Many children want to develop a hobby. You’ll need to find different interests and decide which hobby really interests you.While, this may be hard to do, and here are four great reasons to work it in:

Hobbies help build a teen’s confidence(自信).

By finding an area of interest, a teen can build his skill. This leads to positive(积极的) results and builds teenager’s confidence.

A hobby helps teens have a sense of his identity(个性).

Our likes and dislikes help let us know who we are as people.Hobbies help by sending a signal, “I like doing this. This makes me feel good about me. Therefore, this is a part of who I am.”

Hobbies keep teens from getting bored.

Bored teens look for things to do and are more likely to do something bad. Helping teens develop a hobby is helping them stay out of trouble.

Hobbies will help teens to get on well with their parents.

When a teen is busy with a hobby, his parents have easy access(机会) to something to praise him about. They can communicate with each other easily.

1.According to the passage, hobbies can make kids_____.

A. be sure something they want will happen in the way

B. know they are different from their parents

C. feel a little bad about themselves

D. not be a good student at school

2.If Jim has a hobby, he will _____ in his free time.

A. be bored B. be in trouble C. make a lot of money D. feel happy

3.Hobbies will help teens to get on well with their parents because_____.

A. teens are busy and have no time to fight with parents

B. parents never praise them about their hobbies

C. parents have an interesting topic to talk with children

D. teens have to ask their parents for some money

4.The passage above is mainly about_____.

A. it’s not easy to find a hobby

B. how to develop a hobby

C. who we are as people

D. why teens need a hobby

A person has two ears but only one mouth. That means we should listen, not just speak. The word "listen" has the same letters as the word "silent". Listening silently is a good quality that we should have. Then why is it important to be a good listener?

Listening is really helpful.

When someone is sad or angry, he wants to express his poor feelings. At this moment, we need to listen silently first until he gets calm (冷静的). Then we may have a good talk with him. Maybe it is a good way to help him out.

Listening is a kind of love.

For example, we may think our parents are always talking too much. But in fact, they do so because they are anxious about our health, study and so on. If we listen patiently, our parents will feel we care about them. A loving silence is often more powerful (有力量的) than words.

Listening is polite behavior.

Sometimes, we just want others to listen to us but forget to listen to others. In fact, that's not polite. In order to show our respect(尊重) for others, we had better listen to them first. Then we can express our ideas.

Listening sounds easy, but it's not. Every head is a world. So we should learn to listen with our ears, eyes and hearts as much as we can, and try to make ourselves good listeners from now on.

1.When someone is sad or angry, we should _____ first.

A. listen to him silently

B. express our poor feelings

C. talk too much with him

D. tell his parents about it

2.The underlined word "anxious" here probably means "_______".

A. satisfied

B. angry

C. worried

D. excited

3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. We should ask others to listen to us first.

B. We should express our ideas first.

C. We should let others respect us first.

D. We had better listen to others first.

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