When you start talking about good and bad manners you immediately start meeting difficulties. Many people just cannot agree what they mean. We asked a lady, who replied that she thought you could tell a well-mannered person on the __1__ way they occupied the space around them—for example, when such a person walks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of others. Such people never __2__ bump into other people. However, a second person thought that this was more a question of civilized behavior as good manners. Instead, this other person told us a story, __3__ it he said was quite well-known, about an American who had been invited __4__ to an Arab meal at one of the countries of the Middle East. The American __5__ hasn’t been told very much about the kind of food he might expect. If he had __6__ known about American food, he might have behaved better. __7__ Immediately before him was a very flat piece of bread that looked, to him, very much as a napkin. Picking it up, he put it into his collar, so that __8__ it falls across his shirt. His Arab host, who had been watching, __9__ said of nothing, but immediately copied the action of his guest. __10__ And that, said this second person, was a fine example of good manners.
参考答案及解析: 1.将on改为by。 “by the way”作“根据……方式”讲。
2. 将unaware改为aware 根据下文中的“Such a person never bump into other people”判断，这种人不会“目中无人”。