Dinner customs are different around the world. If you are a dinner guest in Ghana, 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 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 dining 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. You must chew fufu well, or you may get sick. You eat fufu with the fingers of your right hand only.
41. 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 later in the evening
42. If you are a dinger 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
43. 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
44. 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 very hard
45. 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