【正确答案】 1、正确答案：Chinese culture dictates that dinning alone is usually regarded as a misery, a quite deplorable situation, if not a severe punishment. Chinese language lacks phrases describing such a phenomenon. " I just grabbed a quick, casual bite. " is a typical excuse that one would provide to avoid further inquiry. In Chinese society, people love to communicate with each other under the help of food and drink so as to develop a sense of fellowship. For them, communal dinning is not only a means, a tool or a process, it is the society itself. Chinese cuisine is ritualized. A standard dinner must be comprised of soup, dishes and rice. The people of dinners matter the most. Many Chinese people return from America with increased weight in various degrees, compared with that when they left China. It is not because the rounder moon in America that has made their figures rounder. An American meal is all served in a large plate all the way through. In such cases, the Chinese stomach has been filled, but the Chinese sentiment remains hungry. How can this be called "a meal"? Not satisfied, he has to cook some food to eat according to his own preferences after he returns home. Besides its social function, in diet itself, communal dinning has many other advantages as well. For example, it allows one to avoid waste while savoring a variety of delicacies. Also it prevents one from eating too fast as to impair one"s health. Every housewife knows that preparing a meal for three or four people is more economical than only for one or two. When she urges an unexpected guest to stay for dinner, saying, "Just another pair of chopsticks" , which is just by no means polite formula.