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9、ed States. However，in China, smiling is not only an expression of happiness, but also a way to avoid being embarrassed. Chinese people like smiling when they are embarrassed in order to avoid embarrassment. Smiling is a kind of good will but not sneer（嘲笑）. For example: When a child falls off from a
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13、re very happy B. they want to show they are friendlyC. they want to hide their true feelings D. they want to avoid embarrassment6. In China, seeing a child falls off a bike, an adult will smile in order to _.A. laugh at him B. avoid his own embarrassmentC. avoid embarrassment and encourage the boy D
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15、lion cups of coffee are drunk throughout the world each day, and its likely that many taste bitter. Now, a new study suggests that coffee fans can make their drink sweeter by changing the color of their cups. Researchers from Oxford set out to prove whether the claim that coffee drunk from a white cup tastes bitter was true. They used 36 volunteers and three different colored cups-blue, white and transparent(透明的) glass- to examine the claim. In one experiment, the white cup increased the intensity (浓度) of the
