People often use “Choubaguai” to play jokes on others’ looks. However, at first, this word did not refer to _________ people. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a special group of eight painters in Yangzhou: Jin Nong, Zheng Xie, Huang Shen, Li Shan, Li Fangying, Wang Shishen, Luo Pin and Gao Xiang. Most of them were born into poor families. So they put their feelings about life into paintings by _________ how common people lived.These paintings were different from _________ of other artists.

Other artists didn’t like their paintings. They dismissed （对……不屑一提） them as “Yangzhou Baguai”. Their paintings _________ “Choubaguai” by some artists. However, common people were interested in their paintings. Their painting styles still have a great _________ on painters in modern times.

In England, people don’t like _______ very much. When you go on a bus, or on a train, you can see people just sit looking out of the window. Often they read. They read books, magazines, and newspapers. When you meet _______ people, they often talk about only one thing, _______. So when you meet _______ in England, you should say, “Nice weather at this time of the year!”

“But it was _______ yesterday,” someone may answer. “Well, it will get warmer later.” You can say and talk like this and the English will think, “How friendly you are!”