It's 2022 now. Xu Xiuzhen is 77 years old. Recently, videos of her talking with foreigners become popular on the Internet. In these videos, she speaks different languages with them.

Xu has been working as a tour guide and vendor in Yangshuo, a county in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region since 1998, when the area became famous with foreigners and organized tours. Xu dropped out of junior school in the third grade. To make a living, she began to learn different languages in order to encourage more foreigners to buy things. Over the past twenty years, Xu has taught herself 11 foreign languages, including English, Spanish, Japanese and Korean. It makes her popular, and her excellent language skills have also made it easier for her to communicate with foreign tourists.

Xu said she would convert(转换) words in any language into Chinese characters according to their pronunciation and then memorize them. Repeating the words in her head before going to bed and right away after waking up has made her talk with foreigners well.

Xu has also become one of the busiest tour guides in Yangshuo. Her reputation(名声) draws a large crowd of tourists every day, especially foreign visitors, who come to meet the special guide out of admiration. 

“More and more foreign tourists are coming to Yangshuo, and I hope they will feel at home here with my help,” she said.

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1.How old was Xu when she started working as a tour guide?

A 24.

B 21.

C 53.

D 77.

解析：选C。C数字计算题。根据第一段第一句“Xu Xiuzhen is 77 years old.”和第二段第一句“Xu has been working as a tour guide and vendor in ... since 1998”可知徐秀珍出生于2022-77=1945年，故她开始做导游是在1998-1945=53岁时。故选C。

2.Why did Xu begin to learn different languages?

A To get the job of tour guiding.

B To drop out of school.

C To make videos.

D To sell things.

解析：选D。D细节理解题。根据第二段第三句“To make a living, she began to learn different languages in order to encourage more foreigners to buy things.”可知，为了卖东西，徐秀珍自学外语。故选D。

3.What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?

A Why Xu learned foreign languages.

B How Xu learned foreign languages.

C When Xu learned Chinese characters.

D Why Yangshuo became popular.

解析：选B。B段落大意题。根据第三段可知，该段主要讲了徐秀珍是如何学习外语的：根据发音将单词转换成汉字，然后记忆下来；睡前和醒来后立即在脑海中重复记忆。故选B。

4.The underlined word “they” refers to(指的是)__________.

A tour guides

B foreign tourists

C places of interest

D Chinese characters

解析：选B。B词意指代题。根据划线部分前面的“More and more foreign tourists are coming to Yangshuo”可知，越来越多的外国游客来到阳朔，徐秀珍希望在她的帮助下，他们(外国游客)会感到宾至如归。故选B。

5.What can be learned from the passage?

A Never too old to learn.

B Great minds think alike.

C Money is not everything.

D Provide for a rainy day.

解析：选A。A主旨大意题。本文主要讲了七旬奶奶自学10多国语言，无障碍跟外国游客交流的故事。徐秀珍从一个小学没毕业的农村妇女，到现在的语言达人，其背后付出的艰辛只有她自己知道。我们可以从她身上学到“活到老，学到老”的精神。故选A。