【正文】 od leader. When a handshake is too strong, Americans think the person is too rude or has bad manners.39 They shake hands when they meet for the first time. They shake hands to saycongratulations. They shake hands when they meet after not seeing each other for a while. And they often shake hands when they say goodbye. In business, shaking hands shows agreement and honesty.Handshakes are good everywhere. 40 So make sure to shake plenty of hands.A. Offer your hand first.B. Shake for no more than three seconds.C. How do people shake hands correctly?D. Don’t shake too strongly or too weakly.E. It is not polite to refuse a person’s hand.F. When do people in the United States shake hands?G. Make sure your hands aren’t sweaty when you do this.【答案】【解析】試題分析：本文介紹了美國人握手的含義及握手的注意亊項。CIn Los Angeles, drivers spend sixtyone hours every year stuck in traffic. These drivers know all too well how bad the traffic can be. “There’re too many cars, and you can’t move around a lot.”Professor Cyrus Shahabi also knows about traffic jams. He lives more than 65 kilometers from his office at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles. He is always late even with the help of a navigation (導(dǎo)航) decided to develop a program called ClearPath for that. He says his program uses historicaldata to predict traffic conditions even before the driver leaves the house. “What’s unique (獨特的) isthat we use a lot of data that’s currently bee available including traffic data, weather data, and we analyze that so that we can predict what’s going to happen in front of you when leave home.”Professor Shahabi says his system does more than just answer current traffic conditions. With ClearPath, he says, a driver can decide what time he wants to leave, and ClearPath will give thefastest route. It looks at the entire road network, including surface streets as well as highways, before the driver hits the road. Professor Shahabi hopes to have ClearPath available nationwide and overseas once they can collect traffic data from other cities.“I always thought that Los Angeles had the worst traffic, but now I know that Shanghai, Beijing, Seoul, Tokyo, believe it or not, Singapore, Hong Kong certainly are examples that can immediately use this.”Professor Shahabi hopes to share this new technology with panies that already have navigation systems, such as Google and Apple. Cyrus Shahabi is often late for work because of ________.A. his living far away B. his car’s navigation systemC. bad traffic conditions D. too many cars in his university is unique about ClearPath?A. It helps drivers know the road conditions ahead of time.B. It can make sure that you will never be late for work.C. It helps drivers see clearly what happens on the road.D. It can use a lot of information and data all over the world. underlined word “ hits” in the fourth paragraph probably means ________.A. has accident B. gets toC. turns left or right D. collects traffic data’s Professor Shahabi’s attitude toward his invention?A. Proud. B. Worried.C. Disappointed. D. Optimistic.【答案】考點：考查故事類閱讀DTeenagers at one German school are learning how to achieve happiness alongside other traditional subjects such as math and languages. The class sit in a circle with their eyes shut and they count from one to ten: someone starts, the next voice es from the far right, a third from the other side.The aim of the game is to listen for an opportunity to shout out the number without clashing (沖突) with another voice or leaving a pause. On the first try, most of the young Germans try to be first, while a few are too shy to join in, but by the fifth time round, they develop a rhythm (節(jié)奏).The message: give other people space but also confidently claim your own. This is a requirement for social wellbeing.The Willy Hellpach School in Heidelberg is the first in the nation to develop a happiness course.It is intended for students preparing for university entrance exams.“The course isn’t there to make you happy,” Ernst FritzSchubert, the school principal, warned pupils, “but rather to help you discover the ways to bee happy.”Cooking a meal together is one of the class exercises. Improving body language under the guidance of two professional actresses is anot