阅读理解(1) You who are letting miserable misunderstandings run on from year to year, meaning to clear them up some day; you who are keeping wretched quarrels alive because you cannot quite make up your mind that now is the day to sacrifice your pride and kill them; you who are passing men sullenly upon the street, not speaking to them out of some silly spite, and yet knowing that it would fill you with shame and remorse if you heard that one of those men were dead tomorrow morning; you who are letti

阅读理解Did you know that you could have an exciting career in law without becoming a lawyer? A paralegal, or legal assistant, does many of the things a lawyer does

阅读理解Passage 1 The standardized educational or psychological tests, that are widely used to aid in selecting, classifying, assigning, or promoting students, employees, and military personnel have been the target of recent attacks in books, magazines, the daily press, and even in Congress

阅读理解Independent drugstores are raising questions about the states effort to save tens of millions of dollars by rolling pharmacies into Medicaid managed care

阅读理解What we know of prenatal development makes all this attempt made by a mother to mold the character of herunborn child by studying poetry, art, or mathematics during pregnancy seem utterly impossible

阅读理解Passage 4 Joy and sadness are experienced by people in all cultures around the world, but how can we tell when other people are happy or despondent? It turns out that the expression of many emotions may be universal

阅读理解(1) Though the number of court-ordered cesareans（剖腹产）is small, each one symbolizes a disturbing trend the encroachment on the rights of the pregnant woman; the view of her as the jar or container of the next generation

阅读理解Now that the Obama health care plan has passed in to law, it looks as though more Americans are in favor of the plan

阅读理解Text 1 Shyness is the cause of much unhappiness for a great many people

阅读理解Passage 3 Is Harvard worth it? Conventional wisdom says yes

阅读理解Passage 2 The island of Great Britain being small (compare the size of Australia), the natural place for holiday relaxation and enjoyment is its extensive coastline, above all its southern and eastern coasts, though Blackpool, which is probably the best known and more crowded seaside town, and the favourite resort of the mass-population of industrial Lancashire, is on the north-west coast

阅读理解Passage 1 If you, like me, distrust school cafeterias, you pack homemade lunches for your children, as I did until my sons finished high school

阅读理解Is a car that does not have to be refueled every few hundred miles, with the atom exploding peacefully beneath the bonnet, possible in the future? In theory it is, since already the atom has been harnessed to drive submarines, and an atomic engine is already in existence

阅读理解Passage 3 If you are a male and you are reading this, congratulations: you are a survivor

阅读理解Passage 4 One minute into annual inspection and things are already going wrong for the Globe Hotel

阅读理解Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. For each of them there are four choices marked A., B., C. and D. You should decide on the best choice.Passage 3The danger of misinterpretation is greatest, of course, among speakers who actually speak different native tongues, or come from different cultural backgrounds, because cultural difference necessarily implies different assumptions about natural and obvious ways to be polite. Anthropologist Thomas Kochman gives the example of a white office worker who appeared with a bandaged arm and felt rejected because her black fellow worker didn’t mention it. The doubly wounded worker assumed that her silent colleague didn’t notice or didn’t care. But the co-worker was purposely not calling attention to something her colleague might not want to talk about. She let her decide whether or not to mention it, being considerate by not imposing. Kochman says, based on his research, that these differences reflect recognizable black and white styles. An American woman visiting England was repeatedly offended—even, on bad days, enraged—when the British ignored her in setting in which she thought they should pay attention. For example, she was sitting at a booth in a railway-station cafeteria. A couple began to settle into the opposite seat in the same booth. They unloaded their luggage; they laid their coats on the seat; he asked what she would like to eat and went off to get it; she slid into the booth facing the American. And throughout all this, they showed no sign of having noticed that someone was already sitting in the booth. When the British woman lit up a cigarette, the American had a concrete object for her anger. She began ostentatiously looking around for another table to move to. Of course there was none; that’s why the British couple had sat in her booth in the first place. The smoker immediately crushed out her cigarette and apologized. This showed that she had noticed that someone else was sitting in the booth, and that she was not inclined to disturb her. But then she went back to pretending the American wasn’t there, a ruse in which her husband collaborated when he returned with their food and they ate it. To the American, politeness requires talk between strangers forced to share a booth in a cafeteria, if only a fleeting “Do you mind if I sit down?” or a conventional, “Is anyone sitting here?” even if it’s obvious no one is. The omission of such talk seemed to her like dreadful rudeness. The American couldn’t see that another system of politeness was at work. By not acknowledging her presence, the British couple freed her from the obligation to acknowledge theirs. The American expected a show of involvement; they were being polite by not imposing. An American man who had lived for years in Japan explained a similar politeness ethic. He lived, as many Japanese do, in extremely close quarters—a tiny room separated from neighboring rooms by paper-thin walls. In this case the walls were literally made of paper. In order to preserve privacy in this most un-private situation, his Japanese neighbor with the door open, they steadfastly glued their gaze ahead as if they were alone in a desert. The American confessed to feeling what I believe most American would feel if a next-door neighbor passed within a few feet without acknowledging their presence—snubbed. But he realized that the intention was not rudeness by omitting to show involvement, but politeness by not imposing. The fate of the earth depends on cross-cultural communication. Nations must reach agreements, and agreements are made by individual representatives of nations sitting down and talking to each other—public analogues of private conversation. The processes are the same, and so are the pitfalls. Only the possible consequences are more extreme.

阅读理解They may be one of Britains most successful exports and among the worlds most popular TV shows， ranking alongside the World Cup Final and the Olympic Games opening ceremony in terms of audience

阅读理解Text A Whether the eyes are the windows of the soul is debatable; that they are intensely important in interpersonal communication is a fact

阅读理解It is hardly necessary for me to cite all the evidence of the depressing state of literacy

阅读理解Passage Three For anyone who doubts that the texting revolution is upon us， consider this: The average 13-to 17-year-old sends and receives 3,339 texts a month一more than 100 per day, according to the Nielsen Co