the parental nest as soon as possible
   b. grown-up children should live on their own
   c. children should be taught not to cheat others
   d. parents should give more pocket money to their children
5.【溫州中學XX屆高三3月月考  d】
around the globe, the tourist trade is booming and you are promised to enjoy all the comfort and convenience of modern tourism. the first-class systems of communication by air, sea and land make it possible for us to visit each other’s countries at a moderate cost. what was once the ‘grand tour’, reserved for only the very rich, is now within most people’s grasp. the package tour and chartered flights (包機) are quite popular to us. modern travelers enjoy a level of comfort which those on grand tours in the old days couldn’t have dreamed of. with all this coming and going, you would expect greater understanding to develop between the nations of the world. not a bit of it! so what’s the sense of this mass exchange of populations if the nations of the world remain basically ignorant of each other? so there is a great misdirection in tourist business, especially in conducted tour items.
    many tourist organizations are directly responsible for this state of affairs. they purposely set out to “protect” their passengers from too much contact with the local population. modern tourists lead a protected and separated life. they live at international hotels, where they eats their international food and sips their international drink while gazing at the natives from a distance. designed tours to places of interest are carefully arranged. the tourists are allowed to see only what the organizers want them to see and no more. a strict schedule makes it impossible for the tourists to wander off on their own; and anyway, language is always a barrier, so they might only be too happy to be protected in this way.
at its very worst, this merely leads to a new and terrible kind of colonization. the sad thing about this situation is that it leads to the persistence of certain old ideas of other nations and countries. we don’t see the people of other nations as they really are, but as we have been brought up to believe what they are, even staying along with that from text books during our schooling.
you can test this for yourself. take five nationalities, say, french, german, english, american and italian. now in your mind, match them with these five adjectives: musical, emotional, cold, pedantic (愛追究的), native. far from providing us with any insight into the national characteristics of the peoples just mentioned, these adjectives just actually act as barriers, for we can’t do the job with certainty. so, frequently, when you set out on your travels, the only characteristics you notice are those which confirm what you have already obtained as the first conceptions in your mind. and you get home only with the highly unoriginal and inaccurate impression, such as the saying, “anglo-saxons are hypocrites (偽君子)” and “latin peoples shout a lot ”. however, to gain the real understanding, you only have to make a few foreign friends and you will know how ridiculous and harmful some old conceptions of other nations are. but how can you make foreign friends when the tourist trade does its best to prevent you?