The rules about how to talk, eat and sit, which are highly limited, are observed in most Western restaurants and homes. ____ Many Westerners have no idea how to act at the Chinese dinner table. No forks or knives for them to use! The Chinese host makes great, sweeping arm movements that go over large sections of the table, passing over both food and friends alike. ____ However, it leaves many foreigners at a loss for what to do.

    In my childhood home, dinner was enjoyed with low voices, and the topics that we could discuss were very limited. ____ If I had to leave the table to use the toilet, I had to excuse myself without mentioning what it was that I was going to do. “May I be excused, please? I need to wash my hands.” I would say. My mother would say, “Sure.” My father would often play a joke on me by saying, “____”

    As for eating, we did it quietly. No eating noises were allowed. Everything must be done as quietly as possible. If any sound was created by eating food or drinking, it would be considered as bad manners!

    ____He is to sit up straight with the recessive hand (usually the left) in one's lap holding a napkin while the dominant hand (usually the right) holds the fork or spoon. The only time one is allowed to have both hands on the table is when he is using a knife to cut something.

A. The scene is fantastic.

B. Your hands don't look dirty!

C. How one sits at the table is also prescribed.

D. Can't you think up a better excuse than that?

E. In general they were all strictly forbidden topics.

F. They're completely different from what we find here in China.

G. We were not allowed to talk about anything that made listeners uncomfortable.

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                                                                                                                        咱们都来说真话
        ①全国两会，就要闭幕。时间虽短，感慨良多。想得最多也说得最多的，是这么一句肺腑之言：咱们都来说真话。
        ②说真话难，确实很难。这是人们常常发出的喟叹。记得政协开幕不久，笔者所在新闻出版界举行小组讨论。刚开始，发言者免不了来几句空话套话，我旁边一位女委员悄悄碰了碰我说，空话套话，谁都会说，不说也罢。现在谁的水平都不低。要说见识，要说真话，人人都有，关键就看你有没有那个胆量，敢不敢讲。话音刚落，那位发言者话锋一转，谈起了对政府工作报告中某些提法的不同意见，以及自己履职中碰到的种种矛盾和问题，有理有据，非常中肯，也相当尖锐。
        ③我笑笑说，放心吧，会说真话的。全国政协委员，还能不说真话？可不是吗，两会十多天来，气氛非常活跃，我们听到了那么多真话，那么多实话！记得3月10日政协大会，广州政协主席朱振中委员上台，以《狠刹搞形式、唱高调、耍花架子的不正之风》为题，作了发言，短短五六分钟，也就一千来字，中途竟被11次掌声打断。发言结束，掌声更是经久不息！这不是大家讲真话说实话的生动一例吗？ 这也说明，真话是可以有的。说真话并不难。 怕就怕您真没有。您没有真话，说什么真话？
        ④仔细推敲，我们有时说的讲真话，指的是对实际工作有价值、有意义的话，是既能大胆正视问题，又能认真分析问题，还能对推动问题的解决有帮助的话，而不是连小学生都晓得的三加二减五等于零，天上打雷要下雨，说了等于没说的伪真话。那样的所谓真话，真则真矣，说又何益，有啥意义？
         ⑤至于说现实生活中说真话为什么“难”？笔者以为，说真话难，难在两点，一是听话者，二是说话人。其中关键的关键，又在听话者，不在说话人。
         ⑥比如说吧，假如我们的各级领导——换个角度看，他们都是听话者——都是胸怀宽广、气度恢宏的人，乐于而且善于听取不同意见，喜欢而且提倡大家都说真话。那么，说真话是一点也不难的。如果领导再开明一点，听了真话以后，不以为忤，反而高兴，筛选之，采纳之，鼓励之，甚至奖励之，那么，部下或者百姓，能不争相讲真话说实话吗？
        ⑦反过来说，倘若我们的一些领导心胸狭窄，小肚鸡肠，以为说真话者别有用心，是有意同自己过不去，往自己眼里揉沙子，扫了自己面子，塌了自己台子，不但不予理睬，甚至给脸子看，送小鞋穿，找到适当机会就打击报复，杀鸡给猴看。那么，稍有生活常识和生存智慧的人，当然就不愿也不敢说真话了。
        ⑧故，笔者以为，不敢说真话，一大半板子，要打在听话者身上。而且，以一个地方人们敢不敢说真话为尺子，量一量此地领导水平到底如何，肚量究竟怎样，一般说来，比较准确。至于另一小半板子嘛，还得打一打——哪怕是轻轻地打打咱们这说话之人。该说真话时，您还得大胆说真话，敞开说实话，就像那天大会发言的朱委员那样。
        ⑨只要双管齐下，何愁真话不多。
        ⑩咱们都来说真话吧。你和我，还有他。