Jean was a single mother with a young son. She taught the first grade and worked very hard. She drove a small old car. One August, the teachers returned from a summer break to see Jean drive up to school with three children The two girls were Jean’s former students who had lost their parents. They did not want to enter a foster care center. They turned to Jean—their first grade teacher—for help. Though she and her son lived in a small house, Jean took the girls in.
During lunch, while other teachers shared life stories, Jean never complained about her new responsibilities. She did, however, speak about her car. With three children to transport, the car was too small and slow. It even burned engine oil. Jean needed something new. However, she couldn’t buy one with three children in her home.
As a good friend, I listened to her concerns. At that time, did not have much money. But I wanted to help Jean buy a car. An idea hit me when I watched a TV show.
One day, Jean received an invitation to TV show. She was surprised but decided to attend it. Midway through the show the host called Jean to the stage. He explained he had received a letter, knowing her need for a new car. The audience listened to the details of Jean’s story and were all moved. Then the host said that Jean would receive a new car for her family. Cheers filled the studio and Jean shook with disbelief.
Six hundred miles away, I watched the joy of it all from the television in my living room. Jean’s big heart taught me many lessons that year. I did nothing but share her story.
【小题1】What can we infer about Jean according to the first paragraph?A.She knew the girls’ parents. |
B.She was very kind-hearted. |
C.She wanted to sell her small car. |
D.She didn’t have summer break as other teachers. |
A.She couldn’t afford to buy a new car. |
B.She found it hard to raise three kids alone. |
C.She couldn’t spare more time for her students. |
D.She had no time to transport her kids to school. |
A.The author turned to the show for help. |
B.The school wanted to make her story known. |
C.The school rewarded her for her hard work. |
D.The show picked some single mothers to report randomly. |
A.A letter from my friend | B.Helping my friend get a car |
C.Inviting my friend to show | D.A single mother with three kids |
When you are a kid, gaining a best friend forever can happen in a single play date. But when you grow up to be an adult, making and maintaining friendships gets harder. So how much quality time (优质时光) do you need before that stranger becomes your friend? A new study recently found that, on average, it takes about 50 hours with someone before you consider them a casual (感情不深的) friend, about 90 hours before you become real friends, and about 200 hours to become close friends.
The study’s author Jeffrey Hall, a communications professor, invited adults who are eager to make friends to take part in two experiments — people who had just moved to a new city in the past six months and college freshmen. He asked them to rate and track the degree of closeness and time spent together with a new person. “Results suggest that the chance of changing from casual friend to real friend is greater than 50% after around 80-100 hours together,” said Hall.
The study found that the amount of time spent talking together, or the fact that you spent time at school or work with them, was unrelated to friendship closeness. “It is really easy to spend a lot of time with people as they are routinely in the same place at the same time as you,” Hall said. “However, my study shows you can have workmates you spend hundreds and hundreds of hours with and still not develop a friendship.”
You do not need to become best friends with your workmates to develop meaningful relationships with them. But for those of us hoping to change from “girl who I eat lunch at work with” to “friend I can depend on,” Hall suggests that you need to take the relationship out of the workplace for it to become a friendship. The participants who did activities outside of work with someone, such as being invited to have lunch in their home, were more likely to develop deeper relationships with them.
【小题1】What is the new study mainly about?A.Ways of making friends in a new environment. |
B.Why people need to make different friends. |
C.Different levels of friendship. |
D.How long it takes to develop a friendship. |
A.They knew each other before. |
B.They had difficulty in making new friends. |
C.They were in great need of friends. |
D.They started their new life in the same city. |
A.It is easy to get along well with classmates. |
B.Friendship closeness is related to communication. |
C.It is unnecessary to become best friends with workmates. |
D.Just spending enough time together doesn’t result in friendship. |
A.Usually. | B.Impressive. |
C.Seldom. | D.Confidently. |
A.Joining the same work team. |
B.Having lunch at work with them. |
C.Inviting them to your home after work. |
D.Sharing work experience with each other. |
Becky had everything Sarah wanted: a pool in her backyard, popularity, and new clothes. Worse, it seemed (at least to Sarah) that Becky had the Midas touch. Everything she touched turned to gold. She won the class lottery and with it $50! She won every race she entered, every art competition, and every award the school offered. She had all the luck in the world.
