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While the cities of China have undergone modernization evident in the rising towers and bright lights that have awakened the sleeping country, the countryside remains largely the same.

Rectangular（长方形的）rows of rice fields litter the landscape separated by long lanes of water designed to provide the constant supply of water that is vital to producing the crop. The experience is not unlike driving through the American Midwest, only rice not corn dominates the landscape.

Four years ago, when I last took this trip, the roads were dust and telephone wires did not run parallel to the highway. Bare roads had been replaced by sleek, newly paved highways running from Shanghai to Nanjing, to my smaller home city, Wuhu. Unlike the changes I had heard of and expected in Shanghai, Wuhu was much more of a surprise. The small city where I was born had grown up as I have. There are large high-rise buildings, each ringed with smaller buildings around it, many of these apartment complexes. Little seemed familiar and I wonder what my grandparents' flat built of brick and mortar（灰泥）had become.

Perhaps I shouldn't have been surprised to find out that their home had been demolished（拆除）and rebuilt as a six-story apartment complex as well. Walking up to the second floor I saw my grandfather's face peering out of the screen door. He began to smile as he saw me, and so did I. Their home is now no different from a western apartment. Equipped with the modern amenities（便利设施）of a gas stove, a toilet, a shower—this was indeed different from four years ago.

1．According to the author, dramatic changes took place in____.

A．cities but not countryside of China

B．countryside but not in large cities

C．both cities and countryside of China

D．everywhere

2．It can be inferred from the second paragraph that____.

A．peasants lead similar life all over the world

B．Chinese irrigating system is more impressing than that in America

C．peasants in Midwest America raise more corns while Chinese peasants raise more rice

D．peasants in Midwest America raise more rice while Chinese peasants raise more corns

3．The author was traveling to Wuhu____.

A．in order to take a stop during the trip from Shanghai to Nanjing

B．in order to find some place similar to his hometown

C．in order to visit his grandparents

D．in order to find out changes in small cities

4．The author's grandparents____.

A．live in their house of brick and mortar

B．live in an apartment similar to westerners'

C．led a totally westernized life

D．was poor as they always were

5．Which of the following is the best title for this passage?

A．Flash Back to China

B．Back with My Grandparents

C．Wuhu Today

D．From Shanghai to Nanjing

1．【答案】A

【精析】本题考查对第一段的理解，总的意思是虽然大城市有巨大的变化，但是农村还是老样子。

2．【答案】C

【精析】推理判断题。由第二段最后一句“眼前的景象很容易让人想起美国的中西部地区，只不过那里到处是玉米，而这儿到处是大米。”可知，美国中西部的农民种植玉米较多，而中国农民种植大米较多。

3．【答案】C

【精析】推理判断题。由第三段最后一句可推知，芜湖是作者的家乡，他回去是要看望自己的祖父母，故选C项。

4．【答案】B

【精析】事实细节题。由最后一段倒数第二句“Their home is now no different from a western apartment.”可判断出，作者的祖父母住在与西方人住宅类似的房子里面，故选B项。

5．【答案】A

【精析】主旨大意题。短文讲述作者回到祖国的所闻所感。芜湖、祖父母、旅途都只是短文涉及的一个方面，因此A项最适合做标题。