Dinner customs are different around the world .If you are a dinner guest in Ghana, this

information will help you.

   In Ghana dinner is usually from four in the afternoon to six in the evening. But there are no strict rules about time in Ghana. Whenever a guest arrives, a family offers food.When you go to a home, the host takes you to the living room first. At this time everyone welcomes you. Then you go to the dinner room. There you wash your hands in a bowl of water. All the food is on the table.

   In Ghana you usually eat with your fingers. You eat from the same dish as everyone else. But you eat from one side of the dish only. It is not polite to get food from the other side of the dish. After dinner, you wash your hands again in a bowl of water.Most meals in Ghana have a dish called fufu. People in Ghana make fufu from the powder of some plants. Sometimes they cut the fufu with a saw because it is very hard and like rubber. You must chew fufu well, or you can get sick. You eat fufu with the fingers of your right hand only.

60. In the fourth paragraph, the writer wants to tell us

A. what to eat in Ghana       B. how much time to spend on a dinner

C. the way of eating         D. different food at a dinner

61. If you are dinner guest to a family in Ghana, you're first

A. told some strict rules about dinner;  B. taken to the dining- room

C. taken to the living room      D. told to wash your hands

62. The underline word chew in the last paragraph means

A. smell     B. taste C. press with your hands     D. crush with your teeth

63. In Ghana,

A. dinner is always at six

B. rules for dinner time are not strict

C. a family offers food only at four

D. you don't have to wash your hands again after dinner

                     

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  “No, I don't,” the woman replied.

  “ 20 !” cried Mr Smith, as he quickly left the table.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
  

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