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Today is the last day of class. Students from around the world are setting up their final projects,

英语试题 01-22
Today is the last day of class. Students from around the world are setting up their final projects,  opening laptops and taping posters to the walls. In one corner,  Isaac Ndawula stops to talk with fellow student Sheila Mutamba. Her project is learning to make American-style small talk.
“So after all this,  do you intend to take this back home? ” he asks her. She nods. “I do,  because I think small talk is very important. ”
Ndawula is from Uganda,  Mutamba from Rwanda. Both say in the part of Africa they come from,  you don’t get chatty with strangers. Mutamba says now,  after a semester’s practice,  she’s becoming a more confident conversationalist. But she says her first attempt at making small talk was very different.
“I remember that very clearly,  because it was very hard. And just because I’m black,  I can’t blush(脸红),  but I was really feeling very awkward and very embarrassed, ” she says with a laugh.
As part of a homework assignment,  Mutamba says she did something an American might not think twice about. She turned to a stranger in a restaurant and started talking about the weather.
“So I keep trying to talk,  but I have all these things in my head. I’m trying to be appropriate. I’m trying not to be nosey. ”
Back home,  she says,  things are more conservative(保守的). If a woman approaches a man,  it could seem suggestive.
  According to Columbia University Business School professor Michael Morris,  in an increasingly global economy,  all workers need to learn to manage across cultures. He says there’s not much emphasis on that in the U. S. educational system,  so it’s something many Americans never learn how to do. Besides,  Morris suggests we all need to catch up if we want to be global leaders.
21. What can we know about Isaac Ndawula and Sheila Mutamba?
A. They are from the same country.
B. They are studying in America now.
C. They are of the same age.
D. They are leaving for Africa.
24. Michael Morris intends to tell us ________.  
A. across cultures are important for all workers
B. Americans should be global leaders
C. Americans needn’t learn about the global situation
D. American-style small talk should be spread across the world

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