When you start talking about good and bad manners
you immediately start meeting difficulties. Many
people just cannot aGREe what they mean. We asked a
lady, who replied that she thought you could tell a
well-mannered person on the way they occupied the S1._______
space around them—for example, when such a person
walks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of S2._______
others. Such people never bump into other people.
However, a second person thought that this was
more a question of civilized behavior as good manners. S3._______
Instead, this other person told us a story, it he S4._______
said was quite well known, about an American who
had been invited to an Arab meal at one of the countries S5._______
of the Middle East. The American hasn't been S6._______
told very much about the kind of food he might
expect. If he had known about American food, he S7._______
might have behaved better.
Immediately before him was a very flat piece of
bread that looked, to him, very much as a napkin (餐巾). S8._______
Picking it up, he put it into his collar, so that it
falls across his shirt. His Arab host, who had been S9._______
watching, said of nothing, but immediately copied S10._______
the action of his guest.
And that, said this second person, was a fine
example of good manners.
01.6
More people die of tuberculosis (结核病) than of any
other disease caused by a single agent. This has probably
been the case in quite a while. During the early stages of S1. ________
the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh S2. ________
deaths in Europe's crowded cities were caused by the S3. ________
disease. From now on, though, western eyes, missing the S4. ________
global picture, saw the trouble going into decline. With
occasional breaks for war, the rates of death and
infection in the Europ
