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In Western cultures, for example, people perceive silence as negative. It suggests rejection, unhappiness, facial expression, regret, embarrassment, or ignorance.
However, the Japanese admire silence and consider it a key to success. A Japanese proverb says, “Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know.”
Over 60 percent of Japanese businesswomen said that they would prefer to marry silent men. Silence is equated with wisdom.
1. According to this passage, what does nonverbal communication include?()
A.The use of time
B.Facial expressions
C.Gestures
D.All of the above
2. What does a raised eyebrow mean?()
A.Your boss doubts your statement.
B.Your boss is seriously considering your statement.
C.Your boss is unhappy with your statement.
D.The message sent by the raised eyebrow may be interpreted differently by people of another culture.
3. What is the main idea of Paragraph One?()
A.Verbal communication is important.
B.Nonverbal skills are more difficult to learn amongdifferent cultures.
C.Nonverbal communication is easy to learn.
D.Verbal skills are easy to be mastered.
4. How do western people view silence?()
A.It is positive.
B.It is approved.
C.It suggests unhappiness.
D.It suggests agreement.
5. “Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know.”What does this Japanese proverb imply?()
A.It is negative.
B.It suggests embarrassment.
C.It suggests unhappiness.
D.It is equated with wisdom.
American doctors working in France have used laser light beams to treat patients withheart disease Heart disease kills more people in industrial countries than, any. other dis-ease. A major form. of heart disease is arteriosclerosis or thé narrowing and hardening ofthe arteries that carry blood to the heart. When a person suffers from severe arteriosclerosis. fatty materials build up in his or her arteries. This build-up blocks the flow of blood,reducing the heart s blood supply. If the hearts blood supply becomes dangerously low orblocked completely by a blood clot, the patient will have a heart attack. More than 600,000 Americans die every year from heart attack caused by blocked arteries. American doctors from Seaton Medical Center in California used laser light beams to destroy material blocking. thearteries of four French heart,patients.The scientists triedthe new laser technique after they were invited to do so by doctors from Pupan Hospital inToulouse. France. It was the first time that doctors had used the intense, powerful beamsof laser light to burn through and destroy substances blocking human arteries. The doctors first made a small cut through the patients skin into the heart artery that wasblocked. They then placed a long plastic tube through the cut into the artery until the endof the tube reached the blocked area. The tube contained tiny fibers of glass through whichthe laser light could travel. Doctors fired a laser machine outside the patients body. Thepowerful light traveled through the tube to destroy the blood clots and fat that were blocking the artery. Doctor Daniel Choy. the American doctor who led the team, said the scientists examined three of four patients treated 25 days after the laser operation. in one patient, the artery had remained unblocked. but in the other two patients, the arteries hadelosed up again after the treatment Dr. Choy said he does not know if the new laser treat-ment might someday replace medical operations now used to treat arteriosclerosis patients.He said more study is needed before scientists will really know if the new method is safeand effective. The American government has not yet given doctors permission to use thelaser treatment on human heart patients in the United States.
Why is arteriosclerosis more dangerous than other diseases?
A.Because the patient’s artery will narrow when ht、stuffers from it.
B.Because the patient’s artery will harden when hr suffers from it.
C.Because the patient’s artery will widen when he suffers from it.
D.Because the fatty materials in the patient artery wilt block the flow of blood so it will reduce the hearth blood supply.
Why do ihe American doctors think of using laser light to treat heart disease?A.Because laser light is quite powerful.
B.Because laser light is penetrating
C.Because laser light can destroy the blocking materials in human’s artory
D.Because laser light can travel through the human body.
Based on the la?er operation treatment of three patients, what can we infer from the passage?A.Laser light treatment is safe and effective
B.Laser light treatment is dangerous and ineffective
C.Laser light treatment still requires much more studies
D.Government should encourage doctors to do resenrch of laser light treatment on the human body.
What’s the main idea of the passage?A.leaser light treatment of heart disease should take the place of the traditional operation.
B.Laser light treatment has been proved belter and more trffccJivc than the tradilional operation.
