1 . My transportation was unexpectedly smooth and I arrived at the meeting half an hour earlier. I kept my eyes on the restaurant door. Several customers entered, but not my friend. At 6:00 pm, she sent me a text message: “Urgent work to finish. Will be 20 minutes late.”
I had left my book in the office, so I spent the time thinking of my experiences of being late in China. On my first visit in 1985, punctuality was deeply rooted in the Chinese hearts. There were no traffic jams then.
As a teacher in Canada, I always insisted on punctuality. I would open the classroom door to a late student for the first time and the second, but not the third. During the six years I worked for CCTV, I had a Chinese friend whom I often saw at lunch time, or after work. We used to meet at the subway station nearby. He was always late by 10-20 minutes. To my question, “You were busy?” he would surprisingly answer, “ No.” Once I asked him to check the clock in his office, he smiled.
In March 2015, I got permanent residence (居住权) in China. The ceremony was scheduled for 9:00 am at the Public Security Bureau on the Second Ring Road. I told my driver I had to get there by 8:40 am. “No problem,” he replied. But he thought he had time to drop someone off at the airport before picking me up. I desperately waited for him. Then, to rub salt into my wound, he had to stop at the exit of a gas station. Finally, I entered the room at 9:07 am ── the last guest to arrive!
1. What can we learn from the passage?
2. If the author’s student comes late for the third time, _______.
3. How did the Chinese friend feel when the author asked him to check the clock?
4. Why didn’t the author arrive at the ceremony on time?
I had left my book in the office, so I spent the time thinking of my experiences of being late in China. On my first visit in 1985, punctuality was deeply rooted in the Chinese hearts. There were no traffic jams then.
As a teacher in Canada, I always insisted on punctuality. I would open the classroom door to a late student for the first time and the second, but not the third. During the six years I worked for CCTV, I had a Chinese friend whom I often saw at lunch time, or after work. We used to meet at the subway station nearby. He was always late by 10-20 minutes. To my question, “You were busy?” he would surprisingly answer, “ No.” Once I asked him to check the clock in his office, he smiled.
In March 2015, I got permanent residence (居住权) in China. The ceremony was scheduled for 9:00 am at the Public Security Bureau on the Second Ring Road. I told my driver I had to get there by 8:40 am. “No problem,” he replied. But he thought he had time to drop someone off at the airport before picking me up. I desperately waited for him. Then, to rub salt into my wound, he had to stop at the exit of a gas station. Finally, I entered the room at 9:07 am ── the last guest to arrive!
1. What can we learn from the passage?
| A．The author is always late for work or any activities. |
| B．The author dislikes making friends with unpunctual persons. |
| C．The author hates being late from the bottom of heart. |
| D．The author can do something to deal with unpunctuality. |
| A．he will let him/her remain outside |
| B．he will open the door for him/her again |
| C．he will shout at him/her loudly |
| D．he will tell him/her to take care next time |
| A．Excited. | B．Embarrassed. |
| C．Satisfied. | D．Shocked. |
| A．Because the gas was running out. |
| B．Because his driver met a guest at the airport. |
| C．Because there was a big traffic jam on the road. |
| D．Because the driver estimated the time wrongly. |
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Gift Giving
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There are many occasions(场合)for giving gifts in modern industrialized societies: birthdays, naming ceremonies, weddings, anniversaries, New Year. It is common to give gifts on many of these celebrations in western cultures. In addition, special events, such as one’s first day of school or graduation from university, often require gift giving.
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What is happening when we give gifts? Most important, we are exchanging gifts. If someone gives me a gift for my birthday, I know that I am usually expected to give one on his or her next birthday. A gift builds up or confirms a social obligation(义务).
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Gifts tighten personal relationships and provide a means of communication between loved ones. People say that a gift lets the recipient(接受者)know we are thinking of them, and that we want to make the person “feel special.” We want people to feel wanted, to feel part of our social or family group. We give presents to say “I’m sorry.” Sometimes it is difficult for us to find a present that someone will like. Sometimes we give things that we like or would feel comfortable with. In all these cases, the gifts are sending out messages—often very expressive ones.
