“How are you?” is a nice question. It’s a friendly way for Americans to greet each other. But “ How are you?”is also a very unusual question. It often doesn’t need an answer. The person who asks” How are you?” hopes to hear the answer“Fine”even if the person’s friend isn’t fine. In fact, they are not really a question or an answer. They are simply other ways of saying “Hello”or“Hi”.

Sometimes people also don’t say exactly what they mean, For example, when someone asks “ Do you agree?”the other person might think,“No,I disagree. I think you’re wrong.” But it isn’t very polite to disagree so strongly, so the other person might say,“ I’m afraid …”It’s a nicer way to disagree.

People also don’t say exactly what they are thinking when they finish talking with other people. For example, many phone talks finish when one person says” I have to go now.” Often, the person who wants to finish the phone call gives an excuse,” Someone’s at the door.” The excuse might be real, or not. Perhaps the person who wants to finish the phone call simply doesn’t want to talk anymore, but it isn’t polite to say that. The excuse is more polite, and it doesn’t hurt the other person.

When they are greeting each other, talking about an idea, thinking of finishing a talk, people don’t say exactly what they are thinking about. It’s an important way that people try to be nice to each other, and it is part of the game of language.

1.“How are you?”is another way of saying “Hello” or “Hi”.

2.It is polite to say” No,I disagree. I think you are wrong” if you don’t agree with others.

3.When someone says” I have to go now” on the phone, it means he wants to go on talking.

4.“Someone is at the door ”may be an excuse for finishing a phone call.

5.Sometimes, people don’t say exactly what they are thinking about just because they try to be nice to each other.

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阅读下列短文,根据短文内容填写表格 (每空限填一词)。

The world we live in is full of amazing things. Do you know the following things?

★Chocolate tastes nice but it may make the little dog die.

★We may sleep for eight hours at a time but a snail (蜗牛) may sleep for three years.

★Our ears and nose become bigger when we grow up but eyes keep the same after a person is born.

★You may think a bear walks slowly. In fact, it can run as fast as a horse.

★Cats won’t die if they fall off very high places because they can turn themselves up the right way.

★The largest animal on the earth is the blue whale (鲸). It weighs about 80 tons (吨)—more than 24 elephants.

★Most animals will die soon if they lose the head. But a cockroach (蟑螂) can live for nine or ten days when they have no head.

★Not all birds can fly. About forty kinds of birds can’t fly, like the penguin (企鹅) and the ostrich (鸵鸟).

Some1.________ things in the world

2._______

It’s nice but you can’t give it to little 3._______, because it can kill them.

Snails

They can sleep as4._______ as three years.

Our eyes

The size of the eyes doesn’t 5.________ from birth.

Bears

They can run very6._______ like a horse.

Cats

After7._______ off very high places, they can stay alive.

Blue whales

They are the largest animal and a blue whale’s 8._______ is about 80 tons.

Cockroaches

They can live for nine or ten days9._______ the head.

Birds

Most birds are good at 10._______ but some can’t.

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