Take a look at teenagers around, dressed in baggy-pants (宽松裤), drinking soft drinks such as coke, reading Japanese cartoons. Whether you are in Beijing, Wuhan or Hong Kong, you will get the same impression. But should we copy others or should we maintain (保留) our differences?
It sounds convenient that people around the world speak the same language, dress in the same style, eat the same food and play the same games. If the world was like this, you won’t feel strange in any corner of world. But just imagine living in such a strange world. How dull and colorless it would be!
Different kinds of food that people can taste, the colorful and fashionable clothes that we dress in and different languages we speak are all part of the different cultures that our ancestors left us. These differences represent their creativity (创造力) and talent. And we all enjoy different cultures in our daily lives. When you travel to other places, you want to see different things. When you talk to foreigners you expect to listen to interesting stories. These differences in culture are what make life colorful.
But the whole world is shrinking into a small village as globalization (全球化) takes effect and many different cultures are disappearing. In most big cities around the world people wear the same clothes. Fast food stores are everywhere. Hollywood movies are kicking traditional performing arts out of our lives. The colors of our life are disappearing.
There is joke that even the panda and zebra want to live a colorful life. So let’s take action to protect our colorful culture before it becomes as simple as black and white.
It’s not difficult. Learning some folk songs, trying on a traditional clothing and even eating local food instead of going to KFC can help. And we’re sure you will enjoy it.
【小题1】The passage is written to _______.

A.explain cultural differencesB.convince readers to maintain cultural differences
C.predict the future of globalizationD.show some cultural phenomena(现象)
【小题2】The author thinks that cultural differences _______.
A.make the world colorfulB.make communication difficult
C.only exist in food and clothingD.will never fade away
【小题3】The author starts the argument by ________.
A.mentioning certain cultural phenomena
B.mentioning his view at the very beginning
C.mentioning the opposite view at the very beginning
D.giving examples of cultural differences
【小题4】The underlined word “shrink” probably means “_______”.
A.expandB.disappearC.become smallerD.grow in number
【小题5】The author talks of all the following cultural phenomena except _______.
A.foodB.clothingC.languageD.architecture

My sister and I are very different. When people meet us both, they are always surprised to learn that we are sisters. This is because we don’t look like each other, and we have different personalities(性格).

Are you similar to your brother or sister? My sister and I aren’t? similar to each other at all. I am tall, but she is very short. I have short dark brown hair and green eyes. She has long blond hair and blue eyes. I am strong, but she is not. I have big hands and feet; her feet and hands are very small. When we are kids, she was thin, but I was heavy. Now we’re both heavy.

We also have opposite personalities. She is always shy. I am more outgoing. She is very worried about what other people think and say about her, but I really don’t care. When she has a problem, she just worries about it, but when I have a problem, I try to fix it. She easily gets angry, especially with our mother. But I am more patient.?

1.When people meet the writer and her sister, they are always surprised to learn??????????

2.The writer and her sister are different in ??????????????????? ways.

3.The writer’s sister has?????????????????????? hair.

4.The writer’s sister is very worried about???????????? about her.

5.Do the write and her sister have the same personalities? ????????????

6.Find the topic sentence of the passage and copy it down. (找出文章的主题句并抄写下来)

7.Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese. (将划线的句子翻译成中文)

8.The underlined word “heavy” in the passage means “???????????????? ”in English.

 

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