For foreigners in China, food isn’t simply a meal. It’s sometimes a       . I often fail to order the right food and use chopsticks correctly when I sit down in a restaurant.
Because not every dish has a picture on the menu,         food becomes a guessing game. My father and I often         what kind of vegetables or meat we’re eating. In one of our favourite Sichuan restaurants, it took three waiters 15 minutes to take our order for        . I simply wanted water, but my father wanted to try one of the fresh juices listed on the menu. There were two        , however. There were neither pictures nor English on the menu. Finally, he just ordered a Coca Cola.
One of our most embarrassing(令人尴尬的) experiences was at a famous restaurant. It was always         , so we thought it might be a good restaurant to visit. We had the most difficult time ordering our meal, since there were so many choices. Luckily, the waiter was very         and successfully understood us. During the dinner, noodles slipped(滑落) through my chopsticks onto the table lots of times. Once, I tried to pick up a dumpling for my father, but I       it on his shorts. We both looked at it as it fell to the floor. I looked behind me and people were        about my chopsticks skills.
No matter how difficult it is for us to understand the menu, the waiters are always very understanding of our        . They always give us good service, even when they realize they have to clean up the noodles that have slipped through my chopsticks.

A．surprise B．challenge C．prize D．mistake

A．cooking B．selling C．sending D．ordering

A．fear B．report C．explain D．guess

A．dessert B．fruit C．drinks D．vegetables

A．problems B．inventions C．chances D．directions

A．noisy B．peaceful C．crowded D．empty

A．honest B．patient C．proud D．brave

A．ate B．dropped C．prepared D．got

A．laughing B．thinking C．arguing D．learning

A．culture B．habit C．conversation D．Situation