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arrive meet spend behave imagine 4. On Chinese New Year, people like to _____ time with their families. 5. I usually ____ my friends in the library on Friday nights. Writing Table Manners in China 　Talking about eating habit, unlike the West, where everyone has their own plate of food, in China the dishes are placed on the table and everybody shares. Chinese are very proud of their culture of cuisine(美食） and will do their best to show their hospitality（好客）. And sometimes the host will serve some dishes with his or her own chopsticks to guests to show his or her hospitality. This is a sign of politeness. The appropriate thing to do would be to eat the whatever-it-is and say how yummy it is. If you feel uncomfortable with this, you can just say a polite thank you and leave the food there. There some other rules that are suggested you follow to make you stay in China happier, though you will be forgiven if you have no idea of what they are. 1. Never stick your chopsticks upright in the rice bowl, lay them on your dish instead. Otherwise, it is deemed extremely impolite to the host and seniors(老年人） present. The reason for this is that when somebody dies, the shrine（神灶）to them contains a bowl of sand or rice with two sticks of incense stuck upright in it. So if you stick your chopsticks in the rice bowl, it looks like the shrine and is equivalent to wishing death upon a person at the table. 2. Make sure the spout（喷） of the teapot is not facing anyone. It is impolite to set the teapot down where the spout is facing towards somebody. The spout should always be directed to where nobody is sitting, usually just outward from the table. 3. Dont tap on your bowl with your chopsticks, since that will be deemed insult to the host or the chef. Beggars tap on their bowls, and also, when the food is coming too slow in a restaurant, people will tap their bowls. If you are in someones home, it is like insulting the host or the cook. 4. Never try to turn a