I consider myself something of an expert on apologies. A quick temper has
36 me with plenty of opportunities to make them. In one of my earlier
37 , my mother was telling me “Don’t watch the
38 when you say, ‘I’m sorry’. Hold your head up and look at the person in the
39 , so he’ll know you
40 it.”
My mother thus made the key point of a(n)
41 apology: It must be direct. You must never
42 to be doing something else. You do not
43 a pile of letters while apologizing to a person 44 in position after blaming him or her for a mistake that turned out to be your
45 . You do not apologize to a hostess, whose guest of honor you treat
46 , by sending flowers the next day without mentioning your bad
47 .
One of the important things we should do for an
48 apology is a readiness to
49 the responsibility for our careless mistakes. We are used to making excuses, which leaves no
50 for the other person to
51 us. Since most people are open-hearted, the no-excuse apology leaves both parties feeling
52 about themselves. That , after all, is the
53 of every apology. It
54 little whether the apologizer is wholly or only partly at fault. Answering for one’s
55 encourages others to take their share of the blame.
小题1: | A.provided | B.mixed | C.compared | D.treated |
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小题2: | A.dreams | B.courses | C.memories | D.ideas |
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小题3: | A.side | B.ground | C.wall | D.bottom |
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小题5: | A.imagine | B.enjoy | C.mean | D.regret |
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小题6: | A.useful | B.successful | C.equal | D.basic |
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小题7: | A.pretend | B.forget | C.refuse | D.expect |
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小题8: | A.hold on | B.put away | C.look through | D.pick up |
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小题9: | A.poorer | B.weaker | C.worse | D.lower |
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小题10: | A.fault | B.reason | C.result | D.duty |
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小题11: | A.cruelly | B.freely | C.roughly | D.foolishly |
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小题12: | A.manners | B.excuses | C.efforts | D.roles |
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小题13: | A.active | B.effective | C.extra | D.easy |
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小题14: | A.raise | B.perform | C.admit | D.bear |
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小题15: | A.situation | B.need | C.sign | D.room |
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小题16: | A.advise | B.forgive | C.warn | D.blame |
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小题17: | A.wiser | B.warmer | C.better | D.cleverer |
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小题18: | A.purpose | B.method | C.end | D.advantage |
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小题19: | A.cares | B.matters | C.depends | D.remains |
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小题20: | A.facts | B.states | C.rights | D.actions |
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