Question

How to Solve Worry Problems

The Great Nobel Prize winner in medicine, Dr. Alexis Carrel, once said, “Businessmen who do not know how to fight worry die young.” 1. Then how can we find a quick, surefire (万全的) recipe for handling worry situations? Here are a few basic steps to deal with different kinds of worries.

Get the facts

Why is it so important to get the facts? Because unless we have the facts, we can’t possibly even attempt to solve our problems intelligently. Without the facts, we will be left in confusion. 2. Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision. If a man will devote his time to securing facts in an objective way, his worries usually disappear in the light of knowledge.

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However, getting all the facts in the world won’t do any good until we figure out what these facts mean and interpret them. It is much easier to achieve this after writing them down. In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping us to reach a sensible decision. Therefore, when we are worried, sit down and write down two questions – and the answers to these questions, “What am I worrying about?” and “What can I do about it?”

Arrive at a decision

Worry is killing. So we will probably save our life by sitting down and writing out all the various steps we could take and then writing down the probable consequences of each step and calmly coming to a decision. Experience has proved the enormous value of arriving at a fixed decision. 4.

Act on that decision

5. Don’t stop to reconsider. Don’t begin to hesitate and retrace (折返) our steps. Don’t lose ourselves in self-doubting which causes other doubts. Don’t look back our shoulders.

A. Analyze the facts.

B. Write down our worries.

C. This is the chief cause of worry.

D. There comes a time when we must decide.

E. Once we have made a decision, go into action.

F. And so do housewives, horse doctors and bricklayers.

G. It is the failure to reach a definite decision that drives men mad.

Answer

1.F

2.C

3.A

4.G

5.E

【解析】

这是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了四种处理不同类型担忧的方法。

1.根据上文Businessmen who do not know how to fight worry die young.可知不懂得与忧虑作斗争的商人英年早逝，下文接着列举其他一些职业也会有相同的情况：家庭主妇、马医生和瓦匠也是如此。故选F。

2.根据下文Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.可知世界上有一半的担忧是由于人们在没有足够的知识做决定之前就试图做出决定。“世界上有一半”可知这是这是忧虑的主要原因。故选C。

3.根据本段第一句However, getting all the facts in the world won’t do any good until we figure out what these facts mean and interpret them.可知在我们弄清楚这些事实的含义并加以解释之前，获得世界上所有的事实是没有任何好处的。可知本段处理担忧的方法是：分析事实，故选A。

4.根据上文Experience has proved the enormous value of arriving at a fixed decision.（经验证明，作出决定的价值是巨大的。）中的fixed可对应到G选项中definite，指“确定的；明确的”，故选G。

5.根据本段小标题Act on that decision（按决定行事）中act on可对应到E选项中的go into action，指“行动；采取行动”，故选E。