题目内容
选择for或since完成句子：
1.I have been here _____five months ago.
2.He has been a soldier ____ about two months.
3.Great changes have taken place _____ you left.
4.His grandpa has been dead ____ ten years.
5.I have studied English ______ I was 12 years old.
6.We have lived here _______ 1990.
7.The boy has had a bad cold ______ last night.
8.I have waited ____ two hours.
1. since 2. for 3. since 4. for 5. since 6. since 7. since 8. for 【解析】 1.since 句意：自从五个月前，我已经在这里了。since引导的时间状语从句或状语，表示从过去开始，此处根据ago表示从以前某时开始，故用since。 2.for 句意：他已经成为士...
黄冈冠军课课练系列答案British people pride themselves on their polite manners towards one another in public. They often use the word ‘sorry’—even when they don’t really mean it! Usually, if they want to ask a stranger for the time, they would start by saying ‘Sorry to bother you. Do you know what time it is?’ If they’re five minutes late for an appointment (约会), they would generally greet the person by saying ‘Sorry I’m late!’
They use the word ‘sorry’ in so many different situations that the meaning of the word has changed a little over time. The two main dictionary definitions (释义) of ‘sorry’ are: 1) feeling sad for someone else because of their problems or bad luck; 2) feeling regret because you’ve done something wrong. Now, think about this. Normally, when they want to ask a stranger a question, they start with ‘Sorry to bother you’. In this situation, they aren’t saying sorry because they feel sad for that person or because they feel regret.
So what does ‘sorry’ really mean? And why do British people use it so much? Well, in the British culture, saying ‘sorry’ is a way to be polite, especially to people who they don’t know very well. It’s also a very clever way to get what they want. In a recent experiment, an actor went up to a different strangers on a rainy day to ask if he could use their mobile phones in order to make a call. When he went up to one group of strangers and asked them without saying ‘sorry’ first, he was only 9 per cent successful in borrowing their phones. However, when he said ‘sorry’ to another group of strangers about the bad weather before asking if he could use their mobile phones, he was 47 per cent successful. So maybe saying ‘sorry’ is not just being polite, but it is also a good method to get what they want too!
Title: Why do 1. people say sorry? | |
Main points | Detailed information |
The situations in which they say ‘2.’ | Asking for the time Being 3. for an appointment |
The change of the meaning of ‘sorry’ | The two main 4. definitions of ‘sorry’; Feeling sad for 5. problems or bad luck Feeling regret 6. of one’s own mistakes When British people ask a stranger a question by 7. with ‘sorry’, they are saying sorry neither because they feel sad for that person nor because they feel regret. |
The 8. meaning of ‘sorry’ | A way to be polite A good way to get 9. they want The result of an experiment shows it’s 10. for one to succeed in borrowing a mobile phone by saying ‘sorry’. |
