单项选择题
Interruption, more surely than anything else, kills conversation. The best of talkers interrupt (1) in conversation. However, the (2) interruption of the habitual interrupter and the unintentional, conscious interruption of the (3) talker are two very different things. All habitual interrupters are totally unaware that they continually (4) speeches of their converses and literally knock their very words back (5) their mouths.
Inability to (6) is responsible for one phase of interruption to conversation. It is the (7) eye that tells one’s words have not been heard. "The person next to you must be (8) by my conversation, for it is going into one of his ears and out of the other," said a talker to an inattentive dinner-companion whose absent-minded and (9) replies had been snapping the thread of the thought (10) it grew intolerable.
Because it often (11) from kind thought as from arrogance, sometimes we can see a (12) undesirable phase of interruption takes place when conversationalist is so anxious to prove his quickness of perception (13) he assumes to know what you are going to say before you have finished your sentence in your own mind. He puts his (14) on your arguments before you are (15) stating them. His interpretation is (16) often exactly the opposite of your own as it is (17) . Right or wrong, the explanation serves only (18) interrupt the sequence of thought. This can hardly prove one’s (19) ; on the contrary, such a habit may be a (20) to one’s powers.
A. key
B. credit
C. reason
D. way