Communicating with elderly parents is an important part of making sure they’re doing okay.
It’s important to set aside time every week to call up or drop by and see how your parents are doing.
Your parents might be slower and less active than before.
Accepting the generation gap (代沟) is also important.
| A．Bring happiness into your parents’ life. |
| B．Be clear when you explain anything to your parents. |
| C．However, they’re still able to make their own decisions. |
| D．Know their daily happenings and ask them what they’re doing. |
| E．Though life is busy, remember to stay in touch with your parents. |
| F．Your parents have been doing things a certain way for a long time. |
| G．Be prepared to find suitable advisers that your parents might need. |
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My father died when I was nine months old, making my mom a single mother at the age of eighteen. While I was growing up, we lived a very hard life. We had little money, but my mom gave me a lot of love. Each night, she sat me on her lap and spoke the words that would change my life, “Kemmons, you are certain to be a great man and you can do anything in life if you work hard enough to get it.”
At fourteen, I was hit by a car and the doctors said I would never walk again. Every day, my mother spoke to me in her gentle, loving voice, telling me that no matter what those doctors said, I could walk again if I wanted to badly enough. She drove that message so deep into my heart that I finally believed her. A year later, I returned to school — walking on my own!
When the Great Depression (大萧条) hit, my mom lost her job. Then I left school to support the both of us. At that moment, I was determined never to be poor again.
Over the years, I experienced various levels of business success. But the real turning point occurred on a vacation I took with my wife and five kids in 1951. I was dissatisfied (不满意) with the second-class hotels available for families and was angry that they charged an extra $2 for each child. That was too expensive for the average American family. I told my wife that I was going to open a motel (汽车旅馆) for families that would never charge extra for children. There were plenty of doubters at that time.
Not surprisingly, mom was one of my strongest supporters. She worked behind the desk and even designed the room style. As in any business, we experienced a lot of challenges. But with my mother’s words deeply rooted in my soul, I never doubted we would succeed. Fifteen years later, we had the largest hotel system in the world — Holiday Inn. In 1979 my company had 1,759 inns in more than fifty countries with an income of $ 1 billion a year.
You may not have started out life in the best situation. But if you can find a task in life worth working for and believe in yourself, nothing can stop you.
1. According to the author, who played the most important role in making him walk back to school again?
| A．Doctors. | B．Nurses. | C．Friends. | D．Mom. |
| A．His terrible experience in the hotel. |
| B．His previous business success of various levels. |
| C．His mom’s support. |
| D．His wife’s suggestion. |
| A．Modest, helpful, and hard-working. |
| B．Careful, helpful and beautiful. |
| C．Loving, supportive and strong-willed. |
| D．Strict, sensitive and supportive. |
| A．Self-confidence, hard work, higher education and a poor family. |
| B．Mom’s encouragement, clear goals, self-confidence and hard work. |
| C．Clear goals, mom’s encouragement, a poor family and higher education. |
| D．Mom’s encouragement, a poor family, higher education and opportunities. |
【推荐2】Living and dealing with kids can be a tough job these days, but living and dealing with parents can be even tougher.
If I have learned anything in my 16 years, it is that communication is very important, both when you disagree and when you get along. With any relationship, you need to let other person know how you are feeling. If you are not able to communicate, you drift apart. When you are mad at your parents, or anyone else, not talking to them doesn’t solve anything.
Communication begins with the concerns of another. It means that you can’t just come home from school, go up to your room and ignore everyone. Even if you just say “Hi” and see how their day was for five minutes, it is better than nothing.
If you looked up the word “communication” in a dictionary. It would say “the exchange of ideas, the conveyance (表达)of information, means of communication such as a letter or a message”. To keep a good relationship, you must keep communication strong. Let people know how you feel, even if it's Just by writing a note.
When dealing with parents, you always have to make them feel good about how they are doing as a parent. If you are trying to make them see something as you see it, tell them that you’ll listen to what they have to say, but ask them politely to listen to you. Yelling or walking away only makes the situation worse.
