You often focus on building relationships with others, but you forget the first step: being a friend of yourself. How can you have good relationships with others if you don't even have a good relationship with yourself?

Here are some tips for you to be a friend of yourself.

1.

It's true that you are not perfect, but neither is everybody else. It's normal to make mistakes, so do yourself a favor by stopping feeling angry with yourself.

2.

There are some things you cannot change, such as your background and your past. So learn to say yes to them, smile and move on.

3.

Instead of focusing on your weakness, focus on your strength. Find out your strengths and build your life around them.

4.

The way you examine your success is not by looking at others. Your own success is decided by your own life goal. So it is useless to look at and focus on others’ life.

5.

You don't like it if others are not honest with you, right? So you won't like yourself if you know you lie to yourself. What you need to bear in mind is that don't lie to yourself. Be honest!

Headings:

A. Focus on your strength

B. Stop focusing on others' life

C. Stop feel sorry for yourself

D. Always be true to yourself

E. Accept things you can't change

Although we now have a lot of easy ways to contact our friends and family, many people still enjoy writing letters. American artist John Pena enjoys writing letters, too. However, his letters are not sent to his friends or family.

For more than ten years, John has sent letters to a place that doesn't even have a mailbox: the ocean. The contents （内容） of the letters are usually nothing more than a simple journal entry （日记的事项）. By connecting the natural world in such a way, John hopes to build a poetic and magic relationship between humans and nature. He also wants to catch the elusive （难以捉摸的） moments in everyday life by writing letters.

John has written over 3,000 letters to the ocean. But they were all returned by the post office with a "no such place exists" stamp, John has showed the letters. He likes to look at these letters and feel the inner peace they bring him.

1.Whom does the American artist John Pena send letters to?

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2.How long has John kept writing this kind of letters?

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3.Why does John write such letters? （Write one of the reasons）

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4.There are a lot of poems in John's letter, aren't there?

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5.How can John feel when he sees the letters again?

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Be polite ____ others!

A.to B.at C.about D.on

Are you busy ________ your exam these days?

A.during B.with C.in D.at

(2017·山东德州· 27)—Did you enjoy ________ in Chengdu last week?

—Yes，I had great fun there.

A. myself B. yourself C. ourselves D. themselves

These oranges look nice,but_____very sour.

A.feel B.taste C.sound D.look

It was such a funny show that people couldn’t help______ again and again.

A. laugh B. to laugh C. laughing D. laughed

Do you know what ________ the serious event?

A.do with B.deal with C.to do with D.to deal with

Whenever I see the birds, I’ll flying in the sky.

A.think up B.dream of C.work on D.pick up

—What do you think of my article, Mr. Andrew?

—Er…, it is wonderful ________ there are some spelling mistakes.

A.since B.though C.if D.while