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 Please read the article carefully,then translate the red sentences or write down your feelings to gain the score. If you have any questions, write them down immediately. I will do my best to answer.
Few Americans stay put for a lifetime. We move from the city to the suburbs, from high school to college in a different state, from a job in one region to a better job elsewhere, from the home where we raise our children to the home where we plan to live in retirement. With each move we are forever making new friends, who become part of our new life. For many of us the summer is a special time for forming new friendships. Today, millions of Americans vacation abroad, and we got only to see new sights but also—in those places where we don't feel strange— with the hope of meeting new people. No one really expects a vacation trip to produce a close friend, but the beginning of a friendship is possible.Surely in every county people value friendship. The word "friend" to American people can be applied to a wide range of relationships— to someone one has known for a few weeks in a new place, to a close business associate, to a childhood playmaate, to a man or a woman, to a trusted confident. There are real differences among these relations for Americans — a friendship may be superficial, casual, situational or deep and enduring. But to a European, who sees only our surface behavior, the differcences are not clear. As Europeans see it, all kinds of "friends" flow in and out of Americans' homes with little ceremony. They may be parents of the children's friedns, house guests of neighbors, members of a committee, business associates from another town or even another country. Coming as a guest into an American home, the European visitor finds no visible landmarks. The atmosphere is relaxed. Most people, old and young, are called by first names. Americans' characteristic openness to different styles of relationship makes it possible for us to find new friends abroad with whom we feel at home. 本帖隐藏的内容需要回复才可以浏览 | 
发表于 2011-2-12 10:51
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