This is an example: one night, Sophie went to a street party with her friends. She knew she had to be home by midnight after the fireworks, but she didn’t feel she could just ask to go home. That would be rude. After all, they had been nice enough to take her along with them. Needless to say, she was late getting home. Her parents were mad at first, but when Sophie explained why she was late, they weren’t as mad and let the incident go. Communication is the key factor here. If Sophie’s parents had not been willing to listen, Sophie would have been in a lot of trouble.
Communication isn’t a one-way deal: it goes both ways. Just remember: if you get into a situation like Sophie’s, tell the other person how you feel-listening is the key factor to communication.
1. In the writers view, dealing with parents is__________than with children.| A．more difficult | B．easier |
| C．more uninteresting | D．more interesting |
| A．the importance of friendship |
| B．to make your feeling known to others |
| C．the importance of communication |
| D．the disagreement between generations |
| A．Sophie is very polite to her parents |
| B．Sophie's parents are willing to listen to her |
| C．explanation is the best way to solve a problem |
| D．communication is the solution (解决办法) to misunderstanding |
| A．If you don’t agree with others, you'd better let them know |
| B．It is better to say “Hi” to others than say nothing |
| C．If you are not able to communicate, walk away |
| D．Communication is a two-way deal |
【推荐3】“Everything happens for the best,” my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. “If you can carry on, one day something good will happen.”
After graduating from college in 1932, I decided to find a job as a sports announcer (播音员) on the radio. I took the bus to Chicago and knocked on the door o£ every radio station. But I was refused every time. In one studio a nice lady told me that big radio stations didn’t want to accept inexperienced persons. “Go to the countryside and find a small station that might give you a chance,” she said.
I returned home, Dixon in Illinois. My father said Smith Ward had opened a store and wanted a local sportsman to manage its sports department. Since I had played football at Dixon in high school, I applied. The job sounded just right for me, but I still failed in the interview. As I left his office, I felt sad. I asked aloud, “How can a man become a sports announcer if he can’t get a job in a radio station?”
I was waiting for the lift when I heard Smith Ward calling, “What did you say about sports? Do you know anything about football?” Then he made me stand before a microphone and asked me to broadcast an imaginary (虚构的) game. As a result, I did a wonderful job and was told to broadcast Saturday’s game!
On my way home, I thought of my mother’s words again: Everything happens for the best if you carry on. One day something good will happen.
1. When did the writer graduate from college?| A．In 1931. | B．In 1932. | C．In 1933. | D．In 1934. |
| A．The writer. | B．Smith Marx. |
| C．The writer’s father. | D．Smith Ward. |
| A．Thursday’s game | B．Friday’s game |
| C．Saturday’s game | D．Sunday’s game |
| A．you will fail if you keep on trying |
| B．you will succeed if you keep on trying |
| C．you will lose money if you keep on trying |
| D．you will make money if you keep on trying |
【推荐1】There are some things to do with your group of friends.
Joining a team is a good way.
Joining a book club is a nice way. A book club can be a great social activity for people who are a bit shy. There are even book clubs that take place entirely online. It is good to include some social interactions in your life.
Taking painting lessons, dance lessons, or some other types of group classes is a good way to meet new people. It’s not like you’re just in an empty room and asked to spend 2 hours at a table talking.
Finding volunteer work for teens. Volunteering attracts some really cool and special people. It is a great social activity.
| A．Reading will benefit the teenagers. |
| B．Finding a voluntary job is easy for teens. |
| C．There are many different teams you can join. |
| D．You’ll meet good folks while volunteering. |
| E．You’ll be learning, listening to the instructor. |
| F．In a word, the social skills activities are great for teens. |
| G．But let’s start with social activities to meet new friends. |
【推荐2】How can teenagers keep themselves from suffering from loneliness? Here are some suggestions for speeding a recovery from loneliness.
