Miss Gao ______lunch at school.

Miss Gao is in the classroom at the moment.

A．at once

B．right now

C．now

D．all the time

A.went

B.has gone

C.has been

D.would go

WHAT ABOUT EATING PEKING DUCK？

_Miss Gao__ wants to invite __Miss Smith__ for dinner. They are discussing the dinner time._

MISS SMITH: Hello？

MISS GAO: Hello, is that Miss Smith？

MISS SMITH: Yes. Who is that？

MISS GAO: This is Miss Gao. How are you？

MISS SMITH: Not too bad, thanks. And you？

MISS GAO: {A. OK, let’s say 6:30 p.m.; B. Let’s try Peking duck.; C. Fine. I am making this call to see if you are free on Friday night.; D. Are you available on Saturday？; E. What can you recommend？} I’d like to invite you to dinner.

MISS SMITH: I’m terribly sorry, but I’ve already made some arrangements for Friday.

MISS GAO: What a pity! How about Saturday？ {A. OK, let’s say 6:30 p.m.; B. Let’s try Peking duck.; C. Fine. I am making this call to see if you are free on Friday night.; D. Are you available on Saturday？; E. What can you recommend？}

MISS SMITH: Saturday is OK. I’m free on weekends.

MISS GAO: Great. What time would you like to meet？

MISS SMITH: Whenever is OK for me. I have no plans for that day. What time do you suggest？

MISS GAO: {A. OK, let’s say 6:30 p.m.; B. Let’s try Peking duck.; C. Fine. I am making this call to see if you are free on Friday night.; D. Are you available on Saturday？; E. What can you recommend？}

MISS SMITH: And where would you like to meet？

MISS GAO: I can pick you up at the gate of your company. So what kind of food do you prefer？ Why not try Chinese food？

MISS SMITH: Well, I’m not very familiar with Chinese cuisines. {A. OK, let’s say 6:30 p.m.; B. Let’s try Peking duck.; C. Fine. I am making this call to see if you are free on Friday night.; D. Are you available on Saturday？; E. What can you recommend？}

MISS GAO: Well, have you heard of Peking Duck？ It’s a local specialty. And a new Peking Duck restaurant opened last week in our industrial park, very near to the recreation center. Some of my colleagues say the roast duck there is really tasty.

MISS SMITH: Of course! Peking Duck is world-famous. I would love to try it. My mouth is watering now.

MISS GAO: All right. {A. OK, let’s say 6:30 p.m.; B. Let’s try Peking duck.; C. Fine. I am making this call to see if you are free on Friday night.; D. Are you available on Saturday？; E. What can you recommend？} I think it won’t disappoint us.

Whether at home or in a restaurant, meals in Brazil are sacred(神圣的) ; a time to eat, but also to share precious moments with family and friends. Now, here's a Brazilian custom I miss enormously: a decent, sit-down, leisurely-paced lunch and/or dinner. To this day, I have to keep reminding myself, "what's the big hurry？ " and I confess that one of the things I look forward to, when I go to Brazil, is the "family" meal. We have a joke that, if you see people sitting around a table in the US, having lunch for longer than 1/2 hour, it must be a business lunch. And also, sitting at your desk and eating lunch while you work is incomprehensible to most Brazilians, who leave their offices to eat with their colleagues and friends in restaurants and cafes. You guess, lunch is usually a more substantial meal than in the U.S.

(68) For lunch and, depending on the location, also dinner, Brazilians have wonderful, inexpensive restaurants where home-style. meals are sold by kilo. You just pile the food on your plate and someone will weigh it for you. The same goes for desserts. You order drinks from your waiter and pay him at the end of your meal.

Dinner is served much later than in the U. S. In the big cities, children are a common sight in restaurants at night, since Brazilians will take their kids out to dinner at all hours. As a result of this and the traditional Sunday lunches, Brazilian kids learn table manners at an early age. For many of my Brazilian friends, dinner is a lighter meal of bread, cheese and cold cuts. So expect either type of meal.

In Brazil, people usually have meals______.

A．in a hurry at restaurants

B．in a leisurely manner

C．at their desk in the office

D．for less than 1/2 hour

A.am

B.is

C.are

A.gao

B.tang

C.g

D.t

A.In the 120-chapter novel, the first 80 chapters were written by Cao Xueqin and the left 40 by Gao E.###SXB###B.The novel has 120 chapters together, the first 80 chapters were written by Cao Xueqin and the left 40 by Gao E.###SXB###C.-###SXB###D.-