Get ready, China. The world is coming! Every day lots of foreigners come here as business people or
tourists. And even more people will come in 2008 for the Beijing Olympics. When they come to China,
we should do something to help them enjoy themselves and like China and the Chinese people. But there
are some things they may not like:
1. Traffic problems. Cars park on sidewalks (人行道). Bus drivers drive so fast that they make
people who are trying to cross the street afraid.
2. Queue jumping. At the post office, or even at McDonald's, people push to the front of a line
instead of waiting.
3. Bumping. Too many people are crowded onto buses and trains. This makes people feel terrible,
and it is not safe, either. On a bus in North America, people try to make themselves smaller and they'll
say "Excuse me" or "Sorry" if they knock into someone. In China, people make themselves bigger with
no "Sorry" or "Excuse me".
4. Littering. I notice this everywhere. Some people throw rubbish onto the ground even when there
is a rubbish bin (箱) right next to them.
Most Chinese people are just as unhappy with these kinds of things as I am. And, certainly, the
government (政府) has known the problems and is trying to do something about them. China is on her
way!
根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
1. Someone throws an empty Cola bottle onto the ground. This is called "______".
A. bumping
B. littering
C. queue jumping
D. a traffic problem
2. The writer thinks we Chinese people should do the following except ______.
A. park our cars at right places
B. wait our turn in public (公共) places
C. throw rubbish into rubbish bins
D. hurry onto buses before others
3. We can conclude(得出结论)from the passage that ______.
A. things will get better and better in China
B. fewer and fewer foreigners will visit
our country
C. there will be more and more traffic problems in Beijing
D. fewer and fewer Chinese people will eat hamburgers
4. When the writer says "Get ready, China", he means that ______.
A. China is going to be a fast-growing country
B. it is time for the Chinese to change their bad behaviors (行为)
C. most Chinese people are as unhappy with these problems as him
D. the Chinese will do a good job in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games
