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Going Dutch established a date as faux casual, as a place where nobody owes anybody anything—emotionally, sexually or financially. Nobody gives and nobody receives.Imagine going through a bill and thinking, how Dutch do we go? Do you have a discussion about who had the dessert, who had an extra glass of wine and who had chocolate on their cappuccino? Men who want to go Dutch are selfish and meagre with their emotions, they give only what they think might be required—never more.I recall going Dutch. It was back in my student days, when I thought that men with no manners and no money were acceptable. I remember back then the stupid notion that if you paid your way for dinner, you wouldn’t have to visit the sexual favours department. Well, for a start, why bother going on a date with somebody if all you’re interested in is how not to become embroiled with them? Besides, does anyone really only value themselves as being worth, say, half a pizza?My friend Sarah, who works in the theatre, recently got asked out to dinner by someone she’d met through work. She was interested in him, but didn’t know whether it was a date. The word Dutch was not mentioned at all until the armagnacs had been downed. “He wanted to take my cash and put it with his, so that it looked like he was paying,” she says. “But I didn’t have the cash, so we gave credit cards and the waiter looked at me as much as to say, ‘you idiot’, and looked at my date as if to say ‘you schmuck’.”People who don’t want to pay for you don’t want you enough. It has nothing to do with poverty; it has to do with generosity of spirit. If you are mean with money, you are retentive, obsessed with your calorie intake and pernickety with your emotions. There is nothing more repulsive than watching a man totting up a bill and asking you for money. It’s demeaning.Another friend of mine, Eric, a writer in his twenties, doesn’t think going Dutch should be dismissed entirely. “I have no problem with going Dutch except I wouldn’t do it on a first date,” he says. “I wouldn’t do it if I was trying to impress, either.” But who wants to go out with someone who doesn’t want to impress you, whatever the context?I do know one girl who still says she likes to go Dutch because she believes it means she doesn’t have to, as she puts it, “put out”. How very old-fashioned. The Rules, an American guide to winning and keeping a man 1990s-style, is not a bestseller for nothing. It says men should call you and pay for you. That 1970s state and affairs when girls used to ask to go Dutch in order to make a misguided statement of independence just meant that they ended up giving him his cake and paying for half of it. Free love, but expensive meals—now who wants that?1. From the passage we can know the author’s attitude towards going Dutch is .2. The primary meaning of the third paragraph is .3. From the fourth paragraph we can draw all the following except .4. From the last paragraph we can safely draw the conclusion that .5. The word “repulsive” in the 5th paragraph probably means __.

The morning when she was walking in the street, a black car ______ beside her.

Psychoanalysts tend to regard both ______ and masochism as arising from childhood deprivation.

They artificially ______ the value of the house so they could “reduce” it and make people think it was a bargain.

At the press conference, the Prime Minister ______ the government’s refusal to compromise with the terrorists.

He managed to stay in power for over five years, ______ all the criticism and the pressure on him to resign.

This is a far from ______ book—it is a rich mix of pleasures and information, and is full of surprises.

The traditional belief that banks do not lose customers once they have got them is not ______, the study suggests.

Like most fathers and sons, we fought; it was a cold war lasting from the ______ of my adolescence until I went off to college in 1973.

I am afraid we have to ______ a set of rules called etiquette and politeness to make our frequent meetings tolerable.

Foreign businessmen ______ hesitate to invest a large sum of money in a time-consuming and high-cost project if the country is under political disturbances.

In his will, the millionaire ______ nearly all his fortunes to the housemaid who took care of him in his last days.

Suddenly the daily fear and uncertainty ______ into full-scale terror, and the ship echoed with screams.

The problem with employing ______ people is that they often don’t stay in the job for long.

For reasons of personal safety, the man told the police that he wished to remain ______.

Snow began to fall at round about the beginning of the New Year and continued on and off for ______ ten days.

The boy has learned from fairy stories that what at first seems a ______ threatening figure can magically change into a most helpful friend.

The parts of the machine which experience a lot of friction have to be made from ______ materials.

We are in an era when computer hackers are stealing credit-card numbers and other technologically adept criminals are ______ national borders.

______ people who find meaning in their work are generally productive, supportive of coworkers, and promote workplace harmony.

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