Many people are afraid to assert (维护,坚持) themselves.Dr.Robert Albert, author of STAND UP, SPEAK OUT and TALK BACK, thinks it is because their self-respect is low.“There’s always a superior (长者)around—a parent, a teacher, a boss who knows better.’’ But Albert and other scientists are doing something to help people assert themselves.
They offer assertiveness training courses, A.T.for short.In the A.T.course people learn that they have a right to be themselves.They learn to speak out and feel good about doing so.They learn to be confident without hurting other people.
In one way, learning to speak out is to get rid of fear.A group taking an A.T.course will help thetimidperson to lose his fear.But A.T.uses an even stronger motive to share the need.The timid person speaks out in the group because he wants to tell how he feels.
Whether or not you speak up for yourself depends on your self-respect.If your face is more important than you, you may feel less of a person.You start to doubt your answers to problems.However, once you get to feel good about yourself, you can learn to speak out.
【小题1】The problem the writer talks about is that___________.
A.some people are forced to buy things they don’t like |
B.some people are afraid to speak up for their rights |
C.many superiors are everywhere |
D.some people love to help others find confidence in themselves |
A.Because some people have a low self-respect. |
B.Because talented people can be found all the time. |
C.Because the advice from salesmen is always persuasive. |
D.Because people don’t like to exchange ideas with others. |
A.胆小的 | B.有学问的 |
C.有社交能力的 | D.好斗的 |
A.Encourage people to speak out . |
B.Showing people they have a right to be themselves. |
C.Helping them to be brave enough. |
D.Helping people to assert themselves even if others are hurt. |
Jack threw the papers on my desk. “Next time you want to change anything, ask me first,” he said. I had changed a long sentence and corrected its grammar — something I thought I was paid to do.
Several days later, he made me angry again. I went to his office, prepared to lose my job if need be, but not before I let the man know how I felt. “What?” he said nervously.
Suddenly I knew what I had to do. “Jack, the way you’ve been treating me is wrong. And it’s wrong for me to allow it to continue,” I said. “I want to make you a promise. I will be a friend.” The next day I brought some cakes to Jack’s office. Every time I saw Jack in the hall, I smiled at him. After all, that’s what friends do.
One year after our talk, I was told that I had breast cancer . When I was in hospital, my friends tried to find the right words to say, but no one could. The last day of my hospital stay, the door opened and Jack walked over to my bed. “Tulips (郁金香),” he placed some bulbs beside me and said, “If you plant them when you get home, you’ll be there to see them when they come up.” Tears filled my eyes.
In a moment when I prayed for just the right words, a man with few words said the right thing. After all, that’s what friends do. Now, I have seen those tulips push through the soil every spring for over ten years.
【小题1】Why did Jack throw some papers on the author’s desk?A.She gave him the wrong papers. | B.He thought her report was very bad. |
C.He wanted her to check them again. | D.He didn’t agree with her correction. |
A.She would work harder from then on. | B.She would treat him like a friend. |
C.She would bring him some cakes. | D.She would treat him the same way. |
A.love | B.honor | C.hope | D.thanks |
A.Friends must help each other to correct mistakes. |
B.Friends should give advice to each other at the right time. |
C.Friends should do anything for each other. |
D.Friends should treat each other with respect and kindness. |
I was sitting at my kitchen table the other day with a pen, notebook, calculator and a pile of bills. I was doing my monthly budget. There were bills for electric water, rent, insurance, the car payment, the phone bill, and the cable bill. Plus money needed to be set aside for food, gas, clothes and hopefully a little left over to save for those unexpected bills that always seemed to show up. When I was done, I shook my head, closed my eyes and thought of a time long ago when I would regularly get treasures.
When I was a boy. we lived across the road from Camp Caesar. It held week long camps all through the summer and my grandma who I lovingly called “Nanny” worked in her big kitchen. I remember slipping there getting a smile, a hug, a kiss and a hot roll from Nanny. Then she would always take deep in her pockets and pull out a treasure, a shiny quarter. She would give it to me and I would run down the hill to either get an ice cold can of coke from the pop machine or I would head to the camp’s swimming pool where I could buy a warm cup of cherry coke for 15 cents and a tiny 10 cent bag of chips from a stand. I took my time because it was always a big decision. It was nice too feeling so rich for a few minutes.
Looking back now I can see that the real treasure was not the quarter at all. It was the love with which Nanny gave it to me. I would have still visited her at work every day if I had never gotten a single quarter. It was her smile, hugs, and kisses that were priceless in my heart then and now.
The old saying is true, “With your work you can make a living, but it is with your love that you make a life.” You can always welcome love into your heart, soul and mind. And you can always share your love with others. It is that one treasure that lasts forever.
【小题1】According to Paragraph 1, what was the author trying to figure out?A.Where to get treasures. |
B.What food and supplies to buy. |
C.How to sort out these bills at hand. |
D.How to balance the money available. |
A.A sound. | B.A greeting. | C.A kind of act. | D.A kind of bread. |
A.Affectionate. | B.Helpful. | C.Humorous. | D.Selfless. |
A.To change people’s heart and soul. | B.To show what we should value in life. |
C.To explain work and love can make a life. | D.To advise more love and sharing in childhood. |
As my husband and I drove down a country road, we passed a fire station with a sign that read, “Are you ready for the next storm?” Our area had just been in the path of Hurricane Irma, causing downed trees and power off.
We have had our share of storms in the past--a snowstorm and other heavy snows that knocked down trees, sometimes up to a week at a time.
We’re ready for the next storm, but we wouldn’t have learned to do all those things if we hadn’t encountered a storm in the past.
Are you ready for the next storm?
A.Thanks to all those storms. |
B.The same is true spiritually. |
C.Now is the time to get ready. |
D.Everywhere we saw, there was nothing but ruins. |
E.We were stuck in the dark and cut off from the outside world. |
F.Those days weren’t fun, but we learned so much from those early storms. |
G.Now we have stored as many necessities as possible in case of potential storms. |
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