Dinner customs(习惯)are different around the world.If you are a guest in Ghana(加纳),this information will help you a lot.
In Ghana, dinner is usually from four in the afternoon to six in the evening.But there are no strict rules(规则)about time.Whenever a guest arrives, a family offers food.When you go to a home, the person who receives guests takes you to the living room first.At this time everyone welcomes you.Then you go to the dinning room.There you wash your hands in a bowl of water.All the food is on the table.
In Ghana you usually eat with your fingers.You eat from the same dish as everyone else.But you eat from one side of the dish only.It is not polite to get food from the other side of the dish.After dinner, you wash your hands again in a bowl of water.
Most meals in Ghana have a dish called fufu.People in Ghana make fufu from the powder(粉末)of some plants.Sometimes they cut the fufu with a saw(锯子)because it is very hard.You must chew(咀嚼)fufu well, or you may get sick.You eat fufu with the fingers of your right hand only.
(1)
From the passage we know that in Ghana ________.
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A.
the rules for dinner time are not strict
B.
dinner is always at six in the evening
C.
a family offers food only at four in the afternoon
D.
people usually invite their guests to dinner late in the evening
(2)
If you are a dinner guest in Ghana, the host(主人)always takes you to ________.
More have heard of the American Prom.This is the senior students' school leaving party.The British name for the event is a Leaver's Ball or Leaver's Dinner, although some UK schools call them Proms, too.In Canada, Ireland and Australia the terms Grad or Formal are most common and in South Africa it is called a Matric Dance.
Some Matric Dances in South Africa still follows the old British traditions.Before the dance, pupils are given lessons in dancing.School leavers invite a partner to the dance.The girls have dresses especially made for the event.To save costs the dance is often held din the school hall.
American Proms have become elaborate(精心的)and expensive, complete with luxury hotel ballrooms(豪华的酒店舞厅),live bands and expensive prom dressed.They now include after-Prom activities that often extend into the early morning of the next day.
The Leaver's Ball in the UK is not so formal(正式).The girls also wear ball gowns and the boys suits.A dinner and disco will be held at a a local hotel.Each pupil buys a ticket and can go with a partner or just arrive with friends.
(1)
We learn from this passage that the Prom is a ________.
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A.
test
B.
game
C.
party
(2)
In Australia, people call "Prom" ________.
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A.
Leavers' Ball
B.
Grad or Formal
C.
Matric Dance
(3)
The most important activity in the Prom is ________.
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A.
dancing
B.
eating
C.
meeting
(4)
The Matric Dance is often held in the ________.
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A.
school hall
B.
hotel ballroom
C.
local restaurant
(5)
According to this passage, the event in ________ costs the most.