Western-style conversations often develop quite differently from Japanese-style conversations.
A Western-style conversation between two people is like a (1) of tennis. If I introduce a topic, a conversational ball, I expect you do (2) it back. If you agree with me, I don’t expect you simply to agree and to (3) more. I expect you to add something to carry the idea further. (4) I don’t expect you always to agree. I am just as (5) if you completely disagree with me. (6) you agree or disagree, your (7) will return the ball to me. And then it is my turn (8) . I don’t serve a new ball from my (9) starting line. I hit your ball back again to you by (10) your idea further. And so the ball goes back and forth, (11) each of us doing our best to give it a new twist.
A Japanese-style conversation, (12) , is not at all like tennis or volleyball. It&rsquo
A. deepening
B. carrying
C. leading
D. employing
Western-style conversations often develop quite differently from Japanese-style conversations.
A Western-style conversation between two people is like a (1) of tennis. If I introduce a topic, a conversational ball, I expect you do (2) it back. If you agree with me, I don’t expect you simply to agree and to (3) more. I expect you to add something to carry the idea further. (4) I don’t expect you always to agree. I am just as (5) if you completely disagree with me. (6) you agree or disagree, your (7) will return the ball to me. And then it is my turn (8) . I don’t serve a new ball from my (9) starting line. I hit your ball back again to you by (10) your idea further. And so the ball goes back and forth, (11) each of us doing our best to give it a new twist.
A Japanese-style conversation, (12) , is not at all like tennis or volleyball. It&rsquo
A. play
B. game
C. round
D. set
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