Unit 1 Art reading课时作业

[语言知识练习固基础]

　　单句语法填空

　　1．They broke into loud cheers on hearing the news.

　　2．He curiously (curious) ran after her who had slipped out of the room.

　　3．It is my belief that good manners (manner) are very important to everybody.

　　4．They made a request that the prisoners be set(set) free.

　　5．He is quite familiar with the city because he is a native of it.

　　6．She speaks in a whisper so as not to wake him up.

　　7．I was so tired I dropped off in front of the television.

　　8．He got injured (injure) through his own carelessness.

　　9．They shouted to me to hang on to the rope.

　　10．When do you fly home? I'll see you off．

[高考题型练习提能力]

　　Ⅰ.阅读理解

　　When my family moved to America in 2010 from a small village in Guangdong, China, we brought not only our luggage, but also our village rules, customs and culture.One of the rules is that young people should always respect elders.Unluckily, this rule led to my very first embarrassment in the United States.

　　I had a part­time job as a waiter in a Chinese restaurant.One time, when I was serving food to a middle­aged couple, the wife asked me how the food could be served so quickly.I told her that I had made sure they got their food quickly because I always respect the elderly.As soon as I said that, her face showed great displeasure.My manager, who happened to hear what I said, took me aside and gave me a long lecture about how sensitive (敏感) Americans are and how they dislike the description "old"．I then walked back to the table and apologized to the wife.After the couple heard my reason, they understood that the problem was caused by cultural differences, so they laughed and were no longer angry.

In my village in China, people are proud of being old.Not so many people live to be seventy or eighty，and people who reach such an age have the most knowledge and