How to Hold a Dinner Party Types of dinner party: Successes and failures: you will get a social success among your【D1】______

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问题                         How to Hold a Dinner Party
    Types of dinner party: Successes and failures: you will get a social success among your【D1】______as long as you get it right. There will be【D2】______silence if you get it wrong.
    Tips for holding a dinner party: Avoid holding dinner parties in your own home unless you’re a【D3】______and want the attention: An【D4】______location is in a restaurant which has lots of favorable benefits. Firstly, your【D5】______wouldn’t be exposed to your guests. Secondly, you don’t need to worry about your cooking. Thirdly, you can【D6】______of the dinner party.
    Guide to home entertainment: You should make sure there is a decent【D7】______of guests: Introduce your guests properly and keep in mind not to entertain if you ’re【D8】______.
You can get your guests to bring a course.
    Taboos in a dinner party: Avoid serious conversation topics such as【D9】______unless you are with French people. And don’t let yourself overdrink as it would lead to【D10】______.
【D1】
In this section, you will hear a short passage. For questions 21 -30, complete the notes using three words or fewer for each blank. The passage will be read twice. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet.
    There are only two types of dinner party: successes and failures. If you get it right, you will have the satisfaction of being considered a social success by all your acquaintances: if you get it wrong, you will encourage the sort of silences that will explore the full meaning of the word " awkward".
    The most sensible course of action is never to be a host. But you’ re a show-off and you want the attention, so here goes.
    Although it may seem as if it’ s a contradiction in terms, wherever possible, avoid having dinner parties in your own home. An alternative location that has a number of distinct advantages is a restaurant. Firstly, it enables you to conceal your domestic lifestyle. Secondly, you don’t have to worry about your cooking. Thirdly, and most satisfyingly, you split the cost of the evening with your guests.
    If, however, like most people you don’t have the gall to invite your friends to a dinner party in a restaurant, you should ensure there’ s an interesting line-up of guests. Therefore your party should comprise three or four couples and a single person.
    It is this unfortunate person’ s role to be patronized and pitied by the couples present. Naturally, you should not be this person. Do not entertain if you’ re partnerless. Instead, with your arm reassuringly entwined in your partner’ s, introduce your single friend with a witty line.
    Because you’ re at home, there’ s no getting round it, you’ 11 have to cook at least some of the food. However, you can tell your guests it’ s an old Tibetan custom to bring a course, and simply everyone is doing it nowadays.
    Talking of talk, there’ re certain conversational conventions which must be obeyed. Appropriate subject matters are: money, jobs, the relationships of those not present. It is rude to talk politics , philosophy unless you’ re French or in any informed way about anything.
    Still, if after all your efforts, and your conscientious abstention from your ninth glass of wine, it’ s still a disaster, you can quietly leave the table and go to bed. And, your guests will let themselves out. Anyway, you won’ t be inviting them again.

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答案acquaintances

解析 (录音中开头指出“If you get it right,you will have the satisfaction of being considered a so—cial success by all your acquaintances”,即若晚会办得好,你的社交能力就会得到大家的认可。acquaintance相识的人,熟人。)
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