When it comes to relationship, we spend a lot of time discussing their joys, but rarely talk about the pain when they break down. Yet most people have a story about a broken relationship.
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.
小題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.
小題2:According to the third paragraph, we learn the other friends________.
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
小題3:Which is NOT mentioned by Psychologist Serena Cauchy?
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.
小題4:What would be the best title for the passage?
A．A True Friendship B．When Friendships disappear
C．How Friendships LastD．Ways to Fix Friendships

小題1:B
小題2:C
小題3:D
小題4:B 

試題分析：文章大意：文章主要講述了朋友關系破裂之后，會怎么辦？心理學家也給出了一些建議。
小題1:B細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段When Angela Thompson noticed a seven-year friendship disappearing, she let it go. 可以得出答案。故B正確。
小題2:C細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)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正確。
小題3:D細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章最后四點可知，D選項“真誠地談論你朋友的缺點”與文章的事實不相符合。故D正確。
小題4:B主旨大意題。文章主要講述了朋友關系破裂之后，會怎么辦？故文章的標題為When Friendships disappear。故B正確。
練習冊系列答案
相關習題

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

Many women write to me perplexed(困惑的) about why they can't form close friendships.They try new approaches，put themselves in all the right places，see therapists，and read relevant self­help books.They consider themselves interesting，loyal，kind，and friend­worthy people.But for reasons unknown to them，they have a tough time forming intimate relationships.Many admit to not having even one close friend.
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 (內(nèi)向的) or extroverted (外向的)—could either intensify or buffer (緩沖) 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.
小題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
小題2:Which of the following is true according to the second paragraph?
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.
小題3:In order for children to maintain long­term close relationships，parents ________.
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
小題4:We learn from the fourth paragraph that moves during childhood ________.
A．have a bigger impact on an introverted person compared to extroverts
B．have no impact on an outgoing person
C．a(chǎn)re a big problem for both introverts and extroverts
D．help children better adapt to a new environment
小題5:We can infer from the passage that ________.
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

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

Someday a stranger will read your email without your permission or scan the website you have visited. Or perhaps someone will casually glance through your credit card purchases or cell bills to find out your shopping preferences or calling habits.
In fact, it is likely that some of these things have already happened to you. Who would watch you without permission? It might be a girlfriend, a marketing company, a boss or a criminal. Whoever it is, they will see you in a way you never intended to be seen-----the 21st century is the equal of being caught naked.
Psychologists tell us boundaries are healthy and that it is important to reveal yourself to friends, families and lovers at appropriate time and places. But now few boundaries remain. The information you leave everywhere makes it easy for strangers to reconstruct who you are, where you are and what you like. Believe it or not, we live in a world where you simply can’t keep a secret. The key question is: does that matter?
When you ask Americans about privacy, most say they are concerned about losing it.
But people say one thing and do another. Only a tiny part of Americans change any behaviors in an effort to preserve their privacy. Few people turn down a discount at tollbooths(收費站) to avoid using the EZ-Pass system that can track automobile movements. And few refuse to offer personal information like Social Security numbers to get supermarket loyalty cards.
But privacy (隱私) does matter—at least sometimes. It is like health: when you have it, you don’t notice it. Only when it is gone do you wish you had done more to protect it.
小題1:What does the underlined sentence in Para 2 mean?
A．People’s personal information is easily accessed without their knowing it.
B．In the 21st century people try every means to look into others’ secrets.
C．People tend to be more frank with each other in the information age.
D．Criminals are easily caught on the spot with advanced technology.
小題2:Which of the statements will the psychologists probably agree with?
A．Friends should open their hearts to each other.
B．Friends should always be faithful to each other.
C．There should be a distance even between friends.
D．The closer they are, the deeper their friendship is.
小題3:In the last paragraph but one, the EZ-Pass system and Social Security numbers are used as evidence to show_________.
A．Americans talk a lot but do little about privacy protection
B．Americans use various loyalty cards for business.
C．Americans rely more and more on electronic devices.
D．Americans change behaviors that might disclose their identity.
小題4:Which of the following may serve as the best title of the passage?
A．Privacy and HealthB．Privacy Is Getting Lost.
C．Boundary and FriendshipD．Cherish What You Have

