If you can speak English, you know a lot of English words. You can read, speak and understand. But there is another kind of language you need to know-body language.
All over the world, people “talk” with their hands, heads and eyes. When Japanese people meet, they bow(鞠躬).When Indians meet, they put their hands together. What do American and British people do?
Americans are more informal(非正式的)than the British. They like to be friendly. They use first names, they ask questions and they talk easily about themselves. When they sit down，they like to relax in their chairs and make themselves comfortable.
British people are more reserved (保守的),they take more time to make friends. They like to know you before they ask you something about your home.
When British and American people meet someone for the first time, they shake hands. They do not usually shake hands with people they know well. Women sometimes kiss their women friends, and men kiss women friends. When a man meets a man friend, he just smiles and says “hello”. Men do not kiss each other or shake hands. Even fathers and sons do not often kiss each other.
1. People can communicate with each other using .| A．only words | B．only body language |
| C．only the English language | D．not only words but also body language |
| A．handshake and kiss can not be used in greeting | B．people can “talk” with their hands, heads and eyes |
| C．only a few people use body language | D．body language is more often used by people than words |
| A．they are quite conservative (保守的） | B．they don’t like people to go to their homes |
| C．they are not as friendly as the Americans | D．they find it more interesting to stay alone |
| A．kiss each other | B．bow to each other | C．put their hands together | D．just smile |
| A．men always kiss their women friends when they meet |
| B．people would like to shake hands whenever they meet their friends |
| C．women are likely to kiss each other while men aren’t |
| D．fathers and sons often kiss each other |
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Do animals communicate with each other?
This question came to my mind one day when I was sitting outside.
| A．I did some research and, to my surprise, I learned that all animals communicate. |
| B．I heard some birds making what sounded like a sad call. |
| C．Smell is another popular method of animal communication. |
| D．Humans use words and sentences to communicate with each other. |
| E．Animals make different sounds to show other animals how they’re feeling. |
【推荐2】You may learn about traditional Chinese culture at school. But can you introduce them in English? A group of students did just that this year. From March 24 to 26, a big speech competition took place in Nanjing. It was the 15th “21st Century New Oriental Cup” National High School and Primary School English Speaking Competition.
Sixty-two students competed in the junior group in the final this year. Many of them talked about traditional Chinese culture. The topic of the semi-final (半决赛) was “The Best Gift We Can Give Others Is…”. Li Lianru who came second in the competition is a 13-year-old girl from Beijing.
She said in her speech that “the heart of an infant (赤子之心)” was the best gift. These words come from Mencius (孟子). It means we should listen to our heart when facing the outside world. Wen Xinrui, a 15-year-old girl from Shanghai, is the winner in the junior group. She shared her experience of learning Chinese brush painting. The topic of the final was “The Most Beautiful Verb in the World is”. Wen’s answer was “learn”. That’s because in painting hills and rivers, she tried to combine Chinese traditional ways with Western ones. The result was great and she found learning to be such a beautiful thing.
The judges (评委) were also happy about this. “Chinese students should be proud of our own culture,” said Wu Minsu, Professor from Communication University of China. “I hope they will tell more people across the world about stories of China through their great English.”
1. The competition is to give students a chance to practice more in English ________.| A．listening | B．writing | C．reading | D．speaking |
| A．The Heart of an Infant |
| B．Learning Is Such a Beautiful Thing |
| C．The Best Gift We Can Give Others Is… |
| D．The Most Beautiful Verb in the World Is… |
| A．Change. | B．Mix. | C．Improve. | D．Spread. |
| A．Chinese student’s spoken English has greatly improved. |
| B．It’s necessary for people all over the world to learn traditional Chinese culture. |
| C．Students are very proud of taking part in the English speaking competition this year. |
| D．Students can introduce Chinese culture in English to more people all over the world. |
【推荐3】When you write a text message or an email, you might put a smiling face or other pictures at the end to make the message more fun. These pictures are emojis. The first emojis were on Japanese mobile phones in the 1990s. Later, they were used on Apple’s iPhone and Android phones. Now they are everywhere!
Before emojis, there were emoticons. The word is a mixture(混合) of emotion(感情) and icon(图标). Emoticons are made of the signs you can find on your keyboard, for example:-) for a smiley or @};---for a rose. The first use of :-)was in 1982 and it was called “joke marker”. Emoji is a Japanese word which means pictograph: e(picture) +moji (character). Emojis are real pictures, for example
，or
.There are 1851emojis that can be used on mobile phones and other devices. There are all kinds of emojis, from faces and weather to things in the kitchen and animal.
In England, we have a saying: A picture paints a thousand words. For many people, an emoji is like a punctuation mark(标点). It’s like the tone of voice when we speak on the phone, or hand movements(gestures) used in conversation. Emojis are also changing the way we write. The more we use emojis, the less we use slang(俚语), such as LOL or OMG.
When someone speaks and looks serious, we try to look serious, too, and when someone smiles, we smile as well. This is how we show empathy(同感) and make friends(and enemies!). But when we’re online, we can’t see the person’s face and there’s no emotion. The invention of emojis changed that! Scientists in Australia have discovered that when we look at a smiley face online, the same parts of the brain start working as when we look at a real smiley face. Our mood changes, and we try to change our face to match the emoji. This is something we learn as we get older. Our brains have developed this ability over the last two or three years. This means that emojis have created a new brain pattern(模式)in us!
1. Where does the writer of this passage possibly come from?| A．Australia | B．Japanese | C．America | D．Britain |
| A．Some slang is used less often because of emojis. |
| B．We no more need words. |
| C．An Emoji adds emotions to our messages. |
| D．An Emoji makes people feel face to face. |
| A．an emoji | B．a picture | C．an emoticon | D．a sound |
| A．Emojis will make our words disappear. |
| B．Emojis have greatly influenced us in many ways. |
| C．We don’t need to speak to others or meet others any more. |
| D．Scientists are worried about this invention of emojis. |
