Are you still doing the V for victory sign? It’s out. The latest popular hand gesture（手势）is to curl both of your hands and put them together to make a heart—shape. Known as “hand heart”, many young stars in the US including Justin Bieber , Blake Lively and Taylor Swift have done the move in recent photos.
“The heart — hand gesture means something between ‘I love you’ and ‘thank you’, ”said the country singer Taylor Swift,21.”It’s a sweet, simple message which you can send without saying a word.”
Taylor Swift often puts her hands above her head in the heart shape at her concerts. And she is believed to be the first to make the gesture popular.
Last month during a charity show, Justin Bieber and his superstar friends did it to help out three kids whose parents were killed in a car accident. The gesture became a real hit after that.
“It used to take longer for nonverbal（不用语言的）culture to move. But now ,with smart phones and the Internet, it’s much faster,” said Patti Wood, an American language expert.
In the Republic of Korea, the hand heart has been popular for a long time, in a different way. People there like making a “bigger heart” by putting their hands above their heads and making a heart shape with their arms. It means: “I love you.”
【小题1】When we want to express ideas, we often move our hands to mean something besides language. Do you know the meaning of this gesture(手势)?

Are you angry when your classmates sing loudly while you are trying to study or your best friend does not wait for you after school ?

If your answer is “Yes”, you need to learn how to control your feelings . Getting angry with others can cause you to lose friends .

Gary Egeberg , an American high school teacher , has written My Feelings Are like Wild Animals to help you control your feelings . It tells how to stay cool when bad things happen . The book says that getting angry only makes problems worse . It can never make them better .

“Getting angry is not a natural way to act ,” the book says . It is just a bad habit , like smoking .

The book says you can control your anger easily—all you have to do is to tell yourself not to be angry .

The book gives many tips to help you if you get angry easily . Here are the top three:

※Keep a record . Every time you get angry , write down why you are angry . Look at it later when you are calm and you will see you get angry too easily .

※Ask your friends to stop talking to you when you get angry . This will teach you not to be angry .

※Do something different . When you get angry , walk away from the problem and go somewhere else . Try to laugh .

6. If you often get angry , _________________ .

A. you will do worse in your study　　　 B. you will have fewer friends

C. smoking can be a good help　　　　 D. nobody will wait for you after school

7. Gary Egeberg is someone who ___________ .

A. knows how to control your feeling　　 B. gets angry easily with his students

C. likes to keeping wild animals　　　　 D. teaches in a secondary school

8. According to Gary’s book , you can control your anger by _________ .

A. never talking with friends　　 B. singing loudly to calm down

C. staying away from others　　 D. reminding yourself not to get angry

9. From the first tip we can draw the conclusion(得出结论) that __________ .

A. Writing helps to control one’s feelings B. one’s anger is built upon one’s experience

C. people think better when they are calm　 D. a good habit helps to take away a bad one

10. From this passage we know that ___________ .

A. there are more than three tips in Gary’s book　

B. Gary never gets angry in his life

C. getting angry easily can’t be changed easily　　

D. school kids often get angry with each other