Dinner, for the English people, is the richest meal of a day and is, different from Chinese dinner, a very formal meal. Many people even wear special clothes for dinner. So if you are asked out to dinner, you must find out whether you are expected to wear a formal suit. You would feel upset if, when you got there, you were the only person in ordinary clothes.

Dinner is generally served at about half past seven. All the members of the family sit down together and are on their best behavior. The guest of honor will sit on the right of the lady of the house. There are two schools of thought as to the seating of the hostess. One is that she sits at the foot of the table but this may mess up the man-woman-man setting order. The other way is for the guest of honor to sit at the foot and the hostess to sit on his right. The wife of the guest of honor will sit on the right of the host. This is subject to change according to the wishes of your employer.

During the meal when conversation is carried on, you should try to get into conversation with the person on your right or left, but you should not try to talk to someone who is a long way from you.

Don’t forget to drop your hosts a thank-you note or make a brief phone call.

1. If you and your parents go out to dinner, ______.

A. you will sit on the right of the housewife

B. your father will sit on the right of the housewife

C. your mother will sit on the left of the housewife

D. all of you will sit on the left of the housewife

2. Your wearing a special clothes for dinner shows that ______.

A. you are a special person

B. you are a rich person

C. you are a person with good manners

D. you are the most important guest

3. English dinner is different from Chinese, for _____.

A. English dinner is a very formal meal

B. English dinner is the richest meal of the day

C. English dinner is served at home

D. English dinner is served in the evening

4. The passage mainly tells us _____.

A. that dinner is most important in the English people’s lives

B. that the English people is very rich

C. that the people with good manners are respected by the English people

D. about the dinner of English people

 

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科目：高中英語 來源：2006年普通高等學校招生全國統(tǒng)一考試（湖北卷）　英語 題型：050

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　　Silence is unnatural to map. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In between be does all he can to make a noise in the world, and be fears silence more than anything else. Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence. If be is introduced to another person, and is number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards him self as a failure ,a worthless person, and is full of envy of the emptiest headed chatterbox（喋喋不休的人）.He knows that ninety nine percent fo human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure（蠟塑人像）.

　　The aim of conversation is not. For the most part, to communicate ideas ; it is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admirted, different qualitics. of buzz;there is even a buzz that is as annoying as the continuous noise made bu a mosquito(蚊子).But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a quiet person. Most buzzing,forlunately,is pleasnnt to the ear,and some of it is pleasant even to the mind.He would be a foolish man if he waited until he had a wise thought to take pert in the buzzing with his neighbors.

　　Those who hate to pick up the weather as a conversational opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new. Some of them are content it they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people's ears, though they have nothing to tell them except that they have seen two or three new plays or that they had food in a Swiss hotel. At the end of an evening during which they have said nothing meaningful for a long time. they just prove themselves to be successful conversationists.

(1)

According to the author, people make conversation to

[　　]

A．

exchange ideas

B．

prove their value

C．

achieve success in life

D．

overcome their fear of sllence

(2)

By “the buzzing of a fly”(Para1),the author means “________”.

[　　]

A．

the noise of an insect

B．

a low whispering sound

C．

meaningless talks

D．

the voice of a chatterbox

(3)

According to the passage, people usually talk to their neighbors.

[　　]

A．

about whatever they have prepared

B．

about whatever they want do

C．

in the hope of learning something new

D．

in the hope of getting on well

(4)

What is the author's purpose in writing the passage?

[　　]

A．

To discuss why people like talking about weather.

B．

To encourage people to join in conversations.

C．

To persuade people to stop making noises.

D．

To explain why people keep talking.

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