Criticism (批评) is everywhere in life. It is up to you to decide how to react to it. Learn how to deal with criticism and lead a happier and more relaxing life.
Ask yourself how the criticism will affect you. Will you lose your job because of the criticism? Will you lose what is important to you because you are criticized? Will life stop existing if your opinions are not accepted? Surely not! So, don’t worry about it. Instead, remember that some criticism actually helps you make some improvements.
You absolutely cannot stop what people say. What you can do, however, is to change the way you react to criticism. If you let it upset you, then the blame is on you. You have the right to decide what to do with the criticism you receive.
Don’t be afraid to accept criticism. No one likes to be told that he is wrong. Yet, every single person has, at one time or another, been blamed for something. Realize that it’s normal. You may have received some strong criticism, but it doesn’t mean that you are foolish, or that you don’t have the ability to do something properly. If you are afraid to put your work out for others to see, you’ll never know if you are a capable person. Try not to think of it in that way and don’t take it seriously. If you can learn to be optimistic, you will remove some stress and nervousness about what people think, thus becoming happier.
Consider where the criticism comes from. It may help you step back and examine what causes the criticism. Is the critic just trying to offer constructive criticism? It is much easier to accept correction or guidance from someone that has good intentions. This type of criticism is known as valid criticism, because there is a valid point or reason to it. On the other hand, there are critics that offer their advice just to be negative. This is commonly referred to as invalid criticism because it is often not of any use at all.
Do your best. And if someone doesn’t like what you’ve done, so what? It’s either valid criticism or invalid criticism. But you have the power to decide how you will allow it to affect you.
Title: How to deal with criticism
| The author’s opinion about criticism |
Criticism is a (n) |
| Ways of dealing with criticism |
●Understand the 1) Some criticism won’t make a difference to you, so don’t feel 2) Some criticism can help you ●Change the way you respond to criticism and try not to be ●Accept criticism Receiving criticism doesn’t mean you are stupid or you are ●Be optimistic about criticism and you will become less stressed or ●Think about the It may be valid criticism or invalid criticism. |
| Take criticism as it is and remember you decide how you respond to it. |
第二节 语法填空（共10小题，每题2分，共20分）
仔细阅读下面短文，短文中有10个空格。请按照语境以及括号里的具体要求完成语法填空、词形变化等。答案填写在答题卡标号为16～25的对应位置。
Dear Mr. Costa,
I’m sorry it has taken me so long to write. I’ve been very busy with work and school, but I’ve thought about you often.
How have you been 16 (late)? Did you have a good Christmas and New Year’s? Mac says you’ve been working hard at 17 restaurant and that business is very good. What else have you been doing?
I had a short 18 good vacation. Mac and I went to Chicago for a few days before Christmas, but I had to come back and work 19 Christmas and New Year’s, 20 (include) Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve! Every time something like that 21 (happen), I wonder 22 I really want to work in the hotel business.
The other day I was thinking about the fun 23 we used to have in our English class. I haven’t seen many of our classmates 24 the course was over. In fact, the only one I see very often is Tomiko. I’d really like to get in touch with Franco. Does he ever write to you? If so, could you please send me his address?
Well, Mac and I are going skating and he is waiting for 25 , so I guess I’d better say goodbye now. Write as soon as you can.
Yours ever
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第四部分：书面表达 (共三节，满分 55 分)
第一节：短文填空（满分10分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词，使短文连贯通顺。请将答案填写在题后的答题处。
After two days’ travel, the girls began to realize that Canada is quite empty. At school, they had learned that most Canadians live 71 a few hundred kilometres of the USA border, and Canada’s population 72 only slightly over thirty million, but now they were amazed 73 see such an empty country. They went through a wheat-growing province and saw farms 74 covered thousands of acres. 75 dinner, they were back in an urban area, the busy port city of Thunder Bay at the 76 of the Great Lakes. The girls were surprised at the 77 that ocean ships can sail up the Great Lakes. Because of the Great Lakes, they learned, Canada has more fresh water 78 any other country in the world. In fact, it has one-third of the world’s total 79 water, and 80 of it is in the Great Lakes.
课文填空（共10 小题；每小题 0.5 分，满分5分）
根据所学课文在68-77的空格里填上所缺的单词，并将答案转写到答题卡上。
As you know, the UN 68 the lives of people everywhere. The organization is involved in peacekeeping 69 to help end some of the world’s horrible conflicts. Watch any TV report 70 places where there is a war, and you 71 s
ee soldiers wearing berets…
I have visited many countries in Africa. Recently, I was fortunate enough to travel to South Africa, where I met some women who have 72 themselves into a group. They 73 one rand (approximately 1.35 yuan) per day from each other and add it to a 74 of money the government gives them. With this, the women have enough money to buy 75 materials to make basket. They then sell these at the market. With luck their group will be able to expand and maybe set up a shop. This group was set up by UNIFEM, the United Nations 76 Fund for Women. There are lots of such programmes and funds under the 77 of the UN, and these have helped millions of people across the world.
第二节 短语填空（从下列短语中选出一个合适的并用其适当形式填入每个句子中，使其句意完整，共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
66． the sun does great harm to your skin so you should avoid doing so in daily life.
67．Nowadays plastics many conventional materials.
68．A terrible earthquake struck Wenchuan in Sichuan Province in 2008, many injuries and deaths.
69．With the development of science and technology, the young generation surfing the Internet and playing computer games, which has a bad influence on their study.
70．With the victim him attempted murder, the man was thrown into great depression.
71．It is unlikely for him to his boss, who is strict and mean, his innocence.
72．Super Junior, a band made up of 13 handsome boys, both boys and girls in the school.
73．Some scientific researches provide further support for the idea that even small differences in lifestyle may health in the population.
74．Look at the expression on his face! He must great difficulty in yesterday’s knowledge contest.
75． the car which was speeding, the traffic police decided to ask his colleagues to search for it.
第二节 语法填空（共10小题，每题2分，共20分）
仔细阅读下面短文，短文中有10个空格。请按照语境以及括号里的具体要求完成语法填空、词形变化等。答案填写在答题卡标号为16—25的对应位置。
The holiday’s upon us. After months of study, you have some time to yourself. So, why not read a book? Well, some people will say, ‘Why trouble with books? We have the Internet and 16 media that offer a lot more 17 (colour) programs. Books are history!”
But don’t be fooled. There’s still a lot to be said for reading and reading as widely as possible.
One clear reason is that a well-chosen book is a wonderful collection 18 words and expressions, so long as you have a good dictionary, of course. Believe me, it’s far easier to get new English words and expressions from a book or article 19 it is from the TV or the Internet.
But an even more important point is 20 books give you something that modern media simply can not: The webpage is always full of pictures and the text is often designed to make it as easy to read as possible.
Though “easy” may be welcome, 21 (luck) it’s of little use for any long-time development of reading skills and the general language level. For that, there’s still no substitute(替代品) for a book.
But perhaps the best single reason is that simply 22 (choose) what you read and doing it by yourself 23 (mean) that it’s something you do by and for yourself. You can choose what you want to read. It’s hard work, 24 while you are reading, you’ll find that what once 25 (seem) like a duty is now a pleasure.
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