课时作业(二) Exploring English（Word练习）-2023高考英语一轮复习【优化指导】高中总复习·第1轮（外研版 新教材 新高考）

课时作业(二) UNIT 2　Exploring English 一、阅读理解 (2021·吉林市第二中学期中)Good manners are always good manners. That's what I thought until I married Alexander, who is Russian. When I first met Alexander and he said to me in Russian, “Nalei mnye chai—pour me some tea.” I got angry and answered, “Pour it yourself.” Translated into English, without a “Could you ...？” or a “please”， it sounded really rude to me. But in Russian it was fine—you don't have to add any polite words. However, when I took Alexander home to meet my parents in the UK, I had to give him a good lesson about pleases and thank you (which he thought were completely unnecessary), and to teach him to say sorry if someone happened to step on his toes, and to smile, smile, smile. Another thing that Alexander just couldn't understand was why people say things like “Would you mind passing me the salt, please？” He said, “It's only the salt, for God's sake! What do you say in English if you want a real favour？” He also watched in amazement when, at a dinner party in England, we swallowed some really disgusting food and I said, “Mmmm ...delicious.” In Russia, people are much more direct. The first time Alexander's mother came to our house for dinner in Moscow, she told me that my soup needed more flavouring. Afterwards, when we argued about it, my husband said, “Do you prefer your dinner guests to lie？” Alexander complained that in England he felt like an idiot because in Russia if you smile all the time people think you are mad. In fact, this is exactly what my husband's friends thought of me the first time I went to Russia because I smiled at everyone, and always said “please” and “thank you” in Russian. At home we now have an agreement. If we're speaking Russian, he can say “Pour me some tea”， and just make a noise like a grunt(咕哝声) when I give it to him. But when we're speaking English, he has to add a “please”， a “thank you”， and a smile. [语篇解读]本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了作者和丈夫分别来自英国和俄国，由于文化背景的不同导致的语言习惯上的差异。 1．What can we know from