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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 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".
From the text, we can conclude that Americans
选项 A、assess their business partners through chatting during the dinner.
B、have prejudice against the new comers from other cultures.
C、emphasize the rapidity in fulfilling the task successfully.
D、pour more money to solve a problem to gain respect.
答案C
解析 我们从本文中可以得出结论：美国人[A]通过在吃饭时闲聊评价他们的生意伙伴。[B]对来自其他文化、初来美国的人有偏见。[C]强调任务成功完成的速度。[D]投入更多的资金来解决问题以获得尊敬。本题考查了文章中的多个细节，宜采取排除法解题。根据[A]中的关键词assess，可以在原文第四段第三句话中找到相应信息。文章指出：美国人不会在这种轻松的环境下通过长时间的闲聊来评价他们的来访者，可见[A]与原文正好相反；由[B]中的prejudice可以判断出此项内容文中并未提及，所以[B]排除；根据[C]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 cornpetence to fulfill a job successfully，with rapidity．(快速成功地完成任务是有能力的表现)，与[C]的论述一致，为正确答案．[D]错在不定式to gain respect上，原文的目的状语是get it moving，而不是获得尊敬。
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