There are many differences between Chinese and Western eating habits. In the West, everyone has their own 1of food. But in China the dishes are  2  on the table and everyone shares. If you are being treated by a Chinese host, there must be3 food prepared for you. Chinese are very  4 of their culture and will do their best to show their hospitality （好客）.

And sometimes the Chinese host uses his/her 5 to put food in your bowl or plate. This is a sign of politeness. The proper thing to do would be to eat the whatever-it-is and say how 6 it is. If you feel uncomfortable with this, you can just say a polite "Thanks” and leave the food there. Don't 7 your chopsticks upright into the rice bowl. Instead, lay （放置） them on your dish. The reason for this is that when somebody 8, the shrine （神祠） has a bowl of sand or rice with two chopsticks which are stuck upright in it. It is impolite to set the teapot down where the spout （壶嘴） is facing 9 somebody. The spout should always be directed to where nobody is sitting, usually just outward （向外） from the table.

    Don't hit on your bowl with your chopsticks. Beggars （乞丐） hit on their bowls, so this is not polite. Also, when the food is coming too  10 in a restaurant, people will tap their bowls. If you are in someone's home, it is like off ending the cook.

A

    Paragraph 1: Scientists have learned a lot about the kinds of foods people need. They say that there are several kinds of foods that people should eat every day. They are:（1）green and yellow vegetables of all kinds;（2）citrus（柑橘）fruits and tomatoes;（3）potatoes and other fruits and vegetables;（4）meat of all kinds，fish and eggs;（5）milk and foods made from milk; （6） bread or cereal（谷类食物）, rice is also in this kind of food;（7）butter, or something like butter.

    Paragraph 2: People in different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Foods are cooked and eaten in many different kinds of ways. People in different countries eat at different times of the day. In some places people eat once or twice a day; in other countries people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say that none of the differences is really important. It doesn't matter whether foods are eaten raw or cooked. It doesn't matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o'clock in theafternoon or at eleven o'clock at night. The important thing is what you eat every day.

    Paragraph 3: There are two problems, then,in feeding the large number of people in the earth. The first is to find some ways to feed the world's population so that no one is hungry. The second is to make sure that people everywhere have the right kinds of foods to make them grow to be strong and healthy.

 B

    Will it matter if you don't take your breakfast? A short time ago, a test was given in the United States. People of different ages, from 12 to 83, were asked to have a test. During the test, these people were given all kinds of breakfast, and sometimes they got no breakfast at all. Scientists wanted to see how well their bodies worked when they had eaten different kinds of breakfast

     The results show that if a person eats a right breakfast, he or she will work better than the person who has no breakfast. If a student has fruit, eggs, bread and milk before going to school, he or she will learn more quickly and listen more carefully.

     The result is opposite to what some people think. Having no breakfast will not help you lose weight.This is because people become so hungry at noon that they eat too much for lunch. They will gain weight(增加体重) instead of losing it. You will lose more weight if you reduce your other meals.

—He is tall and thin.

    One day a man met Socrates and said, "Do you know what I just heard about your friend?" "1a minute," Socrates replied. "Before you talk to me about2friend, it might be a good idea to take a moment to filter (过滤) what you're going to3. I call it Three Filter Test. The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely4that what you are about to tell me is true?" "Well, no," the man said. "5I just heard about it and…" "All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know whether it's true or not. Now, let's try the second filter, the filter of 6. Is what you are about to tell me about my friend7good?" "No, on the contrary…" "So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about my friend, but you're not certain it's true. You may8pass the test though, because there's one filter left—the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my friend going to be9to me?" "No, not really." "well," concluded Socrates, " if what you want to tell me10true, nor good, nor even useful, why tell it to me at all?"

    At the age of nineteen, Xiliu married Gao Sheng, who had just lost his wife and had a son named Changfu. A year later Xiliu gave birth to a boy Changhu. Before long, Gao Sheng died of illness.

    Seeing Changfu didn't often go to school, Xiliu sent him to work with the poor boys as punishment. Changfu could not stand and wanted to return to school, Xiliu refused, and Changfu, like a beggar (乞丐), huddled (蜷缩) himself up with cold. Xiliu said to Changfu, "If you are ready to take a beating of 100 strokes, I'll take you back." Changfu decided that he would take the beating. Aware of Changfu's regrets for his mistakes, Xiliu did not beat him and asked him to continue his studies.

    Changhu was a slow-minded child, so Xiliu asked him to quit school and work in the fields.

    But Changhu was so lazy that' he often ran away from work. Xiliu then asked him to do business, but he used up all his money in gambling (赌博). At last, Xiliu sent him to luoyang to sell goods, where he was put into prison for using fake (假的) silver. In prison he suffered a lot. Xiliu told Changfu, "I gave the fake silver to your brother on purpose, intending to make him suffer. Now you go and get him out."Back home, Changhu knelt before his mother and finally gave up bad and returned to good.

He finished his meal and then left.