The car started and the foreign officer was now too surprised to say a word. He thought about it for a while, and then he nodded with a smile, “No means yes here!”
(   ) 1. An Indian would shake his head when ____.
he didn’t want to do anything
he agreed with others
he talked to others
other people were wrong
(   ) 2. The foreign officer was surprised that _____.
the driver could not understand him
the driver refused his order
the driver drive him to another place
the driver shook his head as he said “Yes”
(   ) 3. The sentence “No means yes here” means_____.
in India the words Yes and No have the same meaning
Indians don’t say No when they don’t agree with each other
There is no difference between Yes and No
We shake our heads to say No, not Yes as Indians do
(   ) 4. India is _____.
       A. a developed country       B. in America
                  C. next to Australia    D. to the southwest of China
(   ) 5. Which of the following sentences isn’t true?
Shaking the head doesn’t always have the same meaning in different countries.
When an Indian shakes his head, he really means Yes.
In India the word No means Yes.
D. In China shaking the head means No.
九、作文（5’）
    More and more middle school students in Beijing sleep for f_____ than eight hours every night, because they have m______ homework to do. Some homework is given by school teachers, and some by p______. Also, some students don’t know how to s____ the time. They are not careful enough while doing their homework so it t____ them a lot of time. Thus, they have not enough time for sleeping.

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