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Americans believe no one stands still. If you are not moving ahead, you are falling behind. This attitude results in a nation of
Americans believe no one stands still. If you are not moving ahead, you are falling behind. This attitude results in a nation of
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2015-04-10
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Americans believe no one stands still. If you are not moving ahead, you are falling behind. This attitude results in a nation of people committed to researching, experimenting and exploring. Time is the element that Americans save carefully.
"We are slaves to nothing but the clock," it has been said. Time is treated as if it were something almost tangible. It is a precious commodity. Many people have a rather acute sense of the shortness of each lifetime. Once the sands have run out of a person’s hourglass, they cannot be replaced. We want every minute to count.
A foreigner’s first impression of the U. S. is likely to be that everyone is in a rush— often under pressure. City people appear always to be hurrying to get where they are going, elbowing others as they try to complete their errands. Racing through daytime meals is part of the pace of life in this country. People in public eating-places are waiting for you to finish so they too can be served and get back to work within the time allowed.
Many newcomers to the States will miss the opening courtesies of a business call, for example. They will miss the ritual socializing that goes with a welcoming cup of tea or coffee that may be traditional in their own country. Normally, Americans do not assess their visitors in such relaxed surroundings over prolonged small talk; much less do they take them out for dinner, or around on the golf course while they develop a sense of trust and
rapport
. Rapport to most of us is less important than performance. We seek out evidence of past performance rather than evaluate a business colleague through social courtesies. Since we generally assess and probe professionally rather than socially, we start talking business very quickly.
Some new arrivals will come from cultures where it is considered impolite to work too quickly. Unless a certain amount of time is allowed to elapse, it seems in their eyes as if the task being considered were insignificant, not worthy of proper respect. Assignments are thus felt to be added weight by the passage of time. In the U. S. , however, it is taken as a sign of competence to solve a problem, or fulfill a job successfully, with rapidity. Usually, the more important a task is, the more capital, energy, and attention will be poured into it in order to "get it moving".
Which of the following best defines the word "rapport"(Line 5, Paragraph 4)?
选项
A、Rapidity.
B、Exploration.
C、Relationship.
D、Performance.
答案
C
解析
下列哪项是第四段第五行的单词rapport的最佳解释?[A]迅速。[B]研究。[C]关系。[D]表现。考生可利用结构法解题。这个单词出现在第四段的这句话中:they develop a sense oftrust and rapport,就像我们汉语常用的并列类的构词方法把意思相近的字结合在一起构词一样,英语当中经常用and连接两个语意相近或相关的词。因此,本题中rapport就是trust的近义词,再看四个选项,只有[C]与trust意思最接近,所以为正确答案。
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考研英语一
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