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   When someone asks you to do something you do not feel like doing,what should you do? It 's  a good idea to say “no” at this time. It's better to spend more time on some useful 1 . However,you may worry others will think you impolite or 2 What should you do? Here are some tips that may help you.

     It is OK to make up white lies. That doesn’t mean you are dishonest. 3 it may make both you and the other person pleased and comfortable.

     When 4 to a party or some other events that you do not want to take part in,you can say, No,but thanks for the invitation. That's very kind of you. ” In this way you can not only refuse 5

    but make the person who invited you feel comfortable. When you don't want to lie,just tell the 6 . You may say like this, "I want to spend more time

on myself, 7I ve decided to say to these activities. In this way,people will see that you respect yourself,and as a result they 11 also pay you 8 respect.

My last suggestion is to just do it. You may feel uncomfortable at first,but this is not the reason for 9 “no”. Never make anything more complicated (复杂的) than it is.

Feel proud of 10 for being strong enough to say “no”.

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Answer 1

[解析]文章中作者为我们展示了拒绝的艺术，不同的拒绝方式给人不同的感觉。

1. activities useful activities“有用的活动”。

2. unkind 和impolite“不礼貌的”，对应的是unkind “不友好的”，都是贬义词。

3. Instead这里应该填副词，instead“相反的”，和前 面的句子：That doesn't mean you are dishonest. 相对应。

4. invited这题是过去分词做时间状语，when后面 省略了 you are,you和invite是被动的关系。填 invited。

5. politely 句意是：你不但礼貌的拒绝了，而且 。填 politely。

6. truth lie对应的是truth ,意为：当你不想撒谎 时，你可以说出事实。

7. so两句话是因果关系。句意是：我想留给自己 更多时间，所以我拒绝这些活动。填so。

8. more句意：别人会看出你尊重自己，他们会给你 更多的尊重。填more。

9. saying the reason for doing“ 的原因”填 say-ing

10. yourself feel proud of yourself“以自己为荣”填 yourself。