下面几篇小短文是关于人们交往场所的信息。请阅读下列应用文,并按照要求匹配信息。
首先,请阅读下面的信息。
A: Join a club
Join a club with people of common interests. If you have something in common with people, you will find it much easier to talk to them and plan activities.
B: School or workplace
If you’re in school or at work, you will have many schoolmates or workmate. You can get close to them and talk to them in your spare time, or simply do the same thing together.
C: Join a team
You can join a team, especially if you’re in school. Joining a sports team can be a great way to make friends. As long as you enjoy the sport, try your best, and your teammates will be happy to accept you.
D: Be a volunteer (志愿者)
Volunteering is a way to show your passion and love. It’s also a great way for people of all ages to meet others. By working together you build friendship with people.
E: Get online
You can know as many new friends as you can through the Internet. You can also make friends with people in other countries. And if you find some people in your area, you can introduce yourself online and then meet them in person.
F: Talk with a stranger
Practice smiling and saying “Hello” with every stranger you meet. You will be surprised to find how many people answer you in a friendly way. And you may make more new friends in this way.
请阅读以下相关信息,然后匹配交往场所和具体建议。 Tip1: The fact that you’re devoting your time to something without asking for money shows that you’re a very kind and helpful volunteer, which good friends must be.
Tip2: A common wrong idea about this is that you have to
be really good at playing a particular sport in order to make friends with others in the team, but this isn’t true.
Tip3: Speaking to a stranger that you’ve never met, even a guy, is easy. The secret is not to get nervous, pay attention and ask questions.
Tip4: Whatever your age, there might be some people with the same interests as you have. And there might be a club or organization for you.
Tip5: In general, the Internet isn’t a great place to make real friends, or the kind of friends who will be there for you when you really need them.
A. New teachers’ opinions of involving parents
B. An argument over an assignment
C. A conflict between assumption and reality
D. Difficulties in sharing goals
E. The best way to score high
F. Proper ways of parental involvement _______ An Iowa high school counselor gets a call from a parent protesting the “C” her child received on an assignment. “The parent argued every point in the essay,” recalls the counselor, who soon realized why the mother was so disappointed about the grade. “It became apparent that she’d written it. ”
_______ In a survey, 90% of new teachers agreed that involving parents in their children’s education is a priority at their school, but only 25% described their experience working with parents as “very satisfying”. When asked to choose the biggest challenge they face, 31% of them quoted involving parents and communicating with them as their top choice. 73% of new teachers said too many parents treat schools and teachers as enemies.
_______ At a time when competition is rising and resources are limited, when battles over testing force schools to adjust their priorities, when cell phones and e-mail speed up the information flow and all kinds of private ghosts and public quarrels slip into the parent-teacher conference, it’s harder for both sides to step back and breathe deeply and look at the goals they share.
_______ Everyone says the parent-teacher conference should be pleasant, civilized, a kind of dialogue where parents and teachers build partnership. But what most teachers feel, and certainly what all parents feel, is anxiety and panic.
_______ When a teacher asks parents to be partners, he or she doesn’t necessarily mean Mom or Dad should be camping in the classroom. Research shows that though students benefit modestly from having parents involved at school, what happens at home matters much more. According to research based on the National Education Longitudinal Study, a sample of nearly 25,000 eighth graders, among four main areas of parental involvement (home discussion, home supervision, school communication, and school participation), home discussion was the most strongly related.
For some people, choosing which sports to play throughtout high school is hard because they have never really played an organized sport before and aren’t sure what they’ll enjoy most. _______
_______ If you’re great at soccer but would rather play football because you think it’s more fun, then give it a go (just make sure it’s cool with mom and dad)!
Sports are meant to be fun. _______ What’s the worst that can hppen? If you get cut, you can always try another sport. And sports like track don’t typically cut participants from the team. You can still participate even if you’re not in the team for the competition.
Some sports, like lacrosse or field hockery, require evey person on the field to be working well together. ___
Sports like tennis, track and field, swimming, gymnastics, and wrestling are all sports where individual performances are tallied(计分) into team scores. ______ However, for the most part it’s possible to win a solo event in these sports and still have your team lose or vice-versa(反之亦然).
No one knows you better than you do. Maybe you enjoy the spotlight. Maybe you get annoyed by the way teammates act. Luckily, there are many individualized sports to choose from.
A.No matter what your problem is, you have to make the decision that is best for you. |
B.Sure, certain people perform much better than others but superstars don’t necessarily make a good team! |
C.Many people are attracted to team sports. |
D.Of course there are exceptions, like relays in track and swimming. |
E.For others it’s tough because their friends don’t like to play the same sports.
F.Besides swimming, try canoeing, fishing, sailing, skiing, and, if you’re feeling particularly daring, surfing.
