Listen to the monologue then answer the following questions.
You need to know the word “法國” (fǎguó, France) to understand the audio.

In “我的生日” you heard “晚飯” and “好吃”. You know 晚、飯、好 and 吃. But when we put 晚 and 飯 together, and put 好 and 吃 together, what are the meanings of the two words? In modern Chinese, much more common is the case where two or more characters combine to make words. Sometimes this is simply a case of adding a suffix or prefix to a character. In others, meaningful characters go together to form “compounds”. That’s why when combining 晚 and 飯, we get 晚飯 which means supper or dinner, and combining 好 and 吃, we get 好吃,which means good to eat, tasty or delicious. Although we should not get the wrong impression that any two characters can be freely thrown together, in many cases we may tell the meaning of certain “compound words” based on their meaningful component characters.

Read the story first, then listen to the questions and answer them. They are all True or False questions.

In the reading, you will encounter several new words, please study them first.

新年: xīn nián/ New Year
說: shuō/ to say
最後: zuì hòu/ finally; at last
決定: jué ding/ to decide

今天是二零一二年一月一號，是新年，我的同學白小英請高文生、王友朋、和我吃晚飯。白小英問我們喜歡吃什麽菜。王友朋說法國菜好吃，他喜歡吃法國菜。可是我和高文生都不喜歡吃法國菜，我們兩個人都喜歡吃中國菜。白小英也喜歡吃中國菜。最後，我們決定吃中國菜。