Many years (1) trying to help people with every kind of trouble

Left me with one sure conviction: in case (2) case the difficulty

Could have been overcome, if the people involved had just treated

One another with common courtesy.

Courtesy, politeness, good (3) — call it what you will, the supply

never seems to equal the demand. ≪It’s not so much what my husband

said,≫ a tearful wife confides, ≪as the way he says it. Why does he have

to yell at (4)?≫ ≪I hate my boss,≫ a grim-faced (5) worker

mutters, ≪he never shows appreciation for anything.≫ ≪All we get

from our teenagers,≫ a harassed parent says, ≪is a sullen anger.≫ Such

(6) are not limited to people who sit in my study.

What are the basic ingredients of good manners? Certainly a strong

Sense of (7) is one; courtesy is often nothing more than

A (8) developed sense of fair play. Another ingredient of courtesy

Is empathy, a quality that enables a (9) to see in the mind or

Heart of someone else. Yet another component of politeness is the capacity

To treat all people (10), regardless of all status or importance.

A B C D

Before ago then past

After for to in

Manner right manners qualities

I my mine me

Official officially office officer

Complaints compliments words offers

Justice judge freedom evil

Commonly totally highly rapidly

People person nations men

Like so alike such

3 Comment on the following issues.

Art has long been described as the truest form of self-expression and

The way of depicting our complicated world.

• What form of art (music, film, literature, sculpture, etc.) means the

Most to you and why?

• Describe how it represents you and your thoughts.

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VARIANT 22

1 Read the text and choose the correct item for each statement below.

Dodging Death for a Story

≪Suddenly in the pitch darkness, comes this huge elephant!≫ says Paul

Raffaele. ≪He puts his ears back and you could see murder in his eyes.

I knew he was going to charge. It’s a strange, eerie feeling.≫

Raffaele, 63, just might be the last of the great old-fashioned adventure

Writers. A veteran Australian reporter, he travels the world hunting

True tales of wild animals and primitive tribes, preferably those that

Eat humans.

He’s in Washington to meet his editors at Smithsonian magazine

Which has published his stories on Indonesian cannibals, killer jellyfish

And, in the August issue, modern-day pirates. He’s sitting in the courtyard

Of his hotel, trying to tell the story of the elephant that nearly

Killed him last week in Kenya, but he keeps interrupting himself.

≪We’re used to Asian elephants, those dainty little dumbos, but this

elephant was huge. He came straight at us and I thought, ≪How are we

going to get out of this one?≫ He interrupts his story to talk about his

Other near-death experiences, like the time he was captured by Khmer

Rouge soldiers in Cambodia or the time he was caught in the middle of

A riot in Bangkok and a drunk put a gun to his head.

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