Sarah was an only child. She wore hand-me-downs from her older cousin Clementine. She didn't have many friends. Her best friend Kiara was really the best in a lot of ways: kind,generous, and loyal. Just the kind of person you would want for a best friend. But Sarah most certainly did not have good luck. She never won anything. On the days she carried an umbrella, it never rained; on the days she forgot her umbrella, dark ruin clouds seemed to follow her around.
One rainy day in April, though, Sarah and Becky swapped luck. That's how Sarah thought of it anyway. It wasn't expected, and it certainly wasn't planned. But after weeks of wishing for it, Sarah woke up and things felt different. She felt lucky.
She rolled out of bed and noticed a small package on her desk. She opened it: it was a brand new dress, the same one she had been eyeing for weeks. Mom!" she called. Did you get me this dress?”
“It's from your grandmother.” her mother called back," Early birthday gift!”
Sarah shrugged. Her birthday wasn’t until August..
And it didn’t stop there. On the school bus, Carlos, the most popular boy in school, saved her a seat. Then Mrs. Nelson picked her—yes, her!-- to take care of the class rabbit over the weekend. But the best part of the day was art class. Mr. Rodriguez, her art teacher, walked around the room slowly. Sarah hadn't spent much time on her project. But it was still pretty, still unique. Mr. Rodriguez walked past Becky's art project and didn't even pause. Becky looked devastated. Her hair was still wet from that morning's rain. She had forgotten to bring an umbrella.
“Well, class!” Mr. Rodriguez said." I think our winner for this month is Sarah! Excellent work, Sarah--this shows a lot of progress!"
Sarah smiled proudly, “Guess you have some competition," she whispered to Becky.
Sarah was on top of the world. Today, she felt like a better-than-average fourth grader, possibly the best fourth grader who had ever existed. She wondered what was next.
Becky, she noticed had spent most of the day sulking(生闷气的)."Let someone else have a shot at being lucky for once," Sarah thought to herself. Then she noticed that Becky was crying. Small tears dropped down onto her t-shirts.
“What’s wrong?” Sarah asked.
“I just spent a lot of time on that project," Becky said between hiccupped sobs.
Sarah was beginning to feel awful: After all she hadn’t spent much time on her project at all.
Then she felt Kiara tap on her shoulder. “You know, Sarah,” Kiara started. She looked angry and hurt at the same time. “You haven’t been very nice today. You’ve been acting like…like you’re the best person in the world,” She shook her head. “This isn’t just like you at all.”
Now Sarah felt even worse. It was one thing to have the class pet dislike you, but another thing entirely to disappoint you best friend, “I’m sorry, Kiara,” she said. “It’s just been a weird day.”
She walked over to Becky and gave her a hug. “Don’t worry,” she whispered, “your luck will change soon enough.” Luck, Sarah was beginning to think, was overrated.
【小题1】Which word can describe Sarah at the beginning of the story?A.Grateful | B.Lucky |
C.Popular | D.Jealous |
A.Because she had lost her luck. |
B.Because she had put a lot of effort into it. |
C.Because she thought her art was better than Sarah’s |
D.Because she thought he art showed a lot of progress. |
A.Sarah thought Kiara misunderstood her. |
B.in Sarah’s eyes Kiara was only on Becky’s side. |
C.Sarah felt like she had disappointed her best friend. |
D.Sarah didn’t think she deserve the teacher’s recognization. |
A.Efforts will pay off. |
B.A lucky person gains more. |
C.Being nice outweighs being lucky. |
D.A friend in need is a friend indeed. |
If you are in the presence of a shy person, talking and asking casual (随意的) questions may bring him out of his shell. Think of what would be most acceptable to the other person, for you to talk, or to listen. Either way the goal is to make yourself pleasant.
Always remember to listen, but listen intelligently. To have anyone “hang on our words” is the most unnoticeably clever way in the world to please somebody. For a few extremely happy seconds we are the center of attraction, but when it is our turn to be audience, let us remember how we felt as the actor, and let’s be genuinely (真正地) interested in what the other fellow is saying.
Other people will like us, if we like them. If you want friends, keep your mind and heart open to friendship. Be alive to the other person’s world.
【小题1】This passage is mainly about ________.
A.the ways of talking to a shy person |
B.some favorable qualities to be a psychologist |
C.how to make yourself attractive to your listeners |
D.how to make a friend and be a friend |
A.make him become active |
B.make him feel more nervous |
C.help him understand the question better |
D.help him listen intelligently |
A.attract them | B.be attracted |
C.listen attentively | D.talk widely |
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