G.If there is a sport you really enjoy but you aren’t sure if you can make the team, try out anyway.
If something that you're doing doesn't challenge you, then it doesn't change you. We all need some normal stress in our lives, after all.So challenge the following limits:
1. Figure out what you're scared of and do it continuously.
If you're a salesman, and you're scared of talking to people personally or over the phone, now, instead of being scared and thinking you’ll fail, spend at least five minutes a day to pick up the phone and make a call.But don't stop on the first try! Eventually, you can look at fear in the eyes and say, "Go on, I'm not scared!"
2.
Make sure this hobby is not linked to your career; you have to relax and relieve your stress while performing this. Some examples might be cooking, sewing, painting and so on. Apart from helping you challenge yourself, taking a class for your hobby may also give you extra income.
3.Set aside at least nine minutes a day for physical exercise.A simple 9-minute run around your neighborhood can do wonders for yourself.Exercise can not only help you maintain your regular weight, but also make you feel better about yourself.
4.Travel and allow yourself to be interested in new people.
Don't just limit yourself to your fellow travelers - try to connect with the service staff.You never know what kind of people they're going to be. Get out of your house or go online right now to book your class.
A.You should do it continuously. |
B.Someone may hang up on you. |
C.You don't need to go to the gym. |
D.Running in the gym may be a better choice. |
E. Start to travel now and learn to challenge yourself.
F. Take a class for a hobby you've been wanting to develop.
G. You can never see any improvement if you stick to your comfort zone.
A. Cleaned Up Our Streets B. Made Us Healthier C. Helped Promote the Record Industry D. Guided Us to Travel Abroad E. Encouraged Teens to Communicate F. Changed How We Talk |
TV That Changed the WorldThe Simpsons____________
University of Pennsylvania Linguistics professor Mark Liberman wrote in 2005," The Simponshas apparently taken over from Shakespeare and the Bible as our culture's greatest source of idioms and catchphrases.” Liberman's comment sounds crazy---at least until you remember there's a Millhouse quote for every occasion .Even the gatekeeper of language, the Oxford English Dictionary has found a spot for Homer Simperson's trademark "D'oh!"America's Most Wanted ____________.
The show has helped arrest over I,100 fugitives(逃犯)since its debut in 1988.Many people thought highly of the series as they could enjoy a safer community.Glee________________
Fox scored a sleeper hit with the musical series in 2009.But the show's real impact came between airings. As most of the record industry failed .the Glee recordings found staggering success on iTunes .By the end of 2011, the cast had sold more 11 million albums and another 36 million single tracks. Meanwhile, the 2011 concert tour grossed more than $40 million.Sex and the City__________
A 2011 Ohio State University study found that undergraduates who viewed an episode of Sex and the City were more than twice as likely to talk to their partners about sexual-health issues.ER ____________
ER did more than make George Clooney a superstar. It also changed the way America ate. In three 2004 episodes, the show focused on the doctors' orders for a teenager with high blood pressure: exercise, and eat more fruits and vegetables. While the plot sounds humdrum, it scared viewers straight. In 2007, researchers from the University of Southern California's medical school found that viewers who caught these episodes had started walking or exercising more, eating more fruits and vegetables, or getting their blood pressure checked. How can anyone say watching TV is bad for you?
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There are all sorts of good sensible reasons to avoid getting angry. Not only does it make us feel bad, it also makes us do stupid things without noticing the risks and it can be self-destructive ( 毁坏性的). _______ But like all emotions, anger has its purposes, which can be used for good effects.
Anger is a motivating force.
In fact anger itself is a kind of positive energy and a powerful motivating force. ___When we see something as beneficial, we want it more when we are angry. So, when used right, constructive anger can make us feel strong and powerful and help push us on to get what we want.
It may sound like a strange thing to say, but angry people have something in common with happy people. That's because both tend to expect favorable results. By comparison those experiencing more fear are more pessimistic (悲观的) about the future and expect further terrors.
Anger can benefit relationships.
Society tells us anger is dangerous and we should hide it .The problem is that when we hide our anger, our partner doesn't know he's done something wrong. And so he keeps doing it. The expression of anger, if reasonable and aimed at finding a solution, can actually benefit and strengthen relationships.
Anger provides self-understanding.
Anger can also provide understanding into ourselves, if we allow it. Getting angry leads to a positive outcome. Anger help discover our own faults. If we can notice when we get angry and why, then we can learn what to do to improve our lives. ____
A.And that doesn't do our relationship any good. |
B.Anger can turn us on and thus push on towards our goals in the face of problems and barriers. |
C.Anger reduces violence. |
D.Angry people are more optimistic. |
E. Most of us treat our anger as though it's unreasonable, unshowable and unmentionable.
F. That's because it's a very strong social signal that a situation needs to be solved.
G. Anger can encourage self-change.