Question

 

Fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.

There is an example at the beginning (0)   (2.0 pts)

Conversations are such common, everyday events that we easily take them for (1)__________ and assume that they require no special (2)_______________ but at some time or other , most of us have had problems talking with other people. You may find (3)________unable to get word in edgeways, and feel foolish and inadequate. Sometimes you have to interrupt rudely, and are (4) __________ feeling that, to other people, you must seem  unpleasantly aggressive. Or (5) __________ been desperate to speak, you do not know how to stop and risk (6)______ considered boring. Everyone sometimes finds it difficult to strike up conversations. The importance of being able to start conversations is obvious. To have relationships, you have to meet people and get  to know them. To get to know them, you have to talk to them. At some point, (7) __________ has to be an opening line, but how do you know what to say? Conversations often begin (8)  __________ one person remarks, ‘Beautiful weather, isn’t it?’ or asks some other clichéd question. Conversation openers are rarely original – the anxiety of (9) __________ the first approach is not conducive to creative thought – but this  does not matter what does matter is that these openers are recognized as what they are – attempts at starting a conversation. The (10)________ are unimportant, the fact that they have been spoken is.

 

Answer 1

Here are my suggestions for the blanks:

1. granted
2. skills
3. yourself
4. left
5. having
6. being
7. there
8. when
9. making
10. words