For foreigners in China, food isn’t simply a meal. It’s sometimes a . I often fail to order the right food and use chopsticks correctly when I sit down in a restaurant.

Because not every dish has a picture on the menu, food becomes a guessing game. My father and I often what kind of vegetables or meat we’re eating. In one of our favourite Sichuan restaurants, it took three waiters 15 minutes to take our order for . I simply wanted water, but my father wanted to try one of the fresh juices listed on the menu. There were two , however. There were neither pictures nor English on the menu. Finally, he just ordered a Coca Cola.

One of our most embarrassing(令人尴尬的) experiences was at a famous restaurant. It was always , so we thought it might be a good restaurant to visit. We had the most difficult time ordering our meal, since there were so many choices. Luckily, the waiter was very and successfully understood us. During the dinner, noodles slipped(滑落) through my chopsticks onto the table lots of times. Once, I tried to pick up a dumpling for my father, but I it on his shorts. We both looked at it as it fell to the floor. I looked behind me and people were about my chopsticks skills.

No matter how difficult it is for us to understand the menu, the waiters are always very understanding of our . They always give us good service, even when they realize they have to clean up the noodles that have slipped through my chopsticks.

1.A. surprise B. challenge C. prize D. mistake

2.A. cooking B. selling C. sending D. ordering

3.A. fear B. report C. explain D. guess

4.A. dessert B. fruit C. drinks D. vegetables

5.A. problems B. inventions C. chances D. directions

6. A. noisy B. peaceful C. crowded D. empty

7.A. honest B. patient C. proud D. brave

8.A. ate B. dropped C. prepared D. got

9.A. laughing B. thinking C. arguing D. learning

10.A. culture B. habit C. conversation D. Situation

My sister Alli and I have been trying to get people to stop dropping cigarette butts(烟蒂) for seven years. One day, we were walking in our hometown and saw hundreds of cigarette butts on the ground. They made the town look so ugly that we decided to start a group to make people stop dropping butts. We called it “No Butts About It”. At first, we drew pictures with “The Earth is Not Your Ashtray(烟灰缸)” written on them. We put the pictures around our hometown---in parks, by beaches, and along roads. We wanted to make people understand that dropping butts hurts the environment. Most smokers don’t think that dropping butts hurts the earth. But it does! All rubbish does. Later, we wrote to companies and asked them for money to help us. We used the money to buy ashtrays to give smokers. We wanted smokers to carry the ashtrays with them so they didn’t have to drop butts. At the moment, we are trying to get cigarette companies to put an ashtray in each pack of cigarettes. Some companies want to do it.

Many people have started to join our group since it began. Today there are 45 other “No Butts About It” groups in America. And there are even groups in England, Australia and India! Many newspapers have written about my sister and I over the last seven years. And we have won many prizes for our good work.

But we are not interested in prizes. We just want to make the earth a better and cleaner place for animals, plants and people. One day it will be.

1.“No Butts About It” started___________

A. seventeen years ago. B. seven years ago.

C. seventy years ago D. It’s not mentioned.

2.Why did they start the group?

A. Because they don’t like cigarette.

B. Because they want to make money.

C. Because they want people to know them.

D. Because they want to protect the environment.

3.How many “No Butts About It” groups are there in America?

A. 7 B. 45 C. 46 D. 49.

4.The writer lives in_________

A. America. B. England. C. Australia. D. India.

5.What did the writer do the following EXCEPT__________?

A. starting a group called “No Butts About It”

B. writing to companies to ask them for help

C. asking newspapers to write about her sister and her

D. managing to get some cigarette companies to put an ashtray in each cigarette pack

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