When you receive an invitation from an American friend, you should know something about table {#blank#}1{#/blank#}.

Don't circle your plate {#blank#}2{#/blank#} your arms.If you do so, people will look at you. They will think you don't like the {#blank#}3{#/blank#} on the table.

    Don't put the plate back when you finish your {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. Leave it where it was.

    Use the knife and fork correctly. We usually put the knife our right hand,and the {#blank#}5{#/blank#} in our left hand. After you finish {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the food, just put the knife and fork across the plate.

    Don't {#blank#}7{#/blank#} up everything before eating. Cut only one or two {#blank#}8{#/blank#} of it every time.

    {#blank#}9{#/blank#} take a mouthful(满口)of food. Do you want to show how hungry you are? Don't do that. It's impolite.

    Don't stand up to get {#blank#}10{#/blank#} that is far from you on the table.If the thing you want isn't at hand, just ask the nearest person for help,like “Mrs Smith,could you please pass me the dish?”

A: Hello, Cathy! What were you doing at nine last night?

B: I was reading a book. How about you?

A: I was {#blank#}1{#/blank#} you at that time.

B: Really? Sorry, but I didn't {#blank#}2{#/blank#} your telephone.

A: What book were you reading?

B: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The book is very interesting.

A: Was your sister {#blank#}3{#/blank#}, too?

B: No, she wasn't. She was {#blank#}4{#/blank#} with her pet dog.

A: That {#blank#}5{#/blank#} interesting.

B: Where were your parents at that time?

A: My parents were at home. And my mother was watching TV.

    When young people in the United States get together for fun, probably they will dance. The ways that boys and girls dance will often change every year. They{#blank#}1{#/blank#}learning the newest dances.

    Years ago, the dances of young people were not very different from those of their parents, but high school and college students of today have{#blank#}2{#/blank#}their own music and dances. They like the new music that people can dance to in different ways.

    In the USA, there are many dances that are loved by young people, but the history of the dances isn't{#blank#}3{#/blank#}, the Twist(摇摆舞), for example. In the late 1950s, Chubby Checker started a dance that he called the "Twist" to make himself slim. The Twist, like many new dances, was very lively, and people who performed it used a lot of{#blank#}4{#/blank#}, After performing his new dance hundreds of times, Chubby was no longer as fat as before. The word "chubby" means "very fat". That was why the singer and dancer called him Chubby.