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When families gather for Christmas dinner,some will stick to formal traditions dating back to grandma’s generation.Their tables
When families gather for Christmas dinner,some will stick to formal traditions dating back to grandma’s generation.Their tables
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2014-02-25
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When families gather for Christmas dinner,some will stick to formal traditions dating back to grandma’s generation.Their tables will be set with the good dishes and silver,and the dress code will be Sunday-best.
But in many other homes,this china—and-silver elegance has given way to a stoneware(粗陶)and-stainless informality,with dresses assuming an equally casual—Friday look.For hosts and guests,the change means greater simplicity and comfort.For makers of fine china in Britain.it spells economic hard times.
Last week Royal Doulton,the largest employer in Stoke.on.Trent.announced that it is eliminaring 1,000 jobs一0ne—fifth of its total workforce.That brings to more than 4,000 the number of posltions lost in 1 8 months in the pottery(陶瓷)region.Wedgwood and other pottery factories made cuts earlier.
Although a strong pound and weak markets in Asia play a role in the downsizing.the layoffs in Stoke have their roots in earthshaking social shifts.A spokesman for Royal Douhon admitted that the company“has been somewhat slow in catching up with the trend”toward casual dining.Families eat together less often,he explained,and more people eat alone,either because they are single or they eat in front of television.
Even dinner parties,if they happen at all,have gone casual.In a time of long work hours and demanding family schedules,busY hosts insist,rightly,that it’s better to share a takeout pizza on paper plates in the family room than to wait for the perfect moment or a“real”dinner party.Too often the perfect moment never comes.Iron a fine—patterned tablecloth?Forget it.Polish the silver?Who has time?
Yet the loss of formality has its down side.The fine points of etiquette(礼节)that children might once have learned at the table by observation or instruction from parents and grandparents(“Chew with your mouth closed.”“Keep your elbows off the table.”)must be picked up elsewhere.Some companies now offer etiquette seminars for employees who may be competent professionally but clueless socially.
Refined table manners,though less popular than before in current social life( ).
选项
A、are still a must on certain occasions
B、axe bound to return sooner or later
C、are still being taught by parents at home
D、can help improve personal relationships
答案
A
解析
由最后一段可知餐桌上的礼仪在某些场合还是必需的。
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