1It's difficult to live in a foreign country，________if you don't speak  the language

A. importantly B. naturally      C. especially   D. usually

Social customs and the ways of behaving change. Things that were considered impolite many years ago are acceptable . Just a few years ago, it was considered to be impolite behavior for a man to smoke on the street . No man who thought of himself as being a gentleman would make fool of himself by smoking when a lady was in the room.
Customs are also different from country to country. Does a man walk on the left or on the right of a woman in your country? Or doesn’t it matter? What about table manners?
The Americans and the British not only speak the same language but also share a large number of social customs. For example, in both America and England people shake hands when they meet each other for the first time. Also, most Englishmen will open a door for a wonman or offer their seat to a woman , and so will most Americans. Promptness is important both in England and in America. That is , if a dinner invitation is for 6 o'clock , the dinner guest either arrives close to that time or calls up to explain his delay.
The important thing to remember about social customs is not to do anything that might make other people feel uncomfortable especially if they are your guests. There is an old story about a man who gave a very formal dinner party. When the food was served, one of the guests started to eat his peas with a knife. The other guests were amused or greatly surprised , but the host calmly picked up his knife and began eating in the same way. I t would have been bad manners to make his guest feel foolish or uncomfortable.
【小题1】The underlined phrase” make fool of himself” in the first passage means____

用方框中所给的单词的适当形式填空。每词限用一次。

1.His funny story made me               .

2. Don’t speak            . The baby is sleeping .

3. Unluckily, we didn’t bring            money. So we only bought a small gift.

4. At last, they decided                the music club.

5.What’s the             movie theater in town?

You may know the English letters A, B and C. But do you know there are people called ABC? You may like eating bananas. But did you know there is such a thing as a “banana person”? How strange! Are these people from “another earth” ? No. They are just Chinese people like you and me.

ABC means American-born-Chinese. An ABC is a Chinese, but was born in the United States. Sometimes, people call an ABC a “banana person”. A banana is yellow outside and white inside. So, when a person is a banana, he or she is white inside---hinting like a Westerner(西方人) and yellow outside --- looking like a Chinese.

Do you know why? Usually, ABCs know little about China or the Chinese language. Some of them don’t speak Chinese. Also, they are not interested in Chinese politics(政治),But if ABCs can’t speak Chinese, can we still call them Chinese people? Yes, of course. They are Chinese. They are overseas(海外的) Chinese. These people may be citizens(公民) of another country like the US, Canada or Singapore. But they have Chinese blood. Their parents, grandparents or even great-grandparents were from China. They all have black eyes and black hair. But they are not Chinese citizens. They are not people of the People’s Republic of China. For example, we all know the famous scientist C.N. Yang(杨振宁). He got the Nobel Prize Physics in 1957. Chinese people love him. But he is an American citizen. www.xkb1.com

1.“ABC” in this passage stands for “_______”.

A. a kind of banana?????? B. three English letters???? C. Chinese born in American

2.Chinese in Westerner countries are called “banana persons” because __________

A. their bodies are white inside but yellow outside.

B. they think like Westerners but look like Chinese

C. they were born in China but go to study in America

3.The underlined word “blood” may probably mean _________

A. 血统?????????? B. 洪水???????????? C. 身份

4.C. N. Yang is mentioned here to show that _________

A. American Chinese are great????

B. Chinese people can win Nobel Prize.

C. American Chinese are not Chinese citizen.

5.This passage mainly talks about________

A. overseas Chinese??????? B. the Nobel Prize??????? C. the life story of C.N. Yang