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The typical conversation between Americans takes a form that is quick and witty. No one speaks for very long. Speakers take turn

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问题     The typical conversation between Americans takes a form that is quick and witty. No one speaks for very long. Speakers take turns frequently, often after only a few sentences have been spoken. "Watching a conversation between two Americans is like watching a table tennis game," a German observer said. "Your head goes back and forth and back and forth so fast it almost makes your neck hurt."
    Americans tend to be impatient with people who take long turns. Such people are said to "talk too much." Many Americans have difficulty paying attention to someone who speaks more than a few sentences at a time, as Nigerians, Arabs, and some others do. Americans value conciseness, or what they call "getting to the point."
    Americans engage in little ritual interaction (礼节式的互致问候). Only a few ritual greetings are common: "How are you?" "I’m fine, thank you," "Nice to meet you," and "Hope to see you again."
    These things are said in certain situations and are concerned with form rather than with substance. That is, similar questions are supposed to be asked and statements are supposed to be made in particular situations, no matter what the people involved are feeling or what they really have in mind. To many Americans, people who rely heavily on ritual greetings are "too shy" or "too polite," unwilling to show their true natures and ideas.
    Americans are generally impatient with long ritual greetings about family members’ health — common among Latin Americans — considering them a waste of time.
By comparing a conversation between two Americans to a table tennis game, the German observer means that______.
选项 A、Americans enjoy talking as well as watching table tennis games
B、Americans like to take short turns in a conversation
C、Americans get excited easily in a conversation
D、Americans talk with great emotion
答案B
解析 本题为细节题。要说明为什么那个德国人将美国人之间的对话比作乒乓球赛。根据第一段“Your head goes back and forth and back and forth so fast it almost makes your neck hurt．”的描述可以得知看两个美国人对话与观看乒乓球比赛一样，形容美国人的对话每个回合短而且快。选项A．Americans enjoy talking as well as watching table tennis games在文章中根本没有提到，而且对话与观看比赛无关；选项B．Americans like to take short turns in a conversation的形容的确与乒乓球比赛的情况相似，因此为正确答案；选项C．Americans get excited easily in a conversation并没有在文中提及；选项D．Americans talk with great emotion在文章中也没有涉及。
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