4 . Life can sometimes go_haywire rather like the feeling you get when you've lost control of your moving car. It's a feeling of complete helplessness and panic that makes us feel overwhelmed (被压垮的).
In most cases, there is a difference between our expectations and reality. The greater the difference, the greater the feeling is of being overwhelmed. This difference is often created when our expectations are too demanding or when reality changes in a way we did not expect. Think of the weather ruining your carefully made travel plans to get across the state. Think of that illness that made you stay in bed. While we may be feeling overwhelmed with everything going on in our lives right now, there are some steps we can take to regain a sense of control of our lives.
We all know we should control our emotion properly and we can be affected greatly when we are overwhelmed, but feeling overwhelmed is part of life. When we're feeling overwhelmed, it only means we are living, breathing human beings. For life is like a roller coaster ride with its ups, downs and turns. It's also like the season with its alternating periods of relative calm and periods of varying degrees of stress and anxiety. Sometimes we forget this.
No matter how much we try, we may not be able to control reality. But we can adjust our expectations to match reality. This may mean revising our goals and tasks or quitting projects. It may feel like failure in the moment, like giving up, but this ability is an opportunity to create success in the long term. Working with reality rather than against it can give us hope.
When we're feeling overwhelmed, we can easily fall into an allornothing (孤注一掷). We may overlook the things we manage to accomplish when we feel overwhelmed. But celebrating our small wins creates space for gratitude to take hold in our hearts. Trade our expectations for appreciation and our whole world changes in an instant. Celebrating wins (whatever size！) allows us to clearly see the progress we are making. Acknowledging our small bites and celebrating our wins however small makes us have a more accepting attitude toward the opportunities, the gifts and the joys in our lives.
1. The underlined phrase “go haywire” can be replaced by ________.
| A．be in a mess | B．become dull | C．bring surprises | D．change quickly |
2. What is the main idea of Paragraph 3?
| A．We fail to control our emotion sometimes. |
| B．We must learn to control our emotion well. |
| C．It is natural for everyone to feel overwhelmed. |
| D．Feeling overwhelmed is a big barrier to our life. |
3. What should we do when we can't control reality?
| A．Accept our failure and quit. | B．Change our goal based on reality. |
| C．Try our best to change reality. | D．Find a better way to realize our goal. |
4. What can we infer from the last paragraph?
| A．Small bites are better than big wins. |
| B．We should show gratitude to others. |
| C．Celebrating small wins helps us make progress. |
| D．We should appreciate even small achievements of ours. |
