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  Australia is a young nation, and the Australian people come from many different cultural backgrounds.As you make friends here, you抣l find there is no such a person as a "typical" Australian.You抣l come across a wide range of social customs and views of life, some of which may be very new to you.Here we want to present some of the different ways of greeting.

  First names are used more often in Australia than in many other countries.Australians often greet their friends, and even people they don抰 know with" Hey mate(同伴)"or" How抯 it going guys?" An Australian may encourage you to use his given name, to address him informally, or even to use his nickname.A nickname is most commonly used among friends, and is a sign of acceptance and friendship.

  The formal title or family name is only used in formal or other special situations, such as first meetings, or when you speak to someone like a professor.Titles like Mr, Mrs, Ms or Dr are then used, together with the family name.

  In Australia one looks directly at someone when talking to show interest in what he or she is saying.Australians make direct eye contact regardless of social position, and children are taught to look directly at adults.It is not considered impolite to give someone something with your left hand.

(1)

The passage is mainly about _________.

[  ]

A.

how to get along with others in Australia

B.

when to talk to people in Australia

C.

how to greet others in Australia

D.

where to visit in Australia

(2)

Which of the following would not be used among friends?

[  ]

A.

Morning, Mr.Green!

B.

How抯 it going?

C.

Hey mate!

D.

See you around!

(3)

If you use a person抯 nickname in Australia, it probably means that _________.

[  ]

A.

you are close friends

B.

you respect him a lot

C.

you don抰 like his real name

D.

you like using nicknames

(4)

From the passage we learn that Australians _________.

[  ]

A.

are serious about how people address them

B.

use given names when meeting someone for the first time

C.

don抰 mind others giving things with left hands

D.

don抰 use formal titles when talking to professors

答案:1.C;2.D;3.B;4.C;
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科目:高中英语 来源:2008-2009学年度北京五中第一学期高三期中考试、英语试卷 题型:050

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  “Mind Reader”, a system developed by Rosalind Picard at MIT(the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)in the US, uses input from a video camera to do real-time analysis of facial expressions.It reports on whether you seem“interested” or“agreeable”or if you’re“confused”.The system can help people recognize others’ emotions.Picard says this means we could teach a machine to be as sensitive as a human.In fact, a machine can be even smarter than people since it can tell if a person is lying or just“performing”by analyzing one’s facial movements.

  Jeffrey Cohn, a psychologist at the University of Pittsburgh, uses the Facial Action Coding System to recognize human emotions.The system sorts more than 40 action units(AUS)of the face to tell people’s real emotions.He studied a videotape of a criminal who said to be sad about the murder of several family members and tried to pin the blame on someone else.But Cohn saw no real sadness in the woman’s face.

  Sadness is a group of AUS that is difficult to do at the same time.You have to pull down the corners of your lips while bringing your eyebrows together and raising them.What the woman did was raise her cheeks to make a lip curl(撇嘴).Her brows stayed smooth.

(1)

The best title of this passage is“________”.

[  ]

A.

The emotion on your face

B.

Look at your face

C.

Your face tells a story

D.

Telling a lie

(2)

The missing sentence“This means, even though your mouth lies, your face doesn’t, and the machine will know it all.”should be put at the end of ________.

[  ]

A.

Paragraph 2

B.

Paragraph 3

C.

Paragraph 4

D.

Paragraph 5

(3)

How many facial emotion analyses are mentioned in this passage?

[  ]

A.

Four.

B.

Three.

C.

Two.

D.

One.

(4)

The underlined word“it”refers to ________.

[  ]

A.

MIT

B.

the video camera

C.

one’s face emotion

D.

the real-time analysis

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