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China pays great attention to good manners, and its food culture is deeply rooted in the history. As a visitor or guest in either a Chinese home    1    restaurant, you will find that table manners are essential in our daily life!

It is really a    2     (convention) custom to respect others, such as the aged, teachers and guests and to take good care of children. Meanwhile, the practice of presenting    3    best or fine food to the senior members of the family has been observed for a few hundred    4     (generation). In ancient times the common people    5     (lead) a needy life, but they still tried their best to support the elder mother or father,     6     (take) it for granted.

Although the hosts in China are all friendly and hospitable, you should also show them respect. Before    7     (start) to eat dinner, the host may offer some words of greeting. Guests should not start to eat until the host says, “Everybody, please enjoy     8     (you)” or something like that, otherwise it suggests disrespect and causes displeasure.

When hosts place dishes on the table, they will arrange the main courses at the center with the supporting dishes evenly placed around them. When the main dishes     9     (prepare) in a decorative form, they will be placed facing major guests and elder people at the table,     10    also shows respect.

Chopsticks, or kuaizi in Chinese, are a pair of small equal-length sticks, usually made of wood and     1     (use) for eating Asian food. It is believed that the first chopsticks     2     (develop) over 5,000 years ago in China.

Chopsticks play     3     important role in Chinese food culture. Chinese chopsticks are usually 9 to 10     4     (inch) long. They are round on the eating end which symbolizes (象征) heaven,     5     the other end is square which symbolizes Earth.

Chopsticks are so frequently used in daily life that they     6     (become) more than a kind of eating tools ever since a long time ago. They serve many other functions. For example, you can buy a pair of beautiful chopsticks     7     a gift for your friends and relatives. In Chinese, “chopsticks” reads “kuaizi”, which means to have sons soon, so a newly-married couple will be very happy to accept chopsticks as their wedding gift.     8     (skill) artists paint beautiful scenery on chopsticks to make them like fine artwork. Many people enjoy     9     (collect) these elegant utensils (用具).

    10     is important to note that chopsticks are used in many different cultures. The principles of chopstick etiquette (礼节) are similar in many of these places. Generally, chopsticks are not used to make noise, or to draw attention.

The music took me     1     the twists and turns of a classic story about a young couple torn apart by their families. When the two lovers, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, first meet, the music is light and     2     (please), as if     3     (whisper) to the audience. It     4     (follow) by a fast and cheerful section which represents their three happy years of school. Then the music gets dramatic with     5     (heavy) notes and that is     6     the lovers are separated because Zhu’s father forces her to marry another man. Angry and sad, Liang falls sick and     7     (die). Zhu weeps bitterly over the     8     (lose) of her love.     9     (overcome) with sorrow, she jumps into his grave. Finally, during the most exciting part, the music takes     10     softer turn and ends on a bittersweet note, telling us how the couple transform into butterflies and fly away to be together forever.

Lion dance is a form of     1    (tradition)dance in China,    2    can be often seen inimportant festivals and great events. China is home     3    the Dragon Dance and Lion Dance. The two performances     4    (welcome)by people from various ethnic groups for generations. It is said     5    the lion dance in China originated in the Southern and Northern Dynasties with    6    history of more than one thousand years. The lions stand for joy and     7    ( happy).Therefore, during festivals and grand ceremonies, people would perform lion dance to create a happy and    8    (excite)atmosphere. Many young people know that the dragon dance and the lion dance are performed during festivals such as Spring Festival, Spring Festival fairs and celebrations. But they don't know that after several thousand years the two activities have accumulated thick historical cultures and are     9    (extreme)valuable cultural heritages    10    (hand)down from Chinese people's ancestors.