Question

In an American classroom, a Chinese girl was asked to answer a question. She stood up and smiled, without making any sound. The American teacher looked at himself and didn’t see anything funny. So he asked her the question again. The girl just smiled but said nothing. The teacher was angry. He didn’t know that the girl smiled to cover her embarrassment（尷尬）because she wasn’t able to answer the question.

In a dining room in Beijing, an Englishman was careless and dropped a plate. The Chinese who had seen this began to laugh. The Englishman felt uncomfortable and even got angry. “They are laughing at me,” he thought. In fact the Chinese laughed not at the Englishman or his bad luck—whether he is a foreigner or a Chinese. The smile or laughter has several feelings: don’t take it so seriously; laugh it off, it’s nothing; such things can happen to any of us.

1.The Chinese girl smiled in an American classroom because ________________.

A. she was asked to answer a question     B. she was asked to stand up

C. she couldn’t answer the question          D. the teacher looked funny

2.Which feeling is NOT included in the laughter when the Englishman dropped a plate?

A. Don’t take it seriously.                B. Bad luck!   

C. It’s nothing.                    D. It can happen to any of us.

3.What does the writer want to tell us?

A. Smile and laughter don’t mean the same thing to different people.

B. Smile and laughter always bring happiness.

C. American people are easy to get angry.

D. Chinese students are impolite

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.C

2.B

3.A

【解析】

試題分析：短文大意，這篇短文以兩個(gè)不同情境下的笑聲，向我們解釋了同樣的笑聲在不同人群之間會有不同的含義。

1.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)He didn’t know that the girl smiled to cover her embarrassment（尷尬）because she wasn’t able to answer the question.描述，可知這個(gè)中國女孩微笑，是因?yàn)樗�不能回答這個(gè)問題。故選C。

2.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段The smile or laughter has several feelings: don’t take it so seriously; laugh it off, it’s nothing; such things can happen to any of us.描述，可知這些笑聲里面沒有倒霉的含義。故選B。

3.主旨大意題。這篇短文以兩個(gè)不同情境下的笑聲，向我們解釋了同樣的笑聲，在不同人群之間會有不同的含義，故選A。

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