Silenceisunnaturaltomarl．Hebeginslirewithacryandendsiti...

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Silence is unnatural to marl．He begins lire with a cry and ends it in stillness．in between he does all he can to make a noise in the world，and he fears silence more than anything else．Even his，conversation is ail attempt to prevent a fearful silence．If he is introduced to another person，and a number of pauses occur in the conversation．he regards himself as a failure，a worthless person，and is full of envy of the emptiest-headed chatterbox(喋喋不休的人)．He knows that ninety—nine percent

of human conversation meads no more than the Buzzing of a fly, but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure(醋塑人)．

The aim at conversation is not, for the most part，to communicate ideas, it is to keep up the buzzing sound．There are，it must be admitted, different—qualities of buzz; there is even a buzz that is as annoying as the continuous noise made by a mosquito(蚊子)，But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito Than a quiet person．Most buzzing，fortunately, is pleasant to the ear，and some of it is pleasant，even to the mind。He would be a foolish man if he waited until he had a wise thought to take park in the buzzing with his neighbors．

Those who hate to pick up the weather as a conversational opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk．Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new．Some of them aye content if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people’s ears though they have nothing to tell them except that they．have seen two or three new plays or that they had food in a Swiss hotel．At the end of 3n evening during which they have said nothing meaningful for along time, they just prove themselves to be successful conservationists

1．According to We author, people make conversation to

A．exchange ideas

B．prove their value

C．achieve Success in life

D．overcome of a chatterbox

2．By“the buzzing，of a fly”(Para. 1)，the author means

A．the noise of an insect

B．a low whispering sound

C．meaningless talks

D．the voice of，a chatterbox

3．According to the passage，people usually talk to their neighbors

A．about whatever they have prepared