题目
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For Jane Black, a six-year friendship ended when her friend was rude to one of her children. “After quite a few drinks at a party in my house, she said something rude to my child. I ended the friendship face to face at the party,” she says. “I didn’t realize what I was doing at the time, I was simply standing up for my child, but in her eyes any challenge was a betrayal.”
When Angela Thompson noticed a seven-year friendship disappearing, she let it go. “I didn’t know how to deal with the issue. I didn’t sit down for a grown-up conversation; I just walked away quietly.” The decision caused a reaction among Thompson’s other friends. “The other friends in the circle are the worst people when you are trying to break up with a friend,” she says. “They don’t want you to stop being friends, because it puts them in a difficult position. You get told to just get it over.”
Though we have plenty of measures for handling conflict at work or family fight, we still don’t have good ways of ending friendships. Do we sit down and properly break up, or just walk away? Psychologist Serena Cauchy has the following advice.
Don’t blame.
Talk about your needs and feeling rather than talking like a Dutch uncle.
Do talk about your needs.
Talk about why the friendship is not working for you—about how your needs aren’t being met.
Don’t gossip.
Negative talk hurts everyone involved and in some cases can make matters worse.
Don’t be so accessible.
If there is a common wish to conclude the friendship, then you can remove it.
小题1:How did Angela Thompson deal with her friendship when it went wrong?
A.She ended it face to face. |
B.She left it as it was. |
C.She turned to her friends for advice. |
D.She made a direct challenge. |
A.will help you to fix a broken friendship |
B.will choose either of the sides who broke up |
C.will ask you to forgive each other |
D.will be the worst people to break up with you at the same time |
A.End the friendship if it can’t be renewed. |
B.Don’t complain behind one’s back. |
C.Express what you want and expect. |
D.Sincerely talk about friends’ shortcomings. |
A.A True Friendship | B.When Friendships disappear |
C.How Friendships Last | D.Ways to Fix Friendships |
答案
小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:D
小题4:B
解析
试题分析:文章大意:文章主要讲述了朋友关系破裂之后,会怎么办?心理学家也给出了一些建议。
小题1:B细节理解题。根据第三段When Angela Thompson noticed a seven-year friendship disappearing, she let it go. 可以得出答案。故B正确。
小题2:C细节理解题。根据文章第三段最后They don’t want you to stop being friends, because it puts them in a difficult position. You get told to just get it over.可以得出答案。故C正确。
小题3:D细节理解题。根据文章最后四点可知,D选项“真诚地谈论你朋友的缺点”与文章的事实不相符合。故D正确。
小题4:B主旨大意题。文章主要讲述了朋友关系破裂之后,会怎么办?故文章的标题为When Friendships disappear。故B正确。
核心考点
试题【When it comes to relationship, we spend a lot of time discussing their joys, but】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
This event is becoming increasingly popular. A large number of competitors, people, and journalists from Finland to Canada attend the Wife-carrying World Championship every year.
The event is famous for its warm and humorous atmosphere. The Wife-carrying World Championship is held on a 253.3 meters long official track. The track has two dry obstacles (障碍物)and a water obstacle, about a meter deep.
There are a few basic rules and the winner is the couple who complete the course in the shortest time. The wife to be carried may be your own, or your neighbor’s. The minimum weight of the wife to be carried is 49 kg. If she is less than 49kg, the wife will be given a heavy bag to carry. Each time a competitor drops his wife, that couple will be fined 15 seconds.
Alongside with the Wife-carrying World Championship, there is also a team competition. The distance is the same but three men in the team carry the wife in turns. At the exchange point the carrier has to drink official “wife-carrying drink”. Then he may continue the race. A special prize is awarded to the team with the best costumes.
While the Wife-carrying World Championship is being held, there are bands playing music, a wife-carrying dance and other forms of entertainment.
小题1: The Wife-carrying World Championship is famous because ________.
A.it is held on a 253.3 meters long official track |
B.many competitors take part in it |
C.it has a pleasant atmosphere |
D.the winner will be awarded a lot of money |
A.15 seconds | B.30 seconds | C.45 seconds | D.60 seconds |
A.is more exciting | B.has a special prize |
C.has a different track | D.has three teams altogether |
A.warn people that the competition is dangerous. |
B.attract more visitors to the Wife-carrying World Championship. |
C.introduce how the Wife-carrying World Championship has become popular. |
D.tell us something about the Wife-carrying World Championship. |
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小题1:According to the passage, those who likes stay-at-home careers ________.
A.perhaps can’t earn as much as those working in an office |
B.needn’t do anything at home and earns a lot |
C.can’t be mothers who have children to look after |
D.are often worried about office politics |
A.be more than 18 years old |
B.pass a kind of exam |
C.have good writing skills |
D.have creative skills and a creative gift |
A.sell products to readers |
B.join the author’s company |
C.give some advice to readers |
D.get help from readers |
I thought readers would appreciate that kind of honesty. Surprisingly, many of them hated me for it. I have gotten so many attacks on my character. In their eyes,being famous is everything, even more desirable than being truly creative and talented
Why do we need stars? In fact, the media created stars to satisfy our basic need for gossip (闲话).Over time, talking about people we have never met and we are never likely to meet has become what we are crazy about. Thus, some people are more interested in the personal lives of the stars than in the lives of their own family and their own friends. That is why it is so ridiculous when a star wants to discuss only his or her work in an interview -as we care. We want the dirt on their personal lives.
