四技二專、二技統測◆英文題庫下載題庫

     What do you think is supposed to happen when two Englishmen who have never met beforecome face to face in a train? They start talking about the weather. It may simply be the case thatthey happen to find the subject 26 . Most people, though, are not particularly interested inweather conditions, so there must be other reasons 27 this kind of conversation. It is quitelikely that the first Englishman would like to 28 to know certain things about the second－forinstance 29 sort of job he does and what social status he has. Without this kind of informationhe will not be sure exactly 30 he should behave towards him. What he can do is to engagehim 31 a conversation. He is then likely to find out certain things about the other person quiteeasily. He will learn things 32 from what the other man says as from how he says it, forwhenever we speak we cannot avoid 33 our listeners clues about our backgrounds andpersonalities.