Question

In an American classroom, a Chinese girl was asked to answer a question. She stood up and smiled, without making any sound. The American teacher looked at himself and didn’t see anything funny. So he asked her the question again. The girl just smiled but said nothing. The teacher was angry. He didn’t know that the girl smiled to cover her embarrassment（尴尬）because she wasn’t able to answer the question.

In a dining room in Beijing, an Englishman was careless and dropped a plate. The Chinese who had seen this began to laugh. The Englishman felt uncomfortable and even got angry. “They are laughing at me,” he thought. In fact the Chinese laughed not at the Englishman or his bad luck—whether he is a foreigner or a Chinese. The smile or laughter has several feelings: don’t take it so seriously; laugh it off, it’s nothing; such things can happen to any of us.

1.The Chinese girl smiled in an American classroom because ________________.

A. she was asked to answer a question     B. she was asked to stand up

C. she couldn’t answer the question          D. the teacher looked funny

2.Which feeling is NOT included in the laughter when the Englishman dropped a plate?

A. Don’t take it seriously.                B. Bad luck!   

C. It’s nothing.                    D. It can happen to any of us.

3.What does the writer want to tell us?

A. Smile and laughter don’t mean the same thing to different people.

B. Smile and laughter always bring happiness.

C. American people are easy to get angry.

D. Chinese students are impolite

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.C

2.B

3.A

【解析】

试题分析：短文大意，这篇短文以两个不同情境下的笑声，向我们解释了同样的笑声在不同人群之间会有不同的含义。

1.细节理解题。根据He didn’t know that the girl smiled to cover her embarrassment（尴尬）because she wasn’t able to answer the question.描述，可知这个中国女孩微笑，是因为她不能回答这个问题。故选C。

2.细节理解题。根据第二段The smile or laughter has several feelings: don’t take it so seriously; laugh it off, it’s nothing; such things can happen to any of us.描述，可知这些笑声里面没有倒霉的含义。故选B。

3.主旨大意题。这篇短文以两个不同情境下的笑声，向我们解释了同样的笑声，在不同人群之间会有不同的含义，故选A。

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