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    Last week Lu visited England. He stayed with my grandmother. He said it was a strange visit. "I don't

understand,but I frightened (使害怕) your grandmother a lot. When I arrived, I gave her a purse from

Suzhou, she looked in it and asked me to take it back. Then I saw a red spider on the table so I killed it for

her and she seemed very unhappy. Do English people like spiders?"

    "Later we went shopping. Someone was painting a shop front, so there was a ladder. Grandmother

stopped me from walking under it and said I must walk around it. I liked the shops and bought some lovely

rose soap for my mother, a smart umbrella for my father and some new shoes for myself. When we got

back, I put the shoes on the table and opened the umbrella to check if it was all right. Your grandmother

came in and screamed (尖叫)!" 

    "Then I broke a small mirror in the bathroom.Your grandmother's face went white. I felt very sorry.

When I left I gave your grandmother some flowers. She counted and there were l 3. She didn't like it. I

think she was happy l was goin9."

    I explained to Lu, "My grandmother follows the old customs (习俗). You must not give someone an

empty purse or they will have no money. You must not kill a 'money spider' or the same will happen. Also

it is very unlucky to walk under a ladder and to put new shoes on the table.An open umbrella in a house

means someone will die. Breaking a mirror brings seven years' bad luck, and 13 is also a very unlucky

number. You were really making my grandmother very afraid."

1.Why did Lu frighten the writer's grandmother?[ ]

A.Because he could not speak English.

B.Because he did many unlucky things.

C.Because he understood British customs.

D.Because he went shopping in England.

2.What do many British people think of spiders? [ ]

A.They are afraid of them.

B.They keep spiders as pets.

C.They think some kinds of spiders are lucky.

D.They hope to see every kind of spiders in their houses.

3.What did the writer's grandmother feel when she saw the umbrella? [ ]

A.Excited.

B.Angry.

C.Happy.

D.Afraid

4.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? [ ]

A.Thirteen is an unlucky number in England

B.People never give purses as presents in England.

C.For most British people,breaking a mirror means bad luck

D.It is very unlucky to walk under a ladder or put new shoes on the table in England.

5.How many wrong things did Lu do altogether? [ ]

A.5

B.7

C.8

D.10

答案

1-5: BCDBB

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     From bankers to factory staff, employees in the West face a cold prospect of losing their jobs as a

global recession(衰退) starts to bite. For colleagues in the East, the pain is more likely to come through

a pay cut.

     Human resource experts say cultural differences explain why Asian companies try harder to preserve

jobs in difficult times, which will prevent unemployment and may help Asian economies survive at a time

of slowing exports. The East Asian attitude may also make it easier for companies to recover quickly

from the economic downturn since they will not need to rehire or train new staff, but build up a more

loyal and devo ted group.

     "In the Confucian mindset(儒家思想), the right thing to do is to share the burden, which is the sense

of collective responsibility. While in the West, it's more about individual survival," said Michael Benoliel,

associate professor of organizational behavior at Singapore Management University (SMU).

     In contrast, local Western companies from General Motors to Goldman Sachs plan to lay off

workers by the thousands, but at the Asian units of Western multinationals or western units of Asian

groups, job cuts will probably be less severe.

      Japan's jobless rate was 4 percent in September, up from 3.8 percent in January, while Hong

Kong's was flat at 3.4 percent. But US unemployment is expected to have jumped to 6.3 percent last

month from below 5 percent in January.

     Experts say that while there are noticeable differences in labor practices in East and West, the gap

will narrow as more firms become more multinational and competition forces firms to adopt the best

practices of rivals(对手) from abroad.

1. The underlined word "prospect" in the first paragraph most probably means _________.

A. weather    

B. scene    

C. future    

D. place

2. Compared with job cuts, pay cuts can bring the following benefits EXCEPT that _________.

A. it's helpful to the economy recovery

B. it costs the company less money to survive

C. it will keep the experienced and skilled workers

D. it can form a team working harder and more loyally

3. According to Michael Benoliel, the Confucian mindset focuses on _________.

A. human rights  

B. sharing responsibility

C. personal profits

D. individual survival

4. In which company can we infer the job cuts will be probably the most severe?

A. A local American group.  

B. A small Japanese company.

C. A German branch of a Korean multinational.  

D. A Hong Kong's unit of a French company.

5. The passage mainly tells us ________.

A. the difficulties all the companies around the world will meet with today

B. the cultural differences between Eastern and Western world at present

C. the ways to cut down the cost of the companies in economic downturn

D. the different labor solutions of Asian and Western in global recession