C.More advanced technology should be encouraged to try on
D.Laser light treatment of heart disease still needs more research
完形填空Ahhh, summer. Time to relax. You cannot have complete rest if you ___1___it too seriously. But taking vacations seriously is exactly___2___we Americans seem to do. In the same way our kids' free time is now packed with activities, we adults have turned vacations into "active leisure." Anytime you try very hard to relax, that's active leisure. Our vacations___3___with an agenda, a purpose. We're visiting family, attending weddings, going camping, and making sure we ride that roller coaster-no matter how long the line is. We Americans are so active in our leisure___4___we commonly complain we need a vacation from our vacations. We leave home___5___; we come back exhausted. That's why many of us have decided not to go. Americans are___6___a few vacation days (14 days, on average) compared with other developed countries, but ironically, we don't even use them. The average American will leave four vacation days on the table this year, which adds up to a total 574 million days of___7___vacation. Our relationship to relaxation seems contradictory. We spend more money than anyone else in the world on leisure-fully one-___8___of our income-and yet at the same time we are No. 1 in the world at not taking vacations. One of the top reasons given for not taking a vacation is that it's too much extra work. We have to get___9___of our work in order to leave, and then we have to catch up on our work upon our return. The longer the vacation we take, the bigger the stumbling blocks appear. So only 14% of Americans will take a vacation two weeks or longer this summer. Bottom linE、it's simply become too stressful to relax. We Americans take our time off so seriously that you can now get a Ph.D. in leisure studies at Penn State and 17 other famous universities. That's right-a doctorate, not just a bachelor's. It's such an up-and-coming field in academe that there is an actual shortage of___10___educators. We don't have enough people to teach leisure. I am tempted to make a joke about this, but I don't want to get the wrath of the leisure scientists. They'll beat me up with chairs.
1)
A、take
B、make
C、bake
D、cake
2)
A、this
B、that
C、what
D、which
3)
A、go
B、arrive
C、leave
D、come
4)
A、these
B、that
C、those
D、this
5)
A、tired
B、tire
C、tiring
D、tires
6)
A、give
B、giving
C、gave
D、given
7)
A、take
B、taken
C、untaken
D、took
8)
A、three
B、third
C、thirds
D、thirty
9)
A、ahead
B、out
C、rid
D、clear
10)
A、qualify
B、qualification
C、qualifies
D、qualified
A. needn’t have bought
B. mustn’t have bought
C. shouldn’t have bought
D. couldn’t have bought
A funny thing happened on the way to the communications revolution: we stopped talking to one another.
I was walking in the park with a friend recently, and his cell phone rang, interrupting our conversation.There we were walking and talking on a beautiful sunny day and…I became invisible, absent from the conversation .
The park was filled with people talking on their cell phones They were passing people wi thout looking at them, say ing hello, noticing their babies or stopping to pat their dogs.It seems that the limitless electronic voice is preferred to human contact.
The telephone used to connect you to the absent.Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent.Recently I was in a car with three friends.The driver hushed the rest of us because he could not hear the person on the other end of his cell phone.There we were, four friends driving down the highway, unable to talk to each other because of the small thing designed to make communication easier.
why is it that the wore connected we get.The more disconnected I feel? Every advance in ommunications technology is a setback to the closeness of human interaction(互动).With email and instant message over the internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another.With voice mail, you can make entire conversations without ever reaching anyone.If my moe has a question, I just leave the answer on her machine.
As almost every contact we can imagine between human beings gets automated(自动化), the emot ional di stance index(疏远指数) goes up.Pumping gas at the station? Why say good-morning to the assistant when you can swipe you credit card at the pump and save yourself the bother of human contact? Making a deposit at the bank? Why talk to the clerk who lives in the neight when you can put your card into the ATM?
More and more, I find myself hiding behind e-mail to do a job meant for conversation.Or being relieved that voice mail picked up because I didn ’t really have time to talk.The techno logy devoted to helping me keep in touch is making me lonelier
I own a mobile phone, an ATM card, a voicemail telephone,and an e-mail account.Giving them up isn' t a choice.They are great for what they are intended to do.It' s their unitended results that make me upset.What good is all this gee-whiz technology if there is no one in the room to hear you crying out“ Gee whiz”?
21.The author’s experience of walking in a park with a frier recently made him feel()
A.unhappy
B.funny
C.wonderful
22.According to the author, human contact in a park means()
A.looking at each other and saying hello when passing
B.noticing their babies and stopping to pat their dogs
C.both A and B
23.According to the author, the more connected we get in communication technology, the () we are
A.more automatic
B.easier
C.more disconnected
24.What are the examples the author gives to explain his idea that every advance in communication technology is a setback to the closeness of human interaction?()
A.With e-mail and instant message over the Internet.We can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another.
B.With voice mail, you can make entire conversations.without ever reaching anyone.
C.Both A and B
25.What is the unintended result of communication technology, according to the author?()
A.It makes communication easier and conversation possible everywhere.
B.It actually reates a distance between people instead of bringing them together.
C.It makes every contact between human beings automatic and makes people feel connected.
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