—The Xuzhou Metro Line 1 has been in use. do you take it to school ?
—Every day. It’s so quick and easy.
A.How much B.How many C.How long D.How often
—Jack, you should put the things away in your room. It is ________ a terrible mess!
—OK, I’m coming, Mum!
A.on B.at C.in D.for
“只有身体好才能学习好、工作好, 才能均衡地发展”—周恩来。
此次新冠疫情爆发（coronavirus outbreak）虽然限制了我们的活动范围, 但是我们还要坚持日常锻炼的习惯。请你谈谈在疫情影响下锻炼身体的重要性, 以及我们在家如何进行锻炼。
提示词语: keep healthy, fight against, gymnastics, push-up, sit-up.
提示问题:
●Why do we need to do exercises during the coronavirus outbreak?
●How do we do exercises at home?
Without enough exercises, we can't have a happy life. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
日前长城再次因为被乱涂乱画（scribbling）成为热点话题。针对这一现象, 你们学校开展了宣传保护古迹的演讲比赛, 假如你是李华, 你们班交换生Jack询问你关于比赛的情况, 请你写一封回信, 告诉他演讲比赛什么时候举行, 并分享你关于演讲的想法。
提示词语: harmful, history, culture, volunteer, famous sights
提示问题:
●When will we hold the speech?
●What would you like to share with Jack about making the speech?
Dear Jack,
I'm glad to receive your letter.
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If there is anything more that I can help with, please let me know.
Yours,
Li Hua.
In England, people buy bus tickets on the bus. In France, they buy them at a bus station. In Australia, they can buy them from a magazine store. Books on cross-cultural communication make us curious by focusing on differences between people across the world: in social behavior and the importance of their body language, etc.
For example, how close you stand to someone when you are speaking to him is different in different cultures. Surveys in most countries tell us that the proper distance（距离）of two people standing in a social situation is between 1. 2 metres and 3.5 metres. But in China, this distance seems to be smaller, while in Sweden, people usually stand farther.
The message sent by the way you stand or sit is another condition. For example, it is quite common in European countries to sit with your legs crossed. But people in Arab countries hardly ever sit in this way—because they might show you the bottom of their shoes, and it is thought to be impolite.
Such information fills the pages of guides for travellers and international business people. Clearly it is important to know a little about eating customs and the rules about basic greetings—whether you should bow or shake someone's hands. But under the surface, we are not so different. There are many signs that are common in the emotions（情感）that they communicate.
Smiling is the best known of these, but not the only one. Scientists have proven that all over the world, people show sadness in a similar way. People look down with their face “falling” and mouth corner turning down. There are also common factors when people are bored. They will look at other things in an distracted（漫不经心的） way--their watches, for example. Their feet will begin to move restlessly showing that they want to escape.
Understanding these body languages and acting properly is the real key to cross-cultural communication. If we all pay just a little attention, it is impossible that we will cause lasting inconvenience by using the wrong body language or standing too near to strangers and then make them feel uncomfortable.
1.Where do people in England buy bus tickets?
2.What is the proper distance of two people standing in most countries?
3.Why do people in Arab countries hardly sit with their legs crossed?
4.How do people around the world show sadness in a similar way?
5.What is the passage mainly about?
Have you ever gone to a fast-food restaurant to eat and gotten a kid's meal that came with a toy? Sometimes those meals have different toys for boys and girls —maybe a truck for the boys and a toy bear for the girls. Who decides that boys like to play with trucks and girls like to play with stuffed animals? I know many boys who like stuffed animals and lots of girls who play with trucks. When we decide what someone will like or how they will act just because they are boys or girls, we are stereotyping（形成模式化观念）.
A stereotype is a group that we put people into. Our human brains do this all the time; it's one of the ways that our brain has learned to deal with the world. We see someone and put that person into a group—for example, the old or the young, a boy or a girl. Is that a bad thing? No, it's not.
One advantage of a stereotype is that it enables us to deal with situations rapidly because we may have had a similar experience before. The use of stereotypes is a major way in which we simplify our social world; since they cut down the amount of processing（i.e. thinking）we have to do when we meet a new person.
Although grouping itself isn't bad, it can be harmful sometimes. It makes us ignore differences between each single person, that is, we usually think all the people in one group are the same but that might not be true.
When we stereotype, we think of a group and give everyone in that group certain characteristics. For example, the fast food restaurant believed that all boys like to play with vehicles and all girls prefer toy animals. They did that based only on whether they were boys or girls.
Stereotypes are problems when beliefs that people have about groups are not necessarily true. Have you ever heard anyone say that "Men are better drivers than women"? Statements like this take a group of people and give all of them the same behaviors or characteristics. I know men who are good drivers, and I know women who are good drivers. It's not fair to judge all people in a group by a stereotype. We need to remember that everyone in the group is an individual who has different abilities, interests, strengths and behaviors.
1.The example of different toys for boys and girls is mentioned to show that_________.
A.boys and girls prefer different toys
B.boys and girls are treated unfairly
C.people sometimes mix children's likes
D.people have fixed ideas on things
2.Which of the following stereotypes is useful?
A.Making friends by his appearance.
B.Boys do better in science than girls.
C.Youth easily do unreasonable things.
D.Red signs on the road warn us of danger.
3.The underlined word “ignore” in Paragraph 4 probably means _________.
A.fail to notice B.fail to trust C.fail to search D.fail to face
4.What does the writer want to tell us about stereotyping?
A.Stereotyping is like a coin which has two sides.
B.It helps our brain learn to deal with similar situations.
C.Judging people by stereotyping them makes things hard.
D.Trying to learn about and form some kinds of them stereotypes.
