The employees feel so excited ! At this time tomorrow morning they to Sanya, one of the most attractive cities in China.
A. will be flying B. will fly C. have been flying D. have flown
In order to go to a key university, I must______my study from now on.
A. consist of B. get away from C. concentrate on D. come up with
The English teacher her students how to improve their comprehension skill since last week.
A. has told B. is telling C. has been telling D. will have told
---- Sorry, I have to ______ now. It’s time for class.
---- OK, I’ll call back later.
A. hang up B. break up C. give up D. hold up
阅读短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。
Big storms, high waves, technical failures, loneliness, After battling hard times and danger for over nine months. British teenager Mike Perham made history last month as the youngest person to sail solo (单独) around the world.
The 17-year-old made the record after he cleared the Panama Canal ( 巴拿马运河) and then sailed through the Caribbean and home across the Atlantic.
Mike is only three months younger than Zac Sunderland. the 17-year-old American boy who had taken the crown as the youngest solo around-the-world sailor in July.
The two youngsters met in Cape Town in South Africa as they crossed the globe in different directions. Mike insisted they were not rival (竞争对手). "No. It's two teenagers going out there, living their dream and having the adventure of a lifetime." he said.
Mike may be young, but he is no stranger to sailing adventures. He picked up the hobby at age 6 when his father took him out in a small boat on a local lake. Father and son sailed separate boats across the Atlantic when Mike was 14, making him the youngest person to cross that ocean solo. That record gave him the taste for this even greater challenge.
On the recent journey. the scariest moment for Mike came when his sailboat was hit by storms in the southem Indian Ocean.
"We were picked up by what felt like a 60-foot wave and threw down on our side at 90 degrees," he said.
"It felt like I was going right over. Stuff was flying around and I just thought 'Oh no'".
At other times, he had to dive into the Pacific and fix problems. He tied himself to the boat, jumped into the water and went to work with a knife in 30-second dives undemeath (在......之下) the boat to cut a rope away.
Mike said he felt proud that he made his dream come true. "You've got to have confidence in yourself that you will make it." he said.
1.What's the main idea of the passage? (No more than 15 words)
2.Which canal did Mike Perham cross? (No more than 3 words)
3.What does the underlined word "taste" in the fifth paragraph mean? (1 word)
4.What did Mike believe in? (No more than lO words)
5.What do you think of Mike Perham? (No more than 10 words)
Ideas about polite behavior are different from one culture to another. Some societies, such as America and Australia for example, are mobile and very open. People here change jobs and move house quite often. As a result, they have a lot of relationships that often last only a short time, and they need to get to know people quickly. So it's normal to have friendly conversations with people that they have just met, and you can talk about things that other cultures would regard as personal.
On the other hand there are more crowded and less mobile societies where long-term relationships are more important. A Malaysian or Mexican business person, for example, will want to get to know you very well before he or she feels happy to start business. But when you do get to know each other, the relationship becomes much deeper than it would in a mobile society.
To Americans, both Europeans and Asians seem cool and formal at first. On the other hand, as a passenger from a less mobile society puts it, it's no fun spending several hours next to a stranger who wants to tell you all about his or her life and asks you all sorts of questions that you don't want to answer.
Cross-cultural differences aren't just a problem for travelers, but also for the flights that carry them. All flights want to provide the best service, but ideas about good service are different from place to place. This can be seen most clearly in the way that problems are dealt with.
Some societies have 'universalist' cultures. These societies strongly respect rules, and they treat every person and situation in basically the same way.
'Particularist' societies, on the other hand, also have rules, but they are less important than the society's unwrinen ideas about what is right or wrong for a particular situation or a particular person. So the normal rules are changed to fit the needs of the situation or the importance of the person.
This difference can cause problems. A traveler from a particularist society, India, is checking in for a flight in Germany, a country which has a universalist culture. The Indian traveler has too much luggage, but he explains that he has been away from home for a long time and the suitcases are full of presents for his family. He expects that the check-in official will understand his problem and will change the rules for him. The check-in official explains that if he was allowed to have too much luggage, it wouldn't be fair to the other passengers. But the traveler thinks this is unfair, because the other passengers don't have his problem.
1.Often moving from one place to another makes people like Americarts and Australians
A. like traveling better
B. easy to communicate with
C. difficult 1o make rcal friends
D. have a long-term relationship with their neighbors
2.People like Malaysians prefer to associate with those
A. who will tell them everything of their own
B. who want to do business with them
C. they know quite well
D. who are good at talking
3.A person from a less mobile society will feel it_____ when a stranger keeps talking to him or her, and asking him or her questions.
A. boring B. friendly C. normal D. rough
4.Which of the following is true about "particularist societies"?
A. There is no rule for people to obey.
B. People obey the society's rules completely.
C. No one obeys the society's ruies though they have.
D. The society's rules can be changed with different persons or situations.
5.The writer of the passage thinks that the Indian and the German have different ideas about rules because of different__________.
A. interests B. habits and customs
C. cultures D. ways of life
