American people like to say "Thank you " or say something kind when others help them．People of many countries do so，too．It is a very good habit．
    You should say"Thank you'when someone passes you the salt on the table，when someone walking ahead of you keeps the door open for you and when someone says you always do your work well or you have a nice thing or your city is very beautiful．“Thank you”is used not only between friends，but also between parents and children，brothers and sisters．
    “Excuse me”is another short sentence they use．When you hear someone says“Excuse me”behind you，you know that someone wants to walk past you without touching you．It’s not polite to break(打断)others when they are talking．If you want to speak to one of them。say‘Excuse me’first，and then begin talking．You should also do so when you begin to cough or make any noise before others．
Let‘s learn to say‘Thank you’and‘Excuse me’．

   One evening I went to have dinner with my uncle and aunt. They had 1invited another person, a young woman, so that there would be four people at 2. Her face was familiar (面熟的). I was quite 3　that we had met 4, but I could not 5　where I had seen her face. In the course of the talk, however, the young woman6to tell us that she had lost her purse the other day. All at once I remembered where I had seen her face. She was just the young girl in the photo in the purse I had picked up while walking down the street that afternoon, although she looked much older. She was7, of course, when I was 8　to describe her purse to her. Then I explained (解释) that I had recognized (认出) her from the photo I had found in the purse. My uncle insisted on going to the police station immediately to fetch the purse.
   As the policeman handed it 9 he said I had found not10the purse, but the person who had lost it.