There is another reason we worship stars. As a whole, our society is not as religious as it once was. It seems that people need something to fulfill them the way religion once did. Star worship exists as an unfulfilling desire for true heroes.
We make them stars, but then their reputation makes us feel unimportant, and we truly feel better about ourselves when they die. I am part of this whole process. No wonder I feel soiled at the end of workday.
小题1:What are the stars like according to the author?
A. They always treat others rudely. |
B. They always talk about something dull. |
C. They are acutually ordinary people. |
D. They are usually honest and polite, |
A, we need true mental heroes to support us
B. we can learn something useful from famous stars
C. we concern about the stars ,family and friends
D. we like talking about the stars ,dressing styles
小题3:When the author is writing this article ,his tone sounds ______.
A, excited B. angry C. worried D. calm
小题4:What is the main purpose of the author writing the passage?
A. To show the disadvantages of working with stars. |
B. To remind us not to worship famous stars blindly. |
C. To laugh at the failures of stars he has interviewed. |
D. To talk about the reasons why we worship stars. |
By contrast, baseball seems abstract, cool, silent, still.
On TV the game is divided into a dozen perspectives, replays, close-ups. The geometry(几何学) of the game, however, is essential to understanding it. You will view the game from one point as a painter does his subject; you may, of course, project yourself into the game. It is in this projection that the game affords so much space and time for involvement. The TV won’t do it for you.
Take, for example, the third baseman. You sit behind the third base and you watch him watching home plate. His legs are apart, knees flexed(弯曲). His arms hang loose. He does a lot of this. The skeptic(怀疑论者) still cannot think of any other sports so still, so passive. But watch what happens every time the pitcher throws: the third baseman goes up on his toes, flexes his arms or brings the glove to a point in front of him, takes a step right or left, backward or forward, perhaps he glances across the field to check his first baseman’s position. Suppose the pitch is a ball. “Nothing happened,” you say. “I could have had my eyes closed.”
The skeptic and the innocent must play the game. And this involvement in the stands is no more intellectual than listening to music is. Watch the third baseman. Smooth the dirt in front of you with one foot; smooth the pocket in your glove; watch the eyes of the batter, the speed of the bat, the sound of ball on wood. If football is a symphony of movement and theatre, baseball is chamber music, a spacious interlocking(连锁) of notes, chorus(和声)and responses.
小题1:The passage is mainly concerned with .
A.the attraction of baseball |
B.the superiority of football |
C.the different tastes of people for sports |
D.the different characteristics of sports |
A.it is only to the taste of the old |
B.it is not exciting enough |
C.it involves fewer players than football |
D.it is pretentious and looks funny |
A.baseball may seem boring when watched on TV |
B.football is more attracting than baseball |
C.baseball is more interesting than football |
D.baseball is too peaceful for the young |
A.The consequence was so bad that he could not bear to see it |
B.The third baseman is so good at baseball that he could finish the game with eyes closed all the time and do his work well |
C.Even if the third baseman closed his eyes a moment ago, it could make no difference to the result |
D.The third baseman would rather sleep than play the game |
A recent study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology offers some clues as to how both nature(personality) and nurture (experience) impact our friendships.Researchers at the University of Virginia and University of Toronto,Mississauga studied more than 7,000 American adults between the ages of 20 and 75 over a period of ten years,looking at the number of times these adults moved during childhood.Their study,like prior ones,showed a link between residential mobility and adult wellbeing:The more times participants moved as children,the poorer the quality of their adult social relationships.
But digging deeper,the researchers found that personality—specifically being introverted (内向的) or extroverted (外向的)—could either intensify or buffer (缓冲) the effect of moving to a new town or neighborhood during childhood.The negative impact of more moves during childhood was far greater for introverts compared to extroverts.
“Moving a lot makes it difficult for people to maintain longterm close relationships,” stated Dr.Shigehiro Oishi,the first author of the study,in a press release from the American Psychological Association,“This might not be a serious problem for outgoing people who can make friends quickly and easily.Less outgoing people have a harder time making new friends.”
Families often have to relocate—across town,across the country,or across the globe.Yet,in many cases,their kids and young adolescents haven"t yet built up a bank of friendships.So the conventional wisdom is to try to minimize moves for the sake of your child,whenever possible,and to move at the end of the academic year.
小题1:The passage is written mainly to ________.
A.offer advice to women on how to form intimate relationships |
B.explain how nature and nurture impact our friendships |
C.explain how moves during childhood affect children |
D.tell us how to help children make friends |
A.People who moved less during childhood have better social relationships. |
B.The more people moved during childhood,the more friends they have. |
C.The more people moved during childhood,the better they adjust to society. |
D.There is no link between residential mobility and adult wellbeing. |
A.should not relocate their homes |
B.should relocate their homes within the town |
C.had better move at the end of the school year |
D.had better move when their children couldn"t build up a bank of friendships |
A.have a bigger impact on an introverted person compared to extroverts |
B.have no impact on an outgoing person |
C.are a big problem for both introverts and extroverts |
D.help children better adapt to a new environment |
A.our friendships are mainly affected by our nurture |
B.we can move when children have made a lot of friends |
C.the impact of moves will disappear when one reaches adulthood |
D.there is some way to minimize the impact of moves during childhood on children |
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