"Is there any mail for me?" you often ask when you return home at lunch or dinner time. If there is a letter, you read it eagerly, pleased that your friend or relative has thought of you. Other people respond as warmly as you do to a friendly letter. They are happy to be remembered. But if the letter you write makes them feel as if you yourself were with them, speaking in your own friendly way, they are especially pleased. You have given something of yourself. And to be yourself in a letter to a friend is an art you need to master.
14.Why are you pleased when you hear from your friend or relative?
Because you needn't write him a letter.
Because you can collect stamps.
Because you are remembered.
15.What kind of letter makes your friend especially pleased?
A long letter.
A short letter.
A letter in familiar language.
16.What is the title of this passage?
Mail.
How to Speak in a Friendly Way.
Write Me a Letter.
Americans eat breakfast and lunch quickly unless it is a social, business or family occasion. The evening meal is usually longer and a time for families to gather together. Rushing through daytime meals is part of the fast pace in America. Another reason for rushing through daytime meals is that many people eat in restaurants that are usually crowded with people waiting for a place so that they too can be served and returned to work at the proper time. So each hurries to make room for the next person. As with busy people everywhere there is a real difference with meals that are eaten in a hurry and those that can be enjoyed slowly with friends.
17.What is not mentioned in the passage?
What time Americans eat dinner.
Why Americans eat in a hurry.
Where Americans eat.
18.Why do Americans hurry at meals?
They don't like to eat.
They want to eat dinner slowly.
They are very busy.
19.What can we conclude from the passage?
Americans eat slower for social and business reasons.
Americans frequently hurry in the evening.
Americans are always late returning to work.
20.What is suggested in the passage?
Americans don't eat much on weekends.
Americans do not have a short sleep in the afternoon.
Americans like eating with friends
14.Why are you pleased when you hear from your friend or relative?
Because you needn't write him a letter.
Because you can collect stamps.
Because you are remembered.
15.What kind of letter makes your friend especially pleased?
A long letter.
A short letter.
A letter in familiar language.
16.What is the title of this passage?
Mail.
How to Speak in a Friendly Way.
Write Me a Letter.
Americans eat breakfast and lunch quickly unless it is a social, business or family occasion. The evening meal is usually longer and a time for families to gather together. Rushing through daytime meals is part of the fast pace in America. Another reason for rushing through daytime meals is that many people eat in restaurants that are usually crowded with people waiting for a place so that they too can be served and returned to work at the proper time. So each hurries to make room for the next person. As with busy people everywhere there is a real difference with meals that are eaten in a hurry and those that can be enjoyed slowly with friends.
17.What is not mentioned in the passage?
What time Americans eat dinner.
Why Americans eat in a hurry.
Where Americans eat.
18.Why do Americans hurry at meals?
They don't like to eat.
They want to eat dinner slowly.
They are very busy.
19.What can we conclude from the passage?
Americans eat slower for social and business reasons.
Americans frequently hurry in the evening.
Americans are always late returning to work.
20.What is suggested in the passage?
Americans don't eat much on weekends.
Americans do not have a short sleep in the afternoon.
Americans like eating with friends