Now more and more young people in China like to eat alone, whether at home or in restaurants. A survey was made among one hundred people. The result showed that ____ half of them had an experience of eating alone.

However, eating alone can still be a challenge in China, _____ Chinese culture is family—based（家庭式的）.Eating together is considered to be very ______ for family bond（纽带）.Many people, especially old people, are influenced by this, so it is not easy for them to ___the idea of eating alone. Besides, usually children in China are ______ to eat with their families.

Many people have done research into the ____ of eating alone. Cal Yani is one of them. She used to work for a magazine. In 2012, she   _____ her job and began her research work. At the same time, she herself started to eat alone. She often enters restaurants and notices many young people eating alone ______ her. She points out that young people are often very busy with their work. They have much stress from work. Eating alone is a good way for them to relieve stress and can bring them _____and make them feel comfortable. Cai said, “While you are eating alone, you can pay attention to the eating process ______ and you don't have to think about other things. This is the best kind of rest.”

The diet and lifestyle are very important for our ________. If we don’t get the ________ kinds of food, we may have some healthy problems. People eat different ________ in different countries of the world. In ________ countries, people eat rice every day. Sometimes they eat it two ________ three times a day for breakfast, lunch or dinner. They usually eat it ________ meat, fish and vegetables.

The Japanese eat lots of ________ because many Japanese live near the sea, and they ________ eat a lot of rice. In western countries, such as England, Australia and the USA, the most ________ food is bread and ________. You can see people always eat potatoes for their meals. But they can cook potatoes in many different ________.

Some people eat only fruit and vegetables. They do not eat ________ meat or anything that comes from animals. They only ________ food from plants. They say that food from plants ________ better for us than meat. They think they can keep ________ with the food.