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English people tend to ______ when talking to each other.

[填空题]People tend to use calorie when referring to food kilocalorie.

[单项选择]Chinese people tend to

[填空题]Happy people tend to talk more than unhappy people, but when they do, it tends to be less small talk and more substance. A group of (36) from the University of Arizona and Washington University in St. Louis set out to find whether happy and unhappy people (37) in the types of conversations they tend to have. For their study, volunteers wore an (38) recording device called the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR) over four days. The device (39) records pieces of sounds as participants go about their lives. The EAR (40) 30 seconds of sounds every 12.5 minutes (41) a total of more than 20, 000 recordings. Researchers then listened to the recordings and (42) the conversations as small talk discussions. In addition, the volunteers completed (43) and well-being assessments.
Here’s what the researchers found: The happiest participants spent 25 percent less time alone and 70 percent more time talk

[填空题]When people communicate with each other, they exhibit a style that is strongly influenced by their culture. Communicative style refers to several characteristics of conversations between (36) . Naturally,people prefer to use their own communicative styles. (37) about communicative style (38) arise when two people from the same culture are together because their styles (39) agree. Most people-including most Americans--are as (40) of their communicative style as they are of their basic values and assumptions. Foreigners who understand something about the Americans’ communicative style will be less likely to misinterpret or (41) Americans than will those who don’t know the common characteristics of (42) communication among Americans. They will also have a better understanding of some of the (43) Americans have about other nationality groups.
(44) . The most common topic of small talk is the we