An important question about eating out is who pays for the meal. If a friend of yours asks you to have lunch with him, you may say something like this,“I'm afraid it'll have to be someplace cheap, because I have little money.” The other person may say, “OK, I'll meet you at McDonald's.”

This means that the two agree to go Dutch, that is, each person pays for himself. He may also say, “Oh,no, I want to take you to lunch at Smith's,” or“I want you to try the Chinese dumplings there. They are great.” This means the person wants to pay for both of you. If you feel friendly towards the person, you can go with him and you needn't pay for the meal. You may just say, “Thank you. That would he very nice.”

American custom(习惯) about who pays for dates (约会) are much the same as in other parts of the world. In the old days, American women wanted men to pay for all the meals. But, today, a university girl or a woman in business world will usually pay their way during the day. If a man asks her for a dance outside the working hours, it means “Come, as my guest.” So as you can see, it is a polite thing to make the question clear at the very beginning.

1.If you have little money,

A. you will not cat dinner

B. you'll borrow some from others

C. you'll ask your friend to pay for your meal

D. you'll have a cheap meal

2.“Go Dutch” in this passage means .

A. 各自付款 B. 就餐 C. 订餐 D.去饭馆

3.Sometimes your friend takes you to lunch. It means .

A. he's going to lend you money to you

B. he's going to pay for your meal

C. he'll be angry with you

D. he can't understand you

4. In America, some girls and women now.

A. ask men to pay for their meals

B. try to pay for the men's meals

C. try to pay for their own meals

D. never have anything outside

5.The passage tells us .

A. how to eat out B. where to cat out

C. what to cat out D who pays for the meal

阅读下面短文,根据括号内的汉语意思填入单词,使短文意思完整、通顺。每空一词。

It is 8:30 a.m. at the Chengdu Research Base. Lin Wei, a panda keeper, is preparing the milk for the baby pandas’ __1.___(早餐). At 9:00 a.m., she finds that most of the babies are already __2._(醒着的)and hungry. When the babies see Lin Wei, they run over with excitement, and some of them even __3.___(行走)into their friends and fall over. They’re so cute and lovely. Lin Wei takes care of them like they’re her ___4.__(自己的)babies. She washes, feeds and plays with them every day.

Pandas do not have many babies, maybe only one every two years. The babies often __5.___(死亡)from illness and do not live very long. Adult pandas spend more than 12 hours a day eating about 10 kilos of bamboo. Many years ago, there were a lot more bamboo forests and pandas in China. But now pandas are in great __6.___(危险). People cut down many bamboo trees so they are losing their homes. There are about 1,590 _7.__(野生的)pandas living in the forests in Sichuan, Shanxi and Gansu provinces. Another 200 or so live in zoos or research centers in China and other countries.

It’s a ___8.___(遗憾)that many people don’t know that. So the government has set up an education program in Chengdu. It teaches children in cites about pandas, and tells them about the ___9.___(重要性)of saving the pandas. But teaching children is only a way to help _10.___(保护)environment and save pandas. The Chinese government is also planting more bamboo trees so there will be more forests for pandas to live in. We all hope that in the future there will be a lot of pandas than now.

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