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People tend to talk about presents in a fairly loving way. A woman whose mother had died years ago described the many gifts around her house. These were gifts that her mother had given her over the years: “I appreciate these, and they mean something to me,” the woman said, “because I remember the occasions they were given on, and that they were from my mother, and the relationship we’ve had.” The gifts remain and keep the relationship alive in mind. This woman felt the same way about the gifts she gave to others. She hoped that the recipients would look at her gifts in years to come and remember her.
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Emotions (情感) like these suggest that a positive spirit still lies behind gift giving. They prove that the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss was wrong to say that modern western gift giving is highly wasteful. Studies in Canada and elsewhere have also shown that this is not the case. Each gift is unique even if so many are given. The emotional benefit for those who exchange gifts is the very reason for the tradition to continue.
Gift Giving
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There are many occasions(场合)for giving gifts in modern industrialized societies: birthdays, naming ceremonies, weddings, anniversaries, New Year. It is common to give gifts on many of these celebrations in western cultures. In addition, special events, such as one’s first day of school or graduation from university, often require gift giving.
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What is happening when we give gifts? Most important, we are exchanging gifts. If someone gives me a gift for my birthday, I know that I am usually expected to give one on his or her next birthday. A gift builds up or confirms a social obligation(义务).
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Gifts tighten personal relationships and provide a means of communication between loved ones. People say that a gift lets the recipient(接受者)know we are thinking of them, and that we want to make the person “feel special.” We want people to feel wanted, to feel part of our social or family group. We give presents to say “I’m sorry.” Sometimes it is difficult for us to find a present that someone will like. Sometimes we give things that we like or would feel comfortable with. In all these cases, the gifts are sending out messages—often very expressive ones.
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People tend to talk about presents in a fairly loving way. A woman whose mother had died years ago described the many gifts around her house. These were gifts that her mother had given her over the years: “I appreciate these, and they mean something to me,” the woman said, “because I remember the occasions they were given on, and that they were from my mother, and the relationship we’ve had.” The gifts remain and keep the relationship alive in mind. This woman felt the same way about the gifts she gave to others. She hoped that the recipients would look at her gifts in years to come and remember her.
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Emotions (情感) like these suggest that a positive spirit still lies behind gift giving. They prove that the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss was wrong to say that modern western gift giving is highly wasteful. Studies in Canada and elsewhere have also shown that this is not the case. Each gift is unique even if so many are given. The emotional benefit for those who exchange gifts is the very reason for the tradition to continue.
| A．Gift giving proven to be valuable |
| B．Memories from gift giving |
| C．Moments and events for gift giving |
| D．Various functions of gift giving |
| E．Gift giving as a wasteful practice |
| F．Gift giving as a two-way social activity |
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3 . “Racism (种族歧视) is a grown-up disease,” declares the saying on Ruby Bridge’s website along with a photo of Mrs. Bridge today, a 6-year-old girl four decades ago. In the photo, she is walking up the steps of the William Frantz Public School in New Orleans, a little black girl accompanied by two officers who protect her on her way to school.
Her name then was Ruby Nell. It was Nov. 14, 1960. She was the first black child to enroll at this all-white elementary school according to the court order to desegregate in New Orleans schools. Her story is moving -- she was a very courageous child -- and remains a significant proof against intolerance (不宽容) of all kinds. Ruby’s photo brings out another powerful image on her website: Norman Rockwells symbolic painting for Look magazine on Jan. 14, 1964, “The Problem We All Live With.”
Rockwell was an illustrator of exceptional skill and charm. He produced a vast number of unforgettable images over a long career, many of them involving children. His American kids are innocent and appealing, but often, at the same time, decidedly naughty. His method was to photograph his models, and the resulting paintings were photographic． But it is revealing to see how the artist slightly changed facial expressions from photo to oil painting in order to make his paintings communicate with the viewer. Communication, even persuasion, lay at the back of his work; this was art for effect.
