题目内容
B. Previously
C. Doubtfully
D. Indeed
Many people think that listening is a passive business. It is just the opposite. Listening well is an active exercise of our attention and hard work. It is because they do not realize this, or because they are not willing to do the work, that most people do not listen well.
Listening well also requires total concentration upon someone else. An essential part of listening well is the rule known as ‘bracketing’. Bracketing includes the temporary giving up or setting aside of your own prejudices and desires, to experience as far as possible someone else’s world from the inside, stepping into his or her shoes. Moreover, since listening well involves bracketing, it also involves a temporary acceptance of the other person. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will seem quite willing to open up the inner part of his or her mind to the listener. True communication is under way and the energy required for listening well is so great that it can be accomplished only by the will to extend oneself for mutual growth.
Most of the time we lack this energy. Even though we may feel in our business dealings or social relationships that we are listening well, what we are usually doing is listening selectively. Often we have a prepared list in mind and wonder, as we listen, how we can achieve certain desired results to get the conversation over as quickly as possible or redirected in ways more satisfactory to us. Many of us are far more interested in talking than in listening, or we simply refuse to listen to what we don’t want to hear.
It wasn’t until toward the end of my doctor career that I have found the knowledge that one is being truly listened to is frequently therapeutic(有疗效的) In about a quarter of the patients I saw, surprising improvement was shown during the first few months of psychotherapy(心理疗法), before any of the roots of problems had been uncovered or explained. There are several reasons for this phenomenon, but chief among them, I believe, was the patient’s sense that he or she was being truly listened to, often for the first time in years, and for some, perhaps for the first time ever.
【小题1】The phrase “stepping into his or her shoes” in paragraph 2 probably means _______.
| A.preparing a topic list first | B.focusing on one’s own mind |
| C.directing the talk to the desired results | D.experiencing the speaker’s inside world |
| A.How to listen well. | B.What to listen to. |
| C.Benefits of listening. | D.Problems in listening |
| A.listen actively | B.listen purposefully |
| C.set aside their prejudices | D.open up their inner mind |
| A.they were taken good care of. | B.they knew they were truly listened to. |
| C.they had partners to talk to. | D.they knew the roots of problems. |
| A.Science fiction | B.A news report. | C.A medical report. | D.Popular science |
Jealousy is a very common problem in daily life. It’s everywhere. For example, if someone does better than you, you will get annoyed because you want to be No. 1. We may become jealous of a best friend’s top marks in an exam, or of the girl in art class who is praised by the teacher all the time. We get annoyed because these good things are happening to someone else but not to us.
It’s bad to feel jealous. We should be pleased with the things we have. But we still wish we had the money of this person and the talent of that person. Instead of sharing their happiness, we just feel jealous and unhappy with ourselves. And, too often, these feelings are expressed by speaking ill of the people we envy.
However, envy is also a kind of compliment to others. We see that other people have styles and talents different from our own. By comparing ourselves with others, we can know what we lack. And we can turn this comparison, the envy of others, into a kind of power.
Therefore, being a bit jealous of others lets us know what we are like and what we want to be like. It can push us to become what we really want to be.
根据短文内容,从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。
【小题1】According to the first paragraph, why do you get annoyed?
| A.Because the teacher dislikes others. |
| B.Because others do something better than you. |
| C.Because you are an annoying person. |
| D.Because you want to be No.1 in the exam and you do. |
| A.赞美 | B.说…的坏话 | C.憎恨 | D.说…病了 |
| A.It’s a good thing. |
| B.It’s just a bad thing. |
| C.It’s a kind of compliment to others. |
| D.It makes us know what we are like and what we want to be like. |