2014-2015学年度高一英语（人教版）作业手册：必修1 Unit 3 Travel journal Word版含答案.docVIP

课时作业(三)　[必修1　Unit 3 Travel journal](限时：30分钟)　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　　Ⅰ.阅读理解es, such as America and Australia, for example, are mobile and very open.People here change jobs and move houses quite often.As a result, they have a lot of relationships that often last only a short time, and they need to get to know people quickly.So its normal to have friendly conversations with people that they have just met, and you can talk about things that other cultures would regard as personal. On the other hand, there are more crowded and less mobile societies where long-term relationships are more important.A Malaysian or Mexican business person, for example, will want to get to know you very well before he or she feels happy to start business.But when you do get to know each other, the relationship becomes much deeper than it would in a mobile society. To Americans both Europeans and Asians seem cool and formal at first.On the other hand, as a passenger from a less mobile society puts it, its no fun spending several hours next to a stranger who wants to tell you all about his or her life and asks you all sorts of questions that you dont want to answer. Cross璫ultural differences arent just a problem for travellers, ebut also for the flights that carry them.All flights want to provide the best service, but ideas about good service are different from place to place.This can be seen most clearly in the way that problems are dealt with. Some societies have 憉niversalist?cultures.These societies strongly respect rules, ceand they treat every person and situation in basically the same way. 慞articu larist’ societies, on the other hand, also have rules, but they are less important than the societys unwritten ideas about what is right or wrong for a particular situation or a particular person.So the normal rules are changed to fit the needs of the situation or the importance of the person. This difference can cause problems.A traveller from a particularist society, India, is checking in for a