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before you’ve bought a round. Japan: Don’t fill your own glass of alcohol (酒 ). Instead, you should pour for others and wait for them to do it for you. 46. When you are at table in Mexico, you should . A. keep silent if you catch the eye of a stranger B. eat as quickly as you can to save your time C. wish others happy with eating before leaving the table D. seat yourself anywhere before the host tells you to 47. According to the passage, it is good manners to . A. keep quiet when eating noodles in Japan B. leave some food on your plate in France C. put the fork in the right hand in Russia D. take turns to treat each other in Australia 48. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A. It is polite to finish everything on one’s own plate in Russia. B. To put the last drops into someone’s glass is polite in America. C. People should wait for others to fill his glass of alcohol in Japan. D. People sometimes discuss money and religion over dinner in France. 49. Which of the following can be the best title of this passage? A. Eating manners B. Drinking manners C. Table manners D. Country manners 50. The writer tells us the table manners in many countries in order to . A. attract us to these countries to enjoy foreign food B. help us behave in a polite manner in different countries C. teach us how to handle knives, forks and spoons D. make us be able to express thanks to different hosts C “Fingers were made before forks.” When a person gives up good manners, puts aside a knife and fork, and uses hands to get food, someone may repeat that saying. The fork was an ancient tool, but for centuries no one thought of eating with it. Not until the eleventh century, when a young lady from Constantinople (君士坦丁堡 ) brought her fork to Italy, did the custom reach Europe. By the fifteenth century the use of the fork was widely spread in Italy. The English explanation was that Italians didn’t want to eat food touched with fingers, “Seeing all men’s fingers are not alike clean.” English travellers kept their friends laughing while describing this Italian custom. Anyone who used a fork to eat with was laughed at in England for the next hundred years. Men who used forks were thought to be sissies (女人氣的男人 ),and women who used them were called showoffs (愛炫耀的人 ) or overnice (過分講究的 ) people. Not until the late 1600’s did using a fork bee a mon custom. 51. The custom of eating with a fork . A. was brought to Asia by an Italian lady B. began when forks were in