America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon. They don’t feel hurt. If the same two people meet again, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand. Friendships between us develop more slowly but may become lifelong feelings, extending（延伸）deeply into both families.
There is another difficult point for us to understand .Although Americans treat friends warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to them if it requires a great deal of time. But in China, we are usually generous with our time. We, as hosts, will appear at an airport even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off from our work to act as guides to our friends: It is opposite in America, Americans can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily plans. They will probably expect the visitors to get themselves from the airport to the hotels. And they expect the visitors will phone them from there. Once the visitors arrive at their homes ,the welcome will be full, warm and real.
For Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to restaurants, except for business matters. Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. So accept their hospitality（好客）at home and enjoy your visit in America!
【小题1】Which of the following is the typical way of American hospitality?

I think physics is very difficult to learn. Do you ________ me?

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When you sit and watch TV hour after hour, do you ever think of what it may be doing to your health?
More and more children are becoming overweight（超重）and near-sighted ___41_ they spend too much time in front of the TV. Also, they are growing less and less creative（有创造性的）because watching TV doesn’t __42__ any active thought.
Last week, the TV-Turnoff Organization began its ninth TV-Turnoff __43__ in the USA. The Organization encourages people to play games, read books, lie under a tree, talk to family members and friends __44___ watching TV.
American school children __45__, on average(平均), 1000 hours a year watching TV--more time than they spend in school. That’s too much, said the doctors __46__organized this year’s TV-Turnoff Week.
Doctors said that the __47_ children watch television, the more overweight they may become. The food children eat while they watch the television makes this weight __48_ more serious.
To keep mentally and physically healthy, children need to take exercise, talk with friends and family, read, and __49_ the world around them. Could you go a week without television? It might be __50__ for many TV lovers, but why not give it a try?

Take a look at teenagers around, dressed in baggy-pants (宽松裤), drinking soft drinks such as coke, reading Japanese cartoons. Whether you are in Beijing, Wuhan or Hong Kong, you will get the same impression. But should we copy others or should we maintain (保留) our differences?
It sounds convenient that people around the world speak the same language, dress in the same style, eat the same food and play the same games. If the world was like this, you won’t feel strange in any corner of world. But just imagine living in such a strange world. How dull and colorless it would be!
Different kinds of food that people can taste, the colorful and fashionable clothes that we dress in and different languages we speak are all part of the different cultures that our ancestors left us. These differences represent their creativity (创造力) and talent. And we all enjoy different cultures in our daily lives. When you travel to other places, you want to see different things. When you talk to foreigners you expect to listen to interesting stories. These differences in culture are what make life colorful.
But the whole world is shrinking into a small village as globalization (全球化) takes effect and many different cultures are disappearing. In most big cities around the world people wear the same clothes. Fast food stores are everywhere. Hollywood movies are kicking traditional performing arts out of our lives. The colors of our life are disappearing.
There is joke that even the panda and zebra want to live a colorful life. So let’s take action to protect our colorful culture before it becomes as simple as black and white.
It’s not difficult. Learning some folk songs, trying on a traditional clothing and even eating local food instead of going to KFC can help. And we’re sure you will enjoy it.
【小题1】The passage is written to _______.

根据情境及首字母提示填入适当的单词，使短文句意完整、通顺。
Pen pal wanted
His name is Wang Lei. He is a（1）C_____ boy. He wants a pen pal in（2）F_______ . He thinks it’s a very（3）i______  country and he wants to learn some French. He（4）l_____  in Beijing, China with his parents now. He is 14 (5) y______  old and his (6) b______  is in November. He can speak Chinese and a little English. What are his (7) l______ ? He likes watching sports games on TV and (8) p_____ computer games with his friends. His favorite subject is computer science. It’s (9) f______ . He doesn’t like math, because it’s too difficult.
Please write to (10) h____ and be his pen pal.