In Canada and the United States, people enjoy entertaining(请客) at home. They often invite friends over for a meal, a party or just for coffee and conversation.
Here are the kinds of things people say when they invite someone to their homes:
"Would you like to come over for dinner this Saturday night?" "Hey, we're having a party on Friday. Can you come?"
To reply to an invitation, either say thank you and accept, or say you're sorry and give an excuse. "Thanks, I’d love to. What time would you like me to come?" or "Oh, sorry. I've tickets for a movie. "
Sometimes, however, people use expressions that sound like invitations but which are not real invitations. For example; "Please come over for a drink sometime. " "Why not get together for a party sometime?" " Why don't you come over and see us sometime soon?"
They are really just polite ways of ending a conversation. They are not real invitations because they don't mention a certain time or date. They just show that the person is trying to be friendly. To reply to expressions like these, people just say "Sure, that would be great!" or "OK. Yes, thanks. "
So next time when you hear what sounds like an invitation, listen carefully. Is it a real invitation or is the person just being friendly?
Title. ________
| Situations |
Answers |
| Canadians and Americans often invite friends for meals at home. |
Because they |
| Someone says "I've two movie tickets, can you go with me after supper?" |
You want to go, and your answer should be "Thanks, |
| Someone invites you to dinner, but doesn't mention the time and date. |
You'd better answer "Sure, |
| Western people use "an unreal invitation" in their daily conversation. |
They really mean to be______ |
In America, there is a traditional story called a “tall tale”. A tall tale is a story about a person who is larger than life. The descriptions in the story are exaggerated (夸张的), which makes the story funny. People who had lived in undeveloped areas in America first told tall tales. After a hard day’s work, they would get together to tell each other funny stories. One character from these stories was Paul Bunyan, a hero who cut down trees in North America. Tradition says he cleared forests from the northeastern United States to the Pacific Ocean.
It is said that Paul Bunyan was born in the northeastern American state of Maine. His mother and father were shocked when they first saw the boy. When the boy was only a few weeks old, he weighed more than forty-five kilograms. As a child, Paul was always hungry. His parents needed ten cows to supply(提供) milk for his meals. Before long, he ate fifty eggs and ten containers of potatoes every day. Young Paul grew so big that his parents did not know what to do with him. Once, Paul rolled over (翻身)so much in his sleep that he caused an earthquake. This angered people in the town where his parents lived. So the government told his mother and father they would have to move him somewhere else. Paul’s parents had to take him into the woods where he grew up.
| A．workers who cut down trees in America |
| B．people in poor areas in America |
| C．Paul Bunyan, a traditional figure |
| D．forest guards in poor areas in America |
| A．a story teller | B．a war hero |
| C．a tree cutter | D．a famous writer |
| A．he was a huge man who needed a lot of food for energy |
| B．he had to eat a lot of food because of his heavy work |
| C．there must be something wrong with his health |
| D．he was a kind of strong animal |
| A．wanted Paul to learn swimming |
| B．was afraid that Paul would cause another earthquake |
| C．was afraid that an earthquake would hurt Paul |
| D．hoped that they wouldn’t make Paul angry |
News 1
Don’t play Rubik’s Cube (魔方) with your hands any more. Use your feet. Earlier this month at the UK Rubik’s Cube Championships, people competed for the fastest time to solve a Rubik’s Cube using only their feet. The fastest winning time was just 1 minute and 3 seconds.
News 2
This poor donkey was trapped in drain in Switzerland. Luckily a man saw the animal while walking his dog. He called the firemen to save the donkey. It took the firemen more than an hour to pull the donkey free.
News 3
What do you want to be in the future? The question may receive different answers in different places. In Taiwan, a recent survey shows that most middle school students prefer to be bakers or hairdressers. The result is different from the traditional favorites of doctors, lawyers and accountants. Today’s Taiwan teenagers’ choices seem less demanding(高要求的).
| A．the United Kingdom | B．Switzerland |
| C．Taiwan | D．the United States |
| A．call the police |
| B．stay there and ask for help |
| C．call the firemen |
| D．help at once |
| A．a doctor | B．a lawyer |
| C．an accountant | D．a hairdresser |
You may know the English letters A, B and C. But do you know there are people called ABC? You may like eating bananas. But do you know there is a "banana person"? How strange! Are these people from “another earth”? No, they are just Chinese people like you and me.
