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     I consider myself something of an expert on apologies. A quick temper has   1    me with plenty
of opportunities to make them. In one of my earliest   2   , my mother is telling me, "Don't watch the
   3  when you say 'I'm sorry'. Hold your head up and look the person in the   4   ,so he'll know you
   5  it. "
     My mother thus made the key point of a (an)   6    apology: it must be direct. You must never  7   
to be doing something else. You do not   8   a pile of letters white apologizing to a person    9    in
position after blaming him or her a mistake that turned out to be your   10    . You do not apologize
to a hostess (女主人), whose guest of honor you treat   11    , by flowers the next day without
mentioning your bad   12   .
     One of the important things you should do for an   13   apology is a readiness to   14    the
responsibility (责任) for our careless mistakes. We are used to making excuses, which leaves no   15  
for the other person to   16    us. Since most people are open-hearted, the no excuse apology leaves
both parties feeling   17   about themselves. That, after all, is the  18    of every apology. It  19  little
whether the apolagizer is wholly or only partly at fault: answering for one' s   20    encourages others
to take their share of the blame.
(     )1.A. provided  
(     )2.A. dreams    
(     )3.A. side      
(     )4.A. mind      
(     )5.A. imagine    
(     )6.A. useful    
(     )7.A. pretend    
(     )8.A. hold on    
(     )9.A. poorer    
(     )10.A. fault    
(     )11.A. cruelly  
(     )12.A. manners  
(     )13.A. active    
(     )14.A. raise    
(     )15.A. situation
(     )16.A. advise    
(     )17.A. wiser    
(     )18.A. purpose  
(     )19.A. cares    
(     )20.A. facts    
B. mixed    
B. courses  
B. ground    
B. soul      
B. enjoy    
B. successful
B. forget    
B. put aside
B. weaker    
B. reason    
B. freely    
B. excuses  
B. effective
B. perform  
B. need      
B. forgive  
B. warmer    
B. method    
B. matters  
B. states    
C. compared    
C. memories    
C. wall        
C. face        
C. mean        
C. equal      
C. refuse      
C. look through
C. worse      
C. result      
C. impolitely  
C. efforts    
C. extra      
C. admit      
C. sign        
C. warn        
C. better      
C. end        
C. depends    
C. fights      
D. treated  
D. ideas    
D. bottom    
D. eye      
D. regret    
D. basic    
D. expect    
D. pick up  
D. lower    
D. duty      
D. foolishly
D. roles    
D. easy      
D. bear      
D. room      
D. blame    
D. cleverer  
D. advantage
D. remains  
D. actions  
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