“The Problem We All Live With” belongs to Rockwell’s later work, when he began openly showing his strong belief in liberty. This is a highly persuasive image. Before he arrived at the final copy, one sketch (草图) shows the little girl closer to the two officers following her than to those in front. In the finished picture, the girl seems more determined, independent, and untouched． The unfriendly tomatoes thrown on the wall are behind her now, and she, is completely unaffected．
1. Ruby Nell was protected by officers on her way to school, because .| A．she was a little fighter against racism |
| B．she was very young, short and timid |
| C．she was the first black to study in an all-white school |
| D．she was chosen by the com to be’wi’th white children |
| A．social program for American children |
| B．famous painting by Norman Rockwell |
| C．photo displayed on Ruby Bridges’ website |
| D．exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum |
| A．fight against the white | B．end racial separation |
| C．struggle for freedom | D．stop the black-white conflict |
| A．how Rockwell encouraged Ruby to fight against racism |
| B．how Ruby won her fight to go to an all-white school |
| C．how Rockwell expressed his protest in .Iris work |
| D．how persuasive Rockwell’s earlier work of art is |
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4 . A Strange Greeting, a True Feeling. Last week I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables. In one of the wards, a patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn't long to____, but he came up to me and placed his right foot close to mine on the floor.
“Frank！” I cried in astonishment. He couldn’t____, as I knew, but all the time____his foot against mine.
My____raced back more than thirty years to the____days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The____was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about one hundred other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank.
____ wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to____each other very well. Frank West____me because he wasn’t ____, not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had____of a mind than a baby has. His “____” consisted of rough sounds——sounds of pleasure or anger and ____more. Mrs. West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank ____on her entirely. He needed all the____of a baby.
One night a policeman came and told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder (炮弹). She____nearly everything she owned.
When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the ____ones. So before we____that morning, I stood beside Frank and____my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a pair of shoes to the shelter for Frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot against mine. After that, his____to me was always the same.1.
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My____raced back more than thirty years to the____days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The____was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about one hundred other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank.
____ wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to____each other very well. Frank West____me because he wasn’t ____, not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had____of a mind than a baby has. His “____” consisted of rough sounds——sounds of pleasure or anger and ____more. Mrs. West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank ____on her entirely. He needed all the____of a baby.
One night a policeman came and told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder (炮弹). She____nearly everything she owned.
When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the ____ones. So before we____that morning, I stood beside Frank and____my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a pair of shoes to the shelter for Frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot against mine. After that, his____to me was always the same.1.
| A．work | B．live | C．stay | D．expect |
| A．answer | B．speak | C．smile | D．laugh |
| A．covering | B．moving | C．fighting | D．pressing |
| A．minds | B．memories | C．thoughts | D．brains |
| A．dark | B．better | C．younger | D．old |
| A．cave | B．place | C．sight | D．scene |
| A．Discussing | B．Solving | C．Sharing | D．Suffering |
| A．learn from | B．talk to | C．help | D．know |
| A．needed | B．recognized | C．interested | D．encouraged |
| A．common | B．normal | C．unusual | D．quick |
| A．more | B．worse | C．fewer | D．less |
| A．word | B．speech | C．sentence | D．language |
| A．not | B．no | C．something | D．nothing |
| A．fed | B．kept | C．lived | D．depended |
| A．attention | B．control | C．treatment | D．management |
| A．lost | B．needed | C．destroyed | D．left |
| A．unlucky | B．troublesome | C．angry | D．unpopular |
| A．separated | B．went | C．reunited | D．returned |
| A．pushed | B．tried | C．showed | D．measured |
| A．nodding | B．greeting | C．meeting | D．acting |
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5 . Lunch hour is crazy at SAME Cafe, the 40-seat restaurant my husband and I run in Denver.
A woman in a(n)____ suit stepped in. "Hi, Libby." she said. Wow, what a____ ! The first time she came to the cafe two years ago, she had no money to pay. ____ many customers, she volunteered to wash dishes and____ Look at her now: confident and hopeful. Wasn't this what we'd hoped for?
In 2003, we'd____ this crazy dream: start a restaurant with a donation box instead of a cash register. Right away we hit hurdles（阻碍）. "There is no such thing as a____ lunch," one potential landlord sniffed. I met brokers, bankers and suppliers, only to watch them ____ , shaking their heads. No bank would lend us the money to open a restaurant with no____ The only fund we could get was our individual retirement account. ____ we rented space from a landlord on Colfax Street. We put flyers（传单）around the neighborhood, asked friends to____ the word, and held our breath.
