有了IconspeakT恤：世界再大，说走就走！

        

        If you love to travel but find it difficult to know the local(当地的) languages, you may need Iconspeak. It is a T-shirt. There are many basic pictographs(象形图画) on it, including different kinds of things from clocks to bathrooms.

          With the Iconspeak T-shirt, you can make local people understand you easily. You only have to point to the pictograph, and it can easily tell the message. You don’t have to play charades(哑谜猜字) with them. The idea of Iconspeak comes from George Horn and Florian Nast. They were traveling in a village in Asia in 2013. They couldn’t understand the local language. And local people didn’t understand them. So they could not get any help. And that made their travel not easy or interesting. After that they came up with the Iconspeak T-shirt.

          Horn and Nast say, “In some places of our world, there is a language barrier. We can not understand each other. That gets us think about how to solve the problem with an easiest way. With Iconspeak, you can speak to the world.” So just come and buy one for yourself!

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1.Who could be a buyer of the Iconspeak T-shirt?

A A writer.

B A farmer.

C A doctor.

D A traveler.

解析：选D。D 推理判断题。根据第一段第一句的“If you love travel but find it difficult to understand the local(当地的) languages, you may need Iconspeak.”可推断，这种 T 恤衫很适合爱旅游的人，即旅行者。故选 D。

2.If you want to know the time, which pictograph do you point to?

A The bathroom.

B The plane.

C The clock.

D The tree.

解析：选C。C 细节理解题。根据第二段的“You only have to point to the pictograph, and it can easily explain the message.”可知这些象形图画可以代表你想问的信息，因此如果你想知道时间，就应该指向钟表，故选 C。

3.How was Horn and Nast’s travel in the Asian village?

A Easy.

B Difficult

C Happy.

D Interesting.

解析：选B。B 细节理解题。根据第二段的“And that made their travel not easy or interesting.”可知他们的那次旅行很艰难也很无趣，故选 B。

4.The underlined word “barrier” means_________in Chinese.

A 障碍

B 桥梁

C 天赋

D 沟通

解析：选A。A 词义猜测题。根据该词所在句的后一句 “We can not understand each other. ”我们理解不了彼此的意思，也就是说我们之间存在语言“障碍”。故选 A。

5.Where does this passage probably come from?

A A newspaper.

B A storybook.

C An advertisement.

D A notice.

解析：选C。C 文章出处题。文章主要介绍了一款产品——“用标识沟通全球”交流 T 恤，并且作者在文末发出了“快来给你自己购买一件”的呼吁，由此推断这是一篇广告。故选 C。