问题补充：
How are you? is a nice question. Its a friendly way that people in the USA greet each other. But How are you? is also a very unusual question. Its a question that often doesn need an answer. The person who asks How are you? hopes to hear the answer Fine, even if the persons friend isn fine. The reason is that How are you? isn really a question and Fine isn really an answer.They are simply other ways of saying Hello or Hi.
Sometimes, people don say exactly what they mean. For example, when someone asks Do you agree?, the other person might think, No, Idisagree. I think you e wrong...But it isn very polite to disagree so strongly,so the other person might say Im not sure. Its a nicer way to say that you don agree with someone.
People don say exactly what they are thinking when they want to finish talking with other people. For example, many talks over the phone finish when one personsays Ive to go now.Often, the person who wants to hang up gives anexcuse:Someones at the door.Something is burning on the stove.The excuses might be real, or not. Perhaps the person who wants to hang up simply doesn want to talk any more, but it isn polite to say that. The excuse is more polite, and it doesn hurt the other person.
Whether they are greeting each other, talking about an idea, or finishing atalk, people don say exactly what they are thinking. Its an important way thatpeople try to be nice to each other, and its part of the game of language.
【小题1】When a person in America asks How are you?, he or she wants to hearA．How are you?B．Hello.C．I don know.D．Fine.【小题2】When a person disagrees with someone, it is polite to sayA．You are wrong. I disagree.B．Im not sure.C．Im sure I disagree.D．I don’t agree with you.【小题3】A polite way to finish a talk is to say A．You have to go now.B．I want to hang up.C．I have to go now.D．I don want to talk any more.【小题4】When a person says Ive got to go now. Someones at the door., the person may be.A．giving an excuseB．hurting someones feelingsC．talking to a person at the doorD．going to another place【小题5】The rule of the game of language is probably. A．Always say what you meanB．Don disagree with people.C．Never say exactly what you e thinking.D．Be polite.D
答案：
(答案→)D
解析：短文大意：在美国无论是互相问候，谈论一个想法，或完成一个谈话，人们不会说他们到底在想什么。它是人们尽量善待对方的重要途径，它是语言游戏的一部分。
【小题1】细节理解题。根据第一段第五句The person who asks How are you? hopes to hear the answer Fine, even if the persons friend isn fine.可知选D.
【小题2】细节理解题。根据第二段末so the other person might say Im not sure. Its a nicer way to say that you don agree with someone.可知选B.
【小题3】细节理解题。根据第三段第二句many talks over the phone finish when one personsays Ive to go now.可知选C.
【小题4】细节理解题。根据第三段中many talks over the phone finish when one personsays Ive to go now.Often, the person who wants to hang up gives anexcuse:Someones at the door.可知选A.
【小题5】细节理解题。根据短文最后Its an important way thatpeople try to be nice to each other, and its part of the game of language. 可知选D.
