C. Chinese people should say “please” or “thank you” as often as British people do.

　　D. Foreigners tend to be confused by Chinese people’s mixture of politeness and rudeness.

　　D

　　Do you speak emoji? If you use a smartphone, the answer is probably yes.

　　Emoji is a visual(视觉的) language. It can express ideas and feelings. Are you hungry? Let friends know by sending pictures like pizza.

　　Emoji exist for almost every need. And people use them a lot. One of the most popular emoji is the “face with tears of joy.” It has been used more than 1.8 billion times on Twitter.

　　Emoji are modern. But the idea is part of a much older tradition. History shows that we’ve used symbols as language for 5,000 years.

　　One of the oldest examples of visual language is Egyptian(埃及人，埃及的) hieroglyphics(象形文字). Ancient Egyptians began using language symbols around 3250 B.C., according to John Darnell. He is a professor of Egyptology at Yale University.

　　The oldest hieroglyphics show hunters and animals. Later, the pictures came to mean ideas and words.

　　In 1999, the Japanese company NTT Docomo took away a heart icon(图标) from its mobile phone. It lost customers. So Shigetaka Kurita, a designer, found a fix. He put the heart back. And he made 175 more pictures. He called them emoji, the Japanese word for picture characters.

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