Table Manners and Customs In Great Britain today good manners at table include eating with the mouth closed; not letting any

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问题                    Table Manners and Customs
    In Great Britain today good manners at table include eating with the mouth closed; not letting any of the food fall off the plate; using the knife only for cutting; and not trying to take food across the table.______【46】. Indeed, what are considered good table manners in some other countries are what British people try hardest to avoid. ______【47】.
    ______【48】. Tables and chairs have raplaced the cushions of the past, and the lady of the house presides at one end of the table in the same way that Western women do. Many Japanese, however still feel it would be wrong to eat unless they were sitting on a cushion before a low table with a tray of food on it. In many parts of the world both traditional and Western styles of eating exist side by side.
    ______【49】. In North America it is polite to cut up meat and then put the knife down, take the fork in the right hand and eat with it. Most European people, like the British, keep the fork in the left hand and the knife in the right all the time when they are eating food that has to be cut. In the British Isles and Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland) special knives and forks are used for eating fish. ______【50】.
A. In France, Belgium and Italy, however, it is correct to keep the same knife for every course , wiping it on a piece of bread.
B. In other parts of the world there are also rules for people to follow when they are eating, but they are not the same as those of Britain.
C. The richer and more educated people in the East have, however, to a great extent taken up
the table manners and customs of Western people.
D. In Arabia, for instance, the people at a feast take pieces of food with their fingers and belch loudly to show that they have appreciated it.
E. Table manners and customs have changed a lot with the time.
F. In the West there are differences between table manners in various countries, although they are not so marked.

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答案B

解析 在世界上的其他地方也有一些餐桌礼仪需要去遵守, 但是这些礼仪与英国又有些差异。第一句介绍了英国的餐桌礼仪, 而第三句又提到有些在其他国家被认为是良好的餐桌礼仪的行为恰恰是英国人所要避免的。由此可见其他国家的餐桌礼仪和英国有些差异。
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