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 cannot manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine（事务）. They will be likely to 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!
【小题1】The writer of this passage must be_______.

阅读下面的短文，并根据短文后的要求答题。

Tigers are fierce animals. They are the bosses of the Asian jungles with their cleverness, quickness and strength. A pussycat, on the other hand, is a homebody that comforts us with its gentle warmth and calms us with its purring.

As a mother, the Chinese-American writer Amy Chua is definitely a tiger. Her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother(虎妈战歌) . tells of the strict upbringing she gave her two children. She thinks that being strict is the only way to develop a child's potential( 潜力) and to make them strong, independent and successful. Her kids were not allowed to watch TV or play video games. They were not allowed to "hang out" with other kids after school. They had to be the top students in their classes. And they had to practice the piano and violin for hours every day. As a result, her kids became successful. She admits this caused a lot of tears and anger but she has few regrets (后悔).

Chua says, like her, most Asian mothers are tigers because they believe their children can achieve a lot if they're pushed hard enough. She says American mothers are really pussycats. They care more about their children's self-esteem (自尊). They don't want to push their kids too hard for fear of hurting their feelings. American mothers encourage their children to find their own path.

So, is a tiger mom better than a pussycat? Perhaps it depends on the differences between Asian and Western cultures. It may also depend on the child himself. Some kids need to be pushed while others respond to a gentler hand. To growl or to purr? There is no easy answer.

1.What's the Tiger Mother, Amy Chua's idea on children's education? (根据短文内容回答问题)

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2. How did Amy Chua's kids become successful? (根据短文内容列举两条)

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3.Why are most Asian mothers tigers? (根据短文内容回答问题)

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4.请将第三段中句子翻译成汉语。

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5. What kind of mother would you like, a tiger or a pussycat? And why? (先回答，然后至少写一个句子说明原因)

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用方框中所给词语的适当形式填空，使短文正确、通顺、连贯（每词限用一次）。
Tom got along with all of his neighbors except the man who lived next door. The man never spoke to a              (1) and no one knew what he did for a living.
One day, when Tom came home f         (2) work, he found a diamond necklace outside his door. Tom wondered w         (3) it came from.
Tom t         (4) that perhaps someone had dropped the necklace, s          (5) he planned to take it to the police station the next day. He thought the police would be able to find the o          (6). Just then, the police came to Tom’s home and saw the necklace in his hand. Tom was very shocked when he was c        (7) with robbery. A policeman told him that a jewellery shop had been r         (8). A witness said that she had s         (9) someone run from the jewellery shop into Tom’s building right a          (10) the robbery.
Tom was not guilty, but how could he prove it?

If you look at the sky one night and see something moving and shining that you have never seen before, it might be a comet (彗星).

　　A comet sometimes looks like a star. Like a planet, a comet has no light of its own. It shines from the sunlight it reflects (反射). Like the earth, a comet goes round the sun, but on a much longer path (轨道) than the earth travels.

       If a comet isn’t a star, what is it then?

　   Some scientists think that a large part of a comet is water frozen into pieces of ice and mixed with iron and rock dust and perhaps a few big pieces of rock. When sunshine melts (融化) the ice in the comet, great clouds of gas go trailing after it. These clouds, together with the dust, form a long tail.Many people perhaps have seen a comet. However no one knows how many comets there are. There may be millions of comets, but only a few come close enough for us to see.

　　An Englishman named Edmund Halley, who lived from 1656 to 1742, found out a lot about the paths that comets take through the sky. Some comets move out of our sight and never come back. Others keep coming back at regular times. A big comet that keeps coming back was named after Halley because he was the one who worked out when it would come back again. Maybe you have ever seen Halley’s Comets because the last time it came close to the sun and the earth was in the year 1986. Then people all over the world were outside at night to look at it. You will probably be able to see Halley’s Comets when it comes near the earth again.

1.A comet is like ________.

A. sun      B. moon     C. sunlight    D. the earth

2.A large part of a comet is ______.

A. water and rock

B. water frozen into pieces of ice and mixed with iron

C. ice, iron and rock dust

D. only a few big pieces of rock

3.Maybe many people _______.

A. haven’t seen any comets      B. have seen all comets

C. have seen a comet at daytime  D. have seen a comet

4.Some comets keep coming back ________.

A. at any time  B. at noon  C. at regular times  D. at daytime

5.Halley’s Comets came back _____.

A. in 1990    B. in 1980     C. in 1986      D. in 1989