43. By saying the
underlined sentence in Paragraph 4, the author probably _________.
A. shows that the book brought him many new thoughts
B. shows how bad the traffic is in town
C. describes the difficulty in understanding the book
D. explains it's hard to change one's attitude to
money
44. Which of the following is supported by the passage?
A. The author had known Rich Ezzo
before.
B. The author hasn't dreamed of getting rich
immediately.
C. The author always prefers e-books to paper books.
D. The author likes Get Rich Quick-type of
publications.
B
“Linda, if beating yourself
up were an Olympic sport, you’d win a gold medal!”
Annabel, my close friend, stunned me with that frank
observation after I told her how I had mishandled a situation with a student in
a third-grade class where I was substituting. “I should never have let him go
to the boy’s room without a pass! It was my fault he got into trouble with the
hall monitor! I’m so stupid!”
My friend burst out laughing, and then made her
“Olympic” comment. After a brief period of reflection I had to admit that she
was right. I did put myself down an awful lot. Why, just during the previous
day I had called myself “a slob” for having some papers spread out on my
desk, “ugly” when I left the house without makeup and “an idiot” when I left
the house for an emergency substitute job without my emergency lesson plan.
In a more reflective tone, Annabel said, “I once took
a workshop at church where the woman in charge had us list all the mean things
we say about ourselves.”
“How many did you have on your list?” I asked.
“Fifteen,” she confessed. “But then the teacher said,
‘Now turn to the person next to you and say all the items on your list as if
you were speaking to that person!’ ”
My jaw dropped. “What did you do?”
“Nothing. Nobody did. We all just sat there, until I
said, ‘I could never say these things to anyone else!’ ”
“And our teacher replied, ‘Well, if you can’t say them
to anyone else, then don’t ever say them to yourself!’ ”
My friend had a point. I would never insult a child of
God---and I’m God’s child, too!
God, today let me be as kind to myself as I would be
to another of Your children.