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：單選題

At the age of 11, Peter Lynch started caddying(當球童) at Brae Burn Country Club in Newton, Mass. “It was better than a newspaper carrier, and much more profitable,” the Fidelity vice chairman recalls. He kept it up during the summers for almost a decade. “You get to know the course and can give the golf players advice about how to approach various holes,” he says. “Where else, at age 15 or 16, can you serve as a trusted adviser to high-powered people?”
One of those people was George Sullivan, then president of Fidelity’s funds, who was so impressed with Lynch’s smarts that he hired him in 1966. “There were about 75 applicants for 3 job openings,” Lynch says now. “But I was the only one who had caddied for the president for 10 years.”
In between caddying and managing money, Lynch went to Boston College on a scholarship from a program called the Francis Ouimet Fund. Named after the 1913 winner of the U.S. Open, the fund launched in 1949 which is open to Massachusetts kids only. Ouimet executive director Robert Donovan says, “Help with college is a logical extension of friendly relation between golfers and their favorite caddies, because there is a close tie to train up them to be excellent that happens between the players and the kids who carry their golf poles. And for the teens, caddying is all about being around successful role models.”
It is obvious that caddies who are finally successful include all kinds of outstanding personnel, from actor Bill Murray, to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, to former GE chairman and CEO Jack Welch.
Of course, the great number of financial giants who caddied in their youth might be coincidence, but Dick Connolly thinks not. “Caddying life teaches you a lot about business, and about life,” he says. “You learn to show up early and look people in the eye when you shake their hand, and you learn how to read people -- including who’s likely to cheat and who isn’t.” Connolly is a longtime investment advisor at Morgan Stanley’s Boston office, a former Ouimet scholarship student and, along with Peter Lynch and Roger Altman, one of the program’s biggest supporters. He wants to share the most important lesson he learned on the links, so he says: “One golfer I caddied for told me that if you want to succeed in any field -- golf or business -- you have to spend a lot of lonely hours, either practicing or working, when you’d rather be partying with your friends. That’s true, and it stuck with me.”
小題1:Which of the following may Peter Lynch agree about caddying?
A．He could have a relaxing job as a caddie.
B．He could make more money from the golf players.　　
C．His duty was to advise the players how to play golf.
D．His caddying experiences contributed to his later career.
小題2:Why was the Francis Ouimet Fund set up to support Massachusetts kids only?
A．Because of the advice from the rich golf players.
B．Because of those giants with caddying experiences.
C．Because of the great success the caddies have achieved.
D．Because of the friendly relation between golfers and their caddies.
小題3:According to Dick Connolly, caddying experience in your youth_____.
A．helps you learn to live with loneliness
B．teaches you a lot about business and life
C．makes it possible to meet with great people
D．offers you chances to communicate with others
小題4:Which of the following may be the best title for the passage?
A．Legend of Peter Lynch.
B．An introduction of Golf Caddying.
C．Golf Caddying into Future Success.
D．Five Giants with Caddying Experiences.

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

There are a great number of people in the world while few people are great.I think there is probably only one great person out of 10，000 at best，and most probably much less than that.
The reason why there are only few of them is that most people do not pay the price of greatness.There are so many people who want to be great，why only very few of them actually pay the price? The answer to the question explains the difference between the almost 100% people who want to be great and the much less than 0.01% who actually be so.The reason is that the road to greatness is full of pains.
Greatness requires sacrifices and there is no sacrifice without pain.The kind of sacrifices required for greatness is the ones that make the process continuously painful for long time.If you only want to be good it may be painful just every now and then，and many people can still handle it.But being great is a total difference.The pain is much deeper and it is continuous，so very few people can endure this kind of pain.Most people naturally choose things that bring pleasures to them.It's unnatural to choose pain over pleasure，let alone doing it continuously for long time.But that's what I believe is the secret to greatness: The secret to greatness is choosing pain over pleasures continuously for long time.
小題1:What is the purpose of Paragraph 1?
A．To compare.　　　　　　　　　B．To list statistics.
C．To lead up to the topic.D．To give information.
小題2:If one person only wants to be good，what will he/she face?
A．Occasional pains.B．Continual work.
C．Constant pains.D．Various difficulties.
小題3:What is the main idea of the passage?
A．Pleasures mean greatness.
B．Greatness equals sacrifices.
C．What's greatness.
D．Greatness lies in continuous pains.

