----Look, it’s going to rain.
----Really ? （） , I don’t take a raincoat with me.

—__—Not bad（）

Our new foreign students are going to arrive very soon, and here are some ways to communicate with them politely.
How close do you stand when you talk to a friend？ You can stand close to people in the Middle East but don’t stand too close to North Americans! Give them more personal space.
Do you know How to touch people correctly？ Chinese girls often walk arm in arm with their friends. South Americans sometimes hold your arm when they talk to you, so you can’t move away! But in Britain many people don’t like other people to touch them at all.
Do you look at people when you talk？ In some places, it isn’t polite to look at people when you talk, but in other countries it isn’t polite to look somewhere else. In Britain and the US, people usually look at each other when they talk.
And how do you say goodbye？ That’s easy, wave(挥手) to say goodbye. But be careful! In Greece, it’s not at all polite! In fact, it’s very rude!
(1) From the passage, we should give more personal space.()
A、people in the Middle East
B、people in North America
C、people in the South America
D、people in North China
(2) The underlined word “touch” means in Chinese.()
A、触碰
B、打击
C、感动
D、震撼
(3) We can’t wave to say goodbye in .()
A、America
B、Japan
C、Britain
D、Greece
(4) How many ways are given to communicate with foreign students？()
A、Two
B、Three
C、Four
D、Five
(5) What’s the best title of this passage？()
A、Saying goodbye
B、Touching people
C、Looking at people
D、communicating politely
正确答案：1. B 2. A 3. D 4. C 5. D
44、Our new foreign students are going to arrive very soon, and here are some ways to communicate with them politely.
How close do you stand when you talk to a friend？ You can stand close to people in the Middle East but don’t stand too close to North Americans! Give them more personal space.
Do you know How to touch people correctly？ Chinese girls often walk arm in arm with their friends. South Americans sometimes hold your arm when they talk to you, so you can’t move away! But in Britain many people don’t like other people to touch them at all.
Do you look at people when you talk？ In some places, it isn’t polite to look at people when you talk, but in other countries it isn’t polite to look somewhere else. In Britain and the US, people usually look at each other when they talk.
And how do you say goodbye？ That’s easy, wave(挥手) to say goodbye. But be careful! In Greece, it’s not at all polite! In fact, it’s very rude!
(1) From the passage, we should give more personal space.()
A、people in the Middle East
B、people in North America
C、people in the South America
D、people in North China
(2) The underlined word “touch” means in Chinese.()
A、触碰
B、打击
C、感动
D、震撼
(3) We can’t wave to say goodbye in .()
A、America
B、Japan
C、Britain
D、Greece
(4) How many ways are given to communicate with foreign students？()
A、Two
B、Three
C、Four
D、Five
(5) What’s the best title of this passage？()
A、Saying goodbye
B、Touching people
C、Looking at people
D、communicating politely

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People are often killed while crossing the road. Most of them are old people and children. Old people are often killed because they usually can't see or hear very well. Children are often killed because they are careless.
A car, truck or bus can't stop very quickly. If a car is going very fast, it will travel many meters before it stops. People don't understand this. They think a car can stop within a few meters. The faster a car is traveling, the longer it needs to stop. It is very hard for a person to know how fast a car is traveling.
The only safe way to cross the road is to look both ways, right and left. When the road is clear, it's safe to cross. The correct way to cross the road is to walk quickly. It's not safe to run. If people run across the roads, they may fall to the ground.
1)、Young men and women are most likely to be killed when crossing the road.
A.T
B.F
2)、Old people are often hit by cars because they can't see or hear clearly.
A.T
B.F
3)、It is likely for a car to hit people on the road because some drivers are too careful.
A.T
B.F
4)、To look both ways while crossing the road is the only safe way to cross the road.
A.T
B.F
5)、It is not advisable for people to run across the road because they can't stop before a car hits them.
A.T
B.F

Look at the clouds. It ________ rain.A.willB.shallC.is going toD.is
Look at the clouds. It ________ rain.
A.will
B.shall
C.is going to
D.is

The freezing Northeast hasn’t been a terribly fun place to spend time this winter, so when the chance came for a weekend to Sarasota, Florida, my bags were packed before you could say “sunshine”. I left for the land of warmth and vitamin C(维生素C), thinking of beaches and orange trees. When we touched down to blue skies and warm air, I sent up a small prayer of gratefulness. Swimming pools, wine tasting, and pink sunsets (at normal evening hours, not 4 in the afternoon) filled the weekend, but the best part- particularly to my taste, dulled by months of cold weather root vegetables was a 7 a.m. adventure to the Sarasota farmers’ market that proved to be more than worth the early wake-up call.
The market, which was founded in 1979, sets up its tents every Saturday from 7:00 am to 1 p.m. rain or shine, along North Lemon and State streets. Baskets of perfect red strawberries, the red-painted sides of the Java Dawg coffee truck; and most of all, the tomatoes: amazing, large, soft and round red tomatoes.
Disappointed by many a broken, vine-ripened(蔓上成熟的) promise, I’ve refused to buy winter tomatoes for years. No matter how attractive they look in the store, once I get them home they’re unfailingly dry, hard, and tasteless. But I homed in, with uncertainty, on one particular table at the Brown’s Grove Farm’s stand, full of fresh and soft tomatoes the size of my fist. These were the real deal and at that moment, I realized that the best part of Sarasota in winter was going to be eating things that back home in New York I wouldn’t be experiencing again for months.
Delighted as I was by the tomatoes in sight, my happiness deepened when I learned that Brown’s Grove Farm is one of the suppliers for Jack Dusty, a newly opened restaurant at the Sarasota Ritz Carlton, where luckily for me I was planning to have dinner that very night. Without even seeing the menu, I knew I’d be ordering every tomato on it.
(1)、What did the author think of her winter life in New York？ ()
A、Exciting.
B、Boring.
C、Relaxing.
D、Annoying.
(2)、What made the author’s getting up early worthwhile？ ()
A、Having a swim.
B、Breathing in fresh air.
C、Walking in the morning sun.
D、Visiting a local farmer’s market.
(3)、What can we learn about tomatoes sold in New York in winter？ ()
A、They are soft.
B、They look nice.
C、They taste great.
D、They are juicy.
(4)、What was the author going to that evening？ ()
A、Go to a farm.
B、Check into a hotel.
C、Eat in a restaurant.
D、Buy fresh vegetable
(5)、In the first paragraph, the word “adventure” means ______. ()
A、risk.
B、effort.
C、achievement.
D、access.

