Shyness is the cause of much unhappiness for a great many people. Shy people are (32) and self-conscious; that is, they are (33) concerned with their own appearance and actions. (34) thoughts are (35) occurring in their minds. What kind of impression am I makingIt is obvious that such (36) feelings must affect people adversely. A person’s self-concept is (37) in the way he or she behaves, and the way a person behaves affects other people’s reactions. (38) , the way people think about themselves has a profound effect on all areas of their lives.Shy people, having low (39) , are likely to be passive and easily influenced by others. They need reassurance (40) they are doing "the right thing". Shy people are very (41) to criticism; they feel it (42) their inferiority. A shy person may (43) to a compliment with a statement like this one: "You’re just saying that to make me feel good." It is clear that, (44) self-awareness is a healthy quality, overdoing it is harmful.Can shyness be completely eliminated, or at least (45) Fortunately, people can over-come shyness with determined and patient effort in building self-confidence. Since shyness goes (46) with lack of self-esteem, it is important for people to accept their weakness as well as their strengths. For example, most people would like to be "A" students in every subject. It is not fair for them to (47) themselves inferior because they have difficulty (48) some areas. People’s expectations of themselves must be (49) .Each one of us is a unique, worthwhile individual. The better we understand ourselves, the easier it becomes to (50) our full potential. Let’s not allow shyness to block our chances for a rich and (51) life. 43().
A. remark
B. react
C. respond
D. reject
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Shyness is the cause of much unhappiness for a great many people. Shy people are (32) and self-conscious; that is, they are (33) concerned with their own appearance and actions. (34) thoughts are (35) occurring in their minds. What kind of impression am I makingIt is obvious that such (36) feelings must affect people adversely. A person’s self-concept is (37) in the way he or she behaves, and the way a person behaves affects other people’s reactions. (38) , the way people think about themselves has a profound effect on all areas of their lives.Shy people, having low (39) , are likely to be passive and easily influenced by others. They need reassurance (40) they are doing "the right thing". Shy people are very (41) to criticism; they feel it (42) their inferiority. A shy person may (43) to a compliment with a statement like this one: "You’re just saying that to make me feel good." It is clear that, (44) self-awareness is a healthy quality, overdoing it is harmful.Can shyness be completely eliminated, or at least (45) Fortunately, people can over-come shyness with determined and patient effort in building self-confidence. Since shyness goes (46) with lack of self-esteem, it is important for people to accept their weakness as well as their strengths. For example, most people would like to be "A" students in every subject. It is not fair for them to (47) themselves inferior because they have difficulty (48) some areas. People’s expectations of themselves must be (49) .Each one of us is a unique, worthwhile individual. The better we understand ourselves, the easier it becomes to (50) our full potential. Let’s not allow shyness to block our chances for a rich and (51) life. 47().
A. define
B. regard
C. label
D. imagine
I am a very lucky girl and my family is the nicest in the world. Mummy and Daddy are important of course and when we’re out we have to behave properly but when we’re at home we play and laugh and have lots of fun. "You spoil them!" Mummy says, and she frowns and folds her arms in front of her but then she laughs and kisses him so I know she’s not really serious. We have all sorts of games like the one where the hall is the world and the tables and chairs are different countries. Then Daddy tells us all about his travels, but he says the best thing was when he met Mummy and fell in love with her. "Now that’s a happy ending," he says.He’s a wonderful Daddy and is always nice and funny. When Mummy sighs and says she’s getting lots of white hairs he laughs and says, "I’ll be getting them soon and then we’ll be two little old people nodding off on the terrace together", then he hugs her till she cheers up. And he lets me ride on his back and gallops round the room making horse noises, then rolls on the floor. Or sometimes we play Hide and Seek or Blind Man’s Buff, even if Daddy doesn’t really like it. "I want to see everything all the time," he says, "Just look at my beautiful wife and fine children!" but then he laughs and plays it anyway, so he really is a good Daddy.Nobody is as nice as my Daddy and when I was little I wanted to marry him. Well, I was just little. When I told him he said, "What about Mummy You don’t want me make Mummy unhappy, do you" Of course I didn’t, and he said that I would always be his best and favourite girl and that we would always be special friends, but really special like brother and sister. Even if I’ve got a brother but he is very serious—lots more serious than Daddy.Mummy is nice too but in a different way. Daddy plays with us and makes us laugh and Mummy tells us bedtime stories. I like the ones she tells about when she was little and learning how to be a queen. She says her Mummy and Daddy were very strict and never had any fun and she only started having fun when she met Daddy. Then she tells us about how they met and it is wonderful story, just like the old tales but not scary like them. Well, the first part is scary because Daddy had to get past a monster but then he met Mummy and they loved each other at once. "It was just like we’d always known each other," says Mummy, "as if we were part of each other", then she smiles and I know she’s remembering.When Daddy tells the story, my brother wants to hear about the monster and Daddy makes a joke of it because he knows I don’t like monsters and terrible things. " It wasn’t much of a monster," he says, "I would make a better monster. It didn’t attack me and finish me off. It wanted to talk and play guessing games. " Then he laughs.That’s my favourite story because Daddy is the hero in it and everyone lives happily ever after. It can be concluded from the passage that ().
