Interruption, more surely than anything else, kills conversation. The best o

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问题     Interruption, more surely than anything else, kills conversation. The best of talkers interrupt(1)______in conversation. However, the(2)______interruption of the habitual interrupter and the unintentional, conscious interruption of the (3)______ talker are two very different things. All habitual interrupters are totally unaware that they continually(4)______speeches of their conversers and literally knock their very words back(5)______their mouths.
    Inability to(6)______is responsible for one phase of interruption to conversation. It is the(7)______ eye that tells one’s words have not been heard. " The person next to you must be(8)______ by my conversation, for it is going into one of your ears and out of the other," said a talker to an inattentive dinner-companion whose absent-minded and(9)______ replies had been snapping the thread of the thought(10)______it grew intolerable.
    Because it often(11)______from kind thought as from arrogance, sometimes we can see a (12)______undesirable phase of interruption takes place when conversationalist is so anxious to prove his quickness of perception(13)______ he assumes to know what you are going to say before you have finished your sentence in your own mind. He puts his(14)______ on your arguments before you are (15)______ stating them. His interpretation is(16)______ often exactly the opposite of your own as it is(17)______. Right or wrong, the explanation serves only(18)______ interrupt the sequence of thought. This can hardly prove one’s(19)______; on the contrary, such a habit may be a(20)______to one’s powers. [br] (9)

选项 A、tardy
B、late
C、constant
D、subsequent

答案 A

解析 形容词辨析题。此处强调的是回应的缓慢,因此应该选择[A]tardy,意为“缓慢的,迟缓的”。[B]late表示“将近的,最新的;已故的”,[C]constant意思是“经常的”,[D]subsequent意思是“随后的,后来的”,均不符合句意,故排除。
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