题目内容
Making friends is a skill. Like most skills, it improves with practice. If you want to meet people and make friends, 1 must be willing to take actions. You must first go 2 there are people. You won’t make friends 3 home alone.
__4 a club or group, for talking with those who like the same things as you do is 5__ . Or join someone in some activity.
Many people are nervous(紧张的)when talking to people. After all, meeting strangers means facing 6__ . And it’s human 7 to feel a bit uncomfortable about the unknown.
Most of our fears about dealing with new people 8_ doubts about ourselves. We suggest other people are judging us, 9__ us too tall or too short, too this or too that. _10_ don’t forget that they must be feeling 11 way. Try to accept yourself 12 you are, and try to put the other person at ease. You’ll 13_ feel more comfortable.
Try to act self-confident(自信)even if you don’t feel that way. 14 you enter a room full of strangers, such as a new classroom, walk tall and straight, look 15_ at other people and smile. If you see someone you’d like to _16_ to, say something. Don’t wait for the other person to 17_ a conversation.
Just meeting someone 18 doesn’t mean that you will make friends with that person. Friendship is 19 on mutual(相互的)liking and “give and take”. They take time and 20 to develop. And there are things that keep a new friendship from growing.
1. A. you B. they C. it D. I
2. A. when B. whether C. where D. however
3. A. arriving B. returning C. staying D. leaving
4. A. Recognize B. Accept C. Share D. Join
5. A. more difficult B. easier C. ordinary D. uncomfortable
6. A. a friend B. the enemies C. trouble D. the unknown
7. A. nature B. fault C. weakness D. manners
8. A. come from B. give up C. get over D. carry off
9. A. finding B. making C. stopping D. treating
10. A. And B. Therefore C. But D. So
11. A. in the B. a friendly C. different D. the same
12. A. what B. as C. how D. where
13. A. neither B. both C. hardly D. never
14. A. When B. As if C. So that D. In which
15. A. specially B. directly C. shyly D. strictly
16. A. refer B. write C. speak D. pay
17. A. start B. stop C. develop D. hold
18. A. strange B. new C. famous D. active
19. A. depended B. lied C. taken D. based
20. A. money B. resource C. effort D. trouble
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I shall never forget the night, a few years ago, when Marion J. Douglas was a student in one of my adult-education classes. He told us how tragedy had struck at his home, not once, but twice. The first time he had lost his five-year-old daughter. He and his wife thought they couldn’t bear that first loss; but, as he said, “Ten months later, God gave us another little girl and she died in five days.”
This double bereavement was almost too much to bear. “I couldn’t take it,” this father told us. “I couldn’t sleep, eat, rest or relax. My nerves were entirely shaken and my confidence gone.” At last he went to the doctors: one recommended sleeping pills and another recommended a trip, but neither helped. He said, “My body felt as if it was surrounded in a vice(大钳子), and the jaws of the vice were being drawn tighter and tighter.” The tension of grief(悲伤) --- if you have ever been paralyzed(使瘫痪) by sorrow, you know what the meant.
“But thank God, I had one child left --- a four-year-old son. He gave me the solution to the problem. One afternoon as I sat around feeling sorry for myself, he asked, ‘Daddy, will you build a boat for me?’ I was in no mood to build a boat; in fact, I was in no mood to do anything. But my son is a persistent fellow! I had to give in. Building that toy boat took me about three hours. By the time it was finished, I realized that those three hours spent building that boat were first hours of mental relaxation and peace that I had had in months! I realized that it is difficult to worry while you are busy doing something that requires planning and thinking. In my case, building the boat had knocked worry out of the ring. So I determined to keep busy.”
“The following night, I made a list of jobs that ought to be done. Scores of items needed to be repaired. Amazingly, I had made a list of 242 items that needed attention. During the last two years I have completed most of them. I am so busy now that I have no time for worry.”
No time for worry! That is exactly what Winston Churchill said when he was working eighteen hours a day at the height of the war. When he was asked if he worried about his huge responsibilities, he said, “I am too busy. I have no time for worry.”
The underlined word “bereavement” in the second paragraph refers to _________.
| A. having lost a loved one | B. having lost a valuable article |
| C. having lost a profit-making business | D. having lost a well-paid job |
Marion felt his body as if it was caught in a vice because _________.
| A. he couldn’t earn enough money to support his family |
| B. he was suffering from sleeplessness disease |
| C. he couldn’t get out of mental pressure |
| D. he felt tired of adult-education classes |
Marion made a list of over 200 items that needed to be repaired because _________.
| A. he hadn’t been able to spare time to mend them |
| B. he wanted to kill his free time by repairing them |
| C. the items had actually been broken and needed attention |
| D. repairing the items helped crowd worry out of his mind |
At the end of the passage, the author wrote about Winston Churchill in order to ________.
| A. prove that he followed Churchill’s example |
| B. support his student’s solution to his problem |
| C. show that he was successful in his career |
D. make it clear how his conclusion was reached