Every land has its own dining custom, and the United States is no exception. Americans feel that the first rule of being a polite guest is to be on time. If a person is invited to dinner at 6:30, the hostess expects him to be there at 6:30 or not more than a few minutes after. Because she usually does her own cooking, she times the meal so that the coffee and meat will be at their best at the time she asks the guest to come. If he is late, the food will not be so good, and the hostess will be disappointed. When the guest can not come on time, he calls his host or hostess on the telephone, gives the reason, and tells at what time he thinks he can come
As guests continue to arrive, the men in the group stand when a woman enters and remain standing until she finds a chair. A man always rises when he is being introduced to a woman. A woman does not rise when she is being introduced either to a man or a woman
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned
Culture is the sum total of all the traditions, customs, beliefs, and ways of life of a given group of human beings. In this (1) , every group has a culture, however un-developed or uncivilized it may seem to us.
To the professional anthropologist, there is no intrinsic superiority of one culture
(2) another, just as to the professional linguist there is no intrinsic (3) among the different languages.
People once (4) the languages of backward groups as savage, undeveloped
(5) of speech, consisting largely of grunts and groans. (6) it is possible that language (7) began as a series of grunts and groans, it is a fact established by the study of "backward" languages (8) no spoken tongue answers that description today. Most languages of (9) groups are, by our most severe standards, extremely
(10) , delicate, and ingenious pieces of machinery for the transfer of idea
A. illiterate
B. uncultured
C. misguided
D. disadvantaged
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