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 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 in 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

 

 Americans with small families own a small car or a large one. If both parents are working, they usually have two cars. When the family is large, one of the cars is sold and they will buy a van(住房汽车)

  A small car can hold four persons and a large car can hold six persons but it is very crowded. A van hold seven persons easily, so a family three children could ask their grandparents to go on a holiday travel They could all travel together.

  Mr. Hagen and his wife had a third child last year. This made them sell a second car and buy a van. Their children sixth and seventh seat are used to put other things, for a family of five must carry many suitcases(衣箱)when they travel. When they arrive at their grandparents’ home , the suitcases are brought into the two seats can then carry the grandparents.

 Americans call vans motor homes. A motor home is always used for holidays. When a family are traveling to the mountains or to the seaside, they can live in their motor home for a few days or to the seaside, they can live in their motor home for a few days or weeks. All the members of a big family can enjoy a happier life when they are traveling together. That is why motor homes have become very popular. In America there are many parks for motor homes.

1. From the passage, a van is also called ____________.

   

A.a motor car

B.a motor home

C.a motorbike

D.a big truck

2.Before Mr. Hagen and his wife bought a van, they__________.

   

A.sold their old house

B.moved to their grandparents’ house

  

C.built a new place for a van

D.sold their second car

3.A motor home is usually owned by a family with__________.

   

A.a baby

B.much money

C.more than two children

D.interest in vans

4.Americans usually use motor homer____________.

   

A.to travel with all the family members of holiday

 

B.to do some shopping with all the family members

  

C.to visit their grandparents at weekends

  

D.to drive their children to school every day

5.Motor homes have become popular because___________.

   

A.they can take people to another city when people are free

 

B.they can let families have a happier life when they go out for their holidays

  

C.some people think motor homes are cheap

  

D.big families can put more things in motor homes

 

 

(Four students are talking about the future after class.)

Deng Yu  :In 2050, China will be richer than it is now, Beijing will be getting ready for the 40th Olympic Games in 2052. We will see the blue and clear sky and smell the fresh air. There will be more pandas living happily China. I believe that 2050 will be the year of China.

Liu Yuan :A holiday to the moon will no longer be a dream. We can also travel far to other planets and talk with the spacemen. We might also eat something like pills(药丸)instead of today’s meals. Everyone will enjoy a longer life.

Sun Wei  :Robots will be very popular. They will do what people don’t want to do. We’ll build new homes on other planets. By then, I’ll be sixty years old. Maybe we will have an exciting talk in my new home on another planet!

Zhang Lan:By the year of 2050, cloning(克隆)will be used in many ways. It will bring back animals which disappeared many years ago. There will be no pollution, the whole world will be one big family. There will be no wars. As time passes, we’ll live a much easier and better life.

1.       thinks that people can spend their holidays on the moon in the future.

A.Deng Yu              B.Zhang Lan            C.Liu Yuan

2..What does Zhang Lan think will happen in the future.

A.There’ll be more animals which disappeared many years ago.

B.Robots will do the things that people don’t want to do.

C.People can talk with the spacemen.

3.The 40th Olympic Games will be hosted in       .

A.Paris                B.Beijing              C.London

4.How old will Sun Wei be        by 2050?

A.50                   B.60                   C.70

5..From the talk, we can know that       .

A.the 40th Olympic Games will take place in 2052.

B.we will have the same food in 2050 as we do now.

C.all the people will move to another planet in the future.

 

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