7 . Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.

In Amsterdam, the capital of Holland, there is an unusual Children Restaurant, it is run by children. From the manager to the c    1    , waiters and other members are all children from 6 to 12 years old. They do all the necessary work such as cooking and cleaning t    2    . These children are selected in Amsterdam. After training they may serve in the restaurant for four weeks.

This restaurant was founded in 1983 by a woman worker who wanted to give children chances to learn to be useful to the public. And now she is the only adult there, but her j    3    is just to take care of the children.

The restaurant is welcomed almost by e    4    . Since there are only 20 seats in it, it is always full of people. If you want to have a meal in it, you must tell them ahead of time. The cost of a meal is different to different people, usually 4 dollars for each adult but much cheaper for children. And its b    5    hours are only Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons.

In western cultures,     1     eye contact in conversation is necessary. As a matter of fact, a westerner might consider a lack of eye contact as a lack of interest. In Spain, Italy and Greece, where people stand close together talking to each other, eye contact is more frequent and lasts longer.

In many Asian cultures, people avoid eye contact to show respect. It is done when talking with anyone in     2     or with anyone older.

Habits like this can cause problems when people do not understand them. For example, an Asian person might close his or her eyes in     3     or look down while listening to a speaker. A Western speaker might thing the person is not interested.

Eye contact is a     4     thing. A lack of eye contact may be considered impolite. But if you stare at others, it is also considered rude and should be avoided.

Children have their own rules in playing games. They s    1     need a referee(裁判) and rarely trouble to keep scores. They don’t care much about who wins or loses, and it doesn’t seem to worry them if the game is not finished. Yet, they like games that d    2     a lot on luck, so that their personal abilities cannot be directly compared. They also enjoyed games that move in stages, in which each stage, the choosing of leaders, the picking-up of sides, or the determining of which side shall start, is almost a game in itself.

Grown-ups can hardly find children’s game exciting, and they often feel p    3     at why their kids play such simple game again and again. However, it is found that a child plays games for very important reasons. He can be a good player without having to think whether he is a popular person, and he can find himself being a useful partner to someone of whom he is ordinary afraid. He becomes a leader when it comes to his turn. He can be confident, too, in particular games, that it is his place to give o    4    , to pretend to be dead, to throw a ball actually at someone, or to kiss someone he has caught.

It appears to us that when children play a game they can i    5     a situation under their control. Everyone knows the rules, and more importantly, everyone plays according to the rules. Those rules may be childish, but they make sure that every child has a chance to win.

One day a man was walking past a house in Bournemouth when he heard a woman’s voice shouting for help. The man thought someone     1     probably trying to murder her. He ran to a phone box and     2     the police. The police came quite quickly, but by now the shouting had     3    . However, the man was quite sure that he     4     heard cries for help. When the police     5     on the door, there was no answer. So they broke down the door and went in. Inside the house was a woman who had     6     come out of the shower. She explained to the police that she had     7     singing along to the Beatles song “Help”.