Xiao Chen had a similar experience. After he finished smoking in a park, he _____________ the cigarette butt because he did not want the cigarette butt to cause a _________ to other people.

However, a man who walked past told him that it was not ____________.

Both Xiao Wang and Xiao Chen could not understand why other people found their actions __________.

They thought that there were a lot of ____________ people in the world.

Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences according to the information contained in the listening passage.1) The listening passage mainly shows that ________.

A. it is necessary to tell white lies in life
B. it is important to be truthful to your friend
C. most people tell white lies now and then
D. telling white lies is a way to keep friendship

Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences according to the information contained in the listening passage.1) The talk mainly talks about ________.

A. how to improve one’s communication skills with people of the opposite sex
B. what has gone wrong in men’s and women’s communication with each other
C. how men and women should communicate to each other
D. what research has shown about gender differences in communication

The popular view about how men and women communicate is that ________

A. they differ greatly in how they communicate
B. they need to communicate more with one another
C. they can both be aggressive in their communication
D. they can both be patient in their communication

Research has shown that ________.

A. men and women come from different cultures
B. men and women have a lot in common in their communication
C. women are more loving than men in their communication
D. men are less patient than women in their communication

What really differs between men and women is that ________.

A. they hear different messages from each other’s talk
B. they enjoy different status in society
C. they talk about different topics
D. they read different books

When a husband shares with his wife a problem about his work, the wife would be more likely to ________.

A. offer some solutions to his problem
B. criticize him for not working hard enough
C. empathize about the amount of work he has to do
D. help him finish his work at home