From the words listed below, choose the ones which best fit the space.
GOOD MANNERS AND BAD
(1)............................. English people will forget to say "Thank you" after (2)............................. , and "Please" after acceptance. It is always "No, thank you" and "Yes, please". If you phone an office, and (3)............................. to speak to Mr Smith, his secretary will say, "Oh, I'm (4)........................... sorry. He's out." It seems to be her fault. She seems to (5)............................. it personally.
Typical of English good manners is the typical fictional murderer. The typical American murderer is a killer, a gangster, or a drug-addict. He is the complete outsider, fighting against the (6)............................. of the rest of society. The typical English murderer is completely (7)............................. . He will be a little, (8)............................. man. As far as his work is concerned, he is (9)............................. to be a habitual criminal. He is more likely to belong to the professional classes, perhaps a dentist or a solicitor. He will be completely respectable, and live in the prim and (10)............................. suburbs. The chances are that his house will be semi-detached so that his inquisitive neighbours can hear (11)............................. noises through the wall. He will be a non-drinker, perhaps teetotal. Conservative in politics, he will go to a Protestant church.
The (12)............................. for murder will be a guilty passion for his secretary or the wife of a colleague. The person he murders will be his wife, And the murder will not be done on the (13)............................. of the moment. It will be planned to the (14)............................. detail, His motive will be that it is better to murder his wife than to (15)............................. his respectability.
01. Little Less Hardly Few
02. denial rejection refusal negation
03. seek will desire want
04. much so a lot highly
05. have take hold seize
06. whole all everything mass
07. separate apart different odd
08. usual ordinary matter-of-fact everyday
09. unlikely unusually unexpected improbably
10. correct right moral proper
11. suspicious inquisitive interesting arousing
12. why cause effect reason
13. thought will spur drive
14. most last end greatest
15. deprive lose mislay drop
