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  3. Americans do not give cooking, "considered as one of the fine arts", an important place in life. Lunch is for them a kind of gra

Americans do not give cooking, "considered as one of the fine arts", an important place in life. Lunch is for them a kind of gra

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问题     Americans do not give cooking, "considered as one of the fine arts", an important place in life. Lunch is for them a kind of gratuity paid to the body. They hurriedly toss it a fruit or a fish and go back to work. Certain writers, in rebellion, have founded the club, "Three Hours for Lunch", but they are an agreeable exception. Even at dinner, general conversation is rare. Everyone talks to his neighbor. After dinner the men linger at the table, a custom inherited from England. In New York your host will often propose taking you to the theatre, or else he will provide a pianist, a singer, a lecturer. The idea of leaving  the guests to themselves, and expecting them to get pleasure out of meeting one another, astonishes and even appalls him. His excessive modesty does not permit his imagining that his friends can be happy merely in being in his house, with one another. He treats them like children. On Christmas Eve you will see, in some of the pleasant homes in New York, Christmas trees for grown people. In other places, after a dinner at which you exchange ideas, there will be a magician who will do his best to amuse the oldsters.  There you must realize that the absence of conversation in American homes comes, not from absence  of ideas or lack of intelligence of understanding, but from an unconquerable shyness and a prodigious self-distrust.
The author believes that______.
选项 A、people are capable of getting pleasure out of meeting one another
B、people enjoy their food more when it is attractively served
C、Americans don’t want to act like mature adults
D、Americans don’t think deeply enough to be good conversationalists
答案A
解析 作者在文章中谈到这一点时这样说的：让客人随意，期待他们从相互见面中得到快乐，这一想法使主人非常惊讶。这就是说这样做客人确实得到了快乐，出乎主人的意料，所以正确答案为A；B．当菜很吸引人时人们更多的是品尝菜；C美国人的行为举止不想像成人那样；D．美国人并不考虑做优秀的谈话者。这些均与原文不符或无关。
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