Word traveled fast,____ stories in the papers and on TV. Soon we had more than 50 customers a day. A few ate without paying or____ an hour of work. But most gave what they could, ____ it was just a dollar. Those with money gave, and then more. One of our customers left a ____ for 500 dollars. Another bought 1000 dollars in gift certificates. ____ another donated a truck so we could transport____ from suppliers.
People came here partly for what our cafe____ —SAME: So All May Eat. We treat everyone with____ We hoped to develop a sense of community so that we might____ one another. The woman in business suit was one of them. Our____ to open the cafe was worth it.1.
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| A．dinner | B．evening | C．business | D．summer |
| A．change | B．beauty | C．fool | D．coincidence |
| A．With | B．Like | C．Besides | D．Towards |
| A．wait | B．sing | C．perform | D．sweep |
| A．lived | B．hatched | C．ignored | D．achieved |
| A．packed | B．delicious | C．free | D．delivered |
| A．crowd together | B．flood in | C．walk away | D．turn up |
| A．staff support | B．regular customers | C．lunch boxes | D．cash register |
| A．Unfortunately | B．Finally | C．Interestingly | D．Illegally |
| A．analyze | B．read | C．spread | D．approve |
| A．thanks to | B．apart from | C．ahead of | D．according to |
| A．regretting | B．gaining | C．donating | D．balancing |
| A．only when | B．and forever | C．so that | D．even if |
| A．reward | B．check | C．bill | D．list |
| A．Still | B．Instead | C．Otherwise | D．Thus |
| A．lunch | B．customers | C．dishes | D．produce |
| A．stood for | B．applied for | C．benefited from | D．depended on |
| A．patience | B．generosity | C．confidence | D．dignity |
| A．protect | B．trust | C．help | D．treasure |
| A．dream | B．struggle | C．management | D．Style |
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6 . My father was a self-taught mandolin（曼陀林琴）player. He could not read, but if he heard a tune several times, he could play it. Occasionally, he ______ play for the local radio station.
Dad loved playing the mandolin for his family. He knew we enjoyed his playing. If he could give ______ to others, he would, especially for his family. He was always ______ his time and efforts to making sure his family had enough in their life.
Later, I matured into a man and had my own children. Whenever coming home, I would ask Dad to play the mandolin, for nobody played the mandolin like him. He could ______ your soul with tunes coming out of that old mandolin. He seemed to ______ when playing, taking pride in his ability to play so well.
Unfortunately, in 1977. Dad was ______ in an accident, leaving his third finger of his left hand wounded seriously. ______ he didn’t lose enough of the finger where it would stop him picking up anything, it did affect his ______ to play the mandolin. After the accident, he was ______ to play and felt unable to play as well as before. Every time we asked him to play, he would make excuses. ______, we could persuade him and he would say “Okay. But I can’t hold down on the strings and play as well as before.” For the family it made no ______. When he played the old mandolin, it would carry us back to a cheerful, happier time.
In August 1993, Dad was ______ with serious disease. He chose not to receive any chemotherapy（化疗）treatments ______ he could live out his rest life in dignity(尊严). A week before his death, we asked Dad if he would play the mandolin for his family. First he made the usual ______ again but later said “Okay.”, ______ it was likely to be the last chance for us to hear him playing. He tuned up the old mandolin and played. ______, I found everyone in the family ______. We saw before us a quiet humble man with an inner ______ that lives with him in his life.
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Later, I matured into a man and had my own children. Whenever coming home, I would ask Dad to play the mandolin, for nobody played the mandolin like him. He could ______ your soul with tunes coming out of that old mandolin. He seemed to ______ when playing, taking pride in his ability to play so well.
