广东省2013年高考英语二轮强化训练11.docVIP

广东省2013年高考英语二轮强化训练11 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A,B,C和D项中,选出最佳选项并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A In the United States, friendships can be close, constant, intense, generous and real, yet fade （暗淡下来）away in a short time if circumstances change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while—then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship where it left off and are delighted. In the States, you can feel free to visit people’s homes, share their holidays, enjoy their lives without fear that you are taking on a lasting obligation（负担）. Do not hesitate to accept hospitality （热情款待）because you can’t give it in return. No one will expect you to do so for they know you are far from home. Americans will enjoy welcoming you and be pleased if you accept their hospitality easily. Once you arrive there, the welcome will be full and warm and real. Most visitors find themselves readily invited into many homes there. In some countries it is considered inhospitable to entertain at home, offering what is felt as only home-cooked food, not “doing something for you guest”. It is felt that restaurant entertaining shows more respect and welcome. Or for other different reasons, such as crowded space, language difficulties, or family custom, outsiders are not invited into homes. In the United States, both methods are used, but it is often considered more friendly to invite a person to one’s home than to go a public place, except in purely business relationships. So, if your host or hostess brings you home, do not feel that you are being shown inferior （差的）treatment. Don’t feel neglected （被轻视的）if you do not find flowers awaiting you in your hotel room, either. Flowers are very expensive there, hotel delivery is uncertain, arrival times are delayed, changed, or canceled—flowers are not customarily sent as a welcoming touch. Please do not feel unwanted! Outward signs vary in different la