Manners are different in every country; but true politeness is everywhere the same. Manner

s are only【C1】______ helps which ignorance assumes in order to【C2】______ politeness, which is the result of good sense and good【C3】______ A person possessed of those qualities, though he had never seen a court, is truly【C4】______ ; and if without them, would continue a clown,【C5】______ he had been all his life a gentleman usher. He who【C6】______ airs of importance exhibits his credentials (证明)of【C7】______ . There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world to get a good name, or to 【C8】______ the want of it. Good manners are a part of good morals, and it is【C9】______ much our duty as our interest to practice in both. Good manners are the art of making those around us easy.【C10】______ makes the fewest persons【C11】______ is the best bred man in the company. Good manners should begin at home. A person【C12】______ appears so ridiculous by the qualities he has, as by those he【C13】______ to have. He gains more by being【C15】______ to be seen as he is, than by attempting to appear【C14】______ he is not. Good manners is the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial, for the【C16】______of others, and with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them. "【C17】______ make the man," says the proverb. It may be true that some men's man hers have been the making of them;【C18】______ as manners are rather the expression of the man, it would be more【C19】______ to say the man makes the manners. Social courtesies should arise from the heart; the worth of manners consists【C20】______ being the sincere expressions of feelings.

【C1】

A．artificial

B．provincial

C．controversial

D．substantial