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——Volunteering is becoming popular in China.

——Yeah, people are now aware that helping others is helping themselves.

A．naturally B．successfully C．splendidly D．increasingly

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Pacing and Pausing

Sara tried to befriend her old friend Steve's new wife, but Betty never seemed to have anything to say. While Sara felt Betty didn’t hold up her end of the conversation, Betty complained to Steve that Sara never gave her a chance to talk. The problem had to do with expectations about pacing and pausing.

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It may not be coincidental that Betty, who expected relatively longer pauses between turns, is British, and Sara, who expected relatively shorter pauses, is American. Betty often felt interrupted by Sara. But Betty herself became an interrupter and found herself doing most of the talking when she met a visitor from Finland. And Sara had a hard time cutting in on some speakers from Latin America or Israel.

The general phenomenon, then, is that the small conversation techniques, like pacing and pausing, lead people to draw conclusions not about conversational style but about personality and abilities. These habitual differences are often the basis for dangerous stereotyping（思维定式）. And these social phenomena can have very personal consequences. For example, a woman from the southwestern part of the US went to live in an eastern city to take up a job in personnel. When the Personnel Department got together for meetings, she kept searching for the right time to break in-and never found it. Although back home she was considered outgoing and confident, in Washington she was viewed as shy and retiring. When she was evaluated at the end of the year, she was told to take a training course because of her inability to speak up.

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1. What did Sara think of Betty when talking with her?

A. Betty was talkative. B. Betty was an interrupter.

C. Betty did not take her turn. D. Betty paid no attention to Sara.

2. According to the passage, who are likely to expect the shortest pauses between turns?

A. Americans. B. Israelis. C. The British. D. The Finns.

3. We can learn from the passage that ___________.

A. communication breakdown results from short pauses and fast pacing

B. women are unfavorably stereotyped in eastern cities of the US

C. one’s inability to speak up is culturally determined sometimes

D. one should receive training to build up one’s confidence

4. The underlined word “assertiveness” in the last paragraph probably means ___________.

A. being willing to speak one’s mind

B. being able to increase one’s power

C. being ready to make one’s own judgment

D. being quick to express one’s ideas confidently

Part of the reason Charles Dickens loved his own novel, David Copperfield, was _______ it was rather closely modeled on his own life.

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Have you ever wondered?

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A．It is the jet stream that affects how fast airplanes fly．

B．Planes go slower when they are moving with the wind．

C．It takes more time to fly from NY to London than from London to NY．

D．The jet stream always blows from the east to the west across the Atlantic．

2．The word“shoot”underlined in the 2nd passage probably means“______”．

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A．buildings and other structures would float away

B．trees and buildings would not so easily fly off

C．something around your head would not float away

D．everything outside buildings would fly off into space

4．Where can we most probably read this text?

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C．In a travel magazine． D．In a student’s book．

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“They wanted a sterile （消毒了的） environment，”Theodore said，“They should have rented a room in a hospital，maybe an operating room．This hotel is clean，hut it isn't that clean．”

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B．The hotel was not clean enough．

C．The hotel would run out of cleaning stuff．

D．More guests would make the same requests．

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