4. The passage mainly tells us _______.

　 A. how to watch TV　　　　　　　 　 　B. why couch-potatoes are very fat.

　 C. what couch-potato means　　　　　　 D. where the new word is used

3. Why does a couch-potato look like a real potato? Because he or she _______.

　 A. almost never moves while watching TV and gets very fat

　 B. is fat and dying and can not take exercise

　 C. likes eating potatoes on a couch while watching TV

　 D. is frozen in front of the black box

2. If a person is called a couch-potato, he or she _______.

　 A. likes sitting on a couch watching TV　　 B. does nothing all day

　 C. must be very fat　　　　　　　　　　 D. only watches TV and eats potatoes

1. The word “couch-potato” is often used in _______.

　 A. China　　　　　 B. America　　　　 C. Japan　　　　　 D. France

5. The best title for this passage is 　　　　　　.

A. Chinese Customs on Table　　

B. Learn from Good Manners

C. When in Rome , Do as the Romans Do

D. Good Manners of Chinese People and American People

M

Do you know what couch-potato means? Well, in America, the word is now often used. The American couch-potato becomes maybe even a part of the American tradition! You see, in America, many people often spend their free time sitting on a couch(沙发) watching TV. As there are many channels to choose, the TV can be quite interesting and very addictive(上瘾的). One may sit and watch TV for hour and hour without stop! Well, these people who do nothing all day except watching TV are called couch-potatoes.

　 In America, when one watches TV, he is most often sitting on a couch. While watching TV, most of these people look so frozen that they almost look dead! Everyone is sitting still(静止的) with eyes looking right into the same black box. Also because these people are addictive to TV,

they don’t take exercise and usually get very fat. So in many ways, these people look like real potatoes!

Well, because they look so still and fat, and watch TV on a couch, they are all called couch-potatoes.

Now you know what couch-potato means. The next time if you see someone watching TV too long,

just say, "What a couch-potato!"

3. An American host is likely to 　　　　　.

A. keep asking his guest to eat more

B. fill his guest’s plate with more food

C. say “No, thanks .”

D. stop giving the guest anything after the guest refuses something

5. The new find of the insect fossil showed that the earliest insect was ______ years older than believed.

　　　 A. 10 million　　 B. 20 million　 C. 400 million　 D. 380 million

L

The customs in different countries are rather different . If I have dinner with a Chinese host , he always puts more food onto my plate as soon as I have emptied it . That often discomforts me greatly . I have to eat the food even if I don’t want to , because it is considered bad manners in the West to leave one’s food on the plate . I have already noticed that when a Chinese sits at an American’s dinner party , he very often refuses the offer of food or drink . In the United States , it is impolite to keep asking someone again and again or insist on his accepting something . Americans have a direct way of speaking . If they want something , they will ask for it . If not , they will say , “No ; thanks .” When an American doesn’t want beer , for example , he might say , “No , thanks . I’ll take some Diet Pepsi-Cola if you have it . ” That is what an American will do .

4. The Chinese Embassy in Baghdad reopened ____________.

A. when the US-Iraq war began　　　　　 B. before the US-Iraq war ended

C. three days before the war broke out　　 D. on a Monday

3. The fire in the shopping center started __________________.

　 A. on the fourth floor　 　　　　B. in a storehouse　　 　

C. on the third floor　 　　 　　　　　D. outside the centre

2. The operation done on the two Chinese girls was ___________.

　 A. unsuccessful 　 B. cruel　　 C. successful　　 D. strange