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Module 3
单元主题语篇训练
I,阅读理解
1.Which of the following people might have the
A
longest silence in conversation?
A.The Dutch.
B.Americans.
At your next meeting,wait for a pause in
C.The English.
D.The Japanese.
conversation and try to measure how long it lasts.
:2.What might the Japanese agree with in
Among English speakers,chances are that it
conversation?
will be a second or two at most.But while this:
A.Speaking more gives the upper hand.
pattern may be universal,our awareness of silence:
B.Speak out what you have in your mind.
differs dramatically across cultures.
C.Great minds think alike without words.
What one culture considers a confusing or:
D.The shorter talking silence,the better.
awkward pause may be seen by others as a valuable 3.What can we learn from the text?
moment of reflection and a sign of respect for what
A.A four-second silence in conversation is
the last speaker has said.Research in Dutch(荷兰:
universal.
and also in English found that when a silence in
B.It's hard for Americans to reach a common
conversation stretches to four seconds.people start
agreement.
to feel uneasy.In contrast,a separate study of
C.English speakers are more talkative than
Japanese speakers.
business meetings found that Japanese people are
D.The closer we and our family are,the easier the
happy with silences of 8.2 seconds-nearly twice as:
silence appears.
long as in Americans'meetings.
4.What does the underlined word "homogeneit"
In Japan.it is recognised that the best
the last paragraph mean?
communication is when you don't speak at all.It's
A.Similarity.
B.Contradiction.
already a failure to understand each other by
C.Diversity.
D.Misunderstanding.
speaking because you're repairing that failure by
B
using words.
There is a song by the great Jamaican singer
In the US,it may originate from the history of Bob Marley called So Much Trouble in the World.
colonial America as a crossroads of:Marley understood that part of the reason why there
many different races.W