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 might simply say something like this, “I’m afraid I’ll have to find a cheap place because I don’t have 1) _______ ________.” 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 Johnson's ", or "I want you to try the steak(牛排) there. It's great. "This means the person wants to pay for both of you. If you feel friendly towards this person, you can go with him, and you needn’t pay for the meal. You may simply say, "Thank you. That would be very nice."

American customs(習(xí)俗) about who pays for a date(約會(huì)) are much the same as those in other parts of the world.3) In the old days, American women wanted men to pay for all the meals. But, today, a woman who is a university(大學(xué)) student or is working in the business world will usually pay her own way during the date. If a man asks her to dinner, outside the normal working hours ,it means "come as my guest(客人). " So you can see it is better for you to make the question clear at the very beginning. 

1． 將1)處填上適當(dāng)?shù)脑~,使句意完整：______________ ______________

2． 回答問(wèn)題： What does ‘to go Dutch’ mean ? __________________________________________________________.

3． 將劃線的句子譯成中文：__________________________________________________________

4． 找出文中與下列句子意思相近的句子

So you can see you’d better make the question clear at the start.

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5．找出文中最能表達(dá)短文主題的句子______________________________________________________________________________

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The telephone rings and Sue answers it. “  1  I speak to Mrs Potts, please?” a man asks.
“I’m afraid you’ve got the wrong  2 ,” Sue says.
“I’m sorry,” the man says.
A few minutes later the telephone rings  3 . Sue  4  it. It is the same man. He makes a mistake again. Three minutes   5  the telephone rings once more, but she   6  answer it this time, It rings and rings. Her mother hears the  7 . “Why   8  you answer the phone, Sue? she calls.
“Oh, all right,” Sue says. “I’m sure it’s that man again.” But she is   9 . It is her father and he is very   10  . Sue keeps him waiting.

One day a rich man meets Tom. The rich man asks, “People say you are very clever(聰明的) and nothing is difficult(困難的) for you. Can you tell my why you are so clever? ” Tom answers with a smile, “Oh, I’m not clever. Instead(反而) , you are too foolish.” The rich man becomes very very angry.
Tom says, “Sir, please don’t be angry. If you don’t believe me, now let me ask you a very easy question: If you have a group（群）of sheep(綿羊), I send you another group. Then, you say, how many groups of sheep do you have?”
“Why! That’s the easiest question in the world. One and one is two. Anybody knows that. I have two groups of sheep , of course.”
Tom laughs and says, “You are wrong , Sir. Two groups of sheep put together is still one group. That’s the easiest question in the world , isn’t it?”
【小題1】People say Tom_____________.

In America, just as in Europe, men usually open doors for women, and women always walk ahead of men into a room or a restaurant, unless the men have to be ahead of the ladies to choose the table, to open the door of a car or do some other things like the above. On the street, men almost always walk or cross the street on the closer side of the ladies to the traffic. But if a man walks with two ladies, he should walk between them. Then if the host or hostess or both of them come in a car to get their guest for dinner, the guest should sit at the front seat and leave the back seat though there're no people sitting on it.

1.In America, men usually_________.

A. walk ahead of women       B. eat in a restaurant

C. walk behind women          D. drive a car to work

2.In the street, men __________.

A. cross the street                                 B. walk on the right side of the ladies

C. walk near the ladies                         D. walk on the closer side of the ladies to the traffic

3.If a man walks with two ladies, he should _________.

A. walk between them         B. run before them

C. follow them                 D. go away

4.If a man asks you to speak at a meeting, first you should say,"______".

A. How are you?                B. Is everyone here?

C. Ladies and gentlemen       D. How do you do?

5.If Mrs. Green invites you to her house in a car, you should________.

A. jump into the car                              B. sit at the front seat

C. sit at the back seat                                     D. drive the car