Many Chinese students don’t pay much attention to spoken English at school. They think it necessary to practice   36   English in class, but not   37   class. Here is a story to show you   38   important it is to speak the English language freely in everyday life.

A foreigner once   39   hungry and went into a restaurant in London. He sat down at a table. When the waiter came, he   40   his mouth, put his fingers into it and took them out again in order to   41   that he wanted something   42   because he could not speak English. The waiter soon   43   him a cup of tea. The man shook his head. The waiter then took   44   the tea and gave him a cup of coffee. Still the man didn’t   45   what he wanted. He tried again and again, but he wasn’t able to make the waiter   46   him. Finally   47   man came in. He spoke English   48   and fluently. After a few minutes, there was a large plate of meat and vegetables on the table in front of   49   .

So you see a man can go hungry if he   50   master（掌握）a foreign language.

1.A. speak                      B. speaking                 C. to speak

2. A. outsider                  B. out                      C. out of

3. A. how                       B. how an                   C. what an

4. A. get                       B. gets                     C. got

5.A. open                       B. opened                   C. opens

6. A. express                       B. expressed                    C. expressing

7.A. eats                       B. eating                       C. to eat

8.A. took                       B. brought                  C. bought

9.A. away                       B. out of                       C. down

10.A. make                      B. give                     C. get

11. A. understand                   B. understood                   C. be understood

12.A. other                     B. the other                    C. another

13.A. clean                     B. clear                        C. clearly

14.A. he                            B. him                      C. his

15.A. doesn’t                       B. won’t                    C. isn’t

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A woman was eating in a restaurant. She asked the waiter do many t  1   for her. Now she was g  2   the waiter a lot of trouble. F  3  , she asked the waiter to turn on the air conditioner because she f   1  too hot. Then she asked him to turn it o   2  because she was too cold. This went on and on for n   6  half an hour.

But the waiter was very kind and h   7 . He did everything the woman asked h  8  to do without getting angry. F 9 , someone else in the restaurant asked why the w  10   didn’t just throw the woman out. “Oh, I don’t care.” The waiter said. “We don’t even have an air conditioner.”

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A poor farmer had left his small village. After he ? 1.? plenty of money, he decided to spend a ? 2.?? in an excellent hotel in a big town.?????????

When lunch time came on his? 3. day there, he went to the restaurant of the hotel in his new clothes. The head waiter ? 4.? him to the table, took his 5.? and went away. When he turned and looked at the farmer again, he had a surprise! The farmer had tied his table cloth round his? 6.?? .

The head waiter immediately（立即）?? 7.? another waiter to go to the farmer and told him that people mustn't do?? 8. a thing in his restaurant. So the waiter went to the farmer and said in a friendly ? 9.. "Good morning, sir. Would you like a? 10.? ?"

If you are sitting at a table with people you don’t know, it is impolite to smoke without first asking if it will disturb them.

At American restaurants and coffee shops, cold water is usually served before you order. You may find the bread and the butter are free, and if you order coffee, you may get a free refill.

Most cities and towns have no rules about opening and closing time for stores and restaurants, though they usually do make rules for bars. Especially in big cities, stores may be open 24 hours a day.

Servings in restaurants are often large. If you can’t finish the meal but would like to enjoy the food later, ask the waiter or the waitress for a “doggie bag”(剩菜袋). It may have a picture of a dog on it, but everybody knows you are taking the food for yourself.

Tips are not usually added to the check. You should leave a tip of about 15% on the table when you leave. In some restaurants, a waiter or waitress often bring your check on a plate, and you can put your money there. Then the waiter or the waitress brings you your changes.

1.______ is usually served before you order at American restaurants or coffee shops.

A．Bread            B．Butter            C．Coffee            D．Cold water

2.American people always ______ when servings are too large for them.

A．take the food home for their dogs.

B．leave the food on the table and go away

C．take the food home in doggie bags for themselves.

D．ask the waiter or the waitress to keep the food for them.

3.If you spend ＄120 for your meal, you’ll probably leave a tip of _____.

A．＄10             B．＄18             C．＄30             D．＄50

4.How can you give tips in America?

A．They are usually added to the check.

B．They are added to the price of the meal.

C．A tip is usually 1/5 of the price of the meal.

D．You can leave them on the table when you leave.

5.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．It’s bad manners to smoke if the people who sit at the same table mind it.

B．At American restaurants and coffee shops, bread, butter and coffee are all free.

C．American people never sit with people they don’t know.

D．Few cities and towns make rules for bars in American.

Living in a foreign culture can be exciting, but it can also be confusing (令人迷惑的). A group of Americans who taught English in other countries recently discussed their experiences. They decided that miscommunications were always possible, even over something as simple as "yes" and "no".

On her first day in Micronesia, an island in the Pacific, Lisa thought people weren’t paying any attention to her. The day was hot. She went into a store and asked, “Do you have cold drinks. The woman there didn’t say anything. Lisa repeated the question. Still the Woman said nothing. She later learned that the woman had answered her:  She had raised her eyebrows (眉毛), which in Micronesia means "yes".
Jan remembered an experience she had in Bulgaria, a country in Europe. She went to a restaurant that was known for its cabbage. She asked the waiter, "Do, you have cabbage today?" He nodded his head. Jan waited, but the cabbage never came. In that country, a nod means no.
Tom had a similar problem when he arrived in India. After explaining something in class, he asked his students if they understood. They answered with many different nods and shakes of the head. He thought some people had not understood, so he explained again. When he asked again, they did the same thing~ He soon found out that his students did understand. In India, people nod and shake their heads in different ways depending on where they come from. You have to know where a person is from to understand whether they mean "yes" or "no".
【小题1】These Americans teaching English in other countries found that they ______.