题目内容
Making friends is a skill. Like most skills, it improves with 1 . If you want to meet people and make friends, you must be able to take 2 . You must first go 3 there are people. You won't make friends staying home alone.4 a club or a group, for talking with those who 5 the same interests as you do is easier. 6 join someone in some activity.
Many people are 7 when talking to people. 8 meeting strangers means facing the unknown. And it's human 9 to feel a bit uncomfortable about the unknown.
Most of our fears about dealing with new people come from 10 about ourselves. We 11 other people are judging us, find us too small or too short, too this or too that. 12 don't forget that they must be feeling the same way. Try to accept yourself 13 you are, and try to put the other person at ease. You'll never feel more 14 .
Try to act self-confident even if you don't feel that way when you enter a room full of 15 such as a new classroom, walk tall and straight, look 16 at other people and smile. If you see someone you'd like to speak, to 17 something to, don't wait for the other person to start a conversation.
Just meeting someone 18 doesn't mean that you will make friends with that person—friendship is 19 on mutual 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. age B. practice
C. skill D. everything
2.
A. photos B. actions
C. place D. troubles
3.
A. where B. that
C. which D. when
4.
A. Form B. Buy
C. Use D. Join
5.
A. have B. share
C. keep D. like
6.
A. So B. Or
C. However D. But
7.
A. afraid B. fearful
C. nervous D. familiar
8.
A. Above all B. In all
C. To all D. After all
9.
A. nature B. need
C. habit D. custom
10.
A. facts B. doubts
C. wonders D. beliefs
11.
A. suggest B. consider
C. doubt D. imagine
12.
A. And B. Therefore
C. But D. So
13.
A. what B. who
C. that D. as
14.
A. dangerous B. useful
C. familiar D. comfortable
15.
A. strangers B. people
C. classmates D. students
16.
A. anxiously B. friendly
C. curiously D. directly
17.
A. speak B. talk
C. say D. tell
18.
A. strange B. new
C. familiar D. tiresome
19.
A. depended B. laid
C. taken D. based
20.
A. money B. energy
C. effort D. trouble
解析:
| 1. 多加练习,这种技能就会提高。
2. Take actions, 采取行动。 3. Where引导了一个定语从句。 4. 加入俱乐部或者团体,要用动词join。 5. Have …interests,有…兴趣。 6. 表示选择,或者可以…。 7. 意思是“有些人在同别人交谈的时候会感到紧张”。 8. After all,毕竟。 9. Human nature,人类的天性。 10. 意思是“对自己的怀疑”。 11. 意思是“我们设想别人在评价我们”。 12.下面的内容表示转折,所以用but。 13. As是连词“像”的意思,后面可以跟句子。 14. Feel comfortable,感觉舒服。 15. Full of strangers,充满了陌生人。 16. Look directly at sb.正视某人。 17. Say sth. to sb.向某人说什么。 18. 遇见一个陌生人并不意味着要跟他成为朋友。 19. Be based on sth.建立在…基础之上。 20. 意思是“友谊需要时间和努力来培养”。
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提示:
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