A．The custom of sharing food.

　　B．The specific meaning of food.

　　C．The role of food in ceremonies.

　　D．The importance of food in culture.

　　【解析】　主旨大意题。全文讲述了分享食物可增强人与人之间的团结与信任及食物在交际方面和节日中的重大意义，故选D。其他选项只是文章的细节，不是主旨。

　　【答案】　D

　　B

　　I am a good mother to three children.I have tried never to let my passion stand in the way of being a good parent.

　　I no longer consider myself the center of the universe.I show up.I listen.I try to laugh.I am a good friend to my husband.I have tried to make marriage vows (誓言) mean what they say.I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me.Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.

　　So here's what I want to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.

　　Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure；it is work. Pick up the phone.Send an e­mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.

　　It's so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, and our minutes.It's so easy to exist instead of to live．I learnt to live many years ago.Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.

　　I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned.

By telling them this: Read in the backyard with the sun on your face.Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with