22．How is the food served at Gloucester Services?

A．It is fast food.

B．It lacks variety.

C．Most of it tastes sweet.

D．Most of it is from the markets nearby.

23．Where can you enjoy the view of an ancient building?

A．Gloucester Services.

B．Cairn Lodge Services.

C．Brockholes Nature Reserve Services.

D．Yorkshire Sculpture Park Service Station.

答案解析：

[A语篇解读]　本文是一篇应用文。文章介绍了英国四个有名的服务区。

21.解析：细节理解题。根据Brockholes Nature Reserve Services介绍中的Our service station is different from any other service station和He's not lying. Brockholes is distinctive in that the whole facility floats on a 4,000­foot pontoon(浮码头) in the middle of a lake可知，这一服务区最显著的特色是其建在湖中的浮码头上。答案：B

22.解析：细节理解题。根据Gloucester Services介绍中的this service station puts local produce at the fore和regional可知，该服务区的食品以当地的食材制作的为主。答案：D

23.解析：细节理解题。根据Cairn Lodge Services介绍中的next to the station is an authentic ancient fortress (城堡)可知答案。答案：B

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I was born on the 17th of November 1828, in the village of Nam Ping, which is about four miles southwest of the Portuguese Colony (殖民地) of Macao, and is located on Pedro Island lying west of Macao, from which it is separated by a channel of half a mile wide.

As early as 1834, an English lady, Mrs. Gutzlaff, wife of a missionary to China, came to Macao. Supported by the Ladies' Association in London for the promotion of female education in India and the East, she immediately took up the work of starting a girls' school for Chinese girls, which was soon followed by the opening of a boys' school.

Mrs. Gutzlaff's comprador (买办) happened to come from my village and was actually my father's friend and neighbor. It was through him that my parents heard about Mrs. Gutzlaff's school and it was doubtlessly through his influence and means that my father got me admitted into the school. It has always been a mystery to me why my parents should put me into a foreign school, instead of a traditional Confucian school, where my big brother was placed. Most certainly such a step would have been more suitable for Chinese public opinion, taste, and the wants of the country than to allow me to attend an English school. Moreover, a Chinese belief is the only avenue in China that leads to political promotion, influence, power and wealth. I can only guess that as foreign communication with China was just beginning to grow, my parents hoped that it might be worthwhile to put one of their sons to learn English. In this way he might become an interpreter and have a more advantageous