Making friends is a skill like most skills. It improves with practice. If you want to meet people and make friends, you must be willing to take some action. You must first go where there are people. You won’t make friends staying home alone.
Joining a club or a group, talking with those who like the same things as you do is much easier. Or join someone in some activity.
Many people are nervous when talking to new people. After all meeting strangers means facing the unknown. And it’s human nature to feel a bit uncomfortable about unknown. Most of our fears about dealing with new people comes from doubts about ourselves. We imagine other people are judging us, finding us too tall or too short, too this or too that. But don’t forget that they must be feeling the same way. Try to accept yourself as you are, and try to put the other person at ease. You’ll both feel more comfortable.
Try to act self-confident even if you don’t feel that way. When you enter a room full of strangers, such as a new classroom, walk tall and straight, look directly at other people and smile.
If you see someone you’d like to speak to, say something. Don’t wait for the other person to start a conversation.
Just meeting someone new does not mean that you will make friends with that person—friendship is based on mutual liking and “give and take”. It takes time and effort to develop.
1.The best topic of the passage may be ________.
A.Friendship B.Making friends C.Meeting New People D.Facing the Unknown
2.Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?
A.Making friends needs practicing.
B.Making friends needs to be more active in getting in touch with people.
C.When meeting someone, make him feel nice and easy.
D.Before making friends with someone, judge him if he’s too this or too that.
3.The development of friendship needs ________.
A.a lot of money B.lots of conversation
C.time and effort D.carefully judging
A person may have an idea about himself that will prevent him from doing good work.
He may have the 36 that he is not capable (有能力的) of it. A child may think he is stupid because he does not understand how to make 37 of his mental faculties(官能). Older people may be mistaken that they are incapable of 38 anything new because of their age.
A person who believes that he is incapable will not make a real 39 , because he feels that it 40 be useless. He won’t go at a job with the confidence(信心) necessary for success, and he won’t work his hardest, even though he may 41 he is doing so. He is 42 likely to fail, and the failure will 43 his belief in his incompetence(无能).
Alfred Adler, a famous doctor, had 44 like this. When he was a small boy, he had a poor 45 in maths. His teacher told his 46 he had no ability in maths in order that they would not 47 too much of him. In this way, they too 48 the idea. He accepted 49 mistaken thinking of his ability, felt that it was useless to 50 , and was very poor at maths, 51 as they expected.
One day he worked out a problem which 52 of the other students had been able to solve.
Adler succeeded in solving the problem. This gave him confidence. He now 53 with interest, determination and purpose, and he soon became especially good at 54 . He not only proved that he could learn maths well, but luckily he learned early in his life from his own experience that if a person goes at a job with determination and purpose, he may 55 himself as well as others by his ability. 36—40 ABBCA 41—45 BDBAC 46—50 DBADC 51—55 CABDA
1. A.belief B.way C.fact D.condition
2. A.biggest B.full C.higher D.deepest
3. A.teaching B.learning C.accepting D.using
4. A.decision B.success C.effort D.trouble
5. A.would B.should C.must D.could
6. A.forget B.think C.guess D.understand
7. A.truly B.really C.however D.therefore
8. A.lead to B.strengthen C.increase D.result in
9. A.an experience B.an expert C.a thought D.a story
10. A.state B.mind C.start D.ending
11. A.classmates B.friends C.neighbours D.parents
12. A.blame B.expect C.get D.win
13. A.developed B.organized C.discovered D.found
14. A.a B.one C.its D.the
15. A.manage B.succeed C.try D.act
16. A.only B.almost C.just D.then
17. A.none B.all C.many D.most
18. A.lived B.worked C.played D.graduated
19. A.lesson B.medicine C.subjects D.maths
20. A.encourage B.love C.astonish D.disappoint
— Are you glad to hear from her?
— Of course. ___________, we last met more than thirty years ago.
A.What’s more B.That is to say C.In other words D.Believe it or not
The old couple have been married for 40 years and never once ______ with each
Other.
A.they had quarreled B.they have quarreled
C.have they quarreled D.had they quarreled
______ their service, the workers of the hotel are active in learning English.
A.Improving B.To improve C.Improve D.Having improved
Is this the museum _____ you visited the other day?
A.that B.where C.in which D.the one