【正文】 kend instead of holiday for Saturdays and Sundays ( nonworking days) , and use the word vacation or days off instead of outofstation . Always be interested, optimistic and happy. Talk with a smile! Vary the sound of your voice. Do not sound like a puter. If you are unsure how you sound, a good tip is to record yourself and listen to it later. Doing this helps you know how your voice sounds, and if you don39。t sound as you want to be heard, it may be time to work on enhancing your voice. 21. For Indians, having small talk with American colleagues is . A. boring B. useless C. important D. interesting 22. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about? A. What Americans like talking about in their daily life. B. How Americans usually start a conversation with others. C. Why talking about the weather is good to begin a conversation. D. What people can say when having small talk with Amencans. 23. What does the underlined word enhancing in the last paragraph mean? A. Lowering. B. Replacing. C. Improving. D. Examining. 24. What’s the writer39。s purpose in writing the passage? A. To prove that having small talk is not very hard. B. To explain why Indians hesitate to talk with Americans. C. To show the differences between Americans and Indians. D. To tell how to make small talk with American clients and colleagues. B Consider yourself warned. Sunday is April Fools39。 Day, a day when you are encouraged to play tricks on loved ones and even the people you meet at the bus stop. It39。s a strange tradition, but how did it get started? Nobody is pletely sure about the origin of this, the silliest of holidays. However, the urban legend experts at Snopes. say that most experts owe it to Pope Gregory XⅢ , who, in the 1500s, gave the world the Gregorian calendar. In 1562, the Gregorian calendar moved the first day of the year from April l to January l. Word did eventually get around, but some people were a bit slow to hear the news. These folks continued celebrating the new year on April l , unaware that they were now three months behind the times. These April fools were tricked by those who knew it. The tradition eventually made its way to the US. And it39。s still going strong. Over the past week, Web searches on April Fools39。 Day jokes and April Fools39。 Day tricks have more than doubled, and related lookups for easy April Fools39。 Day tricks and April Fools39。 Day jokes for work have also increased greatly. Bottom line: Keep your guard up, especially if somebody offers you a word search puzzle. Lookups for impossible April Fools39。 Day word searches are up by 200%. But really, there is no way to be certain you39。ll escape trickery because even panies are out to trick you on April l. In 1957, the BBC reported Swiss farmers were harvesting spaghetti(意大利面 ) from trees. And in 1996, Taco Bell took out ads in major newspapers announcing that the pany had purchased the Liberty Bell and renamed it the Taco Liberty Bell. 25. What is the author39。s purpose of writing the text? A. To teach us how to avoid being tricked. B. To point out the best way to trick others. C. To introduce the history of April Fools39。 Day. D. To stress the importance of April Fools39。 Day. 26. What can we know from Paragraph 3? A. April lst was once the first day of the year. B. April Fools39。 Day was set by Pope Gregory XⅢ . C. April Fools39。 Day has been celebrated for thousands of years. D. Started in the US, April Fools39。 Day is popular around the world. 27. From the 4th paragraph, we can learn that . A. people enjoy being April Fools B. April Fools39。 Day is still very popular C. those tricks used on April 1 are much the same D. people like to celebrate April Fools39。 Day online 28. The examples listed in the last paragraph are used to show . A. a modern farming technology B. what newspapers without ads are like C. how the Taco Liberty Bell got its name D. how some panies trick the public C Twelve years ago, Rachel Miller was lost when it came to her son John. The 7yearold was seriously disabled because of his autism(自閉癥 ). Unable to speak, he withdrew from people at school and, worse, from his family. In March 2020, Miller was introduced to Jeff Hancock, a oneonone therapist(治療師 ) for people with autism. Hancock was hired to be John39。s panion. The two would go peoplewatching at the mall on the weekend. Hancock chatted throughout their trips, even though John couldn39。t talk back. Their relationship developed when Hancock introduced John to the Special Olympics. Whenever John was running or being active, he was smiling. When John turned 12, Hancock introduced him to track at