五、阅读理解
America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear（消失）soon. They don't feel hurt. If the same two people meet again, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us develop（发展）more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, spreading sometimes deeply into both families.
There is another difficult point for us Chinese to understand. Americans treat friends warmly in their personal（私人的）everyday lives, but they don't show their politeness to them if it needs a lot of time. But in China, we are usually
. Sometimes, we, as hosts（主人）, will wait at airports（机场）even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off from our work to act as guides to our friends. The Americans, however, cannot manage the time to do a lot with a visitor outside their everyday plans. They will probably expect（期盼）the visitors to get themselves from the airport to the hotel by bus. And they expect that the visitors will phone them from there. Once the visitors get to their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real.
For the Americans, it is often thought more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to restaurants, except for（除了）business matters. Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays and their home life. So accept their hospitality（好客）at home and enjoy your visit in America!
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B
）1. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Americans are always generous(大方的）with their time.
B. Americans don't feel hurt if their friendships disappear soon.
C. Chinese friendships develop more slowly but will never disappear.
D. Chinese friendships are deeper than American friendships.
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C
）2. This passage may be written for
.
A. American students B. Chinese students
C. Chinese visitors to America D. American visitors to China
（
B
）3. Which of the following can be put in the “
” in the passage?
A. strict（严格的）about our time B. generous with our time
C. careless about our time D. careful with our time
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D
）4. A suitable title for this passage would be “
”.
A. Friendships Between Chinese B. Friendships Between Americans
C. Americans' Hospitality D. Americans' and Chinese's Ideas of Friendship
