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口语考试汇总 B: The author thinks that gift-giving involves the expectation of reciprocity. How far do you agree with him on this point? A: today, out topic is about gift-giving involves the expectation of reciprocity, How far do you agree on this point? B: I agree with the author’s point. When my spontaneously giving at the most ridiculously generous, I always expect something in return. That’s true, I think everyone has the same thought. C: yes, see. When I have thought hard and gone to a lot of trouble to get my boyfriend/girlfriend what him/her might want, to satisfy him/her. Have my boyfriend/girlfriend done the same for me? As I said, it took me weeks. D: referring to expectation of reciprocity, I wonder that the western world avoid this fact: they paper it over with rhetoric about selflessness, about how much better it is to give than to receive. E: Seneca said: an honorable benefactor never thinks on the good turn he does. Actually, they like to tell themselves, is to give it and forget it, to expect nothing at all in return, not even gratitude. A: absolutely, like some happy hooker who neglects to charge her customers. Like god’s won fool. But what are the niceties? B: I used to think there were no niceties, that the thought really was all that counted. I might have gotten this from my mother. My mother seldom wrapped gifts. The decoration is not necessary. C: my mum is also the same, she spent exactly the same amount of money on me every birthday, and she use the cheapest possible tissue paper and no ribbons. That made me remember that you might give generously, but you did’t have to wrap them, and cards were unnecessary. D: really? But I think decoration is so romantic, which make people happy. It remind me that my friend received some strange gifts once from her boyfriends. A salad spinner for Christmas, a baked ham for her birthday, why not a broom? E: I think so, even they are absolutely useless, purely cliche, but we want those clichés, we want what everybo