When someone walks into a room wearing bright colours, everyone seems to take notice. Beautiful bright colours can easily draw our attention. Fresh roses can cheer us up when we’re feeling blue. Dressing up in colourful clothing can bring us into a more positive mood.

What shall I wear today? What colour should I choose?

Dressing yourself for the day is quite important whether you know it or not. Our moods often show what our bodies end up wearing. When you look in the mirror after you dress, train yourself to notice how you feel when you see yourself. Notice your mood. If you are not feeling yourself, could the colour of what you are wearing irritate (使不适) your nervous system? Did you never notice that before? We all know that dark colours can tell lies. They can make you look and feel older than you really are. That is why baby clothes never come in dark colours. To the mind, dark colours seem easier to hold power, but to the heart and feeling level, they don’t help your heart to open. Bring happy colours and happiness to go hand in hand. Bright happy colours open your heart, calming your nervous system.

Some advice:

If you work around people who wear black, try to find a happy colour to look at to replace (取代) the picture of dark colours in your mind.

At night, wear soft clothes in light colours to help your nervous system calm down and smooth it out, preparing yourself for sleep.

Don’t dress children in dark colours because their nervous systems are just beginning to feel.

1.What kind of colours can easily draw our attention?

A. All of the colours. B. Dark colours.

C. Dark red. D. Bright colours.

2.Which of the following colours shouldn’t we choose to look at if a lot of people in your office wear dark clothes?

A. Black. B. Green. C. Yellow. D. Red.

3.What does the underlined word “They” refer to?

A. Some lies. B. Baby clothes.

C. Dark colours. D. Different moods

4.We should wear ________ to help our nervous system calm down and smooth it out to prepare for sleep.

A. leather clothes in light colours

B. soft clothes in dark colours

C. soft clothes in light colours

D. leather clothes in dark colours

5.Which of the following sentences is NOT right?

A. We should dress children in dark colours.

B. Fresh roses can cheer us up when we’re feeling blue.

C. Dark colours can tell lies.

D. Dressing yourself for the day is quite important.

When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language. Take the sentence “How do you do?”as an example. If you look up each word in the dictionary, one at a time, what is your translation? It must be a wrong sentence in your own language.

Languages do not just have different sounds; they are different in many ways. It’s important to master(掌握)the rules for word order in the study of English, too. If the speaker puts words in a wrong order, the listener can’t understand the speaker’s sentence easily. Sometimes when the order of words in an English sentence is changed, the meaning of the sentence changes. But sometimes the order is changed, the meaning of the sentence doesn’t change. Let’s see the difference between the two pairs of sentences.

“She only likes apples.”

“Only she likes apples.”

“I have seen the film already.”

“I already have seen the film.”

When you are learning English, you must do your best to get the spirit of the language and use it as the English speaker does.

1.From the passage we know that____ when we are learning English.

A. we shouldn’t put every word into our own language.

B. we should look up every word in the dictionary.

C. we need to put every word into our own language.

D. we must read word for word.

2.The writer thinks it is_____ in learning English.

A. difficult to understand different sounds

B. possible to remember the word order rules

C. important to master the rules in different ways

D. easy to master the rules for word order

3.We can learn from the passage that______.

A. the meaning of an English sentence always changes with the order of the words

B. the order of words can never change the meaning of an English sentence

C. sometimes different order of words has a different meaning

D. if the order of words is different, the meaning of the sentence must be different

4.“She only likes apples.”_______

A. is the same as “Only she likes apples.”

B. is different from “Only she likes apples.”

C. means “She likes fruit except apples.”

D. means “She doesn’t like apples.”

5.Which is the best title for this passage?

A. Different Orders, Different Meanings

B. How to Speak English

C. How to Put English into Our Own Language

D. How to Learn English

Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. There was another building not far from mine. A woman lived there. I had never met her, but I could see her sit by the window each afternoon, drinking or reading.

After several months, I began to find that her window was dirty. Everything was unclear through the dirty window. I would say to myself, “What a lazy woman! I want to know why she doesn’t wash her window. It really looks terrible.”

One bright morning, I decided to clean my flat, including the window. I worked the whole morning. When I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. What a surprise! Everything in the woman’s flat could be seen clearly. Her window was clean!

I began to understand. I watched the woman’s window from my own dirty window. That’s the problem!

This is quite an important lesson for me. How often do I look at and criticize(批评) others through the dirty window of my heart?

From then on, whenever I want to judge someone, I ask myself first, “Am I looking at him through my dirty window?” Then I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see others’ world more clearly.

1.The writer couldn’t see things clearly through the window because .

A.the woman’s window was dirty

B.the writher’s window was dirty

C.the woman lived far away

D.there was something wrong with the writer’s eyes

2.It’s TRUE that .

A.the writer had never met the woman before

B.the woman often drank and read by the window in the morning

C.they both worked as cleaners

D.the woman lived alone

3.When did the writer begin to understand he had a wrong idea about the woman’s windows?

A.A few months ago.

B.A few months later.

C.Before he cleaned his windows.

D.After he cleaned his windows.

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