Unfortunately, in 1977. Dad was ______ in an accident, leaving his third finger of his left hand wounded seriously. ______ he didn’t lose enough of the finger where it would stop him picking up anything, it did affect his ______ to play the mandolin. After the accident, he was ______ to play and felt unable to play as well as before. Every time we asked him to play, he would make excuses. ______, we could persuade him and he would say “Okay. But I can’t hold down on the strings and play as well as before.” For the family it made no ______. When he played the old mandolin, it would carry us back to a cheerful, happier time.
In August 1993, Dad was ______ with serious disease. He chose not to receive any chemotherapy（化疗）treatments ______ he could live out his rest life in dignity(尊严). A week before his death, we asked Dad if he would play the mandolin for his family. First he made the usual ______ again but later said “Okay.”, ______ it was likely to be the last chance for us to hear him playing. He tuned up the old mandolin and played. ______, I found everyone in the family ______. We saw before us a quiet humble man with an inner ______ that lives with him in his life.
Dad would never play the mandolin for us again, but we still ______ the most valuable gift we gained from him, ______ he had done all his life, giving.1.
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| A．applying | B．paying | C．attaching | D．devoting |
| A．touch | B．discover | C．deliver | D．possess |
| A．escape | B．shine | C．exist | D．calm |
| A．included | B．absorbed | C．buried | D．involved |
| A．Although | B．If | C．Whether | D．Because |
| A．courage | B．faith | C．ability | D．energy |
| A．desperate | B．unwilling | C．worthwhile | D．sensitive |
| A．Eventually | B．Suddenly | C．Gradually | D．Consequently |
| A．sense | B．difference | C．contact | D．progress |
| A．combined | B．burdened | C．carried | D．diagnosed |
| A．so that | B．in case | C．even if | D．as though |
| A．plan | B．apology | C．reason | D．excuse |
| A．promising | B．noticing | C．requesting | D．knowing |
| A．Looking around | B．Turning up | C．Looking into | D．Speeding up |
| A．happy | B．tearful | C．anxious | D．delighted |
| A．preference | B．advantage | C．strength | D．courage |
| A．treasure | B．adopt | C．consider | D．approve |
| A．anything | B．everything | C．nothing | D．something |
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7 . Many people think that listening is a passive business. It is just the opposite. Listening well is an active exercise of our attention and hard work. It is because they do not realize this, or because they are not willing to do the work, that most people do not listen well.
Listening well also requires total concentration upon someone else. An essential part of listening well is the rule known as ‘bracketing’. Bracketing includes the temporary giving up or setting aside of your own prejudices and desires, to experience as far as possible someone else’s world from the inside,_______________ . Moreover, since listening well involves bracketing, it also involves a temporary acceptance of the other person. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will seem quite willing to open up the inner part of his or her mind to the listener. True communication is under way and the energy required for listening well is so great that it can be accomplished only by the will to extend oneself for mutual growth.
Most of the time we lack this energy. Even though we may feel in our business dealings or social relationships that we are listening well, what we are usually doing is listening selectively. Often we have a prepared list in mind and wonder, as we listen, how we can achieve certain desired results to get the conversation over as quickly as possible or redirected in ways more satisfactory to us. Many of us are far
more interested in talking than in listening, or we simply refuse to listen to what we don’t want to hear.
It wasn’t until toward the end of my doctor career that I have found the knowledge that one is being truly listened to is frequently therapeutic(有疗效的) In about a quarter of the patients I saw, surprising improvement was shown during the first few months of psychotherapy(心理疗法), before any of the roots of problems had been uncovered or explained. There are several reasons for this phenomenon, but chief among them, I believe, was the patient’s sense that he or she was being truly listened to, often for the first time in years, and for some, perhaps for the first time ever.
1. . The phrase “stepping into his or her shoes” in paragraph 2 probably means _______.
2. . What is mainly discussed in Paragraph 2 ?
3. According to the author , in communication people tend to ________.
4. According to the author , the patients improved mainly because _______.
Listening well also requires total concentration upon someone else. An essential part of listening well is the rule known as ‘bracketing’. Bracketing includes the temporary giving up or setting aside of your own prejudices and desires, to experience as far as possible someone else’s world from the inside,
Most of the time we lack this energy. Even though we may feel in our business dealings or social relationships that we are listening well, what we are usually doing is listening selectively. Often we have a prepared list in mind and wonder, as we listen, how we can achieve certain desired results to get the conversation over as quickly as possible or redirected in ways more satisfactory to us. Many of us are far
more interested in talking than in listening, or we simply refuse to listen to what we don’t want to hear.
