
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 sometimes deeply into both families.
ericans 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.In which part of a newspaper can this article be
found?
A.Culture. B.News. C.Story. D.Travel.
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.The underlined words “flower”(in Line 5)
probably means ___________.
A.weaken B.develop C.stretch D.disappear
4.From the last two paragraphs we can learn that when
we arrive in America to visit an American friend, we will probably
be___________.
A.treated
hospitably at his home B.offered a
ride to his home
C. warmly
welcomed at the airport D.treated to
dinner in a restaurant
5.The writer mainly talks about ___________ in the
text.
A.friendships
between Chinese B.Americans’ hospitality
C.different
views of friendship D.friendships
between Americans