Question

Ideally speaking, criticism(批评) is the act of making comments on someone or something with the purpose of improving products or service. However in daily life, you will meet some people criticizing with the negative purposes,

What should you do when you are being criticized? Actually, you should take it positively. It is possible that the person who criticizes you has rightly drawn your attention to something which needs improving. If this is the case, be thankful to the person because he is helping you to know where to improve.

However, there is also a chance that the criticism is being done just to make you sad. So if necessary, ask one of your friends or workmates what he thinks of this criticism. If the criticism is really meant to hurt you, pay no attention to it and don’t allow it to disturb your peace of mind.

When you are criticizing someone or something, always remember that negative criticism causes negative energy, so try to criticize in a positive manner. Do not become the “full stop” for someone’s creativity

Whenever you are about to criticize, ask yourself whether your purpose is to help the person or if you are just going to spread negativity which will damage someone’s creative skills.

If you really want to criticize someone, do it in an encouraging way. Try to give your comments in this way so that he can put your suggestions into corrective(改正的) actions. What’s more, you should remember the fact that complaining is taking criticism to the next level which is even more damaging and dangerous. So try to remain inside the limits of criticism instead of complaining.

Title: On criticism

 

I. 1. _____________

Generally, criticism means 2. ________ on somebody or something to improve products or service. However, not all people criticize with positive purposes.

II. How to 3. _________criticism against you

● Thank someone who criticizes you positively because he helps you know 4._________

● Ask for 5.________ from friends or workmates to know the purpose of criticism

●6.________ negative criticism and protect your peace of mind

III. What to do when you want to criticize

● Try to criticize positively in order not to damage 7._________

● Ensure that your criticism is 8. __________ to the person

● Criticize someone in an encouraging way to get him to act 9._________accordint to your suggestions

● Just criticize and don’t 10. __________

 

Answer 1

1.Meaning

2.making comments/ commenting

3.deal with

4.where to improve

5.advice

6.Ignore

7.others’ creativity

8.helpful

9.correctively

10.complain

【解析】

试题分析：本文介绍了批评的艺术。批评是对某人或者某事做出的评论，目的是要改进产品或者服务质量。批评不仅是一种重要的激励方式，又是一种有效的沟通信号。那么如何面对来自别人的批评，又如何去科学地批评别人呢？在本文中作者对此进行了详细的介绍。

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2.Mean后面跟动名词形式，根据文章首段首句criticism(批评) is the act of making comments on someone or something with the purpose of improving products or service.可知批评意味着对别人的评论，故答案填making comments/ commenting。

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4.要感激批评我们的人是因为他帮助我们知道哪些地方需要改进，填where to improve。

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6.’t allow it to disturb your peace of mind.可知面对故意伤害自己的批评，要忽视不理睬，不要让这种批评影响心情，所以答案是Ignore。

7.’ creativity信息转换题。根据文章倒数第二段 if you are just going to spread negativity which will damage someone’s creative skills.可知当批评别人时尽量不要破坏别人的创造性，故答案是others’ creativity。

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9.你的建议去改正错误，故答案填correctively。

10.Don’t后跟动词原型，由文章末段末句So try to remain inside the limits of criticism instead of complaining.可知批评别人时仅仅是批评而不要抱怨，填complain。

考点：考查任务型阅读。