My friend Dr. Dong had a wonderful chance to go to Seattle to present a paper at a professional meeting. When he got back to Beijing, he told me his experience.
Dr. Dong enjoyed his first days very much. At the medical conference, he felt quite confident in his area of research and was able to perform well in his presentation. But after a few days, he began to feel uncomfortable. His medical English was fine, but the social communication skills were different.
He got more and more worried that he was misunderstanding simple English greetings and table talk conventions(习俗). When someone greeted him with, “Hi, how’s it going?” he thought they had asked him “Where are you going?” and answered with the name of the conference hall, only to get a surprised stare from them. At a western style dinner, a colleague asked, “So how’re you enjoyin’ the States?” he thought he heard, “how are you enjoying your steak?” and answered that he was eating chicken, not beef. That time, they smiled, and patiently repeated the question, then both laughed at the error.
By the end of the meetings, Dr. Dong felt a deep sense of “cultural stress” and was worn out from having to pay attention to so many new expressions and ways of dealing with things. He felt his handshake was not as firm as Americans’, found that people reacted unusually when he modestly insisted his English was not good after they complimented(称赞) him, didn’t know how to accept dinner invitations properly and therefore missed out on going to several lunches, and so on. Eventually, he was so confused that he felt the full impact of “culture shock”.
1.Why did Dr. Dong travel to Seattle?
A. To improve his spoken English. B. To experience culture shock.
C. To give lectures on his research. D. To attend a medical conference.
2. Which of the following best describes Dr. Dong’s experience in Seattle?
A. Comfortable—very uncomfortable—uncomfortable.
B. comfortable—very uncomfortable—comfortable.
C. Comfortable—uncomfortable – very uncomfortable.
D. Comfortable—uncomfortable – very comfortable.
3.Dr. Dong felt a deep sense of “cultural stress” mainly because_______.
A. he was too modest B. he didn’t understand cultural differences
C. he lacked confidence D. he was not good at English listening
4.
完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
When a person is curious about something, it means he is interested in it and wishes to know something about it. There is 16 wrong with curiosity in itself. Whether it is good or bad 17 on what people are curious about.
Curiosity 18 can be foolish or wrong. Some people with nothing to do are 19 of curiosity about what their neighbors are doing. They have a strong wish to know what they are 20 home or taking outside, or why they have come home so 21 or late. To be interested in these things is silly because it is none of their 22 to know what their neighbors do or are doing. Such curiosity is not only foolish but also 23 . For most probably, it may lead to a small talk 24 often brings harm, loss of honor or disrespect to others, and thus 25 their feelings.
On the other hand, there is a 26 curiosity- the curiosity of wise men, who 27 at all the great things and try to find out all they 28 learn about them. Columbus could 29 have found America if he had not been 30 . James Walt would not have made the steam engine 31 his curiosity about the rising of the kettle lid. All the 32 in human history have been made as a 33 of curiosity, 34 the clever curiosity is never about unimportant things which have 35 or nothing to do with the happiness of the public.
1.A. anything B. everything C. nothing D. something
2. A. keeps B. puts C. takes D. depends
3. A. always B. sometimes C. unusually D. seldom
4. A. full B. certain C. proud D. careful
5.A. taking B. bringing C. going D. coming
6. A. quickly B. hurriedly C. early D. happily
7.A. business B. task C. duty D. work
8. A. instructive B. useful C. harmful D. proper
9. A. who B. which C. when D. where
10.A. hurts B. injures C. breaks D. destroys
11.A. terrible B. sudden C. strange D. clever
12. A. expect B. like C. wonder D. doubt
13.A. need B. must C. may D. can
14. A. never B. certainly C. surely D. probably
15.A. famous B. careful C. curious D. hard
16. A. for B. without C. with D. in
17. A. products B. goods C. discoveries D. machines
18. A. profit B. product C. fruit D. result
19. A. but B. however C. so D. or
20.A. little B. few C. some D. any
He tried his best to solve the problem, ______ difficult it was.
A. however B. no matter C. whatever D. although
–David, it’s Frank. Do you have a few minutes? I need to see you.
-- _______. But I hope “a few minutes” doesn’t turn into an hour.
A. I’m afraid not B. It doesn’t matter C. I don’t think so D. I guess so
The novel is said _______ the month before.
A. to publish B. to be published C. publish D. to have been published
I kept looking at the man, wondering _______.
A. whether I have seen him before B. whether I had seen him before
C. that I had seen him before D. when I saw him before
