[单项选择]The short passage advises us to ______.


A. be polite but honest to foreigners
B. learn customs of different countries
C. decide whether to be polite according to different cultures
D. tell more truths to Americans than to people from other countries

[单项选择]The short passage advises us to ______.
A. be polite but honest to foreigners
B. learn customs of different countries
C. decide whether to be polite according to different cultures
D. tell more truths to Americans than to people from other countries

[单项选择]What does the passage mainly tell us

[单项选择]what does the author of the passage would like us to remember


A. "Gold fever" was not worth the lives of many people.
B. Simple objects can stimulate our imagination.
C. Lost shoes should be sent to museums for exhibition.
D. Alaska was not a place suitable for making a living.

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Passage Three
To us it seems so natural to put up an umbrella to keep the water off when it rains. But actually the umbrella was not invented as protection against rain. Its first use was as a shade against the sun.
Nobody knows who first invented it, but the umbrella was used in very ancient times. Probably the first to use it were the Chinese, way back in the eleventh century B.C.
We know that the umbrella was used in ancient Egypt and Babylon as a sunshade. And there was a strange thing connected with its use: it became a symbol of honor and authority. In the Far East in ancient times, the umbrella was allowed to be used only by royalty or by those in high office.
In Europe, the Greeks were the first to use the umbrella as a sunshade. And the umbrella was in common use in ancient Greece. But it is believed that the first persons in Europe to use the umbrella as protection against the rain were the ancient Romans.
During the Middle
A. Women enjoy using umbrellas with various kinds of colors nowadays.
B. The inventor of the umbrella is unknown.
C. Once ordinary people had no right to use umbrella.
D. Umbrellas were popular and cheap in ancient times.

[单项选择]According to the passage" about US $ 116 billion are required to give minimum comfort to these people by the turn of the century--less than US $ 10 billion per year", do you think which year was the article written


A. 1985.
B. 1990.
C. 1988.
D. 1987.

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Passage One
To us it seems so natural to put up an umbrella to keep the water off when it rains, but actually the umbrella was not invented as protection against rain. Its first use was as a shade against the sun.
Nobody knows who first invented it, but the umbrella was used in very ancient times. Probably the Chinese were the first to use it in the eleventh century B. C.
We know that the umbrella was used in ancient Egypt and Babylon as a sunshade. And there was a strange thing connected with its use: it became a symbol of honor and authority. In the Far East in ancient times , the umbrella was allowed to be used only by the king or by those in high office.
In Europe, the Greeks were the first to use the umbrella as a sunshade. And the umbrella was in common use in ancient Greece. But it is believed that the first persons in Europe to use the umbrella as Protection against the rain were the ancient Romans. During the Middle Ages, the use of
A. a shade against the sun
B. protection against rain
C. a symbol of honor and power
D. women's decoration