Asking for help is a sign of strength rather than weakness. In American culture, the independent individual is seen as their ideal. As the University of Missouri at St. Louis states on its website under the heading Key American Values, “Americans have been trained since very early in their lives to consider themselves as separate individuals who are responsible for their own situations in life and their own destinies.” The value also makes them think they can do everything themselves, and makes them feel badly about asking for help when they need it.
And when it comes to work situations, when they think about asking for help there, sometimes they fear that a request for help would make them look inept. While this has always been true for men, many women in the workplace have felt the need to try twice as hard as their male colleagues and do twice as much to get just as far and to prove their worth. Sometimes when we think about asking for help, our inner voices tell us, “See, if you admit you can’t do this on your own, they’ll see you for the imposter(骗子) you really are.”
But the fact is, even though individualism is on the rise, we can’t do everything by ourselves and we shouldn’t try.
Apple founder Steve Jobs once told the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association about the power of asking for help, and how he “never found anybody who didn’t want to help me when I asked them for help”. He said, at the age of 12, he called Bill Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, on the phone after getting his number from the phone book and asking him for spare parts so he could build a frequency counter(计频器). And Hewlett agreed and offered young Jobs a summer job assembling frequency counters.
“If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far,” Jobs said.
【小题1】What is the first paragraph mainly about?A.What key American values are. |
B.Asking for help is a sign of strength. |
C.Why Americans refuse to ask for help. |
D.Americans are responsible for their life. |
A.impolite | B.Impatient |
C.impossible | D.incompetent |
A.Americans suffer a lot from mutual distrust. |
B.Americans lay emphasis on individual values. |
C.Americans should learn to build up confidence. |
D.Americans see weakness as a sign of strength. |
A.Don’t hesitate to ask for assistance. |
B.Be brave to try whatever you want. |
C.Failure is the mother of success. |
D.Learn to cooperate with others. |
For many people, worrying is their life. They’re also anxious over things. They are anxious for family, friends, relatives and mankind. They fret(烦恼) about the past, the present and the future. I was once one of those people. Here’s some advice on how to stop worrying.
Let there be no crisis before its time. Don’t worry about something that’ll take place in a week, a day or even an hour. The variables( 可变因素) will be different then. If you’ve to make a decision on Friday, wait until Friday. Squash(压制) unnecessary worrying with one question. If the answer is “no”, stay in the present moment, write the thought quickly and then let it go.
Don’t let possessions possess you. Don’t let objects rule you. Don’t give them the power to spoil your day. Worrying over a problem after the fact can’t restore or bring anything back. The less you have, the less anxiety you bring into your life.
Set worry limits. If you can’t get worry under control right away, then establish limits. Set a timer or a watch alarm for 15 minutes. When the time is up, the alarm will be a tangible(切实的) reminder to let the worry go. Schedule this time when you’ve something important to do, so you’ll have to drop worry and refocus fast. Worrying is a choice, and you can choose not to do it.
Don’t control others with your worries. Worrying about loved ones wastes lots of time and opens up the door to permanent estrangement(疏远). Let people be who they are. Stop forcing others to do what will make you feel better, instead of what they want. Don’t manipulate(操纵) them into eating what you want them to eat, going where you want them to go, or doing what you want them to do under the guise(伪装) of love. Give people credit for having half a brain and knowing what’s good or bad for them. You’ll cut your worrying in half.
【小题1】What do you think of the author?A.She was willing to worry about others. | B.She was much too worried one. |
C.She was anxious for dealing with others’ worry. | D.She was too nervous to deal with worry. |
A.Just deal with the present crisis and let others go. |
B.Worry about something that’ll take place. |
C.Stay in the present moment. |
D.Think out ways to deal with it ahead of time. |
A.Witness. | B.Inspector. | C.Slave. | D.Owner. |
A.not be under control | B.be controlled by time |
C.be limited and chosen | D.be dropped randomly |
Have you ever lost your temper (脾气)? Did you shout or want to hit someone?
There are different ways people feel anger.
Some people keep their anger buried deep inside. If you do this, you might get a headache or your stomach might start to hurt. You may start to cry.
Don’t lose control if you get angry.
A.It’s not good to hide your anger. |
B.Anger can even be a good thing. |
C.Taking it out on others never solves anything. |
D.Many things may make children angry. |
E.Usually your body will tell you when you are angry. |
F.Once you talk about anger, those bad feelings usually start to go away. |
G.When someone you know is angry, he or she may stop talking to you or become quiet. |
Growing up I remember my weekly "career" announcements. Anchor woman, flight attendant and teacher, among many, many others. Each week I heard “you can do that. You will be good at that”.
Throughout life, I learned that not everyone believed in me the way my mom and dad believed in me.
Most often when we think of what passes from one generation to the next it consists of artifacts and genes.
I will pass these words on and I know they will carry on for each generation to come.
A.It was during those times I would hear those words the loudest |
B.These words will be passed along from generation to generation |
C.With many things to worry about. |
D.it is common to lose your things on the way. |
E.After all I CAN do that! |
F.That was my mom and dad |
G.as well as my co-workers that same message |
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