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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

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问题     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 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 performances 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".
From the text, we can conclude that Americans______.
选项 A、assess their business partners through chatting during the dinner
B、prejudice against the newcomers from other cultures
C、emphasis the rapidity to fulfill the task successfully
D、pour more money to solve a problem to gain respect
答案C
解析 细节题。题目问的是哪一项与美国人有关。考生宜采取排除法解题。文章指出“Americans do not assess their visitors in such relaxed surroundings…much less do they take them out for dinner(美国人不会在这样轻松的环境中通过长时间的闲聊了解他们的来访者，更很少带他们出去吃饭)”，可排除A选项。B选项中的内容并未提及。根据C项中的关键词rapidity和fulfill the task successfully，可以在第五段中部找到相应的信息“it is taken as a sign of fulfill a job successfully，with rapidity(时效性被视为解决问题的能力或成功地完成一项工作的标志)”，与C项的论述一致。D选项错在to gain respect，原文的目的状语是get it moving，故选C。
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