The pub is a central part of English life and culture. Over three quarters of the adult populations go to pubs, 【S1】______ and over a third are 'regulars', visiting the pub at most 【S2】______ once a week. For many it is a second home. It also provides the perfect 'representative sample' of the English population for any social scientist, if pubs are 【S3】______ frequented by people of all ages, all social classes, all education-levels and every conceivable occupation. At the bar counter, normal rules of privacy and reserve are suspending, the English are granted 【S4】______ temporary 'remission'(免除) from their conventional social inhibitions and friendly conversation with strangers is considered entire appropriate and normal behaviour 【S5】______ Pub conversations do not have to progress in any kind of logical or orderly manner; they need not stick to the point, or must they reach a conclusion. When 【S6】______ Pubgoers are in free-association mode, which is much of the time, attempts to getting them to focus on a 【S7】______ particular subject for more than a few minutes are fruitless, and only serve to make one popular. But they 【S8】______ do not pour their hearts out to each others; they do not 【S9】______ reveal—besides inadvertently(偶然地) their private 【S10】______ fears or secret desires. 【S1】