The Truth About Lies

Comprehension Check

Answer the questions about what you read.
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1. Your friend gives you an ugly vase or shirt for your birthday. What would you say?
2. You lost your job and are having trouble to finding a new one. An old friend calls to find how you are. What would you tell him?
3. Someone you don't like invites you to a movie. What would you say?
4. Your friend shows a picture of her girlfriend/his boyfriend. You didn't find him or her pretty. Your friend asks you what do you think of him/her.
5. Your mother cooks dinner for you. It tastes terrible. She asks whether it's delicious.What would you say?
6. An artist friend gives you a large original painting that is ugly, what would you say?
7. You see your friend's boyfriend or girlfriend with someone other than your friend.
8. You see a student cheating on an exam or a co-worker disobeying the company's policies.
9. You are planning a surprise party for a friend. She needs to be at home at the right time. 1.Oxymoron: A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms arecombined, as in the truth about lies
10. white lie: An often trivial, diplomatic or well-intentioned untruth, An untruth told to spare feelings or from politeness. This term uses white in the sense of "harmless".
11. Have you experience to tell a white lie?
12. What do you think is the result of telling a whit lie in the end?
13. What do you think is better, telling a white lie for the sake of few, or telling the truth for the sake of majority?