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ably be surprised just how different they can be from your own. A visitor to India would do well to remember that people there consider it impolite to use the left hand for passing food at table. The left hand is supposed to be used for washing yourself. Also in India, you might see a man shaking his head at another to show that he doesn39。yes39。no39。s just not done in Thailand .1. The British people tried to push the three gentlemen out of the way, because the gentlemen _________.A. were foreigners B. didn39。t line up for the bus2. According to the article, if you want to have a pleasant journey in a foreign country, you should _________.A. learn the language of the countryB. understand the manners and customs of the countryC. have enough time and moneyD. make friends with the people there3. In India it is considered impolite ___________.A. to use the right hand for passing food at table.B. to pass food with the left hand.C. to eat food with your hands.D. to help yourself at table.4. To cross one39。s Everyday LifeB. Mind Your MannersC. Shaking and Nodding HeadD. Taking a Bus in EnglandII. Answer the questions.AThere are many famous museums throughout the world where people can enjoy art. Washington, D. C. has the National Gallery of Art。 London, the British Museum. Florida International University (FIU) in Miami also shows art for people to see. And it does so without a building, or even a wall for its drawings and paintings.FIU has opened what it says is the first puter art museum in the United States. You don’t have to visit the university to see the art. You just need a puter linked to a telephone.You can call the telephone number of a university puter and connect your own puter to it. All of the art is stored in the school puter. It is puter art, produced electronically by artists on their own puters. In only a few minutes, your puter can receive and copy all the pictures and drawings.Robert Shostak is director of the new puter museum. He says he started the museum because puter artists had no place to show their works.A puter artist could only record his pictures electronically and send the records, or floppy discs, to others to see on their puters. He could also put his pictures on paper. But to print good pictures on paper, the puter artist needed an expensive laser printer.Robert Shostak says the electronic museum is mostly for art or puter students at schools and universities. Many of the pictures in the museum are made by students. Mr Shostak said the FIU museum will make puter art more fun for puter artists because more people can see it. He says arti