Dinner customs(习惯)are different around the world. If you are a dinner guest in Ghana, 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(严格的规定)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 dining 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.

 

56. From the passage we know that in Ghana_______ 

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

57. If you are a dinner guest in Ghana , the host(主人)always takes you to _________

A. the dining room first  B. the living room first  C. the kitchen first

58. People in Ghana usually eat_________

A. from one side of a dish to the other

B. from the other side of the dish

C. with their fingers

59. In fact ,most dishes in Ghana________

A. are cooked with the powder of some plants

B. have fufu in them

C. are not very hard

60. When you eat fufu, you’d better______

A. cut it with a saw     B. use your right hand only    C. all of the above

One day a student went to see his teacher. He had been given an important position and now was coming to say goodbye to his teacher. The old man asked him how he would live among high officials. The student answered, “ I will be all right. I have prepared a hundred high hats, one for each official I will meet. I am sure I will succeed.” The teacher got angry on hearing this.  “What?” he cried. “Is this what ten years of my teaching has made of you? Nothing but flatterer(拍马屁的人)?” “Excuse me, honored(尊敬的) master,” the student rose to his feet and apologized hurriedly. “But you have always been absorbed in your studies and don’t know how vulgar(庸俗的) the world has come to be. There are few men in the world who are above flatterers like you.” “There is something true in what you said,” the teacher nodded, smiling with one of the student’s “high hats” on.

 

51. The student came to say goodbye to his teacher because_____________.

A. he had got hundred hats to sell

B. he had got a fairly high position in society

C. he wanted to see his parents in his home town

D. he moved away to another city

52. The student would live among high officials by___________.

A. selling hats to them        B. making a hundred hats for them

C. flattering them              D. serving them

53. The teacher was angry with__________.

A. himself    B .the society    C. his student   D. high officials

54. The phrase “rose to his feet” means________.

A. stood up                        B. kicked with his feet

C. became quite excited       D. raised his feet

55 The teacher____________.

A. liked to be flattered as well

B. really knew nothing about the vulgar world

C . was in need of a high hat

D. was satisfied with the new hat

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