America is a mobile society. Friendships between
Americans can be close and real, yet disappear 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. Friendships between
us develop more slowly but may become lifelong feelings, extending（延伸）deeply into both families.
There is another difficult point for us to understand.
Although Americans treat friends warmly in their personal everyday lives, they
don’t show their politeness to them if it requires a great deal of time. But in
China, we are usually generous with our time. We, as hosts, will appear at an
airport 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: It is opposite in America,
Americans can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside
their daily plans. They will probably expect the visitors to get themselves
from the airport to the hotels. And they expect the visitors will phone them
from there. Once the visitors arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full,
warm and real.
For Americans, it is often considered more friendly to
invite a friend to their homes than to restaurants, except for 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!
1.The underlined phrase “pick up” in Paragraph 1 may
mean “_______”.
A．keep out
B．give up
C．pay no
attention to
D．continue
2.Which of the following is the typical way of
American hospitality?
A．Treating
friends at home.
B．Taking days
off to be with friends.
C．Meeting
friends at the airport at midnight.
D．Sharing
everything they have.
3.Which of the following statements in True according
to the passage?
A．Americans are
always generous 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 more sincere than American friendships.
4.This passage is most probably written for .
A．American
students
B．Chinese
students
C．Chinese
visitors to America
D．American
visitors to China
