English Channel that the (7) _____ took three hours

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 5.

Hospitality

Hospitality - looking after visitors - is universal but in different cultures hostsare (1)______to receive guests in different ways.

In much of the ancient world it was the custom to provide passing travellers with food and water. Today some old customs have (2)_______. In a traditional Japanese household, if a guest admires a particular object in the house, the host will want to give it to the guest straight away. And in parts of Russia guests are greeted with bread and salt on a special cloth.The guest is (3)______to kiss them and hand them back to the host. Sometimes the guest breaks off a small piece of bread, dips it in the salt and eats it.

In some countries, when foreign guests arrive from abroad, they may feel they have been given a particularly (4)______meal. But this is probably because the host politely offers more and more food and

drink and the guest is too embarrassed to (5)_______anything down.