America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon. They don’t feel hurt. If the same two people meet again, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand .Friendships between us develop more slowly but may become lifelong feelings, extending（延伸）deeply into both families.
There is another difficult point for us to understand. Although Americans treat friends warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to them if it requires a great deal of time. But in China, we are usually generous with our time. We, as hosts, will appear at an airport even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take a day off from our work to act as guides to our friends. It is opposite in America. Americans cannot manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily plans. They will probably expect the visitors to get themselves from the airport to the hotels. And they expect the visitors will phone them from there. Once the visitors arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real.
For Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to restaurants, except for business matters. Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. So accept their hospitality（好客）at home and enjoy your visit in America!
小題1: The underlined phrase "pick up" in Paragraph 1may mean "_________________".
A．put downB．give upC．pay no attention toD．continue
小題2: From the passage, we can know_________________.
A．Americans are always generous with their time.
B．Americans don’t feel hurt if their friendships disappear soon.
C．Chinese friendships develop more slowly but will never disappear.
D．Chinese friendships develop faster than American friendships.
小題3:This passage is most probably written for __________________.
A．American studentsB．Chinese students
C．Chinese visitors to AmericaD．American visitors to China
DBC

小題1:聯(lián)系上下文，可知此處指的是繼續(xù)他們的友誼的意思，故選D，繼續(xù)。
小題2:根據(jù)第一段Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon. They don’t feel hurt.描述，可知選B
小題3:根據(jù)最后一段So accept their hospitality（好客）at home and enjoy your visit in America!及上文描述，可知這篇短文最適合到美國參觀的人閱讀，故選C，到美國的中國游客
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