Traveling to all corners of the world gets easier and easier, but bow well do we know and understand each other? Here is a {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (简易的) test. Imagine you will hold a meeting at four o'clock, what time should you {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(预料，认为) your foreign business friends to come? If they are German, they will {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(到达) on time. If they are American, they'll probably be fifteen minutes early. If they are British, they'I1 be fifteen minutes {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(迟).

    The British seemed to think since the English language was {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(广泛地) used in the world, what they did was certain to be understood. Very soon they {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(发现) they were completely wrong. For {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(例子), the British are happy to have a business lunch and discuss business matters with a drink during the meal; the Japanese prefer not to work {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(在….的时候) eating because lunch is a time for them to {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(放松) and get to know each other; the Germans like to talk business before dinner; the French like to eat {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(先) and talk afterwards.

    Soap is widely used in our lives around the world. Once soap was a dangerous-to-make hair {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(产品). But it is something that it would be difficult to live without today.

    Soap is everywhere. We use it every day and {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (认为)it as something important in our lives.

    It also has an amazing{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (历史), in Babylon around 2800 B. C. the {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (最早)known soap was made and used. Ancient Egyptians also made soap. At one time, soap-making was not {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (安全).

    That's because lye(碱液){#blank#}6{#/blank#}(导致)chemical burns or even made people blind in the making process. Other dangerous materials were also {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (混合)with animal fats and oils. Later. soap became {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (可购得的)in stores and people gradually stopped making it in their homes.

    Originally (最初), soap was not mainly used for {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (清洁).Instead, it was used as gel(凝胶) for making hair stay in place or smell good. The Arabs first made the soap that we know today. They created colored, liquid, and hard soaps. They even had soaps which were used for shaving(刮胡子).

    Soap became people's{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (最喜欢的)in the late 1800s. Advertising in Europe and the US helped people understand the connection between cleanliness and good health. Now. Soap is something we wouldn't want to live without.