The pub is a central part of English life and culture. Over three quarters of the adult po

The pub is a central part of English life and culture.

Over three quarters of the adult populations go to pubs, 【S1】______

and over a third are "regulars", visiting the pub at most 【S2】______

once a week. For many it is a second home. It also provides

the perfect "representative sample" of the English population

for any social scientist, if pubs are 【S3】______

frequented by people of all ages, all social classes, all

education-levels and every conceivable occupation.

At the bar counter, normal rules of privacy and reserve

are suspending, the English are granted 【S4】______

temporary "remission'(免除) from their conventional social

inhibitions and friendly conversation with strangers is

considered entire appropriate and normal behaviour 【S5】______

Pub conversations do not have to progress in any

kind of logical or orderly manner; they need not stick to

the point, or must they reach a conclusion. When 【S6】______

Pubgoers are in free-association mode, which is much of the

time, attempts to getting them to focus on a 【S7】______

particular subject for more than a few minutes are fruitless,

and only serve to make one popular. But they 【S8】______

do not pour their hearts out to each others; they do not 【S9】______

reveal—besides inadvertently(偶然地) their private 【S10】______

fears or secret desires.

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