一、短文填空。从下面方框中选出10个单词，并将其正确形式填入短文，使短文意思正确通顺（每词限用一次）。
anywhere, conversation, direct, fascinate, feel, friend, meaning, normal, polite, request, simple, usual
"How are you?" is a friendly greeting (问候) that people in the United States use. However, "How are you?" is also a(n) 1.
unusual
question. It's a question that often doesn't need an answer. The person who asks "How are you?" 2.
normally
expects to hear the answer "Fine", even if the person isn't really fine. The reason is that "How are you?" is not a real question and "Fine" isn't really an answer. They are common ways of saying "hello" or "hi".
Sometimes people don't say exactly what they 3.
mean
. For example, when someone asks "Do you agree?", the other person may think, "No, I don't think you're wrong." It is not polite to disagree very 4.
directly
, so he might say, "I'm not so sure." This is a nicer way to say that you don't agree with 5.
something
.
People don't also say exactly what they are thinking about when they finish talking. For example, many 6.
conversations
over the phone end when one person says, "I've got to go now," or the person who wants to hang up makes an excuse such as "Someone is at the door". The excuse may be real, or not. The person who wants to hang up 7.
simply
doesn't want to talk any more. But it's 8.
impolite
to say so. An excuse does more to save the other one's 9.
feelings
.
Whether they are greeting each other, talking about an opinion, or ending a talk or not, people often don't say exactly what they are thinking about. This is one way to show their 10.
politeness
, and it's a part of the game of language.
