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【題目】America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon. They don’t feel hurt .If the same two people meet again, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand. Friendships between us develop more slowly but may become lifelong feelings, extending (延伸) deeply into both families.

There is another difficult point for us to understand .Although Americans treat friends warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to them if it requires a great deal of time. But in China, we are usually generous with our time. We, as hosts, will appear at an airport even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off from our work to act as guides to our friends. It is opposite in America .Americans can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily plans. They will probably expect the visitors to get themselves from the airport to the hotels. And they expect the visitors will phone them from there. Once the visitors arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real.

For Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to restaurants, except for business matters. Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life .So accept their hospitality(好客) at home and enjoy your visit in America !

【1】The underlined phrase “pick up” in Paragraph 1 may mean “____________”.

A.keep out B. give up

C. pay no attention to D. continue

【2】Which of the following is the typical (典型的) way of American hospitality ?

A.Treating friends at home.

B.Taking days off to be with friends .

C. Meeting friends at the airport at midnight.

D. Sharing everything they have.

【3】Which of the following statements is True according to the passage?

A. Americans are always generous with their time.

B. Americans don’t feel hurt if their friendships disappear soon .

C. Chinese friendships develop more slowly but will never disappear.

D. Chinese friendships are more sincere than American friendships .

【4】This passage is most probably written for____________ .

A.American students

B.Chinese students

C. Chinese visitors to America

D. American visitors to China

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】A

【3】B

【4】C

【解析】

試題分析：短文大意：美國是一個流動的社會，人與人之間的友誼可以很親近和真實，然而消失很快的時候也不會感到受到傷害。他們對待友誼拿得起。這些對我們國人來說很難理解！

【1】D詞語猜測題。根據(jù)If the same two people meet again, even years later, they pick up the friendship.可知如果這兩人再次見面，即使是幾年后，他們也會繼續(xù)他們的友誼。根據(jù)句意，故選D。

【2】A細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)One of Deng’s clever ideas, “one country, two systems”, was first performed in 1997.可知“一國兩制”是鄧小平提出來的，所以選A。

【3】B細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon. They don’t feel hurt .可知美國人如果他們的友誼消失了，他們不會受傷。根據(jù)句意，所以選B。

【4】C綜合理解題。本文在談?wù)撝袊�和美國對友誼的觀點不同。故選C。