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　　Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passageyou have just heard.

　　16

　　A.He made the classes in disorder.

　　B.He didn't do his best in study.

　　C.He did some bad things to the teacher.

　　D.He didn't live up to the teacher's expectations.

　　17

　　A.He published a letter in a magazine.

　　B.He made an apology video.

　　C.He put his blog on the Internet.

　　D.He told a reporter in an interview.

　　18

　　A.To show one's politeness.

　　B.To ease others' feelings.

　　C.To honor some social rules.

　　D.To earn people's sympathy.

　　Passage One

　　Is "sorry" the hardest word? (16) Not for the British Education Secretary Michael Gove, who has apologized recently to his former French teacher for misbehaving in class. It took him 30 years to express regret for, as he said, competing with his classmates to ask "clever-dick questions" and indulging in "boring showing off". In a letter published in a magazine, Mr. Gove says, "It may be too late to say I'm sorry. But, as my mum told me, it's never too late to set the record straight."

　　It seems regretful politicians are in fashion. (17) A recent apology on video by the deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, has become a hit on the Internet. Mr. Clegg wanted the voters to forgive him for having broken his word and not voting against increases in student tuition fees.

　　Researchers suggest that people have too high an expectation of the power of saying sorry. Dutch psychologist David De Cremer and his colleagues say in a study published in Psychological Science that receiving an apology isn't as healing as people like to think. (18) Nevertheless, apologies might be an important social tool as they re-affirm the existence of rules that need to be observed. In Britain, the word "sorry" is often said and heard. If you step on someone else's toe by chance you have to apologize but the person whose foot was squashed has to do it too. It conveys the idea that none of you is left with hard feelings.

　　16. Why does Michael Gove apologize to his former teacher?

　　17. How did Nick Clegg make his apologies known to the public?

　　18. What, according to David De Cremer, is the main function of apologies?

　　参考答案：

　　【小题16】A

　　【小题17】B

　　【小题18】C

　　习题解析：

　　【小题5】短文中提到 Gove 向自己以前的老师表示歉意，是因为他 misbehaving in class，并且在下文中，Gove 说他在班上总是问一些自作聪明的问题，喜欢不分场合的炫耀，而这些行为都是不应该发生在课堂上的。因此答案为选项 A。

　　【小题6】短文中提到 A recent apology on video by the deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, has become a hit on the Internet.由此可知，Clegg 制作了一个道歉的视频并放到网络上，该视频因此而出名，所以答案为选项 B。

　　【小题7】此题针对道歉的主要功能进行提问。短文中提到，根据 Cremer 的研究，道歉并不能真的减轻人们所受到的伤害，而它的重要功能是 re-affirm the existence of rules that need to be observed，即通过道歉，人们再一次体会到了社会中某些准则的存在。因此答案为选项 C。

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