What is the man’s problem().

A．He can’t find his new building.
B．He is not accustomed to the large building.
C．He had a bigger apartment before.

"How far is it to the next village" the American asks a man sitting by the side of the road. In some countries, because the man realizes that the traveler is tired and eager to get to his destination (目的地), he will politely say "Just down the road." He thinks this is more encouraging, gentler, and therefore the wanted answer. So the American drives through the night, getting more and more angry, feeling "tricked". He thinks the man deliberately (故意地) cheated him, for obviously he must have known the distance quite well.

Had conditions been reversed (颠倒过来), the American would have felt he was "cheating" the driver if he had said the next town was close when he knew it was really 15 miles further on. Though, he, too, would be sympathetic (同情的) to the weary driver, he would say "You have a good way to go yet; it is at least 15 miles." The driver might be disappointed, but he would know what to expect.

Whether to be accurate (准确的) or polite leads to many misunderstandings between people of different cultures. If you are aware of the situation in advance, it is sometimes easier to recognize the problem.

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The medical world is gradually realizing that the quality of the (36) in hospitals may play an important (37) to help patients to get better.

As (38) of nationwide effort in Britain to bring (39) out (40) the museums and into (41) places, some of the country’s best artists have (42) in to change older hospital and to soften the (43) edges of modern buildings. Of the 2500 national health service hospitals in Britain, almost 100 now have very valuable collections of present art in passages, waiting areas and treatment rooms.

These recent movements first (44) by one artist, Peter Senior, who set up his studio at a Manchester hospital on northeastern England during the early 1970s. He felt the artist had lost his place in modern society, and (45) he should be enjoyed by a wider audience.

A common hospital waiting room might have (46) 5 000 visitors each week, what a better place to hold regular exhibitions of art! Senior held the first exhibition of his own paintings in the out-patients waiting area of the Manchester Royal Hospital in 1975. Believed to lie Britain’s first hospital artist, Senior was so much (47) that he was soon joined (48) a team of six young art school graduates.

The effect is (49) , now in file (50) and waiting rooms the visitors (51) a full view of fresh colors, playful images and restful countyards.

The quality of the environment may (52) the used for expensive drugs when a patient is (53) from all illness. A study has shown that (54) who halt a view onto garden needed half the number of strong pain killers compared (55) patients who had no view at all or only a brick wall to look at.

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M: Excuse me. Is this road to Turner’s Street

W: Yes.

M: Is it very far from here

W: No, not very far. About an hour’s walk.

M: Are there any buses going there

W: Oh, yes, but the buses don’t come very often. Only about 4 times a day.

M: When does the next bus come along

W: Not until haft past seven. You will arrive there if you walk.

M: Well, thank you. I’d better walk. I can’t wait all hour and a half for a bus.

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