Forgiveness

To forgive is a virtue, but no one has ever said it is easy. When someone has deeply hurt you, it can be extremely difficult to let go of your hate. However, forgiveness is possible, and it can be surprisingly beneficial to your physical and mental health. People who forgive show less sadness, anger and stress and more hopefulness, according to a recent research.

______71_______ Try the following steps:

Calm yourself. ______72_______ You can take a couple of breaths and think of something that gives you pleasure: a beautiful scene in nature, or someone you love.

Don’t wait for an apology. Many times the person who hurt you does not intend to apologize. They may have wanted to hurt you or they just don’t see things the same way. ______73_______ Keep in mind that forgiveness does not necessarily mean becoming friends again with the person who upset you.

Take the control away from your offender(冒犯者). Rethinking about your hurt gives power to the person who causes you pain. Instead of focusing on your wounded feelings, learn to look for the love, beauty and kindness around you.

_____74_______ If you understand your offender, you may realize that he or she was acting out of unawareness, fear, and even love. You may want to write a letter to yourself from your offender’s point of view.

Don’t forget to forgive yourself. _____75______ But it can rob you of your self-confidence if you don’t do it.

A.      Why should you forgive?                           

B.      How should you start to forgive?

C.      Recognize the benefits of forgiveness.

D.     Try to see things from your offender’s angle.

E.      For some people, forgiving themselves is the biggest challenge.

F.      To make your anger die away, try a simple stress-management technique.

G.     If you wait for people to apologize, you could be waiting an awfully long time.

“Indeed,” George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, “some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home.” But the father of America was not the father of bug. When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century, and Americans had already created lightning-bug(萤火虫). But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

       The American bug could also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity. Although fan became the usual term, sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseball bugs, and the like.

       Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be a burglar alarm, from which comes the expression to bug, that is, “to install (安装) an alarm”. Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others’ conversation. Since the 1840s, to bug has long meant “to cheat”, and since the 1940s it has been annoying.

       We also know the bug as a flaw in a computer program or other design. That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison. In 1878 he explained bugs as “little problems and difficulties” that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison “had been up the two previous nights discovering ‘a bug’ in his invented record player.”

68. We learn from Paragraph 1 that ___________.

A.      Americans had difficulty in learning to use the word bug

B.      George Washington was the first person to call an insect a bug

C.      the word bug was still popularly used in English in the nineteenth century

D.     both Englishmen and Americans used the word bug in the eighteenth century

69. What does the word “flaw” in the last paragraph probably mean?

       A. Explanation.              B. Finding.             C. Origin.              D. Fault.

70. The passage is mainly concerned with__________.

A. the misunderstanding of the word bug  B. the development of the word bug

 C. the public views of the word bug            D. the special characteristics of the word bug

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