55. What does the smile usually mean in the U.S.?

A. Love. B. Politeness. C. Joy. D. Thankfulness.

56. The author mentions the smile of the Vietnamese to prove that smile can ___ . A. show friendliness to

strangers B. be used to hide true feelings

C. be used in the wrong

places D. show personal habits 57. What should we do before attempting to “read” people?

A. Learn about their relations with others.

B. Understand their cultural backgrounds.

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C. Find out about their past experience.

D. Figure out what they will do next. 58. What would be the best title for the test?

A. Cultural

Differences B. Smiles and Relationship C. Facial

Expressiveness D. Habits and Emotions

C

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Keep it in the air: The Chaoyang Theater is one of the Beijing theaters to present acrobatics (杂技) all year round. Top acrobatic artists invited from all over the

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country perform for Chinese and foreign tourists. The program contains trick cycling, leaping through hoops and Chinese magic tricks. Some of the artists have

won

prizes

in

international

competitions. Time: 7:15 p.m. Daily

Place: 36, Dongsanhuan Beilu, Chaoyang District Tel: 1716, 16818

Use your head: Green Hat is a new drama given by a group of young Chinese actors. It's a rewrite of American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne's famous novel The Scarlet Letter. It describes the heroine's great courage in finding the true love against the public disagreement. Time: 7:15 p.m. until March 5, except Mondays

Place: China Children's Theater

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Tel: 102220, 102210

Mix and match: Story of Puppets tells of a fairy, Zixia, who looks for true love in the human world. After watching a puppet play Peony Pavilion, she thinks there must be true love in reality, so she uses magic to turn the puppet characters into humans, wanting to fall in love with the puppet hero. But things don't go as she planned...Li Liuyi, the director of the play has made several successful attempts to present different traditional operas in one play. This time he combines Peking Opera, Kunqu Opera, and Pingju Opera along with a band, using the structure of modem drama.

Time: 7:30 p. m. until March 10, except Mondays

Place: Small Playhouse of Beijing People's Art Theater

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