2．A．She is fine．            B．She is a teacher ．      C．She is reading．

1．A．Near the park             B．By car．               C．With me．

9．经过和老师长时间地反复讨论之后，托尼才下定决心尝试这个新想法。

Tony __________ discussing it with his teacher again and again.

expensive， down,  famous,  visit,  leave,  shopping ,  thought

New York is one of the most exciting cities in the world. You might want to do some  10  in New York. Fifth Avenue is probably New York’s most 11 shopping street, but if you go, be prepared to “window shop” only. This is shopping for the rich. There are other, less  12 shopping areas nearby, and you’ll soon come across famous stores such as Bloomingdales, Macy’s and FAO Schwartz. And if you bring your Rollerblades （轮滑鞋）, you must  13 Central Park. This is a large, open park right in the middle of Manhattan, but if you  14  that people came here to relax, sit 15 for a few minutes and get away from the rush of New York life, then you’d be wrong. Nobody sits in Central Park: they run, jog, and most of them go rollerblading. When you 16 New York, you might be tired, even poor and overweight, but you won’t be bored!

Huihua, a Chinese girl, and Mary, an American student who was studying Chinese in China, were on their way to a bookstore. As they got to the bookstore, they saw a young man walking down the stairs. In his hurry, he missed the last two steps, and fell to the ground. He tried hard to get back to his feet while people around him laughed. Luckily, he seemed to be OK.

Mary was worried. She found Huihua smiling a little and was not comfortable about it. “Tell me, Huihua, how could people laugh when someone fell like that？Do they care at all? Shouldn’t they go up and ask the young man whether he was hurt?

Huihua said, “They knew he wasn’t hurt too much.”

“But I still don’t understand. A fall is a fall. In my culture, people would do anything but laugh!”

Chinese Perspective（观点）

This is an example in which the Chinese and the westerners explain a smile differently. Very often, the Chinese people would also laugh or make a joke to ease the embarrassment（缓解尴尬） when they are caught in the embarrassing situation. However, if someone gets hurt seriously, it will not be a laughing matter any more. People will help him instead.

North American Perspective

A westerner would explain laughter in such a situation as a sign of either insensitivity（不关心） or, worse, pleasure that the person falling had hurt himself because that person was disliked. A westerner’s reaction would have been to rush over, help the person up, and to ask him, “ Are you okay?” If a westerner fell, he, like a Chinese person, might probably make a joke out of the incident （事件） if he was not hurt. If two close friends are walking together, and one trips but clearly isn’t hurt, a common joke is to say “ Have a nice trip”. However, this joke would be made only between two people who knew each other well.

8．我认为冬天总是关着窗户不利于你的健康。

I don’t think it __________ in winter.