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America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, _______disappear soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas_______for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while—then no more. If the same two people meet again_______, even years later, they_______ the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to _______.

Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be happy if we_________their hospitality(好客)easily. Another difficult point for us Chinese_______. Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their_______to us if it needs a great deal of time.

This is usually the _______ of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time. Sometimes, we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a __________, we may take days off to ________ guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however, ________their welcome usually at homes, but truly cannot ________ the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily activities. They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the __________to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real.

For the Americans, it is often ________ friendlier to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, so accept their hospitality at home!

1.A.so B.but C.or D.until

2.A.greetings B.subjects C.sayings D.manners

3.A.in public B.in need C.by themselves D.by accident

4.A.make up B.pick up C.end up D.put up

5.A.discuss B.remember C.understand D.communicate

6.A.accept B.avoid C.attend D.advise

7.A.understanding B.understand C.understood D.to understand

8.A.sadness B.politeness C.darkness D.loneliness

9.A.truth B.secret C.same D.opposite

10.A.friend B.teacher C.boss D.host

11.A.try for B.depend on C.act as D.deal with

12.A.end B.enter C.express D.explain

13.A.manage B.make C.mention D.shape

14.A.address B.airport C.home D.hotel

15.A.confirmed B.considered C.committed D.controlled

My name is Tim. Daddy didn't know how to show love. He went to work every day and blamed (责备) me for the mistakes I had made when he came home.

Once I broke my leg and it was Mum who held me in her arms all the way to the hospital.

Later, Dad pulled the car right up to the door of the hospital.

They asked him to move it, saying the space was saved for the ambulance(救护车). Dad shouted, “What do you think this is? A tour bus?”

At my birthday parties, Dad always seemed out of place. He just kept himself busy blowing up balloons, setting up tables, and welcoming the guests. It was Mum who carried the cake with the candles on it for me to blow out.

When I learned to ride a bike, I asked him not to leave me alone, but he said it was time. I fell and Mum ran to pick me up, but he stopped her. I was so mad that I showed him that I could ride it myself. He just smiled.

When I went to college, Mum did all the writing. He just sent money and a little note about how great his garden looked now just because I wasn't playing football on it.

Whenever I called home, he acted like he wanted to talk but always said, “Wait, Tim. I'll get your mother.”

When I got married, Mum cried.

He just blew his nose loudly and left the room.

Daddy just didn't know how to show love, unless—

Was it possible he showed it and I didn't recognize it?

1.What did Tim's father mean by the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4?

A.Haven't you seen a tour bus like this before? B.Guess what? It's actually a tour bus!

C.Why? Can't I park a tour bus at this area? D.I parked here because it is an emergency.

2.What can we infer from his father's note when Tim went to college?

A.His father liked football. B.His father missed him.

C.His father was very rich. D.His father was good at gardening.

3.What is the best title of the passage?

A.Silent father's love B.My happy family

C.My father D.How to show love

To many people, pandas are the loveliest animal in the world. However, it's impossible for everyone to hug and play with the cute bears. That is why panda fans gathered at a cafe (咖啡馆) in Chengdu, Sichuan. They stayed with the dogs that look like the lovely bears.

"A relative showed me photos of dogs that look like pandas the other day. I came specially to have a look on my way home after school, said Wang Shuhan, a middle-school student.

The Cute Pet Games cafe opened in September. Covering 300 square meters and accommodating 80 people at most, it does a hot business because of its six panda-like Chow Chow dogs (松狮犬) .

But there is another different voice about animal abuse (虐待) . While the dogs are naturally short and cute, their fur has been coloured black and white to make them look more like China's national symbol.

One of the managers of the cafe, Lyu Yunning, said that the six dogs came from Japan and were coloured black and white before they arrived in China to attract customers. The cafe chose Chow Chow dogs because they are light and quiet.

But the cafe brought a heated online discussion over the treatment of animals when a local newspaper reported that the owner, surnamed Huang, said it had started offering pet colouring services after the panda dogs became a hit. The cost of the dog colouring is 1,500 yuan as the colouring material is from Japan and very expensive, the newspaper reported. It takes trained worker about a day to change a Chow Chow into a "panda", the owner was quoted as saying.

The story led to angry online words from pet owners stressing the possible bad effects of colouring the animals' fur.

However, the manager Lyu said the cafe had never coloured any animal and charged the newspaper with making up an untrue story.

1.What does the underlined word "it" in the third paragraph refer to (指代)?

A.The city. B.The cafe. C.The enough space. D.The lovely dog.

2.What does the phrase "a heated online discussion" in the sixth paragraph mean?

A.Pet colouring services are too expensive for common pet owners.

B.Some people have an opposite opinion on colouring the animals' fur.

C.The cafe invited more and more local people to join in the discussion.

D.Most people in Chengdu would like to share their opinions with others.

3.What can be inferred (推断) from the report?

A.Panda dogs attract more attention of the middle-school students.

B.Both the manager and the owner of the cafe made up the untrue story.

C.We don't know whether the cafe has coloured any animal or not before. .

D.Most of the pet owners in Chengdu would like to colour their own dogs

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