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 Egeberg, 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.

l         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.

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

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

(   )61.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 less friends            D. smoking can be a good help

(   )62.Gary Egeberg 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

(   )63.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

(   )64.From the 1^st 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

(   )65.We can safely say from this passage that ______.

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

B. Gary Egeberg never gets angry in his life

C. getting angry easily can’t be changed easily

D. school kids often get angry with each other

Peter is a small boy. He lives with his parents in a small house near some hills. The people there are all poor.

　　One night it is very dry and windy.

　　When everybody is asleep, Peter suddenly hears some noise. It comes out from the kitchen (厨房). He gets up and walks to the kitchen. He finds that the wood beside the stove (火炉) is burning . There is no water tap (水龙头) in the house , so he can not put out the fire . He shouts loudly to wake up everyone in the house. Then he runs out of his house and knocks on the doors of many houses to wake the people up. They all leaves their houses quickly.

　　At last the fire is put out by the firemen. Many houses are burnt. But nobody is burnt in the fire.

(　 )58. Peter lives with his______.

　　 A．sisters　　B．brothers　C．uncles　　D．parents

(　 )59. ______, so he can not put out the fire.

　　A．Everybody is asleep　　B．He can’t shout loudly

　　C．The kitchen is very big　　D．there is no water tap in the house

(　 )60. Peter knocks on the doors of many houses______.

　　A．to wake the people up　　B．to get some water　

C．to find his classmates　 D．to visit them

(　 )61. ______hurt in the fire.

　　A．People in other houses are　　B．Peter's parents are C．Nobody is　　D．Peter is

Did you know that a new weblog is being created each second? Many of these bloggers are teenagers. While their parents wrote in a diary to express their emotions, or shared their interests by spending time with friends, teens are now using blogs instead. In fact, in the US, one in every five school-aged teens has a blog. Most of these are just chatter, some are funny or clever, but a few have become Internet success.
For example, Chloe Spencer’s blog ‘Neopets Fanatic’ gets around 300,000 hits per month. When Chloe was 15, she started the blog out of her strong liking for Neopets, a kind of pet website. One reason her blog has so many visitors is because she gives instructions and tips for the popular pet site.

Then there is Tavi Gevinson’s blog ‘Style Rookie’. It is said to get 1.5 million hits per month. Tavi, who started her blog when she was just 12, puts up her photos of her own clothes online as well as designers’ collections. Tavi’s blog has caught on because she knows a lot about style for someone so young, and she is not afraid to try out unusual clothes or see things in a different way.
Blogs like these are interesting, but they only become really popular after better-known websites link to them or they get noticed by the media(传媒). For example, Tavi’s blog became an overnight(一夜之间) success after being written about in The New York Times. Popular blogs can even earn money, usually from advertisements that companies pay to put up on the bloggers’ sites.
So for some, blogging is just a recreation(消遣), but for others, it can become a source of income and even a full-time job!
【小题1】 Teens nowadays ________ than their parents did.