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  One day a police officer managed to get some fresh mushroom (蘑菇). He was so 1 what he bought that he offered to 2 the mushrooms with his brothers. When their breakfast arrived 3 , each officer found some mushrooms on his plate.

  “Let the dog 4 a piece first.” suggested one 5 officer who was afraid that the mushrooms 6 be poisonous.

  The dog seemed to 7 his mushroom, and the officers then began to eat their meal, saying that the mushroom have a very strange 8 quite pleasant taste.

  An hour later, however, they were all astonished 9 the gardener rushed in and said  10  that the dog was dead. 11 , the officers jumped into their cars and rushed to the nearest hospital. Pumps (洗胃器) were used and the officers had a very 12 time getting rid of the mushrooms that 13 in their stomachs. When they returned to the police station, they sat down and started to 14 the mushroom poisoning. Each man explained the pains that 15 had felt and they agreed that 16 had grown worse on their way to the hospital. The gardener was called to tell the way 17 the poor dog had died. “Did it 18 much before death?” asked one of the officers, 19 very pleased that he had escaped a painful death himself. “No,” the gardener looked rather 20 . “It was killed the moment a car hit it.”

1.

[  ]

A.sure of
B.careless about
C.pleased with
D.disappointed at

2.

[  ]

A.share
B.grow
C.wash
D.cook

3.

[  ]

A.tomorrow
B.the next day
C.the day after
D.next day

4.

[  ]

A.check
B.small
C.try
D.examine

5.

[  ]

A.frightened
B.shy
C.cheerful
D.careful

6.

[  ]

A.must
B.should
C.might
D.may

7.

[  ]

A.refuse
B.hate
C.want
D.enjoy

8.

[  ]

A.beside
B.but
C.and
D.or

9.

[  ]

A.until
B.while
C.before
D.when

10.

[  ]

A.cruelly
B.curiously
C.seriously
D.finally

11.

[  ]

A.Immediately
B.Carefully
C.Suddenly
D.Slowly

12.

[  ]

A.hard
B.busy
C.exciting
D.unforgettable

13.

[  ]

A.stopped
B.dropped
C.settled
D.remained

14.

[  ]

A.study
B.discuss
C.record
D.remember

15.

[  ]

A.they
B.anybody
C.he
D.everybody

16.

[  ]

A.this
B.these
C.it
D.they

17.

[  ]

A.where
B.in that
C.which
D.in which

18.

[  ]

A.suffer
B.eat
C.harm
D.spit

19.

[  ]

A.to feel
B.feeling
C.felt
D.having felt

20.

[  ]

A.happy
B.interested
C.surprised
D.excited

Whether you’re eating at a fancy restaurant or dining in someone’s home. Proper table manners are likely to help you make a good impression. According to a US expert, Emily Post, “All rules of table manners are made to avoid ugliness.”
While Henry Hitchings of the Los Angeles Times admits that good manners can reduce social conflict, he points out that mostly their purpose is protective - they turn our natural warrior-like selves into more elegant ones.
So where did table manners come from?
In medieval England, a writer named Petrus Alfonsi took the lead to urge people not to speak with their mouths full. And King David I of Scotland also proposed that any of his people who learned to eat more neatly be given a tax deduction (减除).
Disappointingly, that idea never caught on. It was during the Renaissance, when there were real technical developments, opinions of correct behavior changed for good. “None of these was more significant than the introduction of the table fork,” wrote Hitchings. “Gradually, as forks became popular, they brought the new way of eating, making it possible, for instance, to consume berries without making one’s fingers dirty.”
Forks were introduced to Britain in 1608 and 25 years later, the first table fork reached America. Yet while most of the essentials (基本要素) are the same on both sides of the Atlantic, there are a few clear differences between what’s normal in the US and what holds true in the UK. For example, in the US, when food needs cutting with a knife, people generally cut a bite, then lay aside the knife and switch the fork to their right hand. Then they pick up one bite at a time. By contrast, Britons keep the fork in the left hand and don’t lay the knife down.
Though globalization has developed a new, simpler international standard of table manners, some people still stick with the American cut-and-switch method.The Los Angeles Times noted, “They are hanging on to a form of behavior that favors manners above efficiency.”
1.What does the story mainly talk about?

AThe importance of proper table manners .

BThe development of table manners in Western countries.

CSome unwritten rules of table manners in the US and UK.

DDifferences between American and British table manners.

2.The underlined phrase “caught on” in the passage probably means ______.

Aworked in practice????????????? Bbecame popular

Cdrew attention????????????? Dhad a positive effect

3.Which of the following events influenced people’s table manners most according to the article?

AThe introduction of forks.

BThe tax deduction policy.

CThe rise of the Renaissance.

DPetrus Alfonsi’s efforts in promoting table manners.

4.What can we conclude from the article?

ABritish and American table manners are completely different from each other.

BAmerican people pay more attention to their table manners than British people do.

CWith globalization, the American cut-and-switch method has been abandoned in the US.

DBritish people’s way of using a knife and fork may be more efficient than American people’s.

 

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