Unit 3 Getting along with others 知识点题库

! Better times may be ahead.

I hope my daughter was able to offer you some useful pointers.

It was 7:00 in the morning. I was on a train to another city when I started a 1 with a young man sitting next to me. From what he said, I 2 that he came from a farming family and was doing very well in the IT industry.

He was 3 enough to give me a window seat, help a co­passenger when he dropped his coffee, etc. These small acts showed what a good person he was!

I was lost in reading a biography(传记) on Arnold Schwarzenegger. As we know, his stories are really inspiring. Reading the 4 about him is great fun.

My co­passenger 5 to see the book, so I handed it to him. Minutes passed into hours. From the train window, I saw him reading the book carefully. Towards the 6 of the trip, I even saw him 7 everything about the book including the publishing house and the code number. He turned to me and asked 8 he could buy this book.

"You can keep it, "I said." This is the second time that I've read it anyway."

I was 9! Actually it was last weekend that my father gave the book to me. I loved it so much and how I 10 to hold on to it myself!11, when I thought of his kindness, I thought I should do something too.

"Wow, "the man said to me,"12 you so much. This is really unbelievable."

"No problem. Don't worry about it. "

I got off the train and walked into the new city with a sense of 13. I did not regret sending the book to him as it was really a good thing. Surely, even if we never knew each other's name, we should 14 each other. As someone ever said, anything 15 could make the world a better place to live in.

A friend is better than money. A friend is worse than poison in some cases. The two sentences above have opposite meanings and seem to be unreasonable, but they can be explained as follows: the first refers to all good friends who drive us towards good while the second all bad ones who lead us into bad ways.

My ideal(理想的) friend is of course a good friend whose goodness is shown below—he has no bad habits, such as smoking and drinking. He lives in frugality(节俭). He studies hard so as not to waste his golden time. At home he honors his parents and loves his brothers; at school he respects his teachers and shares the feelings of his classmates. He treats those truly who are true to him. In a word, he has all the good characteristics(特征) that I don't have. I can follow him as a model. With his help I can be free from all difficulties.

Indeed, if I have such a person as my friend, I shall never fear difficulty and I shall never know the existence of the word "failure".

It was 8: 00 a. m. Kathy, a 25­year­old nurse, had just finished a 12­hour night shifts at a hospital. She was tired, but glad to be sailing along highway to where she lived. Although the local government had posted a snow alert(预警), the calm grey sky convinced Kathy the drive would be safe. "I figured I'd be in bed in an hour," she says.

Snow began when she was halfway home. Listening to the radio, Kathy learned the highway was closed because a tractor had slid off the road. She texted some friends and her mom, and tried not to sleep as she waited.

After a couple of hours, however, conditions worsened. Strong winds began rocking Kathy's car. She couldn't see anything outside, and snow was drifting up her doors. It was, she says, "a total whiteout and rows of cars and trucks."

Late in the afternoon a police officer came and asked if she was in any difficulty. She said she was fine. She asked the police officer if there was any way to get past the trucks. "No, ma'am," he answered. "You're not going anywhere."

Once as it got dark, Kathy began to worry. She texted his brother Cris, telling him to drive snowmobiling buddy(雪地汽车) to get to the highway and find her.

As Cris rode slowly alongside the rows of cars and trucks, people would roll down their windows and ask for help. "I was the first person they'd seen in six hours." He explained he was picking up his sister. He told them, "Nobody's coming and I can't take you."

Near 10 p. m. Cris reached Kathy. He directed Kathy to pull her car onto the shoulder and asked her to get into his snowmobiling buddy.

As they headed for home, the fun started. About five kilometres into the journey, Cris made a mistake. What he thought was a shallow ditch(浅沟) turned out to be a deep trough(水槽). Instead of coming out the other side, they just kept going down. They were trapped. And feathery snow was over their heads.

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At that moment, they had to take action and get out.

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When Kathy arrived at her home, her mother was waiting for her.