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          Dinner customs (习惯) are different around the world. If you are a guest in Ghana(加纳), this

information will help you a lot.

          In Ghana, dinner is usually from four in the afternoon to six in the evening. But there are no

strict rules (规则) about time. Whenever a guest arrives. a family offers food. When you go to a

home, the person who receives guests takes you to the living room first. At this time everyone

welcomes you. Then you go to the dinning 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

(粉末) of some plants. Sometimes they cut the fufu with a saw(锯子) because it is very hard.

You must chew (咀嚼) fufu well, or you may get sick. You eat fufu with the fingers of your right

hand only.

1. From the passage we know that in Ghana _______ .

A. the rules for dinner time are not strict

B. dinner is always at six in the evening

C. a family offers food only at four in the afternoon

D. people usually invite their guests to dinner late in the evening

2. If you are a dinner guest in Ghana, the host (主人) always takes you to _________ .

A. the dining room first

B. the living room first

C. the kitchen first

D. the garden first

3. People in Ghana usually eat _______ .

A. from one side of a dish to the other

B. from the other side of the dish

C. with their fingers

D. with their spoons

4. In fact, most dishes in Ghana _______ .

A. are cooked with the powder of some plants

B. have fufu in them

C. are too hard to eat

D. are not very hard

5. When you eat fufu, you'd better ________ .

A. cut it with a saw

B. use your right hand only

C. chew it well

D. all of the above

       ①说到成功，人们有一个错误观念：成功只等于成名。有人认为，只有扭转乾坤的壮举，才算是成功的举动；有人认为，只有领袖、名人，称得上“家”的人，才算是成功者；有人则干脆断言，世界上没有一个成功者，因为人生最终的结局是悲剧--后人肯定会超越前人。这实在是一种可怕的自卑。

       ②其实，我们都是成功者，因为成功只是一种感受，一种自我意识的主观感受。如果我们把自己的每点进步，哪怕只是微小的进步，都看作是一次成功，都认认真真地品味一番，那么，幸福和快乐就会常伴于我们身边，我们的人生也就会因此而变得格外的丰富和生动。不是吗？作为一名学生，他考试及格了，成绩提高了，这是成功，应该感到高兴；作为一个农民，他播下的种子发芽了，庄稼收割了，这也是成功，也应该感到高兴；在更多的时候，成功无需旁人认可，更不需别人来裁判；我们也不要把成功的刻度画得太高，不要把成功看得过于神圣。

       ③然而人的一生，不可能永远一帆风顺，不可避免要遭受这样那样的挫折和失败，每经过一次失败，对事物的认识就深入了一步，对人生的感悟就加深了许多，自己的意志就增强了不少，这种种经历和感受，不是另一种意义上的成功？不也应该感到快乐吗？否则，我们就会对人生失去一份应有的信心，面对困难，我们就会望而却步。

       ④大胆而自豪地承认成功吧，认认真真地品味自己的每一次成功，从品味中，汲取成功动力，开启智慧，从而获得更大的成功，这也许就是人生的意义所在。

1．本文的中心论点是什么？是如何提出的？

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A．“你努力了，尽力了，即使摘不到诱人的金苹果，也同样能赢得人们的尊重，享受到人生的快乐”。 B．“成功的关键不在成功的结局上，而在不懈追求的过程中。”

C．“每一次选择，每一次出发……每一种结果，都是人生的体验，都是一首耐唱的歌。”

D．“不想当元帅的，不是好士兵”。