ABC means American–born Chinese. An ABC is a Chinese, but was born in the United States. Sometimes, people call an ABC a “banana person”. A banana is yellow outside and white inside — looking like a Chinese but thinking like a Westerner. Do you know why? Usually, ABCs know little about China or the Chinese language. Some of them don’t speak Chinese. Also, they are not interested in Chinese politics.
But if ABCs can not speak Chinese, can we still call them Chinese people? Yes, of course. They are Chinese. They are overseas Chinese. These people may be citizens (公民)of another country like the US, Canada or Singapore. But they have Chinese blood. Their parents, grandparents or even great-grandparents were from China. They all have black eyes and black hair. But they are not Chinese citizens. They are not people of the People’s Republic of China. For example, we all know the famous scientist C .N.Yang (杨振宁). He got the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957. Chinese people love him. But he is an American citizen.
| A．three English letters |
| B．a kind of banana |
| C．Chinese born in America |
| D．Americans born in China |
| A．their bodies are white inside but yellow outside |
| B．they look like Chinese but think like Westerners |
| C．they were born in China but got to study in America |
| D．they like to eat bananas |
| A．国籍 | B．血统 | C．爱心 | D．皮肤 |
A . American Chinese are great.
B. We love American Chinese.
C. Chinese people can win Nobel Prizes.
D. American-Chinese are not Chinese citizens.
A. different kinds of bananas
B. overseas Chinese
C. the Nobel Prize
D. the life story of C.N. Yang
| Films in West-city Cinema this week |
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| A WORLD WITHOUT THIEVES • Chinese film • Directed (导演) by Feng Xiaogang • Mainly acted by Liu Dehua, Liu Ruoying, Ge You • From Monday to Wednesday, at 8:00 p. m. • Ticket Price: RMB¥35 |
KUNGFU • Chinese Hong Kong film • Directed by Zhou Xingchi • Mainly acted by Zhou Xingchi, Yuan Hua, Liang Xiaolong • From Wednesday to Friday, at 8:00 p. m. • Ticket price: RMB¥40 |
| HARRY POTTER (III) • American film • Directed by Alfonso Cuaron • Mainly acted by Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Waston • From Friday to Sunday, at 7:30 p. m. •Ticket Price: RMB¥30 (Half on Sunday for children) |
TROY • American film • Directed by Wolfgang Petersen • Mainly acted by Julian Glover, Brian Cox, Nathan Jones • From Tuesday to Thursday, at 8:00 p. m. • Ticket Price: RMB¥45 |
| A．one | B．two | C．three | D．four |
| A．Monday | B．Thursday |
| C．Friday | D．Saturday |
| A．¥5 | B．¥10 | C．¥15 | D．¥20 |
| A．Troy | B．Harry Potter |
| C．Kungfu | D．A World Without Thieves |
| A．Liu Dehua acted in the film Kungfu. |
| B．The ticket prices of the four films are the same. |
| C．All the films start after 8 o'clock in the evening. |
| D．Zhou Xingchi is not only the director but also an actor in Kungfu. |
A young man once went to town and bought himself a pair of pants. When he got home, he went to his room and put them on. He found that they were about two inches too long. He went into the kitchen, and his mother and two sisters were doing some washing there. He said to them, “The new pants are too long. They need cutting by two inches. Would one of you mind doing this for me?” His mother and sisters were busy and none of them said anything.
But as soon as his mother had finished washing up, she went to her son’s room silently and cut the pants by two inches. She came back without saying anything to her daughters. After supper, the elder sister remembered her brother’s pants. She went to his room and cut the pants by two inches without saying anything to anyone. The younger sister went to the cinema. But when she came back, she also remembered her brother’s pants. So she went to his room and cut them by two inches, too.
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