题目内容
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The meanings of time differ in different parts of the world. Thus, misunderstandings arise between people from cultures that treat time differently. Promptness(迅速，准时) is valued highly in American life, for example. If people are not prompt, they may be regarded as impolite or not responsible. In the United States, no one would think of keeping a business associate waiting for an hour：it would be too impolite.
This way of treating time is quite different from that of several other countries. This helps to explain the unfortunate experience of a certain agriculturist from the United States assigned to duty in another country. After what seemed to him a suitable waiting period, he announced that he would like to call on the minister of agriculture. For various reasons the suggested time did not suit the minister; there were indirect indications(迹象) that the time was not yet suitable. The American, however, wanted very much for an appointment, which was finally granted(准予).
Arriving a little before the appointed hour ( according to the American way of showing respect), the agriculturist waited. The hour came and passed：five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes. At the point he suggested to the secretary that perhaps the minister did not know he was waiting in the outer office. This gave him the feeling of having done something to solve the problem, but he had not. Twenty minutes passed, then thirty, then forty－five. To an American, there is little that can remove the damage done by an hour's wait in an outer office. Yet, in the country where this story took place, a forty－five－minute waiting period was not unusual. Instead of being the very end of the allowed waiting scale, it was just the beginning. Thus, when the American agriculturist left the office (after giving the secretary an angry message for the minister), his action seemed as unreasonable as it was impolite.
1．What does “to be prompt” mean in the passage?
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A．It means “to keep one's word”.
B．It means “to make good use of one's time”.
C．It means “to be punctual”.
D．It means “to keep good time”.
2．The minister kept the American waiting because ________.
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A．the minister didn't think it was wrong to keep people waiting
B．the appointed time didn't suit the minister
C．the minister intended to insult the American
D．the minister forgot the appointment time
3．When fifteen minutes had passed after the. appointed time, the American ________.
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A．told the secretary that he should not have been kept waiting
B．urged(催促) the secretary in some indirect way to remind the minister that he was waiting for him
C．put forward a suggestion that the secretary go and tell the minister that he was waiting
D．went about finding out whether the minister knew that he was waiting for him in the outer office
4．The American got angry after being kept waiting for nearly an hour for the appointed meeting because ________.
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5．Who would think the American's action of leaving the office angrily to be unreasonable as it was impolite?
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A．People in the United States.
B．The reader of the passage.
C．The author of the passage.
D．People in the minister's country.
解析：
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1．C 从文中promptness（准时，迅速）可推测出prompt是其形容词，从而选定to be punctual，即是准时。 2．A 因为在这位部长的国家里，“45分钟的等待时间是平常的”。 3．B 句意理解题。等到15分钟时，这位美国农学家让秘书“以某种非直接的方式”提醒部长：他在外面等候他。第三段第3句中用suggest一词表示“暗示”。 4．B 从第一段第3，4句中得知，美国人认为“不准时”是“极不礼貌的”而推测出B项，“感到不受尊重”。 5．D 对此行为的看法是“无理由，因为那是不礼貌的”，当然是那位部长所在国的人们。 |
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