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根据短文内容及首字母提示,填写所缺单词,使短文意思完整。

    Traveling to all corners of the world gets easier and easier, but how well do we know and u___1______each other? Here is a simple test. Imagine you will hold a m    2      at four o’clock, what time should you e___3__your foreign business friends to come? If they are German, they will a__4__on time. If they are American, they’ll probably be fifteen minutes early. If they are British, they’ll be fifteen minutes late. The British seemed to think since the English l        5        was widely used in the world, what they did was certain to be widely understood. Very soon they f    6       they were completely (完全地) wrong. For e    7        , the British are happy to have a business lunch and discuss business matters with a drink during the meal; the Japanese p     8     not to work while eating. Lunch is a time for them to relax and get to know e     9    other, and they don’t drink at lunch. The Germans like to talk business b__10____ dinner; the French like to eat first and talk afterwards. They have to be well fed and watered before they discuss anything.

[答案](反白可见):

1. understand
2. meeting
3. expect
4. arrive
5. language
6. found
7. example
8. prefer
9. each

10. before

[解析]本文介绍世界各国不同的风俗习惯,应了解并尊重各国的习俗。

1. 文章句首提出“现在到全世界每个地区变得越来越容易,但怎样才能更深入更好的相互了解呢?”所以填understand,依据do you know and understand, know与understand是两个并列的动词。

2. 这儿有一个简单的实验,假设你在四点钟举行一个会议。

3. 你期望你的外国朋友何时来开会?

4. 如果他们是德国人,他们会准时到达。

5. 应填名词language,英语被广泛地运用。

6. 应填动词,他们发现they found用过去时,因为这一段讲述英国人的看法,是过去的事,而且所给的句子都是用的一般过去时。

7. for example举例,依据文章后边的几种情况,说明是举例说明英国人的看法是错的,即“不能因为英语在全世界广泛运用,英国人的习惯做法也被广泛运用。”

8. 依据上句的意思“英国人喜欢中午饭时谈生意和讨论生意上的问题,在吃饭时,边喝边谈”。推断出日本人却不喜欢边吃边谈,他们认为午饭对他们来说是放松一下自己,并且互相了解,在午饭时,他们是不喝酒的。

9. to know each other互相了解的意思。

10. before dinner在吃饭前,与下一句eat first and talk afterwards先吃后谈话相对应。