Friendship

 sometimes there are power cuts and we have no electricity in the house. this does not worry us. we just light candles and carry on with what we were doing before. our friends are lost ---no televisions! so they don’t know what to do. on such evenings our house is very full as they all come to us. they all have a good time. instead of sitting in silence in front of the television, everybody talks and plays games. yes, life is possible without television!
1. the writer’s friends are in a hurry to leave when they visit him in the evening because _____
  a. they have a lot of things to do at home
  b. they don’t want to stay too long at someone else’s home
  c. they are always busy with their work
  d. they want to go back home to watch tv
2. the writer and his wife _____.
 a. enjoy watching tv every day              b. don’t enjoy watching tv in the evening
  c. are too busy to watch tv in the evening     d. are too busy with their work
3. when there is no electricity, the writer’s friends _____.
  a. can’t see anything at home     
  b. don’t know how to spend their evening
  c. do something else by the candle’s light at home
  d. stay at home and wait until electricity is on again
4. at night when there is no electricity, the couple _____.
  a. have to stare at the walls            b. can do nothing but sit in silence
  c. will have many visitors          d. have to go out for candles
5. the story tells us that _____.
  a. the writer and his wife don’t like watching tv
  b. watching tv wastes too much time
  c. we can manage to live without television
  d. the writer and his wife have a lot of hobbies            
                                         b
suppose you are a visitor in the land of mongolia, some friends ask you to eat with them. what kind of manners do they want you to have? they want you to give a loud burp (飽嗝)after you finish eating. burping would show that you like your food. in some countries, if you give a big burp, you are told to say “excuse me, please”.