阅读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容，在每小题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。 C &ldquo;How are you?&rdquo; is a nice question. It&#039;s a ...

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江苏省扬州市江都区2015-2016学年八年级下学期期末测试

阅读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容，在每小题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。
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“How are you?” is a nice question. It's a friendly way that people in the USA greet each other. But “How are you” is also a very unusual question. It's a question that often doesn't need an answer. The person who asks “How are you?” hopes to hear the answer “ Fine”, even if the person's friend isn't fine. The reason is that “How are you?” isn't really a question and “Fine” isn't really an answer. They are simply other ways of saying “Hello” or “Hi”.
Sometimes, people also don't say exactly what they mean. For example, when someone asks “Do you agree?” the other person might think, “No, I disagree. I think you're wrong…” But it isn't very polite to disagree so strongly, so the other person might say “I'm not sure.” It's a nicer way to say that you don't agree with someone.
People also don't say exactly what they are thinking when they finish talking with other people. For example, may talks over the phone finish when one person says “I've to go now.” Often, the person who wants to hang up gives an excuse “Someone's at the door.” “Something is burning on the stove.” The excuses might be real, or not. Perhaps the person who wants to hang up simple doesn't want to talk any more, but it isn't polite to say that. The excuse is more polite, and it doesn't hurt the other person.
Whether they are greeting each other, talking about an idea, or finishing a talk, people don't say exactly that they are thinking. It's an important way that people try to be nice to each other, and it's part of the rule of the game of language.

（1）、When a person in America asks “How are you?” he or she wants to hear “________”.

A、How are you? B、Hello C、I don't know D、Fine

（2）、When a person disagree with someone, it is polite to say “________”.

A、You are wrong. I disagree B、I'm not sure C、I'm sure I disagree D、No, I disagree

（3）、When a person says “I've to go now./ Someone's at the door.” the person may be ________.

A、Giving an excuse B、Hurting someone's feelings C、ill D、asking you a question

（4）、The rule of the game of language is probably “________”.

A、Always say what you mean B、Don't disagree with people C、Never say exactly what you're thinking D、Be polite

举一反三

    You may hear someone say, "It's raining cats and dogs."We know it means it's raining hard. Here is how it comes.
    There are many large rats in a country. People need cats. But there are many mountains in the country. It's hard for a plane to land (着陆）． So the cats come down by parachute（降落伞）．
    In another country, the people need dogs to find people in the snow. Where can they get the dogs? You can guess. The dogs also come down by parachute.
    These cats and dogs are helping the people. And the people often say it rains cats and dogs.

In western countries, especially in America, some social customs have lasted still today. For example, ladies first, that is to say, women in those countries are respected(尊重) in many ways. In the U.S. and Europe, you will see men usually open doors for women and women generally walk ahead of men into a room or a restaurant unless the man have to be ahead of the ladies to choose the table, to open the door of a car or to give other services. On the street, men almost walk or across the street on the side of the ladies which is closer to traffic, but if a man walks with two ladies, he should walk between them.

    Today we can use the Internet for many things: shopping, business, writing letters, talking to people, getting information and so on. In recent years, a new kind of English has grown on the Internet. There's no real word for it yet, so we call it e-talk.
    People don't like typing too much. To save time, they turn phrases into a few letters， acronyms(首字母缩略词). Acronyms are often used in chat rooms. Some are as follows:
    BRB (be right back), BTW (by the way), LOL (laughing out loud), IMO (in my opinion)
    People also use many abbreviations. They are shortened forms of words. Some common abbreviations include info (information), pic (picture), puter (computer), sec (second), etc.
    We usually don't see people when we communicate on the Net, so people have new ways to show feelings. Most people use their keyboards to draw "feelings", such as:
:-) (happy)     ;-) (joking)       :-( (sad)        :-O (surprised)
These days, many public discussions have picture feelings, for example:

(happy)           (sad)            (angry)           ( (cool)
    There are even whole new words, like "newbies"(someone who is new on a chat board or forum). When you write something bad about someone else, it's called "burning" the person.
    It takes time for people to get used to e-talk. Also, different groups on the Net have their own special ways of communicating. Newbies sometimes have to ask other people what they mean. As the Internet grows, e-talk will continue to grow and change.

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Paper cut can be seen in many parts of China during the Spring Festival. People put it on windows, doors and walls for the festival.

A thousand years ago, paper cut was used for decoration (装饰). In Tang Dynasty women used paper cut as headdress. In Song Dynasty, it helped make gifts more beautiful. What's more, people would feel happier when they saw paper cut on windows, doors and walls. Now people use paper cut to express their wishes for welcoming the New Year.

There are different kinds of paper cut in different parts of China. Pictures usually cover nearly all things, from flowers, birds to the famous people. Now, there are factories for paper cut in China. Paper cut has changed from decoration to a kind of art. At the same time, paper cut also appears in cartoons, magazines or TV programs.

阅读理解

For most of people in the west，Valentine's Day(情人节) ends on February 15，but here in Japan it's not quite over until March 15.March 14—exactly one month after Valentine's Day—is White Day in Japan.

To really understand what White Day is all about，you have to understand what Valentine's Day in Japan is like. Japanese Valentine's Day is all about men getting presents. Japanese women are usually too shy to show their love，though it might not be true today. Valentine's Day is a great chance to let women show their feelings. Men should return gifts to women on White Day.

On both days，chocolate is the gift of choice. More often，the colour of the chocolate is white because of the name of the day. You can also buy flowers，candy，or cookies.

Does it sound good to you? Don't get too excited when you get chocolate from Japanese girls! They give chocolate not only to their loved ones，but also to men such as bosses (老板) and male(男性的) friends.

The Japanese first celebrated White Day in 1978.Now it is also celebrated in South Korea and Taiwan，China.

阅读理解

The construction(建设)of high﹣speed railways in China began with the building of the Qinhuangdao﹣Shenyang High﹣Speed Railway（HSR）in 1999.Now the high﹣speed rail network in China is the largest in the world. So far, there have been about 1700 kilometers of HSR in service, along with trains of an average(平均)speed of 220 km/h.

Now Chinese government plans to spend $300 million building the largest and fastest HSR system in the world by 2020. It's said that the trains can run 400 km/h and create new business for China and other countries through the Belt and Road.(一带一路)

It's predicted that the HSR network in China will reach 30,000 kilometers and it will be like a grid, which is mainly made up of 8 long﹣distance high﹣speed rail lines: four north﹣south HSR lines and four east﹣west HSR lines. Except for the Qingdao﹣Taiyuan HSR, all HSR lines of the railgrid are longer than 1,000 kilometers.

Feng Hao, an expert, says "Many markets along the Belt and Road, especially in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Eastern European countries, are planning to build HSR lines. They look forward to getting technological support from China".

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