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In America, on school and work days, breakfast in most homes is often a hurried meal. Some people even don’t have it in order to  1  work or school on time. Others just stop at coffee shops for coffee. But on weekends,   2  are quite different. People usually get up late, so they have enough time to have a large breakfast.

Lunch is just a   3  break from the day’s work rather than a large, long meal. It usually lasts  4 half an hour or an hour, so family members do not have time to   5  home. Most people have a sandwich or a hamburger, and fruit or ice-cream for lunch.   6  people either take their lunches to work in the brown paper “lunch bag”,   7  eat a sandwich at a fast food restaurant. Children   8 to bring the “lunch box”.

Dinner is the most   9  meal of the day in the USA. At this meal, most American families can sit down together. It is usually a hot, large meal and it is quite different from lunch.   10  usually cooked dinner for their families in the past. Nowadays, however, with more women working and as a result, men are doing more in the kitchen.

In western countries, especially in America, some social customs have lasted still today. For example, ladies first, that is to say, women in those countries are respected(尊重) in many ways. In the U.S. and Europe, you will see men usually open doors for women and women generally walk ahead of men into a room or a restaurant unless the man have to be ahead of the ladies to choose the table, to open the door of a car or to give other services. On the street, men almost walk or across the street on the side of the ladies which is closer to traffic, but if a man walks with two ladies, he should walk between them.

1.In this passage “customs” especially refer to _______.

2.When you introduce a group of people in English, you will probably begin with  _______.

3.In which country people may think it strange that men should open doors for women?

4.Which of the following statements is not true?

5.Which of the following statements best expresses the main idea of this passage?

Do you know that women’s brains are smaller than men’s? Normally the women’s brain weighs 10% less than men’s. Since research has shown that the bigger the brain, the cleverer the animal, men must be more intelligent（聪明的） than women. Right? Wrong. Men and women always score similarly on intelligence tests, despite the difference in brain size. Why? After years of study, researchers have concluded that it’s what’s inside that matters, not just the size of the brain. The brain is made up of “grey matter” and “white matter”. While men have more of the white matter, the amount（数量）of “thinking” brain is almost the same in both men and women.
It has been suggested that smaller brain appears to work faster, perhaps because the two sides of the brain are better connected in women. This means that little girls may learn to speak earlier, and that women can understand sorts of different information at the same time. When it comes to talking to the boss on the phone, cooking dinner and keeping an eye on the baby all at the same time, it’s women who come out on top every time.
There are other important differences between two sexes（性别）. As white matter is the key to spatial（空间的）tasks, men know better where things are in relation to other things. “A great footballer always knows where he is in relation to the other players, and he knows where to go,” says one researcher. That may explain one of life’s great mysteries: why men refuse to ask for directions … and women often need to!
The differences begin when fetuses（胎儿）are about nine weeks old, which can be seen in the action of children when they are very young. A boy would try to climb a barrier before him or push it down while a girl would ask for help from others. These brain differences also explain the fact that more men take up jobs that require good spatial skills, while more women speech skills. It may all go back to our ancestors, among whom women needed speech skills to take care of their babies and men needed spatial skills to hunt, according to one research.
【小题1】Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 1?