It wasn’t until toward the end of my doctor career that I have found the knowledge that one is being truly listened to is frequently therapeutic(有疗效的) In about a quarter of the patients I saw, surprising improvement was shown during the first few months of psychotherapy(心理疗法), before any of the roots of problems had been uncovered or explained. There are several reasons for this phenomenon, but chief among them, I believe, was the patient’s sense that he or she was being truly listened to, often for the first time in years, and for some, perhaps for the first time ever.
1. . The phrase “stepping into his or her shoes” in paragraph 2 probably means _______.
| A．preparing a topic list first |
| B．focusing on one’s own mind |
| C．directing the talk to the desired results |
| D．experiencing the speaker’s inside world |
| A．How to listen well. |
| B．What to listen to. |
| C．Benefits of listening. |
| D．Problems in listening |
| A．listen actively |
| B．listen purposefully |
| C．set aside their prejudices |
| D．open up their inner mind |
| A．they were taken good care of. |
| B．they knew they were truly listened to. |
| C．they had partners to talk to. |
| D．they knew the roots of problems. |
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8 . He was driving home one cold evening on a country road when he saw an old lady, stranded on the side of the road. He stopped to give her a ____. “Why don't you wait in the car where it is warm, Madam? It won't take me long.” He said, “____，my name is Joe.”
She had a flat tire. Joe crawled under the car and changed the tire. But he got dirty and his hands hurt. She couldn't thank him ____ and asked him how much she ____ him. He told her that if she really wanted to ____ him back, the next time she saw someone in ____ of help, she could give that person the ____ he needed, and Joe added, “And think of me.”
She drove off with gratefulness. A few miles ____ the road the lady saw a small ____. She went in. The waitress who was nearly eight months pregnant, ____ her with a sweet smile. The old lady ____ how someone like her who seemed so poor could be so genuinely happy and how she could ____ her enthusiasm in her work in such inconvenient conditions. Then Joe's words ____ her. After the lady finished her meal, the waitress went to get her ____ from a hundreddollar bill. ____， the lady stepped right out of the door.
When the waitress came back, she noticed a note on the table, ____ “I'm helping you because someone once helped me. If you really want to pay me back, here is ____ you can do—Do not let the chain of love ____ with you.”
The waitress went home that night with the ____ tip and what the lady had written. With the baby ____ next month, she and her husband needed money. She knew how worried her husband was and as he lay sleeping next to her, she whispered, “Everything's going to be all right. I love you, Joe.”1.
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She had a flat tire. Joe crawled under the car and changed the tire. But he got dirty and his hands hurt. She couldn't thank him ____ and asked him how much she ____ him. He told her that if she really wanted to ____ him back, the next time she saw someone in ____ of help, she could give that person the ____ he needed, and Joe added, “And think of me.”
She drove off with gratefulness. A few miles ____ the road the lady saw a small ____. She went in. The waitress who was nearly eight months pregnant, ____ her with a sweet smile. The old lady ____ how someone like her who seemed so poor could be so genuinely happy and how she could ____ her enthusiasm in her work in such inconvenient conditions. Then Joe's words ____ her. After the lady finished her meal, the waitress went to get her ____ from a hundreddollar bill. ____， the lady stepped right out of the door.
When the waitress came back, she noticed a note on the table, ____ “I'm helping you because someone once helped me. If you really want to pay me back, here is ____ you can do—Do not let the chain of love ____ with you.”
