When mentioning Korea, people might come up with a string of things, such as kimchi (泡菜), cosmetics and beautiful girls. In fact, Korea is also famous for hand-made clothes. In Korea, you can get a suit that is well made to your measure within a couple of days but be careful about the size because Korean sizes are often a little small, especially to westerners. Even a "large" size T-shirt bought in Korea can be too small for an American! Korean clothes are made of various kinds of silk and other materials. You can also buy hand-made traditional clothes in Korea.
Those traditional Korean clothes have quite a long history which can be found in ancient wall paintings or on tombs. "Hanbok" (韩服) can be the best representative of Korean culture. Today hanbok is still worn during formal occasions. Hanbok consists of two parts. "Jeogori" (赤古里), the top part, is blouse-like and has long sleeves. For the bottom part, women wear "Chima" (高腰背心裙
A. It is very difficult to get a hand-made suit in Korea.
B. Westerners cannot wear Korean clothes because they are often too large.
C. You can buy traditional Korean clothes and many other kinds of clothing in Korea
D. All Korean clothes are hand-made by Korean tailors.
When we worry about who might be spying on our private lives, we usually think about the Federal agents. But the private sector outdoes the government every time. It’s Linda Tripp, not the FBI, who is facing charges under Maryland’s laws against secret telephone taping. It’s our banks, not the Internal Revenue Service(IRS), that pass our private financial data to telemarketing firms.
Consumer activists are pressing Congress for better privacy laws without much result so far. The legislators lean toward letting business people track our financial habits virtually at will. As an example of what’s going on, consider U.S. Bancorp, which was recently sued for deceptive practices by the state of Minnesota. According to the lawsuit, the bank supplied a telemarketer called Member Works with sensitive customer data such as names, phone numbers, bank account and credit-card numbers, Social Securit
A. is mainly carried out by means of secret taping
B. has been intensified with the help of the IRS
C. is practiced exclusively by the FBI
D. is more prevalent in business circles
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When two hands meet, we pass on something of ourselves. After (1) to Mark Twain, Helen—who was both deaf and blind—commented, "I can feel the twinkle of his eye (2) his handshake." In some indefinable way, Twain had (3) his charm to Keller.
And that’s probably been true of the handshake all the (4) back to its earliest days, — (5) no one can tell its actual(6) . A common explanation is that (7) early man encountered a stranger, he (8) out his hand to show he had no weapon. From this, supposedly, (9) the handshake.
Not so, says historian Brian Burke. He believes, the handshake (10) "putting your blood behind your breath." He explains that ancient people (11) the spoken word alone, and they used the handclasp to signify that their (12) was backed up by the (13) of their heart—i, e. , their blood. (14) , the handshake suggested trust.
That (15) of trust has survived to this day. People in business
A. promise
B. mind
C. conversation
D. behavior
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