If you visit a big city anywhere in the world, you will probably find a restaurant which serves the food of your native country. Most large__1__in the United States offer an international sample of__2__. Many people enjoy eating the food __3__other nations. This is probably one reason__4__there are so many different kinds of restaurants in the United States. A second is that Americans__5__from all the parts of the world. They enjoy tasting the foods of their__6__lands. In the city of Detroit, __7__, there are many people from Western Europe, Latin America__8__the Far East. There are many restaurants in Detroit__9__serve the foods of these areas. There are many__10__international restaurants, too. Americans not only like the foods in these restaurants but also enjoy the chance to__11__understand the foreign people and their__12__of life.
One of__13__most common international restaurants to be__14__in the US is an Italian restaurant. The restaurant is a small business__15__by a single family. The mother of the__16__cooks all the dishes and the__17__and children serve the customers who come to eat there. Or it may be a__18__restaurant which can__19__many customers during one evening. So a restaurant may be owned__20__one family, one person, or by several different people who work together in the business.
1. A. cities B. countryside C. nations D. families
2. A. waiters B. restaurants C. foods D. cooks
3. A. about B. of C. on D. with
4. A. as B. when C. which D. why
5. A. arrive B. come C. go D. leave
6. A. garden B. country C. state D. native
7. A. as B. like C. for example D. such as
8. A. and B. with B. of D. then
9. A. where B. which C. when D. why
10. A. other B. others C. another D. other's
11. A. worse B. better C. hardly D. more
12. A. hope B. wish C. place D. way
13. A. the B. a C. this D. that
14. A. cooked B. enjoyed C. found D. eaten
15. A. built B. run C. driven D. lived
16. A. family B. city C. business D. restaurant
17. A. mother B. guests C. visitors D. father
18. A. small B. large C. tiny D. bad
19. A. deal B. work C. serve D. prepare
20. A. by B. with C. of D. for
[答案与解析]
1. A 2. C。在美国,多数大城市都提供国际食品的样品。3. B。介词of表所属。 4. D。先行词是reason时,常用why 引导定语从句。5. B。美国人来自于世界各地。6. D。他们喜欢吃有本国风味的食品。 7. C。用“for example”举例说明。 8. A。最后两个词组之间用and连接。 9. B。本空用关系代词which/that引导定语从句,在从句中作主语。10. A。代词other在句中作定语,此时不用复数或所有格形式。 11.B 12. D。美国人不仅喜欢这些饭店的食品,而且喜欢有机会更好地了解异国的人民和他们的生活方式。 13. A 14. C。在美国可以找到的最普通的一家国际饭店是一家意大利饭店。“one of the +形容词最高级+名词”是常用句型,表“最……之一”。 15. B。run意为“经营”。 16. A 17. D。妈妈炒菜,爸爸和孩子们为前来用餐的顾客端饭上菜。18. B 19. C。因为这是一个家庭餐馆,“否则的话,它可能是一个大饭店,一个晚上可以招待很多顾客。” 20. A。by用于被动语态中,意为“被”。