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

My father was Chief Engineer of a merchant ship, which was sunk in World War Ⅱ. The book Night of the U­boats told the story.
Memories
In September ，1940，my mother ,sister and I went to Swansea ,where my father ‘s ship was getting ready to sail ,we brought him a family photography to be kept with him at all times and keep him safe .
Then I remember my mother lying face down ,sobbing .she had heard from a friend that the ship had been sunk by a torpedo (魚雷).
I can remember the arrived of the telegram（電報），which in those days always brought bad news .my grandmother opened it ,it read ,safe .love ted.”
My most vivid memory is being woken and brought down to sit on my father’s knee, his arm in a bandage .
He was judged unfit to return to sea and took a shore job in Glasgow for the rest of the war, for as long as I can remember ,he had a weak heart ,mother said it was caused by the torpedoes .he said it was because of the cigarette ,whichever ,he died suddenly in his early 50s.
Ten years later I read night of the U-boat and able to complete the story .
A toast
In my room is the book and the photograph .often , glass in hand, I have wondered how I would have dealt with an explosion ,a sinking ship ,a jump into a vast ocean and a wait for rescue ?lest (以免 )we forget ,I have some more whisky and toast the heroes of the war.
小題1:We can infer that the mother and children went to Swansea ________.
A．to meet a friendB．to see the father off
C．to take a family photoD．to enjoy the sailing of the ship
小題2:What did the author learn about the father from the telegram?
A．he was still alive.B．His knee was broken.
C．His ship had been sunk.D．He had arrived in Glasgow.
小題3:The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 6 refers to the father’s ________.
A．weak heartB．taking a shore job
C．failure to return to seaD．injury caused by a torpedo
小題4:What is the passage mainly about?
A．A group of forgotten heroes
B．A book describing a terrifying battle.
C．A ship engineer’s wartime experience.
D．A merchant’s memories of a sea rescue.

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

In modern society there is a great deal of argument about competition. Some hold an optimistic attitude. They value it highly, believing that it is a natural outcome of social progress and prosperity（繁榮）and that anyone who wants to be outstanding has to keep the pace. Others think otherwise. They say that competition is bad; that it sets one person against another; that the unfriendly relationship between people because of competition.
I have taught many children who held the belief that their self-worth depended on how well they performed at tennis and other skills. For them, playing well and winning are often life-and-death affairs. In their single-minded pursuit（追求）of success, the development of many other human qualities is sadly forgotten.
However, while some seem to be lost in the desire to succeed, others have an opposite opinion. In a culture which values only the winner and pays no attention to the ordinary players, they strongly blame competition. Among the most vocal are youngsters who have suffered under competitive pressures from their parents or society. They have no choice. Teaching these young people, I often observe in them a desire to fail. They seem to seek failure by not trying to win or achieve success. By not trying, they always have an excuse: “I may have lost, but it doesn’t matter because I really didn’t try”. What is not usually admitted by themselves is the belief that if they had really tried and lost, that would mean a lot. Such a loss would be a measure of their worth. Clearly, this belief is the same as that of the true competitors who try to prove themselves. Both are based on the mistaken belief that one’s self-respect relies on how well one performs compared with others. Both are afraid of not being valued. Only as this basic and often troublesome fear is overcome can discover a new meaning in competition.
小題1:What does this passage mainly talk about?
A．Competition helps to set up self-respect.
B．Opinions about competition are different among people.
C．Competition is harmful to personal quality development.
D．Failures are necessary experience in competition.
小題2:Why do some people favor competition according to the passage?
A．It pushes society forward.
B．It builds up a sense of duty.
C．It improves personal abilities.
D．It encourages individual efforts.
小題3:The underlined phrase “the most vocal” in Paragraph 3 means      .
A．those who try their best to win
B．those who value competition most highly
C．those who are against competition most strongly
D．those who rely on others most for success
小題4:What is the similar belief of the true competitors and those with a “desire to fail”?
A．One’s worth lies in his performance compared with others.
B．One’s success in competition needs great efforts.
C．One’s achievement is determined by his particular skills.
D．One’s success is based on how hard he has tried.
小題5:Which point of view may the author agree to?
A．Every effort should be paid back.
B．Competition should be encouraged.
C．Winning should be a life-and-death matter.
D．Fear of failure should be removed in competition.