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My wife and I spent two weeks in London last year. We went there in autumn. We think it is the best season to visit England. The weather is usually quite pleasant and there aren't too many tourists in October.
We stayed in a small hotel in the West End. It was convenient as we did most of our sight seeing on foot. Taxis were too expensive; the bus routes were too difficult for us to understand; and my wife didn't like traveling by underground. She said it made her feel shut in.
We went to look at the places, which all tourists see. We saw Buckingham Palace, the National Gallery and Piccadilly Circus. We went shopping in Oxford Street and spent too much money. What we liked most, though, was going to the theatre. We don't have the chance to see such wonderful plays at home. A lot of people say English food is very bad. We didn't think so. It's true that most of the restaurants are French or Italian or Chinese, but we had some very good meals.
In fact, we enjoyed our holiday so much that we have booked another trip to England for this year. We're going to take our umbrellas, though. I'm sure we'll need them.
1)、While in London, the writer and his wife usually got around on foot.
A.T
B.F
2)、The wife didn't like traveling by underground because it was not fast enough.
A.T
B.F
3)、They could visit good museums in London that they have no chance of doing at home.
A.T
B.F
4)、In London it is not easy for people to find English restaurants.
A.T
B.F
5)、They are going to take their umbrellas because it often rains in London.
A.T
B.F

Reading Comprehension 阅读理解 Let's look at another example of how people's communication patterns differ: the way

Reading Comprehension 阅读理解

从下列每篇短文的问题后所给的四个选择项中选出一个最佳答案。

Let's look at another example of how people's communication patterns differ: the way people converse. Some foreigners have observed that when Americans carry on a conversation, it seems as if they are having a Ping-Pong game. One person has the ball and then hits it to the other side of the table. The other player hits the ball back and the game continues. If one person doesn't return the ball, then the conversation stops. Each part of the conversation follows this pattern: the greeting and the opening, the discussion of a topic, and the closing and farewell. If either person talks too much, the other may become impatient and feel that he is dominating the conversation. Similarly, if one person doesn't say enough or ask enough questions to keep the conversation going, the conversation stops.

Many North Americans, are impatient with culturally different conversation styles simply because the styles are unfamiliar. For example, to many North Americans it seems that some Latin Americans dominate conversations, or hold the ball too long. Speaking of her co-workers from several Latin American countries, one North American woman said, “I just find it difficult to cut in. They seem to take such a long time to express themselves. They give you a lot of unnecessary details.” When she talked with them, she became tense, because she found it so hard to participate. Yet she also noted that when they talked to each other, nobody seemed uncomfortable or left out.

The North American woman didn't know how to interrupt the Latin American conversations because North American ways of listening and breaking in are very different. She had been taught to listen politely until the other person finished talking. (Once again, there are gender (性别) differences; it has been observed that men tend to interrupt women more than women interrupt men. )When the North American woman did what was “natural” or “normal” for her (i. e. , listen politely without interrupting), she was not comfortable in the conversation with the Latin Americans. The result was that she became more passive in her conversations with her co-workers. The differences between the unspoken rules of conversation of each cultural group interfered with their on-the-job relationship.

26、When North Americans converse together, each one of the group is supposed to_______________.

A.participate in the talk

B.play Ping-Pong games

C.interrupt the speaker

D.dominate the conversation

27、When North Americans converse with the Latin Americans, the North Americans would feel_______________.

A.involved

B.left out

C.comfortable

D.relaxed

28、To the North Americans, the Latin Americans are_______________.

A.polite

B.communicative

C.dominant

D.familiar

29、We can infer from this passage that_______________.

A.people from different cultures cannot communicate with each other

B.different conversational styles may affect people's relationships

C.men are more talkative than women

D.North Americans' conversational habits are better than those of Latin Americans'

30、The best title for this passage is_______________.

A.Different Conversation Styles

B.Different Conversation Topics

C.Different Conversation Processes

D.Different Conversation Effects

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英译汉：Look out the window it's still raining today!

-- __-- Great（）

Look, a monkey!__（）

It's 10 dollars. --I'll__ it（）