1、Passage 1Although your Chinese host will not expect you to know everything about proper banquet behavior, he will greatly appreciate it when you are displaying some knowledge of the subject, because it shows that you have respect for Chinese culture, manners and traditions.Banquets are usually held

2、in restaurants in private rooms that have been reserved for the purpose. You will be met at the door and guided to the banquet room. Traditionally, the head of your delegation should enter the room first. Do not be surprised if your hosts greet you with a loud round of applause. The proper response

3、is to applaud back.Seating arrangements, which are based on rank, are stricter than in the West. Guests should never assume that they may sit where they please and should wait for hosts to guide them to their places. Traditionally, the Chinese regard the right side as the superior and the left side

4、as the inferior. Therefore on formal occasions, including meetings and banquets, the host invariably arranges for the main guests to sit on his right side.At very formal banquets, people do not begin to eat until the principal host served a portion to the principal guest. Or, the host may simply rai

5、se his chopsticks and announce that eating has begun. After this point, one may serve oneself any food in any amount. Remember to go slow on eating. Dont fill yourself up when five courses are left to go. To stop eating in the middle of a banquet is rude, and your host may incorrectly think that som

6、ething has been done to offend you.Drinking takes an important place in Chinese banquets. Toasting is necessary, and the drinking of spirits begins only after the host has made a toast at the beginning of the meal. When he says the words gan bei, which means bottoms up, all present should drain thei

7、r glasses. After this initial toast, drinking and toasting are open to all. Subsequent toasts can be made from person to person or to the group as a whole. No words are needed to make a toast, and it is not necessary to drain your glass, although to do so is more respectful.1. According to the passa

8、ge, when you are invited to dinner in China, your host_.A will assume that you know very well about the Chinese culture.Bwill be pleased if you do have some knowledge of the proper banquet behavior.C will explain to you the proper banquet etiquette before dinner.D will require you to show respect fo

9、r Chinese culture.2. Who might be the targeted reader of this passage?A The foreigners who are interested in the Chinese culture.B The foreigners who conduct businesses in China.C The tourists who would like to travel in China on their ownD The foreigners who want to learn Chinese.3. At formal banqu

10、ets, how will the seat of the guests be arranged?A The guests can sit wherever they want.B The main guest will be invited to sit on the right hand of the host.C The arrangement will be based on the age of the guests.D The seats on the left hand of the host are reserved for the most important guest.4

11、. When it is the proper time to eat at the formal banquet in China?A After the most important guest is served a portion of the dish by the principal host.B When five courses have been served.C When the chopsticks are distributed to everybody present.D When the bell rings as formal announcement.5. Wh

12、at does the author say about drinking at the banquet?A You need to drain your glass every time a toast is proposed.B Every guest needs to make a toast of no more than 50 words.C The host may ask the guests to drain their glasses in the initial toast.D If you can make a toast in Chinese, you will be

13、more respected.Passage 2The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food first appeared with the label: store in the refrigerator.In my fridgeless Fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthily. The milkman came daily, the grocer, the butcher, the baker, and t

14、he ice-cream man delivered two or three times a week. The Sunday meat would last until Wednesday and surplus bread and milk became all kinds of cakes. Nothing was wasted, and we were never troubled by rotten food. Thirty years on, food deliveries have ceased; fresh vegetables are almost unobtainable

15、 in the country.The invention of the fridge contributed comparatively little to the art of food preservation. A vast way of well-tried techniques already existed natural cooling, drying, smoking, salting, sugaring, bottling.What refrigeration did promote was marketing marketing hardware and electric

16、ity, marketing soft drinks, marketing dead bodies of animals around the globe in search of a good price.Consequently, most of the worlds fridges are to be found, not in the tropics where they might prove useful, but in the wealthy countries with mild temperatures where they are climatically almost u

17、nnecessary. Every winter, millions of fridges hum away continuously, and at vast expense, busily maintaining an artificially-cooled space inside anartificially-heated house while outside, nature provides the desired temperature free of charge.The fridges effect upon the environment has been evident,

18、 while its contribution to human happiness has been insignificant. If you dont believe me, try it yourself, invest in a food cabinet and turn off your fridge next winter. You may miss the hamburgers, but at least youll get rid of that terrible hum.6. The statement In my fridgeless Fifties childhood,

19、 I was fed well and healthily. (Line 1, Para. 2 suggests that_.A the author was well-fed and healthy even without a fridge in his fiftiesB the author was not accustomed to using fridge even in his fiftiesC there was no fridge in the authors home in the 1950sD the fridge was in its early stage of dev

20、elopment in the 1950s7. Why does the author say that nothing was wasted before the invention of fridge?A People would not buy more food than was necessary.B Food was delivered to people two or three times a week.C Food was sold fresh and did not get rotten easily.D People had effective ways to prese

21、rve their food.8. Who benefited the least from fridges according to the author?A Inventors.B Consumers.C Manufacturers.D Traveling salesmen.9. Which of the following phrases in the fifth paragraph indicates the fridges negative effect on the environment?A Hum away continuously.B Climatically almost

22、unnecessary.C Artificially-cooled space.D With mild temperatures.10. What is the authors overall attitude toward fridges?A Neutral.B Critical.C Objective.All of us ought to be able to brace ourselves for the predictable challenges and set backs that crop up in our everyday life. If we (11 that life

23、wont be perfect, we will be able to avoid that (12 to quit. But even if you are strong enough to persist the obstacle course of lifeand work, sometimes you will encounter an adverse event that will (13 knock you on your back.A quick look at the history will tell you that history is full of example of men and women who (14 greatness despite facing hurdles. Moses was a stutterer, yet he was (15 on to be the