BeforeIndiagaineditsfreedom，ma-优题课

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Swedish businessman Nile is ____ (delight) with his new hotel, the world’s first igloo (冰屋) hotel.
(build) in a small town, it has been attracting lots of visitors, but soon the fun will be over. In two week’s time Nile’s ice creation will be nothing more than a pool of water. “We don’t see it as a big problem,” he says. “We just look forward to (replace) it.”
Nile built his first igloo in 1991 for an art exhibition. It was successful that he designed the present one, measures roughly 200 square meters. Six workmen spent more than eight weeks (pile) 1,000 tons of snow onto a wooden base; when the snow froze, the base was (remove).
After their stay, all （visit）receive a survival certificate(合格证) recording their success. With no windows, nowhere to hang clothes and temperatures below 0℃, it may seem more like a survival test a relaxing hotel break. “It’s great fun,” Nile explains, “As well as a good start in survival training.”
The popularity of the igloo is beyond doubt: it is now attracting tourists 【小题10 all over the world. At least 800 people have stayed at the igloo this season even though there are only 10 rooms.

第二节语法填空(满分10分,每空不超过3个单词)
“Equal pay for equal work” is a phrase by the American women who feel they are (fair) treated by society. They think it is not right for women to be paid less than men for the amount of work. Some people say men have more duties than women. A married man has to earn money to support his family and make important _(decide), so it is right for them to be paid more. Some are even against married women (work)at all. When wives go out to work, they say, the home and children are given no attention . If women are encouraged by equal pay to take up jobs, they will (able) to do the things that they are best at doing: making a nice home and bringing _children. Women who disagree say that they want to escape from the limited place which society wishes them to fill and have freedom to choose between a job and home life, a mixture of the two. In fact women have the right_ to equal pay but also to equal chances.

“Put yourself in someone else's shoes.” isidiom that means if you imagine yourself to be in another person's position, good or bad, you may understand how they feel, good or bad, or why they have done they've done.
This idiom comes from the facta pair of perfectly fitting shoes for someone may not fit another person as perfectly. So, literally, only if you put another person's shoes can you feel how it is to walk in．
Metaphorically speaking, “their shoes” stands for other people's position. A local boy is detained(扣留) by the policea theft, and one of his friends might(private) say to himself: “I wouldn't want to be in his shoes now.” That is, he doesn't want(put) into prison for stealing.
By trying to “put on their shoes”, we try to imagine ourselves insituation, by seeing things from their point of view, by thinking about how we would want to be treated if we were them.
Harper Lee, of course, (express) this idea best in To Kill a Mockingbird: “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and have more respectable jobs. But in the executive(主管的) circle, ________ can become a disadvantage.
While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive ladder, it is ________(harm) to a woman. Handsome male executives are considered to have more honesty than plainer men; effort and ability usually lead________ their success. Attractive female executives are considered to have less honesty than unattractive ________ ; people do not connect their success with ability ________ with factors such as luck. All unattractive women executives are thought to have more honesty and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. However, interestingly, the rise of the unattractive overnight successes________ (connect) more to personal relationships and less to ability.
Attractive women are not thought to be able. This is true even in politics. Anne Bowman, a writer, ________ recently made a study, asked 125 undergraduate students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of women, in the order of attractiveness. And then the students were told the photographs were of candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again, in the order they would vote ________them. The results showed that attractive males ________(complete) defeated unattractive men, but the women ________ (rank) most attractive by the students unchangeably received the fewest votes.

语法填空：共10题每题1分共10分
Isalella: Mathew, do you know much about body language in countries around the world?
Mathew: Sure. I’ve picked up a few things from travelling aroundbusiness. What’s up?
Isalella: Well, I had a meeting today with a woman from Japan and she wouldn’t stop (bow)! I didn’t know what to do.
Mathew: Do you bow back?
Isalella: No, I tried to shake her hands, but her hand was so limp(无力的).
Mathew: Well, Japanese typically(典型地))bow greet) each other. She might(offend) by your strong hand-shake.
Isalella: But she was in America! Shouldn’t she have known that strong handshakes in America show(confident) and respect?
Mathew: Things are different in Japan. You know, in some countries, making eye contact with others (consider) rude.
Isalella: Is that why she wouldn’t look at me in the meeting?
Mathew: I think it’s(high) possible.
Isalella: The meeting really didn’t go down well at all. I think I need to study intercultural communication(跨文化交流))I have another meeting with someone fromcountry.
Matthew: That’s a good idea. When you don’t know much about other cultures, even the (simple) thing can offend someone.
Isalella: That’s so true. It’s great that we see eye to eye on this.