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     Lisa was running late. Lisa,25,had a lot to do at work,plus visitors on the way: her parents were

coming in for Thanksgiving from her hometown. But as she hurried down the subway stairs, she started

to feel uncomfortably warn. By the time she got to the platform,Lisa felt weak and tired--maybe it hadn't

been a good idea to give blood the night before,she thought. She rested herself against a post close to the

tracks.

     Several yards away,Frank,43,and his girlfriend,Jennifer,found a spot close to where the front of the

train would stop. They were deep in discussion about a house they were thinking of buying.

     But when he heard the scream,followed by someone yelling,"Oh,my God,she fell in!" Frank didn't

hesitate. He jumped down to the tracks and ran some 40 feet toward the body lying on the rails. "No!

Not you! "his girlfriend screamed after him.

     She was right to be alarmed. By the time Frank reached Lisa,he could feel the tracks shaking and

see the light coming. The train was about 20 seconds from the station.

     It was hard to lift her. She was just out. But he managed to raise her the four feet to the platform so

that bystanders could hold her by the grins and drag her away from the edge. That was where Lisa briefly

regained consciousness,felt herself being pulled along the ground,and saw someone else holding her purse.

     Lisa thought she'd been robbed. A woman held her hand and a man gave his shirt to help stop the

blood pouring from her head. And she tried to talk but she couldn't,and that was when she realized how

much pain she was in.

     Police and fire officials soon arrived,and Frank told the story to an officer. Jennifer said her boyfriend

was calm on their 40-minute train ride downtown-just as he had been seconds after the rescue,which

made her think about her reaction at the time. "I saw the train coming and 1 was thinking he was going to

die,"she explained.

1. What was the most probable cause for Lisa's weakness?

A. She had run a long way.              

B. She felt hot in the subway.

C. She had done a 1ot of work.            

D. She had donated blood the night before.

2. Why did Jennifer try to stop her boyfriend?

A. Because they would miss their train.        

B. Because he didn't see the train coming.

C. Because she was sure Lisa was hard to lift.  

D. Because she was afraid the train would kill him.

3. How did Frank save Lisa?

A. By lifting her to the platform.          

B. By helping her rise to her feet.

C. By pulling her along the ground.        

D. By dragging her away from the edge.

4. When did Lisa become conscious again?

A. When the train was leaving.            

B. After she was back on the platform.

C. After the police and fire officials came.  

D. When a man was cleaning the blood from her head.

5. The passage is intended to _____________

A. warn us of the danger in the subway      

B. show US how to save people in the subway

C. tell US about a subway rescue          

D. report a traffic accident

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1-5: DDABC

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     Ideas about polite behavior are different from one culture to another. Some societies, such as America

and Australia 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. 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 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 put 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 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 unwritten 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 Americans and Australians ____.

 A. like traveling better

B. easy to communicate with

C. difficult to make real friends

D. have a long-term relationship with their neighbors

2. 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

3. In "particularist societies", ______.

A. they have no rules for people to obey

B. people obey the society's rules completely

C. no one obeys the society's rules though they have

D. the society's rules can be changed with different persons or situations

4. The writer of the passage thinks that the Indian and the German have different ideas about rules

    because of different ______.

A. interests

B. cultures

C. habits and customs

D. ways of life

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Analysts have their go at humor, and I have read some of this interpretative literature, (1) without being greatly instructed. Humor can be (2) , (3) a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are (4) to any but the pure scientific mind.

One of the things (5) said about humorists is that they are really very sad ’people clowns with a breaking heart. There is some truth in it, but it is badly (6) . It would be more (7) , I think, to say that there is a deep vein of melancholy running through everyone’s life and that the humorist, perhaps more (8) of it than some others, compensates for it actively and (9) Humorists fatten on troubles. They have always made trouble (10) They struggle along with a good will and endure pain (11) , knowing how well it will (12) them in the sweet by and by. You find them wrestling with foreign languages, fighting folding ironing hoards and’ swollen drainpipes, suffering the terrible (13) of tight boots. They pour out their sorrows profitably, in a (14) of what is not quite fiction nor quite fact either. Beneath the sparking surface of these dilemmas flows the p (15) of human woe.

Practically everyone is a manic depressive of sorts, with his up moments and his down moments, and you certainly don’t have to be a humorist to (16) the sadness of situation and mood. But there is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying, and if a humorous piece of writing brings a person to the point (17) his emotional responses are untrustworthy and seem likely to break over into the opposite realm, it is (18) humor, like poetry, has an extra content, it plays (19) to the big hot fire which is Truth, and sometimes the reader feels the (20) .

20（）

A.warmth

B.severity

C.tension

D.fever
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