“Where are you going?”This question is often asked by Chinese when two friends ___1__ in the street. But if you ask Americans ___2__ question they will puzzles（迷惑）because thy think that“going to some place”is quite a private（私人的）business of their own. It has ___3__ to do with other people. In their eyes, only a policeman will ask such a question in the street.

　　The same thing will happen to Americans if you ask,“Did you have your meal?”In fact, to ___4___ Chinese, such questions do not mean anything ___5___ a greeting（問候）.

　　In America when two friends meet in the street, they will say,“Hello!”or“How are you?”If two friends meet ___6___ and one asks the other,“Did you have your meal?”that___7___he wants to invite his friend to have a meal with him. It's quite different ___8___ what it means in Chinese.

　　The examples ____9___ tell us that .people in different countries have different customs（習(xí)慣）. Now we are learning __10__ languages, we must pay great attention（注意力）to your customs.

“I'm afraid it'll have to be someplace ___2___, as I have very little money.”The other person may say, “OK, I'll meet you at McDonald's.”This means that the two agree to go Dutch（各付各賬）, that is, each person pays for himself. He may ___3__ say,“Oh, no. I want to ___4__ you to lunch at Smith's,”or“I want you If Chinese dumplings there. They're great.”This means the person wants to pay for both of you. If you feel___5__towards this person, you can go with him and you ___6___ pay for the meal. You may just say, “___7_.That would be very nice.”

　　American customs（習(xí)俗）about who pays for dates（約會(huì)）are much the same as in the other parts of the world. In the old days, American women __8_ men to pay for all the meals But to-day, a university（大學(xué)）girl or a woman in business（商界婦女）will usually pay her way during the day. If a man asks her for a dance outside the working hours, it ___9__“come as my guest（客人）”. So as you can see, it is a polite thing to make the question ___10__at the very beginning.

　　It is well known that the English go out with an umbrella or a raincoat. Why? ___1___ the weather in Britain often changes quickly. It is not very usual for the same kind of weather to ___2___ long. Spring can be rainy or windy, ___3__ the weather is getting warmer and you can hope more sunny days. In fact, there ___4___as much sunshine in spring as in summer. Summer is ___5___ time for visitors to go to the seaside and other places of interest. The weather can be sunny and nice. People often go out to have a walk or swim. Autumn is a beautiful season, __6___ trees in the woods and parks changing colour. During autumn it is still nice to be outside, too. In winter, it gets colder. It might snow, especially on high land and in the north. There are __7___ very high winds in this season. January and February are the coldest ___8___ of the year, while the warmest ___9___ often July and August. The difference ___10___ temperature between winter and summer is not so great in Britain. The average temperature for winter is about 4.5℃, and for summer about 15.5℃.

　　As I was going home after ___1___ my homework, I noticed our teacher still ___2___ in her office. It was raining hard then and the thunder（雷聲）could be heard ___3___ away. I ___4___ brought an umbrella ___5___ me because the sun was shining brightly in the morning. It didn't ___6___ much to me to go home with a bare（光禿的）head. ___7___ my house was not far away from the school. But yet the teacher ___8___ not have brought an umbrella with her, ___9___.How could she, go back home ___10___ an umbrella?

　　After yesterday's fine sunny weather in Harbin, today __1____ much more like a June day.

　　Very strong winds will _2___ rain to Qiqihar and most of northern Heilongjiang in the morning. These winds will die away during the afternoon to give a cool clear night. __3__ Heilongjiangsuch as Mudanjiang, Jiamusi, Heihe and Harbin will __4__ a dry day, and in the southeast, the temperature will be higher than normal（正常的）__5__ this time of year. The evening will be ___6____ cold with slight（輕微的）wind at times. The temperature will ___7____ about 20.

    Tomorrow will be a ___8____ day with rain everywhere until around noon. In the afternoon the rain will clear from the southwest, bringing fine __9____ to all parts and there may be some sun in the southeast of Heilongjiang. The temperature will become ___10___ in the night

　　The computer is fast, and never makes a mistake, while people are slow, and often___1___mistakes. That's what people often say when they___2___computers. For over a quarter of a century, engineers. Have. been making___3___now a computer can do___4___everyday jobs wonderfully It is___5___used in factories, hospitals, banks and schools. Many computer scientists are now thinking of ___6___ the computer “think” like a man. ___7___ the help of a person, a computer can draw pictures, write music, talk with people, play chess and so on. Perhaps computer will one day ___8___ think and feel Do you think people will be ___9___ when they find that the computer is ___10___ clever to listen to and serve the people.