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

Happiness through Honorable Actions
Do you want to live with a strong sense of peacefulness, happiness, goodness, and self-respect? The collection of happiness actions broadly categorized as “honor” help you create this life of good feelings.
Here is an example to show how honorable actions create happiness.
Say a store clerk fails to charge us for an item. If we keep silent, and profit from the clerk’s mistake, we would drive home with a sense of mean excitement. Later we might tell our family of friends about our good fortune. On the other hand, if we tell the clerk about the uncharged item, the clerk would be grateful and thank us for our honesty. We would leave the store with a quiet sense of honor that we might never share with another soul.
Then, what is it to do with our sense of happiness?
In the first case, where we don’t tell the clerk, a couple of things would happen. Deep down inside we would know ourselves as a type of thief. In the process, we would lose some peace of mind and self-respect. We would also demonstrate that we cannot be trusted, since we advertise our dishonor by telling our family and friends. We damage our own reputations by telling others. In contrast, bringing the error to the clerk’s attention causes different things to happen. Immediately the clerk knows us to be honorable. Upon leaving the store, we feel honorable and our self-respect is increased. Whenever we take honorable action we gain the deep internal rewards of goodness and a sense of nobility.
There is a beautiful positive cycle that is created by living a life of honorable actions. Honorable thoughts lead to honorable actions. Honorable actions lead us to a happier existence. And it’s easy to think and act honorably again when we’re happy. While the positive cycle can be difficult to start, once it’s started, it’s easy to continue. Keeping on doing good deeds brings us peace of mind, which is important for our happiness.
小題1: According to the passage, the positive action in the example contributes to our ______.
A．self-respect B．financial rewards
C．a(chǎn)dvertising abilityD．friendly relationship
小題2:The author thinks that keeping silent about the uncharged item is equal to ______.
A．lyingB．stealingC．cheatingD．a(chǎn)dvertising
小題3:The underlined phrase “bringing the error to the clerk’s attention” means ______.
A．offering advice to the clerk B．telling the truth to the clerk
C．a(chǎn)sking the clerk to be more attentiveD．reminding the clerk of the charged item
小題4:How does the positive cycle work according to the author?

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：完形填空

The survey about childhood in the Third World shows that the struggle for survival is long and hard. But in the rich world, children can       from a different kind of poverty — of the spirit.   , one Western country alone now sees 14, 000 attempted suicides ( 自殺 ) every year by children under 15, and one child      five needs psychiatric (心理上的) advice.
There are many good things about       in the Third World. Take the close and constant relation between children and their parents, relatives and neighbors for example. In the West, the very nature of work puts distance between      and children. But in most Third World villages mother and father do not go miles away each day to work in offices.   , the child sees mother and father, relations and neighbors working      and often shares in that work..
A child       in this way learns his or her role through joining in the community's       ：helping to dig or build, look after animals or babies -- rather than      playing with water and sand in kindergarten, keeping pets      playing with dolls.
These children may grow up with a less oppressive sense of space and time than the      children. Their sense of days and time has a lot to do with the change of seasons and positions of the sun or the moon in the sky. Children in the rich world,         , are provided with a watch as one of the      signs of growing up, so that they can      along with their parents about being late for school times, meal times, bed times, the times of TV shows …
Third World children do not usually      to stay indoors, still less in high-rise apartments. Instead of dangerous roads, "keep off the grass" signs and "don't speak to strangers", there is often a sense of        to study and play. Parents can see their children outside rather than observe them      from ten floors up.
     , twelve million children under five still die every year through hunger and disease. But childhood in the Third World is not all     
小題1:
A．come B．surviveC．sufferD．learn
小題2:
A．As usualB．In factC．For instanceD．In other words
小題3:
A．inB．byC．toD．under
小題4:
A．childhoodB．povertyC．spiritD．survival
小題5:
A．neighborsB．fathersC．a(chǎn)dultsD．relatives
小題6:
A．Anyhow B．InsteadC．HoweverD．Still
小題7:
A．a(chǎn)wayB．a(chǎn)loneC．nearbyD．a(chǎn)long
小題8:
A．workingB．living throughC．playingD．growing up
小題9:
A．funB．lifeC．studyD．work
小題10:
A．byB．throughC．fromD．with
小題11:
A．orB．butC．a(chǎn)ndD．so
小題12:
A．WesternB．goodC．poorD．Eastern
小題13:
A．a(chǎn)t any momentB．a(chǎn)t the same timeC．on the other handD．on the whole
小題14:
A．easiestB．quickestC．happiestD．earliest
小題15:
A．careB．worryC．hurryD．fear
小題16:
A．dareB．expectC．haveD．require
小題17:
A．freedomB．dangerC．disappointmentD．control
小題18:
A．eagerlyB．a(chǎn)nxiouslyC．impatientlyD．proudly
小題19:
A．Above allB．In the endC．Of courseD．What's more
小題20:
A．poorB．goodC．richD．bad

查看答案和解析>>

同步練習冊答案