America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while — then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending (延伸) sometimes deeply into both families.

Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality (好客) easily.

Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite 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 friend. We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at homes, but truly can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine. They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport 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. We will find ourselves treated hospitably.

For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality at home!

1.The writer of this passage must be ________.

A. an AmericanB. a ChineseC. a professorD. a student

2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their families.

B. Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives.

C. Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy.

D. Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break.

3.From the last two paragraphs we can learn that when we arrive in America to visit an American friend, we will probably be ________.

A. warmly welcomed at the airport

B. offered a ride to his home

C. treated hospitably at his home

D. treated to dinner in a restaurant

4.The underlined words “generous with our time” in Paragraph 3 probably mean ________.

A. strict with time B. serious with time

C. careful with time D. willing to spend time

5.A suitable title for this passage would probably be “________”.

A. Friendships between Chinese

B. Friendships between Americans

C. Americans’ hospitality

D. Americans’ and Chinese’s views of friendships

I wrote my first poem at seven and showed it to my mother.She read and cried, “Buddy, you really wrote a beautiful poem!” Shyly but ________, I said yes.She poured out her ________. “It was nothing short of talent!” “What time will Father be home?” I asked.I could hardly wait to ________ my work to him.I spent quite some time ________ for his arrival. I wrote the poem out in my finest handwriting and ________ I placed it right on my father’s plate on the dining table. I was sure he would ________ my poem.

At almost 7 o’clock my father burst in. He seemed ________. He circled the dining-room table, complaining about his employees. Suddenly he glared at his plate. “What is this?” “Ben, Buddy has written a poem!” my mother began. “And it’s beautiful, absolutely amaze…”

“If you don’t mind, I’d like to decide for myself.” Father said. I ________ my head as he read that poem. It was only ten lines. But it seemed to take hours. Then I heard him dropping the poem back on the table. Now came the moment of ________.“I think it’s terrible,” he said. I couldn’t look up. My eyes were getting ________.

“Ben, these are the first lines of poetry he’s ever written,” my mother was saying. “He needs ________.”

I couldn’t ________ it another second. I ran from the dining room crying. Up in my room I ________ myself on the bed and cried the worst of the ________ out of me.

That may have been the end of the story, but not of its ________ for me. I realized how fortunate I had been. I had a mother who said, “I think it’s wonderful!” and a father who drove me to hear with “I think it’s ________.”

Every one of us needs that mother force, from which all ________ flows; and yet the mother force alone is incomplete. It needs the balance of the force that cautions, “Watch. Listen. Review. Improve.”

Those ________ voices of my childhood ________ in my ears through the years, like two opposing winds blowing me. Between the two poles of ________ and doubt, both in the name of love, I try to follow my true course.

1.A. typicallyB. proudlyC. anxiouslyD. honestly

2.A. motivationB. shockC. criticismD. praise

3.A. reciteB. describeC. showD. introduce

4.A. waitingB. preparingC. prayingD. planning

5.A. graduallyB. desperatelyC. confidentlyD. casually

6.A. appreciateB. reviseC. readD. polish

7.A. relaxedB. calmC. nobleD. upset

8.A. shookB. loweredC. raisedD. turned

9.A. decisionB. excitementC. determinationD. devotion

10.A. darkB. wideC. wetD. bright

11.A. arrangementB. judgmentC. encouragementD. adjustment

12.A. holdB. attainC. controlD. stand

13.A. threwB. seatedC. leftD. kept

14.A. confusionB. pressureC. disappointmentD. tiredness

15.A. challengeB. developmentC. difficultyD. significance

16.A. elegantB. awful

C. fluentD. controversial

17.A. failureB. creationC. limitD. improvement

18.A. inspiringB. warningC. disturbingD. conflicting

19.A. callB. soundC. ringD. hear

20.A. praiseB. restrictionC. distrustD. disapproval

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