The waitress went home that night with the ____ tip and what the lady had written. With the baby ____ next month, she and her husband needed money. She knew how worried her husband was and as he lay sleeping next to her, she whispered, “Everything's going to be all right. I love you, Joe.”1.
| A．surprise | B．hand | C．sympathy | D．glance |
| A．Just in case | B．As you wish | C．For one thing | D．By the way |
| A．enough | B．right | C．straight | D．extra |
| A．charged | B．provided | C．owed | D．offered |
| A．pay | B．bring | C．put | D．hold |
| A．honor | B．favor | C．need | D．possession |
| A．guidance | B．assistance | C．acquaintance | D．consequence |
| A．down | B．off | C．beside | D．beyond |
| A．bank | B．grocery | C．gas station | D．restaurant |
| A．introduced | B．greeted | C．identified | D．spotted |
| A．thought | B．suspected | C．wondered | D．questioned |
| A．taste | B．measure | C．remain | D．maintain |
| A．struck | B．moved | C．obtained | D．reminded |
| A．tip | B．change | C．order | D．service |
| A．Moreover | B．Otherwise | C．However | D．Eventually |
| A．writing | B．showing | C．going | D．saying |
| A．how | B．which | C．what | D．whether |
| A．combine | B．end | C．disagree | D．deal |
| A．honest | B．generous | C．modest | D．graceful |
| A．due | B．ready | C．born | D．likely |
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9 . You may not pay much attention to your daily elevator ride．Many of us use a lift several times during the day without really thinking about it．But Lee Gray，PhD，of the University of North Carolina，US，has made it his business to examine this overlooked form of public transport．He is known as the “Elevator Guy”.
“The lift becomes this interesting social space where etiquette (礼仪) is sort of odd (奇怪的)，” Gray told the BBC．“The elevators are socially very interesting but often very awkward places.”
We walk in and usually turn around to face the door．If someone else comes in，we may have to move．And here，according to Gray，liftusers unthinkingly go through a set pattern of movements．He told the BBC what he had observed.
He explained that when you are the only one inside a lift，you can do whatever you want – it’s your own little box.
If there are two of you，you go into different corners，standing diagonally (对角线地) across from each other to create distance.
When a third person enters，you will unconsciously form a triangle．And when there is a fourth person it becomes a square，with someone in every corner．A fifth person is probably going to have to stand in the middle.
New entrants to the lift will need to size up the situation when the doors slide open and then act decisively．Once in，for most people the rule is simple – look down，or look at your phone.
Why are we so awkward in lifts?
“You don’t have enough space，” Professor Babette Renneberg，a clinical psychologist at the Free University of Berlin，told the BBC．“Usually when we meet other people we have about an arm’s length of distance between us．And that’s not possible in most elevators.”
In such a small，enclosed space it becomes very important to act in a way that cannot be understood as threatening or odd．“The easiest way to do this is to avoid eye contact，” she said.
1. According to Gray，when people enter an elevator，they usually _____.
2. Which of the following describes how people usually stand when there are at least two people in an elevator?
3. According to the article，people feel awkward in lifts because of _____.
4. What’s the passage mainly about _____.
“The lift becomes this interesting social space where etiquette (礼仪) is sort of odd (奇怪的)，” Gray told the BBC．“The elevators are socially very interesting but often very awkward places.”
We walk in and usually turn around to face the door．If someone else comes in，we may have to move．And here，according to Gray，liftusers unthinkingly go through a set pattern of movements．He told the BBC what he had observed.
He explained that when you are the only one inside a lift，you can do whatever you want – it’s your own little box.
If there are two of you，you go into different corners，standing diagonally (对角线地) across from each other to create distance.
When a third person enters，you will unconsciously form a triangle．And when there is a fourth person it becomes a square，with someone in every corner．A fifth person is probably going to have to stand in the middle.
New entrants to the lift will need to size up the situation when the doors slide open and then act decisively．Once in，for most people the rule is simple – look down，or look at your phone.
Why are we so awkward in lifts?
“You don’t have enough space，” Professor Babette Renneberg，a clinical psychologist at the Free University of Berlin，told the BBC．“Usually when we meet other people we have about an arm’s length of distance between us．And that’s not possible in most elevators.”
In such a small，enclosed space it becomes very important to act in a way that cannot be understood as threatening or odd．“The easiest way to do this is to avoid eye contact，” she said.
