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Americans do not give cooking, "considered as one of the fine arts", an impo
Americans do not give cooking, "considered as one of the fine arts", an impo
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2024-02-24
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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. [br] The author feels that Americans lack______.
选项
A、understanding
B、self-confidence
C、a rebellious spirit
D、self-control
答案
B
解析
A理解;B.自信;C.反叛精神;D.自我控制。从文章最后一句我们知道:这里你必须认识到,美国家庭中缺乏淡活不是源于缺乏思想或理解能力,而是源于一种无法克服的胆怯和一种惊人的缺乏自信。理解这一句后答案就很清楚了。
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