阅读理解。 A woman from Japan,who had visited
题型：阅读理解
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| 阅读理解。 |
| A woman from Japan,who had visited major business and investment companies in New York City,was telling a friend about her trip to the US."I studied English before I left home. But I still was not sure that people were speaking English." Her problem is easy to understand.Americans in business are like people who are in business anywhere.They have a language of their own.Some of the words and expressions deal with the special areas of their work.Other expressions are borrowed from different kinds of work such as the theater and movie industry. One such saying is "get your act together"． When things go wrong in a business,an employer may get angry.He may shout,"Stop making mistakes.Get your act together." Or,if the employer is calmer,he may say,"Let us get our act together." Either way,the meaning is the same.Getting your act together is getting organized.In business,it usually means to develop a calm and orderly plan of an action. It is difficult to tell exactly where the saying began.Perhaps one of the actors was nervous and made a lot of mistakes.The director may have said,"Calm down,now.Get your act together." Word expert James Rogers says the expression was common by the late 1970s.He saysThe Manchester Guardian used it in 1978.The newspaper said a reform policy required that the British government get its act together. Now,this expression is heard often when officials of a company meet.One company even calls its yearly report,"Getting Our Act Together"． |
| 1．Paragraph 1 is written mainly to ________. |
| A．tell us the Japanese woman's English is poor B．lead to the subject of the whole passage C．tell us it is important to grasp spoken English D．tell us traveling in the US is very difficult |
| 2．The reason why the woman was not sure that people were speaking English was that ________. |
| A．they spoke too fast to follow B．they didn't want the woman to learn their experience C．they had some special words and expressions of their own in their field D．they were from the theater and movie industry |
| 3．The saying "get your act together" in Paragraph 3 means "________"． |
| A．Don't do that again B．You are dismissed C．Calm down D．Get organized |
| 4．We can infer that the saying "get your act together"________． |
| A．began from movie industry. B．was created by word expert James Rogers in the 1970s C．is used commonly in business and investment companies at present D．was first used by The Manchester Guardian |
| 5．The BEST title for the passage is________. |
| A．Different countries,different languages B．The experience in the US C．The expression and its story:get your act together D．How to learn English well |