题目内容
8. The table (占据) too much room.
8. takes up
Facial expressions carry meaning that is determined by situations and relationships. For example,in American culture (文化) the smile is in general an expression of pleasure. Yet it also has other uses. A woman's smile at a police officer does not carry the same meaning as the smile she gives to a young child. A smile may show love or politeness. It can also hide true feel?ings. It often causes confusion (困惑) across cultures. For example,many people in Russia consider smiling at strangers in public to be unusual and even improper. Yet many Americans smile freely at strangers in public places (although this is less common in big cities) . Some Russians believe that Americans smile in the wrong places; some Americans believe that Russians don't smile enough. In Southeast Asian cultures,a smile is frequently used to cover pain?ful feelings. Vietnamese people may tell a sad story but end the story with a smile.
Our faces show emotions (情感) ，but we should not attempt to "read" people from another culture as we would "read" someone from our own culture. The fact that members of one culture do not express their emotions as openly as members of an?other do does not mean that they do not experience emotions. Rather,there are cultural differences in the amount of facial expressiveness permitted. For example? in public and in formal situations many Japanese do not show their emotions as free?ly as Americans do. When with friends,Japanese and Americans seem to show their emotions similarly.
It is difficult to generalize about Americans and facial expressiveness because of personal and cultural differences in the United States. People from certain cultural backgrounds in the United States seem to be more facially expressive than others. The key is to try not to judge people whose ways of showing emotions are different. If we judge according to our own cultural habits,we may make the mistake of "reading" the other person incorrectly.
5. What does the smile usually mean in the US?
A. Love. B. Politeness.
C. Joy. D. Thankfulness.
6. The author mentions the smile of the Vietnamese to prove that a smile can .
A. show friendliness to strangers
B. be used to hide true feelings
C. be used in the wrong places
D. show personal habits
7. What should we do before attempting to "read" people?
A. Learn about their relations with others.
B. Understand their cultural backgrounds.
C. Find out about their past experience.
D. Figure out what they will do next.
8. What would be the best title for the text?
A. Cultural differences
B. Smiles and relationships
C. Facial expressiveness
D. Habits and emotions
Were you the first or the last child in your family? Or were you a middle or an only child? Some people think 47. matters when you were born in your family. But there are different ideas about what birth order means. Some people say that oldest children,48. are smart and strongwilled,are very likely 49. (succeed) . The reason 50. this is simple. Parents have a lot of time for their first child and give him or her a lot of attention. An only child will succeed for 51. same reason. What happens to the 52. children in the family? Middle children don't get so much attention,so they don't feel that impor?tant. If a family has many children,the middle one some?times gets lost in the crowd. The youngest child,53. ，often gets special treatment. Often this child grows up to be funny. But a recent study saw things quite 54. (difference) . The study found that first children believed in family rules. They didn't take many chances in 55. lives. They usually 56. (follow) orders. Rules didn't mean as much to later children in the family. They took chances and they often did better in life.
5. 他们应该为他们曾经对我所做的一切而道歉。
They ought to have apologized to me . (for+从句)
9. He experienced great difficulty in getting a (签证) to leave the country.
4. (坚持) and you will succeed at last.
5. 面对如此复杂的情形，她不知道该向谁寻求帮助。
Seeing the complex situation,she didn't know .(疑问代词+不定式短语)
7. Customs officials have made a series of (contradict) statements about the equipment.
4. Finally we visited the Giant Yangtze Gorges Dam, is the greatest water control project in the world at present.
