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64. Which of the following would be a “brick and click” company? A. A restaurant. B. A clothing company with no website. C. A bookseller with five stores and a website. D. A video seller with a big website but no stores. 65. What did many traditional companies do in the mid 1990’s? . A .They went out of business. B. They made their websites. C. They bought Internet companies. D. They sold their companies. 66. What gave Internet companies lots of trouble in the late 1990’s?. A. Heavy competition B. They were short of money. C. They didn’t know what to do. D. people didn’t believe in them. 67. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A. All the “brick and click” companies run a successful business. B. “Brick and click” companies are certain to win the business competition. C. It is uncertain whether “brick and click” companies will win the competition. D. Both “brick and click” companies and Internet companies will be successful in the future. (D) Have you ever been afraid to talk back when you were treated unfairly? Have you ever bought something just because the salesman talked you into it? Many people are afraid to assert(维护，坚持) themselves. Dr. Robert Albert, author of STAND UP, SPEAK OUT and TALK BACK, thinks it is because their self-respect is low. “There’s always a superior around------ a parent, a teacher, a boss who knows better.” But Albert and other scientists are doing something to help people assert themselves. They offer assertiveness training courses, A. T. for short. In the A. T. course people learn that they have a right to be themselves. They learn to speak out and feel good about doing so. They learn to be aggressive without hurting other people. In one way, learning to speak out is to get rid of fear. A group taking an A. T. course will help the timid person to lose his fear. But A. T. uses an even stronger motive to share the need. The timid person speaks out in the group because he wants to tell how he feels. Whether or not you speak up for yourself depends on your self-respect. If your face is more important than you, you may feel less of a person. You start to doubt your answers to problems. However, once you get to feel good about yourself, you can learn to speak out. 68. The problem the writer talks about is that ________________. A. some people buy things they don’t want B. some people are afraid to speak up for their rights C. there are too many superiors D. some people don’t think enough of themselves 69. The cause of the problem talked about in the text is that _________. A. some people have a low self-respect B. there is always someone around who knows better C. salesmen talk people into buying things they don’t want D. people don’t share enough 70. The underlined word “timid” probably means “___________” in Chinese A. 胆小的 B. 优秀的C 勇敢的D. 无知的 71. One thing the A.T. course doesn’t do is to _____________. A. share the need of people B. show people they have a right to be themselves C. help people overcome fear D. help people to assert themselves even if others suffer (E) Parents often believe that they have a good relationship with their teenagers (青少年). But last summer, Joanna and Henry noticed a change in their elder son: suddenly he seemed to be talking far more to his friends than to his parents. “ The door to his room is always shut .” Joanns noted. Tina and Mark noticed similar changes in their 14-year-old daughter. “She used to cuddle up (蜷伏)with me on the sofa and talk,” said Mark. “Now we joke that she does this only when she wants something, Sometimes she wants to be treated like a little girl and sometimes like a young lady. The problem is figuring out which time is which.” Before age 11, children like to tell their parents what’s on their minds. “In fact, parents are first on the list.” said Michael Riera, author of Uncommon Sense for Parents with Teenagers. “This completely changes during the teen years.” Riera explained. “They talk to their friends first, then maybe their teachers, and their parents last .” Parents who know what’s going on in their teenagers’ lives are in the best position to help them. To break down the wall of silence, parents should create chances to understand what their children want to say, and try to find ways to talk and write to them. And they must give their children a mental break, for children also need freedom, though young. Another thing parents should remember is that to be a friend, not a manager, with their children is a better way to know them . (责任编辑：admin) |