For some of us, though making friends is not difficult, feeling shy, we may not want to make the first move. It is also difficult at times to keep the friends we already have.
There are many books about friendship, but Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence  People, written in 1936, is the most famous. This “how to” book about getting along with other people became a best-seller. It was later put into 28 languages.
Dale Carnegie’s advice seems to be simple, but can his advice help you? Do you need to change the way you act? Here is the list of advice from his book.
1. Be friendly and polite. Always greet with a smile. Begin with “excuse me” or “would you please”, when you want to ask somebody. Remember to say “thank you” and try to be as helpful as you can.
2. Go out of your way to be nice. Find some time to do special things for other people. Making some soup for a sick neighbor may seem like a little thing to you, but it will make your neighbor feel a lot better.
3. Remember names. They say that the sweetest music to a person’s ears is the sound of his or her own name.
4. Be open-minded. Try to understand other people’s ways and ideas and learn something from them.
5. Listen patiently. When someone is talking to you, look at him or her, listen carefully and say something when necessary.

  1. 1.

    The underlined sentence “No one can live a completely isolated life” means “______” in this passage.

    1. A.
      No one can live a hard life
    2. B.
      No one can live without difficulty
    3. C.
      No one can live alone
    4. D.
      No one can live on an island
  2. 2.

    Some of us feel it not easy to make friends because ________.

    1. A.
      we are afraid to make bad friends
    2. B.
      we are too shy to take the first action
    3. C.
      we feel worried that we won’t be able to keep our friends
    4. D.
      we feel sure that we already have enough friends
  3. 3.

    We can learn from this passage that ________.

    1. A.
      John Donne learned something from Dale Carnegie
    2. B.
      friends are always friends
    3. C.
      few people bought Carnegie’s book
    4. D.
      the writer of this passage agrees with John Donne and Dale Carnegie
  4. 4.

    Which of the following is NOT mentioned in Carnegie’s book?

    1. A.
      Say “excuse me” before you ask.
    2. B.
      Don’t visit your neighbor too often.
    3. C.
      Think more about others.
    4. D.
      People enjoy hearing their own names.
  5. 5.

    The best possible title for this passage should be “________”.

    1. A.
      How to Make Friends
    2. B.
      A Famous Book
    3. C.
      About Friendship
    4. D.
      John Donne and Dale Carnegie

Life in the twenty-first century will be very different from life today. Between then and now many changes will take place, but what will the changes be?
The population is growing fast. There will be many people in the world and most of them will live longer than people live now.
Computers will be much smaller and more useful, and there will be at least one in every home. And computer studies will be one of the important subjects in schools then.
People will work fewer hours than they do now and they will have more free time for sports, watching TV and travelling. Travelling will be much easier and cheaper. And many more people will go to other countries for holidays.
There will be changes in our food, too. Maybe no one will eat meat every day, instead they eat more fruit and vegetables. Maybe people will be healthier.
Work in the future will be different, too. Dangerous and hard work can be done by robots. Because of this, many people will not have enough work to do. This will be a problem.

  1. 1.

    There will be _________ in the future.

    1. A.
      small population
    2. B.
      few changes
    3. C.
      more people
    4. D.
      few people
  2. 2.

    In the future the computer will be _________.

    1. A.
      much bigger and few people will use it
    2. B.
      much smaller and more useful
    3. C.
      smaller and not many people will use it
    4. D.
      bigger and a lot of people will use it
  3. 3.

    In the future more people _________.

    1. A.
      will go to other countries for holidays
    2. B.
      will study at school
    3. C.
      will go earlier
    4. D.
      will work for many hours
  4. 4.

    People will prefer _________ to _________ in the future.

    1. A.
      meat and vegetables; fruit
    2. B.
      meat; fruit and vegetables
    3. C.
      fruit and meat; vegetables
    4. D.
      fruit and vegetables; meat
  5. 5.

    The robots will _________ in the future.

    1. A.
      do the dangerous work
    2. B.
      do all the work
    3. C.
      do only housework
    4. D.
      do the easy work for people

If you go to Finland, you’ll be surprised to find how “foolish” the Finnish people are.
Take the taxi drivers for example. Taxis in Finland are mostly high class Benz with a fare (票价) of two US dollars a kilometer. You can go anywhere in one, tell the driver to drop you at any place, say that you have some business to attend to, and then get off without paying your fare. And the driver would not show the least sign of worry.
The dining rooms in all big hotels not only serve their guests, but also outside diners. Hotel guests have their meals free, so their good faith is to wave their registration card to the waiter. With such a loose check, you can easily use any old registration card to take a couple of friends and dine free of charge.
With so many loopholes (漏洞) in everyday life, surely Finland must be a heaven to those who love to take “pretty advantages”. But the strange things is, all the taxi-passengers would always come back to pay their fare after they have attended to their business; not a single outsider has ever been found in the free hotel dining rooms. As the Finns always act on good faith and always show an attitude of “which is which” and “what is what” in everything they do, so to live in such a society has turned everyone into a real “gentleman”. In a society of such high moral practice, what need is there for people to take precautions (预防措施) against others?

  1. 1.

    The word “foolish” probably means _____________.

    1. A.
      friendly
    2. B.
      careful
    3. C.
      strange
    4. D.
      funny
  2. 2.

    Why wouldn’t the driver show the least sign of worry? Because _________.

    1. A.
      he is sure that the passengers always act on good faith
    2. B.
      he is afraid to make the passengers angry and unhappy
    3. C.
      he thinks the passengers may be too poor to pay him
    4. D.
      he is sure that the passengers are really in trouble
  3. 3.

    The dining rooms in all big hotels ___________.

    1. A.
      check the guests’ registration card carefully
    2. B.
      give people meals without paying
    3. C.
      serve their guests free of charge
    4. D.
      only serve their guests free breakfast
  4. 4.

    What’s FALSE according to the passage?

    1. A.
      No one takes advantages although there are many loopholes.
    2. B.
      All the taxi-passengers come back to pay their fare after they have attended to their business.
    3. C.
      Not a single outsider has ever been found in the free hotel dining rooms.
    4. D.
      Finland is heaven for immoral people because they can always take advantages freely.
  5. 5.

    The sentences “which is which” and “what is what” show that __________.

    1. A.
      the Finns are foolish
    2. B.
      the Finns take things seriously
    3. C.
      the Finns are busy making money for the family
    4. D.
      the Finns never take precaution against others
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