“Thank you” is widely     1     in a modern society. It is a very good manner. You should say “Thank you”     2     others help you or say something kind to you. For example, when someone     3     the door for you, when someone says you have done your work well, when someone says you have     4     a nice shirt, or your city     5     very beautiful, you should say “Thank you”. “Thank you” is used not only between friends,     6     between parents and children, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives.

“Excuse me” is     7     short polite usage. We use it as the same as “Thank you”. When you hear someone say so behind you, you’d got to know that somebody wants to walk past you without     8     you. It is not polite to interrupt (打断) others while they are     9     . If you want to have a word with one of them, please say “Excuse me”     10     , and then begin to talk. You should also do so when you want to cough or make any unpleasant noise before others. Let’s say “Thank you” and “Excuse me” on the right occasion.

American people like to say “Thank you” when others help them or say something kind to them. People of many other countries do so, too. It is a very good     1    .

You should say “Thank you” when someone     2     you the salt on the table, when someone walking before you keeps the door     3     for you, when someone says you have done your work well, or you have bought a nice thing, or your city is very     4    .

“Thank you” is used not only between friends, but also between parents and     5    , brothers and sisters, husbands and wives.

“Excuse me” is     6     short sentence they use. When you hear someone say so behind you, you know that somebody wants to walk     7     you.

It is not polite to break others while they are talking. If you want to     8     to one of     9    , say “Excuse me” first, and then begin talking. You should also do     10     when you want to cough or make any unpleasant     11     before others.

Let’s all learn to say “Thank you” and “Excuse me”.

On June 2, 1886, a German captain threw a message in a bottle into the water    1    his ship crossed the Indian Ocean. Around 132 years    2    in January, the bottle was found on the Australian coast, making it the oldest-known message in a bottle in the world.

The bottle was thrown into the water to track ocean currents.    3    1864 and 1933, German sailors threw thousands of bottles into the sea. Some of those messages were    4    later.

But throwing messages in bottles into the ocean is not just for scientists. People send out such messages for many reasons. Some people write information about    5    in the hopes of finding a pen pal. Others write down secrets, hoping that the waves will wash them away. And still other people just write down some jokes, song lyrics or anything else they think might be fun.

There are    6    online messages in bottles. People can send the messages through WeChat or QQ.

The    7    and ways might be different, but the goal（目标）is always the same: to reach out and try to connect with someone. This kind of    8    feeling might be why this tradition has remained popular for so long. In 1988, the British band The Police wrote a song called Message in A Bottle that describes this feeling.

    9    the song's lyrics say, we are "a hundred billion castaways（被抛弃者）looking for a home". When will you feel relieved（释然的）? "A hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore. It    10    I'm not alone at being alone."