语言朋友(78)Strong feelings aren't something you display in public.So, you can imagine that I was unprepared for the outpouring of public grief(悲伤) at a Chinese funeral. that it left us all shocked and upset.A female colleague burst into tears and cried piteously at her desk.Somehow we got through the day's work.The next day was the funeral.
Our big boss stepped forward to deliver a eulogy and was soon in tears.She carried on, in Chinese of course, but at the end said in English: “There will be no more deadlines for you in heaven.” Next came a longterm colleague who also dissolved in tears but carried on with her speech despite being almost overcome by emotion.Then a close friend of the dead man paid tribute(哀悼), weeping openly as he spoke.Sorrow is spreading.Men and women were now sobbing uncontrollably.Finally, the man's mother, supported between two women, addressed her son in his coffin.At one point, the mother almost collapsed and had to be held up.We were invited to step forward to each lay a white rose on the casket.Our dead colleague looked as if he was taking a nap.At the end of the service I walked away from the funeral parlor stunned at the outpouring of emotion.
In the UK, families grieve privately and then try to hold it together and not break down at a funeral.Here in China it would seem that grieving is a public affair.It strikes me that it is more cathartic to cry your eyes out than try to keep it bottled up for fear of embarrassment, which is what many of us do in the West.
Afterwards, a Chinese colleague told me that the lamenting at the funeral had been restrained(克制) by Chinese standards.In some rural areas, rn noisily.This struck me like something out of novel by Charles Dickens.But we have all seen on TV scenes of griefstricken people in Gaza and the West Bank, in Afghanistan, Iraq and the relatives of victims of terrorist bombings around the world.Chinese grief is no different.I realized that it's the reserved British way of mourning that is out of step with the rest of the world.
It was our newspaper's production day.We were bussed back to the office to resume work.No more deadlines for our former colleague, but we had to pull together to put the newspaper to print.The boss invited the team to go out for dinner after work.We relaxed, smiled, joked.There was no mention of the funeral or our poor colleague.Enough sorrow had been shed already.We needed a break.
解题导语：在英国长大的作者不太适应中国葬礼上当众痛哭的场景表现了中西文化一种不同的观念。______”．
A．coldblooded
B．warmhearted
C．selfcontrolled
D．lighthearted
解析：词义猜测题。根据下句“Strong feelings aren't something you display in public.”可知感情不能在公共场合释放故选C。C
2．At the funeral, ________．ndividuals made speeches
B．the boss's speech was best thought of
C．everyone was crying out loudly
D．the writer was astonished by the scene
解析：细节理解题。根据第三段“At the end of the service I walked away from the funeral parlor stunned at the outpouring of emotion.”可知作者对于丧礼上的事情感觉很D。________．dead
B．prefer to control their sadness in public
C．cry their eyes out at the public funeral
D．have better way to express sadness
解析：细节理解题。根据第一段“Strong feelings aren't something you display in public.”和第四段“try to keep it bottled up for fear of embarrassment which is what many of us do in the West.”可知西方人在公共场合要控制自己悲伤的心情故选B。________．Chinese express their sadness quite unlike other peoples
C．victims of terrorist bombings should be greatly honored
D．English funeral culture is more civilized than the others
解析：推理判断题。根据第五段“In some rural areas, he said, people used to be paid to mourn noisily.This struck me like something out of novel by Charles Dickens.”可知在狄更斯时代人们要为了死去的人大声地哭故选A。________．主旨大意题。文章通过葬礼上人们表达情感的方式的不同比较了中西文化的不同故选D。假定10处语言错误每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)并在其下面写出该加的词。删除：把多余的词用斜线()划掉。修改：在错的词下划一条横线并在该词下面写出修改后的词。注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。只允许修改10处多者(从第11处起)不计分。 doctor for help.The doctor gave him a medicine and told him to take them before he went to bed.The man did as told and slept really well, wake up before the alarm had even gone off.He had time for a properly breakfast and was still the first reach the factory.“Boss，” he said, “that medicine really works！” “I'm pleasing to hear it,
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Tom was having much
getting up in the morning and was always late
work. His boss wanted to fire him if he didn't start coming on time， he went to the doctor for help. The doctor gave him medicine and told him to take
before he went to bed. The man did as told and slept really well,
up before the alarm had even gone off. He had time for a breakfast and was still the firstreach the factory.“Boss，” he said, “that medicine really works！”“I'm
you yesterday? ”