Find a safe place to make connections.If going to the dancing party makes you feel like you just don't belong，try joining a special-interest group.Maybe it’s the drama club or the marching band.Just because you feel left out in one group doesn't mean you'll feel like an outsider in every other one.
Find other ways of making connections.Lonely people hunger for friendship.Sometimes feeling accepted and liked comes more easily when you do something for others rather than waiting for them to make you feel better.
Choose the right people.Loneliness is an absence of quality friendship，not of a particular quantity of friends.
You get what you expect，so expect the best.If you expect others to be friendly，you will behave in proper ways that encourage people to be friendlier to you.It can be hard work to be positive toward others.
| A．Loneliness won't last long. |
| B．So consider becoming a volunteer. |
| C．Reach out to others but start small. |
| D．This harmful attitude can continue into adulthood. |
| E．That's why it's important to know how to select a friend. |
| F．Look for a group that allows you to feel comfortable gradually. |
| G．But starting the first step of positive expectations can make all the difference. |
【推荐3】Put five, eight, twelve or more people together in a room, and it’s a game of luck as to how well they’ll function as a team. The larger the group, the more difficult it becomes. It’s a lot like dining out with a bunch of friends. Where to go? Italian? Vegetarian? Steakhouse? Each person has their own appetite, which can make creating a “shared-interest” extremely challenging.
Shared-interest is the lifeblood of teams, and only the most successful companies know how to foster it. But how?
“Project Aristotle”, an experiment led by Abeer Dubey, a manager in Google’s People Analytics division was conducted in 2012 to discover how to build the “perfect team.” After years of analyzing data and interviews from more than 180 teams across the company, Google found that the individual personalities in a team are not so relevant.
“We had lots of data, but there was nothing showing that a mix of specific personality types or skills or backgrounds made any difference. The ‘who’ part of the equation didn’t seem to matter,” Dubey said in an interview with The New York Times. Instead, the researchers found that there were five key characteristics of enhanced teams:
Psychological safety: Everyone feels safe in taking risks, and that they won’t be embarrassed or punished for doing so.
Dependability: Everyone completes quality work on time.
Structure and clarity: Everyone knows what their specific expectations are. These expectations must be challenging yet attainable.
Meaning: Everyone has a sense of purpose in their work, for example, supporting family.
Impact: Everyone sees that the result of their work actually contributes to the organization’s overall goals.
While Google’s findings may be true to some extent, a large number of scientific studies have caused researchers outside of Google’s lab to shockingly disagree. Thomas Chamorro-Premuzic, a professor of business psychology at Columbia University and author of the book “Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?” and psychologist Dave Winsborough are among them. They both claim that personality, in particular, heavily affects the role of an individual within a team and is indeed a significant factor in what makes a team successful.
Researchers found that the poorest-performing teams were 100 percent “pragmatic” (讲求实效的 ) and had 0 percent ‘relationship-building’ traits. “Too often, organizations focus merely on the functional role and hope that good team performance somehow follows,” Chamorro-Premuzic and Winsborough co-wrote in a Harvard Business Review article. “This is why even the most expensive professional sports teams often fail to perform according to the individual talents of each player: There is no psychological synergy (协作). A more effective approach focuses as much on people’s personalities as on their skills.”
1. Why does the author mention the example of “dining out”?| A．To emphasize the challenges of creating a common interest. |
| B．To cater for the different tastes of people from all walks of life. |
| C．To stress the importance of different individuals in teams. |
| D．To get more different people involved in building a team. |
| A．Dependability. | B．A sense of purpose. |
| C．Psychological safety. | D．Individual personalities. |
| A．Because they care more about the result. | B．Because they are not talented enough. |
| C．Because they lack relationship building. | D．Because they are vague about their roles. |
| A．By making basic assumptions. | B．By giving a lot of detailed examples. |
| C．By analyzing causes and effects. | D．By presenting contradictory findings. |
