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Everybody worries. Grown-ups do it and kids do it, too. But what should you do about it? Whether your worries are big or small, you can take these steps:

Figure it out.

1 That can make it tough to find out what the problem is or to pick one part of the problem to try to solve. But being able to focus on your problem—or at least part of it—is the first step to taking action.    2 Think of ways to make it better.

There is almost always something you can do to help you feel less worried. Sitting there worrying is no fun and it probably won’t solve your problem.If your worry is about a fight you had with your friend, you might write down all the actions you could take—from writing the friend a note to inviting him or her over for a game of basketball. Once you have a list of possible actions, you can select the one that you think is most likely to get your friendship back on track.4

Worrying can make you feel lonely. When you are worried, it can help to find someone to talk to. Sometimes people say, “Why should I bother? They can’t do anything about it.” But here is the reason to give it a try anyway: 5 Just the act of telling someone what’s bothering you can make you feel a little better.

A.Ask for help.

B.Divide your problems into parts.

C.Worrying too much is bad for your health.

D.Some problems are big and have a lot of parts.

E. Switching to immediate action can help you feel more hopeful.

F. If you are having trouble figuring out what worries you, get to the last step.

G. You don’t know that no one can help until you share your feelings and let someone try to help.

 

Has anyone noticed how, with the passage of time, one’s relationship with one’s grown-up daughters and sons becomes changed? I’ve been aware of this for some time but I’m not quite sure how to deal with it.

Take the kitchen sink for example.

Following a family get-together at my place, I walked into the kitchen to find Kate, my daughter carefully cleaning the sink.

“Don’t do that; what are you doing that for?” I said, unhappy about the hidden criticism.

“Mum,” she said, “you really ought to put your glasses on when you clean the sink. Behind the tap here was black!”

But it’s not just things like kitchen sinks. Another time Kate arrived to pick me up to lunch. She looked at me and then asked, “Mum, why do you use brown eyebrow pencil when your hair is grey?”

A sudden memory of her, aged 14, going to her first mixed party flooded back. She had come in to say goodbye. For a moment I thought she’d been an accident. Both eyes were black. I remember suggesting that perhaps a little less eye make-up might be more effective.

Now I told her, “My hair used to be brown.”

“It looks absurd.”

“Mrs. Menzies had dark eyebrows with grey hair.”

“Yes, but you’re not Mrs. Menzies, are you?” she said triumphantly, as if that proved her point.

But a recent event made me realize that something really must be done.

She had returned some for a few weeks before getting married. One evening I went out on a dinner date. By the time my companion left me at the front door, it was about 2am. As I stepped in, an angry figure in a white nightgown stopped me.

“Well, what time of night is this to be coming home?” she shouted. “Where have you been? I’ve been worried sick!”

Shades of the past come back to disturb me. But what should I do about all this? Nothing, probably. Maybe, after all, it’s only a stage young people are going through.

1.The daughter thought her mother didn’t clean the kitchen sink well because of her        .

         A.laziness      B.carelessness      C.unhappiness      D.poor-quality glasses

2.From the passage we know the daughter         .

         A.didn’t want to help with the sink

         B.didn’t like brown eyebrow pencils

         C.had an accident when she went to her first party

         D.shouted at her mum because she came home late

3.How does the mother feel after all these have happened?

         A.Shocked.    B.Proud.        C.Envious.     D.Confused.

4.The author writes the stories to prove that         .

        A.their relationship became stronger 

         B.their roles changed as time passed

         C.her daughter very much cared about her

         D.her daughter got upset as she grew up

 

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