11.Being safe in your everyday life needs knowledge.If you remember the following information,your life will be much (1)
. Always notice the environment around jye.ai.You shouldn't walk alone outside.Make sure where the public phones are.If anything dangerous (2)
you can find them (3)
. You should (4)
your bag towards the front of your body instead of (5)
it on your back.When a bus is full of people,it is (6)
for a thief to take away the things in the bag on your back. If you are followed by someone you don't know, (7)
the street and go to the other way,let the person (8)
you know he or she is after you.Next,don't go home at once.You are safer in the street than you are alone in your home or in a lift. If you have to take (9)
bus to place far away,try to get to the stop a few minutes earlier before the bus leaves.This stops (10)
from studying you.On the bus,don't sit alone.Sit behind the driver or with other people.Don't sleep.
12.When my family moved to America in 2010 from a small village in Guangdong,China,we brought not only our suitcase,but also our village rules,customs and culture.One of the(1)
is that young people should always respect elders.(2)
this rule led to my very first embarrassment(尷尬) in the United States. I had a part-time job as a(3)
in a Chinese restaurant.One time,when I was serving food to a middle-aged couple,the wife asked me how the food could be served so quickly.I told her that I had made sure they got their food quickly because I always(4)
the elderly.As soon as I said that,she became(5)
at once.My manager,who happened to hear what I said,took me aside and gave me a long lecture about how the Americans dislike the word --- old.I then walked back to the table and say sorry to the wife.After the couple heard my(6)
,they understood that the problem was caused by cultural differences,so they(7)
and were no longer angry. In my village in China,people are(8)
being old.Not so many people live to be seventy or eighty,and people who reach such an age have the(9)
knowledge and experience.Young people always respect older people because they know they can learn from their rich experience. However,in the United States,people think growing old is a problem since growing old shows that a person is going to retire or that the body is not working well.Here many people try to keep themselves away from growing old by doing exercises,and women put on makeup(化妝),hoping to look(10)
.When I told the couple in the restaurant that I respect the elderly,they got angry because this caused them to feel they had failed to stay young.I had told them something they didn't want to hear.