1. According to Gray，when people enter an elevator，they usually _____.
| A．turn around and greet one another |
| B．look around or examine their phone |
| C．make eye contact with those in the elevator |
| D．try to keep a distance from other people |
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| A．someone’s odd behaviors |
| B．a lack of space |
| C．their unfamiliarity with one another |
| D．their eye contact with one another |
| A．Bad manners in the elevator |
| B．Some unwritten rules of elevator etiquette |
| C．An interesting but awkward elevator ride |
| D．The strange behaviors in the elevator |
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10 . Women are friendly．But men are more competitive．Why? Researchers have found it's all down to the hormone oxytocin （荷尔蒙催生素）．Although known as the love hormone, it affects the sexes differently．
"Women tend to be social in their behavior．They often share with others．But men lend to be competitive．They are trying to improve their social status," said Professor Ryan．
Generally, people believe that the hormone oxytocin is let out in our body in various social situations and our body creates a large amount of it during positive social interactions （互动） such as falling in love or giving birth．
But in a previous experiment Professor Ryan found that the hormone is also let out in our body during negative social interactions such as envy．
Further researches showed that in men the hormone oxytocin improves the ability to recognize competitive relationships, but in women it raises the ability to recognize friendship．
Professor Ryan's recent experiment used 62 men and women aged 20 to 37．Half of the participants（参与者）received oxytocin．The other half received placebo （安慰剂）．
After a week, the two groups switched with participants．They went through the same procedure with the other material．
Following each treatment, they were shown some video pictures with different social interactions．Then they were asked to analyze the relationships by answering some questions．The questions were about telling friendship from competition．And their answers should be based on gestures, body language and facial expressions．
The results indicated that, after treatment with oxytocin, men's ability to correctly recognize competitive relationships improved, but in women it was the ability to correctly recognize friendship that got better．
Professor Ryan thus concluded: "Our experiment proves that the hormone oxytocin can raise people's abilities to better distinguish different social interactions．And the behavior differences between men and women are caused by biological factors （因素） that are mainly hormonal．"
1. What causes men and women to behave differently according to the text?
2. What can we learn from Professor Ryan's previous experiment?
3. Why did Professor Ryan conduct the recent experiment?
4. The author develops the text by______．
"Women tend to be social in their behavior．They often share with others．But men lend to be competitive．They are trying to improve their social status," said Professor Ryan．
Generally, people believe that the hormone oxytocin is let out in our body in various social situations and our body creates a large amount of it during positive social interactions （互动） such as falling in love or giving birth．
But in a previous experiment Professor Ryan found that the hormone is also let out in our body during negative social interactions such as envy．
Further researches showed that in men the hormone oxytocin improves the ability to recognize competitive relationships, but in women it raises the ability to recognize friendship．
Professor Ryan's recent experiment used 62 men and women aged 20 to 37．Half of the participants（参与者）received oxytocin．The other half received placebo （安慰剂）．
After a week, the two groups switched with participants．They went through the same procedure with the other material．
Following each treatment, they were shown some video pictures with different social interactions．Then they were asked to analyze the relationships by answering some questions．The questions were about telling friendship from competition．And their answers should be based on gestures, body language and facial expressions．
The results indicated that, after treatment with oxytocin, men's ability to correctly recognize competitive relationships improved, but in women it was the ability to correctly recognize friendship that got better．
Professor Ryan thus concluded: "Our experiment proves that the hormone oxytocin can raise people's abilities to better distinguish different social interactions．And the behavior differences between men and women are caused by biological factors （因素） that are mainly hormonal．"
1. What causes men and women to behave differently according to the text?
| A．Placebo． | B．Oxytocin． |
| C．The gesture． | D．The social status． |
| A．Oxytocin affects our behavior in a different way． |
| B．Our body lets out oxytocin when we are deep in love． |
| C．Our body produces oxytocin when we feel unhappy about others' success． |
| D．Oxytocin improves our abilities to understand people's behavior differences． |
| A．To test the effect of oxytocin on the ability to recognize social interactions． |
| B．To know the differences between friendship and competition． |
| C．To know people's different abilities to answer questions． |
| D．To test people's understanding of body language． |
| A．explaining people's behaviors |
| B．describing his own experiences |
| C．distinguishing sexual differences |
| D．discussing research experiments |
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