Question

Do you get angry when your friends sing loudly while you are trying to work or when your best friend does not wait for you after school?

If you do, you need to take control of your feelings. Getting angry with others can cause you to lose friends.

Gary Ekberg, an American high school teacher, has written My Feelings Are Like Wild Animals to help you control your feelings. It tells how to stay cool when bad things happen.

The book says that getting angry only makes problems worse. It can never make them better.

“Getting angry is not a natural way to act,” the book says. It is just a bad habit, like smoking.

The book says you can control your anger easily---all you have to do is to tell yourself not to be angry.

The book gives many tips to help you if you get angry easily. Here are the top three.

Keep a record. Every time you get angry, write down why you are angry. Look at it later and you will see you get angry too easily.

Ask your friends to stop talking to you when you get angry. This will teach you not to be angry.

Do something different. When you get angry, walk away from the problem and go somewhere else. Try to laugh.

1.If you often get angry, _________.

A. nobody will wait for you after school

B. you will do worse in your study

C. you will have fewer friends

D. smoking can be a good help

2.Gary Ekberg is someone who __________.

A. knows how to control your feelings

B. makes a living by writing books

C. is fond of keeping wild animals

D. gets angry easily with his students

3.According to the book, one can put anger under control by _______.

A. staying away from other people

B. reminding yourself not to get angry

C. never talking with your friends

D. singing loudly to calm down yourself

4. From the 1st tip we can make the conclusion that __________.

A. writing helps to control one’s feelings

B. one’s anger is built upon one’s experience

C. people think better when they are calm

D. a good habit helps to take away a bad one

5.We can safely say from this passage that ______.

A. there are more than three tips in Gary’s book

B. Gary Ekberg never gets angry in his life

C. getting angry easily can’t be changed easily

D. school kids often get angry with each other

Answer 1