“Linda, if beating yourself up were an Olympic sport, you’d win a gold medal! An

“Linda, if beating yourself up were an Olympic sport,you’d win a gold medal!”

Annabel, my close friend, stunned（使…震惊）me with that frankobservation after I told her how I had mishandled a situation with a student ina third-grade class where I was substituting（代替）. “Ishould never have let him go to the boy’s room without a pass! It was my faulthe got into trouble with the hall monitor! I’m so stupid!”

My friend burst out laughing, and then made her“Olympic” comment. After a brief period of reflection I had to admit that shewas right. I did put myself down an awful lot. Why, just during the previousday I had called myself “a slob” for having some papers spread out on my desk,“ugly” when I left the house without makeup and “an idiot” when I left thehouse for an emergency substitute job without my emergency lesson plan.

In a more reflective tone, Annabel said, “I once tooka workshop at church where the woman in charge had us list all the mean thingswe say about ourselves.”

“How many did you have on your list?” I asked.

“Fifteen,” she confessed. “But then the teacher said,‘Now turn to the person next to you and say all the items on your list as ifyou were speaking to that person!’ ”

My jaw dropped，“What did youdo?”

“Nothing. Nobody did. We all just sat there, until Isaid, ‘I could never say these things to anyone else!’ ”

“And our teacher replied, ‘Well, if you can’t say themto anyone else, then don’t ever say them to yourself!’ ”

My friend had a point. I would never insult a child ofGod---and I’m God’s child, too!

God, today let me be as kind to myself as I would beto another of Your children.

1.What does Annabel mean by the first sentence of thepassage?

A．The writer isa good athlete.

B．The writerscolds herself too much.

C．She isencouraging the writer

D．A gold medalis not a big deal.

2.What does the writer intends to tell us through thesecond and third paragraphs?

A．She has lowself-esteem over some small things.

B．She oftenmakes serious mistakes in daily life.

C．She is athird-grade teacher.

D．She cares toomuch about her appearance.

3.We can infer that the underlined word “slob” mightbe _____.

A．somethinguntidy   B．someonedangerous C．somethingdirty     D．someone lazy

4.What can we learn about Annabel?

A．She used toput herself down a lot.

B．She oftengoes to church.

C．She was incharge of a workshop.

D．She used tobe too shy to talk to others.

5.What does the writer mean by the last sentence ofthe passage?

A．She is readyto turn to God for help.

B．She will bekind to all children.

C．She won’t insult(侮辱) herself aswell as others.

D．She iswilling to be a child of God.

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【答案】

1.B

2.A

3.D

4.A

5.C

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