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  3. Americans do not give cooking, "considered as one of the fine arts", an important place in life. Lunch is for them a kind of gra

Americans do not give cooking, "considered as one of the fine arts", an important place in life. Lunch is for them a kind of gra

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问题     Americans do not give cooking, "considered as one of the fine arts", an important place in life. Lunch is for them a kind of gratuity paid to the body. They hurriedly toss it a fruit or a fish and go back to work. Certain writers, in rebellion, have founded the club, "Three Hours for Lunch", but they are an agreeable exception. Even at dinner, general conversation is rare. Everyone talks to his neighbor. After dinner the men linger at the table, a custom inherited from England. In New York your host will often propose taking you to the theatre, or else he will provide a pianist, a singer, a lecturer. The idea of leaving  the guests to themselves, and expecting them to get pleasure out of meeting one another, astonishes and even appalls him. His excessive modesty does not permit his imagining that his friends can be happy merely in being in his house, with one another. He treats them like children. On Christmas Eve you will see, in some of the pleasant homes in New York, Christmas trees for grown people. In other places, after a dinner at which you exchange ideas, there will be a magician who will do his best to amuse the oldsters.  There you must realize that the absence of conversation in American homes comes, not from absence  of ideas or lack of intelligence of understanding, but from an unconquerable shyness and a prodigious self-distrust.
According to the author, in England______.
选项 A、the men are accustomed to money
B、the men remain at the table to talk after dinner
C、the guests expect the host to have entertainment for them
D、people don’ t consider Christmas dinner important
答案B
解析 作者在文章中谈到这一点时这样说道：在饭后人仍然留在桌边，这一习俗是英国传过来的。由此推断英国人肯定是吃完饭仍在桌边谈话，所以答案为B；A．人们很习惯于用钱；C．客人指望主人给他们进行娱乐活动；D．人们不认为圣诞晚宴很重要；这些均与原文不符或无关。
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