A. Daddy is cautious and happy
B. Mummy is good at telling jokes
C. the children of the family are disciplined
D. their parents are the nicest in the world
Shyness is the cause of much unhappiness for a great many people. Shy people are (32) and self-conscious; that is, they are (33) concerned with their own appearance and actions. (34) thoughts are (35) occurring in their minds. What kind of impression am I makingIt is obvious that such (36) feelings must affect people adversely. A person’s self-concept is (37) in the way he or she behaves, and the way a person behaves affects other people’s reactions. (38) , the way people think about themselves has a profound effect on all areas of their lives.Shy people, having low (39) , are likely to be passive and easily influenced by others. They need reassurance (40) they are doing "the right thing". Shy people are very (41) to criticism; they feel it (42) their inferiority. A shy person may (43) to a compliment with a statement like this one: "You’re just saying that to make me feel good." It is clear that, (44) self-awareness is a healthy quality, overdoing it is harmful.Can shyness be completely eliminated, or at least (45) Fortunately, people can over-come shyness with determined and patient effort in building self-confidence. Since shyness goes (46) with lack of self-esteem, it is important for people to accept their weakness as well as their strengths. For example, most people would like to be "A" students in every subject. It is not fair for them to (47) themselves inferior because they have difficulty (48) some areas. People’s expectations of themselves must be (49) .Each one of us is a unique, worthwhile individual. The better we understand ourselves, the easier it becomes to (50) our full potential. Let’s not allow shyness to block our chances for a rich and (51) life. 42().
A. confirms
B. suspects
C. sympathizes
D. supports
At the fall 2001 Social Science History Association convention in Chicago, the Crime and Justice network sponsored a forum on the history of gun ownership, gun use, and gun violence in the United States. Our purpose was to consider how social science history might contribute to the public debate over gun control and gun rights. To date, we have had little impact on that debate. It has been dominated by mainstream social scientists and historians, especially scholars such as Gary Kleck, John Lott, and Michael Bellesiles, whose work, despite profound flaws, is politically congenial to either opponents or proponents of gun control.① Kleck and Mark Gertz, for instance, argue on the basis of their widely cited survey that gun owners prevent numerous crimes each year in the Untied States by using firearms to defend themselves and their property. If their survey respondents are to be believed, American gun owners shot 100,000 criminals in 1994 in self-defense—a preposterous number. Lott claims on the basis of his statistical analysis of recent crime rates that laws allowing private individuals to carry concealed firearms to deter murders, rapes ,and robberies, because criminals are afraid to attack potentially armed victims. However, he biases his results by confining his analysis to the year between 1977 and 1992, when violent crime rates had peaked and varied little from year to year. He reports only regression models that support his thesis and neglects to mention that each of ’those models find a positive relationship between violent crime and real income, and inverse relationship between violent crime and unemployment.Contrary to Kleck and Lott, Bellesiles insists that guns and America’s "gun culture" are responsible for America’s high rate of murder. In Belleville’s opinion, relatively few Americans owned guns before the 1850s or know how to use, maintain, or repair them. As a result, he says, guns contributed little to the homicide rate, especially among Whites, which was low everywhere, even in the South and on the frontier, where historians once assumed gun and murder went hand in hand. According to Bellesiles, these patterns changed dramatically after the Mexican War and especially after the Civil War, when gun ownership became widespread and cultural changes encouraged the use of handguns to command respect and resolve personal and political disputes. The result was an unprecedented wave of gun-related homicides that never truly abated. To this day, the United States has the highest homicide rate of any industrial democracy. Bellesile’s low estimates of gun ownership in early America conflict, however, with those of every historian who has previously studied the subject and has thus far proven irreproducible. Every homicide statistic he presents is either misleading or wrong.Given the influence of Kleck, Lott, Bellesiles and other partisan scholars on the debate over gun control and gun rights, we felt a need to pull together what social science historians have learned to date about the history of gun ownership and gun violence in America, and to consider what research methods and projects might increase our knowledge in the near future. ② With which of the following will Bellesiles most probably agree().
A. Gun control should be tightened.
B. Guns have little to do with murder.
C. Gun culture was the result of high homicide rates in America.
D. The statistics that earlier historians produced of gun ownership is reliable.