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第二部分
阅读理解?/p>
3*20=60
分)
A
I
was
born
and
raised
in
England
in
a
culture
where
privacy
and
“keeping
yourself
to
yourself?nbsp;
were valued traditions. Speaking to strangers was not encouraged. People were most hospitable
and friendly
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but only once they had been introduced to new people.
However, I have been lucky enough to spend some time in both Italy and the US, where I found
traditions of hospitality and politeness to be very different.
I experienced Italian hospitality first-hand on a crowded railway carriage traveling, one
afternoon, from Genoa to Florence. Sinking gratefully into an empty seat, I was berated(
斥责
)
in
rapid
Italian
by
a
gentleman
who
was
returning
to
this
seat
-it
had
not
been
“spare?nbsp;
after
all.
I
apologized
in
English,
and
got
up
to
allow
him
back
into
the
seat.
The
gentleman
obviously
had
no
understanding
of
the
English
language,
but
he,
too,
realized
my
genuine
mistake.
He
smiled
and gestured for me to remain in the seat, and he himself remained standing in the corridor(
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) for the remainder of the journey. The other passengers of the carriage smiled and nodded
at
me
and
made
me
feel
quite
wele
among
them.
I
feel
that
if
this
had
been
in
England,
a
foreigner
who made a mistake would not always be so kindly treated.
Transport also featured in the differences I noticed between English and American culture. I
flew to New York on a plane with mainly English passengers. We sat together in near silence.
Nobody spoke to me nor, as I expected, to anyone else they did not know. They felt it was not
polite
to
intrude
on
someone
else's
privacy.
However,
when
I
traveled
across
the
United
States,
whether by plane or Greyhound bus, I was never short of conversation. Conversation was going
on all around me and whoever sat next to me was happy to introduce themselves and ask me about
myself.
They
obviously
felt
it
would
have
been
rude
not
to
speak
to
another
person,
whether
they
were strangers or not.
1. The purpose of the author is to tell us ________.