题目内容
Do you often talk with your parents? Here is some advice on how to talk with them.
★ Try to start your talk with something fun. This will make talking easier. For example,
ask them questions about their day. How is work? They love this.
★ Make it clear what you want to tell your parents. If they have an opinion, let them finish and don’t stop their talking. Ask them to do the same for you.
★ Show them respect by listening to them carefully. Look at them in the eye.
★ Be honest. Honesty builds trust. Life is good when your parents trust you.
★ If your parents don’t understand, that’s OK. It doesn’t mean that they don’t love you. Sometimes you have to explain the things to them again
★ When you finish the talk, thank them for listening. Say something like“Thanks, that helps.” It will let them know that is important to you and make them want to do it more often.
1.If you want to start the talk easily, you should say something ____________ at the beginning.
A. interesting B. dishonest
C. serious D. unhappy
2.While talking to your parents, you should look at them in the eye to show you _____ them.
A. hate B. understand
C. respect D. like
3.When the parents don’t understand you, you can_____.
A. ask them to stop B. argue with them
C. leave them angrily D. explain your ideas to them again
4.What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. We should respect our parents.
B. It’s important to trust our parents.
C. We should love our parents.
D. Some ways to communicate with our parents.
Shared habits of happy people
Happy people all share happy habits.It's as simple as that.The happiest people I know share these obvious habits.If you're looking to expand your general happiness, you may consider adopting these in your own life.
People may take an active role in their local city council, join a social club supporting causes they believe in, or find passion in their careers.In each case, the physiological outcome is the same.They engage in something they strongly believe in.This engagement brings happiness and meaning into their lives.
A happy life is a life shared with friends and family.The stronger the personal relationships are and the higher the frequency of interaction is, the happier a person will be.
Quite often people concentrate too much on negative outcomes and leave no time to reflect positively on their successes.It's natural for a person to want to correct undesirable circumstances and focus closely on doing so, but it is important to reflect mindfully on the good while striving diligently to correct the bad.A continuous general awareness of your daily successes can have a noticeably positive effect on your overall emotional happiness.
The power of endings is quite remarkable.The end of any experience has a great impact on a person's overall perception(看法) of the experience as a whole.Think about reading a well?written novel.Now imagine the ending is really poor.Even if the story was appealing until the ending, would you still be happy recommending the novel to a friend? People always remember the ending.If the ending is happy, the experience creates happiness.Always tie loose ends, leave things on a good note, and create happy endings in your life whenever possible.
Everyone possesses unique personal strengths.We all have different talents and skill sets.Emotional happiness comes naturally to those who use their strengths to get things done.The state of completion always creates a sense of achievement.If the achievement is based on your own personal ability to get the job done, the physiological rewards are priceless.
The best things in life are free.They come in the form of simple pleasures and they appear right in front of you at previous locations and arbitrary times.They are governed by Mother Nature and situational circumstances and captured by mindful awareness.It's all about taking a moment to notice the orange and pink sunset reflecting off the pond water as you hold hands with someone you love.Noticing these moments and taking part in them regularly will bring unplanned bursts of happiness into your life.
Shared habits | Explanations |
Be a part of something you believe in | If people are engaged in what they strongly believe in, it brings happiness and 1. into their lives. |
2. time with friends and family | If the personal relationships are stronger and the interaction is more 3., a person will be happier. |
4. on the good | If people often concentrate their attention on 5. outcomes, it will result in their overall emotional happiness. |
Create happy endings whenever 6. | If the ending is happy, the 7. will bring happiness to you. |
Use personal strengths to get things done | It is 8. that emotional happiness comes to those who use their personal strengths to get things done. |
Enjoy the natural joy of simple pleasures | If you are able to 9. the simple natural pleasures and enjoy them, it will bring unplanned bursts of happiness into your 10.. |
Because six out of every 10 accidental deaths happen to Chinese children who are playing, Shanghai Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical (SJJP), a US?based pharmaceutical giant, is working on a Safe Kids Program to prevent injuries and deaths.
Since the Safe Kids Worldwide was set up in 1987 by Johnson & Johnson in the US, it has contributed to a nearly 40 percent decline in the child death rate from accidental injuries there.Learning from the successful experience, SJJP began the Safe Kids Program in China in 1999.
A recent survey conducted by SJJP and Safe Kids Worldwide China indicates that more than half of the responding parents didn't know how to help their children keep safe and that half of the parents didn't know about their children's motor skill development at different ages.The survey covered 3,359 Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou's parents with children between infancy (幼年) and 14.
Additionally, more than 40 percent of the parents didn't know how to help their children to prepare well for sports activities.For instance, they don't know how to have their children warm up or realize the importance of a playground?check before sports activities.
To help correct the problems, SJJP and Safe Kids Worldwide China have been translating and editing safety education materials, sending them to parents free of charge, and delivering free lectures in kindergartens, schools and residential communities for the last 10 years.
Currently, a special team has been set up and traveling around 12 key cities of China to popularize child sports safety knowledge and offer free training for young parents.
Though SJJP refuses to say how much it has spent on the program, it says the number in terms of money, staff and technology, is large.
SJJP was founded by Johnson & Johnson in 1995 and specializes in manufacturing and development of non?prescription medicines (非处方药) and health care foods and products.So far,its investment has exceeded $41 million.
Title: Safe Kids Program
1. | The program is intended to 2. accidental injuries and deaths. |
Background | ◇It is sponsored by SJJP, which specializes in making and 3. non?prescription medicine and health care foods and products. ◇It follows the example of the successful experience of Safe Kids. Worldwide in the US, which accounts for a 40% 4. in such injury cases. |
5. | ◇More than 50% of the parents don't know how to help keep children safe. ◇Half of the parents are not 6.of their children's motor skills. ◇40% or more of the parents fail to help their children prepare well before sports activities, such as warming up and 7. the playground. |
Solutions | ◇They have been sending safety education materials to 8.and delivering lectures in schools and communities, all for 9.. ◇A special team has been 10.and is now traveling around to popularize child sports safety knowledge and offering free training for young parents. |