C. Soup, meat with vegetables, dessert and coffee.
D. Drinks, soup, something small, fish and vegetables.
3. Which is the correct way in which you express your enjoyment of the evening?
A. Before leaving for home, you should say, "Thank you for inviting me."
B. When you shake hands with your host, you should say, "I did enjoy the evening."
C. You can write a thankyou letter to your host after that.
D. You should finish everything on your plate and take more if you want it.
难句注释
① Usually the evening starts with drinks and snacks.
通常晚宴都是以一些饮料和小吃开始的。
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② Its polite to finish everything on your plate and to take more if you want it.
礼貌的做法是吃完你盘里的所有食物，如果还想吃的话再添一些。
句首的it是形式主语。
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阅读理解
If you ask some people, "How did you learn English so well?" you may get a surprising answer: "In my sleep!"
These are people who have taken part in one of the recent experiments (实验) to test the learnwhileyousleep method (方法), which is now being tried in several countries, and with several subjects. English is among them.
Scientists say that this sleepstudy method greatly speeds language learning. They say that the ordinary person can learn two or three times as much during sleep as in the same period during the day-and this does not affect (影响) his rest in any way. However, sleepteaching will only put into your head what you have studied already while you are awake.①
In one experiment, ten lessons were broadcast over the radio for two weeks. Each lesson lasted twelve hours - from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. The first three hours of English grammar and vocabulary (词汇) were given with the students awake. At 11 p.m. a lullaby (催眠曲) was broadcast to send the student to sleep and for the next three hours the radio in a soft and low voice broadcast the lesson again into his sleeping ears. At 2 a.m. a sharp noise was sent over the radio to wake the sleeping student up for a few minutes to go over the lesson. The soft music sent him back to rest again while the radio went