单选题 Western-style conversations often develop quite differently from Japanese-style conversations.
A Western-style conversation between two people is like a (26) of tennis. If I introduce a topic, a conversational ball, I expect you do (27) it back. If you agree with me, I don't expect you simply to agree and to (28) more. I expect you to add something to carry the idea further. (29) I don't expect you always to agree. I am just as (30) if you completely disagree with me. (31) you agree or disagree, your (32) will return the ball to me. And then it is my turn (33) . I don't serve a new ball from my (34) starting line. I hit your ball back again to you by (35) your idea further. And so the ball goes back and forth, (36) each of us doing our best to give it a new twist.
A Japanese-style conversation, (37) , is not at all like tennis or volleyball. It's like bowling. You (38) for your turn. And you always know your (39) in line. It depends on such things as whether you are older or younger, a close friend or a relative stranger (40) the previous speaker, in a senior or junior position, and so on. When your turn comes, you (41) up to the starting line with your bowling ball, and (42) bowl it. Everyone else stands back and watches politely, whispering (43) . Everyone waits until the ball has reached the end of the alley, and watches to see if it (44) down all the pins, or only some of them, or none of them. There is a pause, while everyone registers your (45) .