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(尴尬)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 aske
d
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