Dining in a completely dark room, unaware what’s on your plate while sitting next to a complete stranger may not sound like an ideal restaurant experience but it’s certainly an intriguing way to spend a rainy night in London.
Dans le Noir, close to London’s financial district, is a restaurant full of blind waiters and waitresses who become your eyes around the restaurant, whose original Paris branch opened in 2004.
In the bar with the light, you choose whether you want the fish, meat or vegetable, but the dishes themselves remain a secret, as do the ingredients of the “surprise” cocktails. Bags, coats and devices(設(shè)備)that light up, including watches and mobile phones, are kept in the bar. Placing your hand on the shoulder of your guide, you are led to a table in a black dining room that sets up to 60 people. And it is dark.
The waiters tell you when the food is being placed down in front of you, then the fun begins, trying to get food into your mouth, then identifying just what it is that’s on your plate, and finally whether you have missed any of it.
It’s also a great chance to break social convention and eat using your fingers. Those same fingers are also the only way you can tell how much wine you’re pouring into your glass.
The happy atmosphere in the dining room also made the night memorable. You can’t really avoid talking to the person next to you at the long tables and guessing what the dishes are certainly provides adequate fuel for the conversations.
All will be revealed at the end of the meal when you are led back out into the lit bar. Not only do you finally get to see what you’ve just been eating but also who you’ ve been talking to for the last 90 minutes.
【小題1】What does the underlined word “intriguing.” in the first paragraph mean?
A terrible   B. interesting   C. expensive   D. new
【小題2】According to the text, “ Dans le Noir”__________.
A is far from London’s financial district
B has its first branch opened in Britain
C is very popular among blind customers
D has a dining room which can seat up to 60 people
【小題3】We know from the text that the customers in “Dans le Noir”_________.

A.a(chǎn)re forbidden to eat with their fingers
B.can talk to the strangers at table
C.will book the menu in a dark bar
D.can take their mobile phones into the dining room
【小題4】What’s the main purpose of the text?
A.To help blind people find a job in restaurants.
B.To show how to open a restaurant with a new idea.
C.To show how to enjoy the time in a dark restaurant.
D.To introduce and attract customers to “Dans le Noir ”.


【小題1】B
【小題2】D
【小題3】B
【小題4】D

解析試題分析:文章介紹了一個特別的餐廳,里面都是黑暗的,你不知道吃的是什么,和什么人一起共餐,等到最后來到明亮的地方,看見你吃過的東西和一起吃飯的人是多么有趣的事情。
【小題1】猜詞題:從第一段的句子:but it’s certainly an intriguing way to spend a rainy night in London.在倫敦度過一個下雨的夜晚一定是個有趣的方式?芍癷ntriguing.” 是“有趣的”意思,選B
【小題2】細(xì)節(jié)題:從文章第三段的句子:Placing your hand on the shoulder of your guide, you are led to a table in a black dining room that sets up to 60 people.可知“ Dans le Noir”有一個可以坐得下60人的餐廳,選D
【小題3】細(xì)節(jié)題:從文章倒數(shù)第二段的句子:You can’t really avoid talking to the person next to you at the long tables and guessing what the dishes are certainly provides adequate fuel for the conversations.可知在“ Dans le Noir”的顧客能和桌上的陌生人交談,選B
【小題4】寫作意圖題:文章介紹了一個特別的餐廳,里面都是黑暗的,你不知道吃的是什么,和什么人一起共餐,就是這種不同尋常的方式會引起人們的興趣,可知作者是想把顧客吸引到“ Dans le Noir”選D
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