【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 if we like them．If you want friends, keep your mind and heart open to friendship．Be alive to the other person’s world.56．This passage is mainly about_________________. A．the ways of talking to a shy person B．some favorable qualities to be a psychologist C．how to make yourself attractive to your listeners D．how to make a friend and be a friend57．The words “ bring him out of his shell” in this passage most probably means ____. A．make him bee active B．make him feel more nervous C．help him understand the question better D．help him listen intelligently58．According to the passage, an important way in making friends is to ________. A．a(chǎn)ttract them B．be attracted C．listen attentively D．talk widely59．The words “ Be alive to” in the last sentence of this passage most probably means________. A．be aware of B．keep with C．deal with D．be ignorant ofBDo you sometimes argue about what seems to you to be a simple fact ? Do you argue whether it’s cold outdoors or whether the car in front of you is going faster than the speed limit ?If you get into such arguments, try to think about the story about the six blind men and the elephant．The first blind man who felt the elephant’s trunk said it was like a snake．The second who felt the elephant’s side said it was like a wall, while the third said it was like a spear as he touched the animal’s tusk．The fourth, who had hold of the elephant’s tail insisted that it was like a rope．The fifth man said it looked like a tree as he put his arm around one the elephant’s legs.The sixth, who was tall and got hold of the elephant’s ears, said it was like a huge fan.Each man’s idea of the animal came from his own experience．So if someone disagrees with you about a “simple fact”, it’s often because his experience in the matter is different from yours.To see how hard it is for even one person to make up his mind about a “simple fact”, try this simple experiment．Get three large bowls．Put ice water in one．Put hot water in the second．Put lukewarm water in the third．Now put your left hand in the ice water．Put your right hand in the hot water．After thirty seconds, put both hands in the lukewarm water．Your right hand will tell you the water is cold．Your left hand will tell you it’s hot !60．What makes people think about simple facts differently ? A．The fact that simple facts differ from one another B．The fact that people have different experience in the same simple fact C．The fact that people often disagree with one another D．The fact that it’s hard to make up one’s mind about simple facts61．The writer’s advice is _______________. A．We should never think about simple facts B．We should never judge something with a onesided view C．We should not agree about simple facts D．We must learn from the six blind men62．After reading the last paragraph, we may think of __________. A．Newton’s law B．Galileo’s theory of falling objects C．Einstein’s theory of relativity D．Marx’s On Capital (資本)CHow should one invest a sum of money in these days of inflation(通貨膨脹)? Left in a bank it will hardly keep its value, however high the interest rate．Only a brave man, or a very rich one, dares to buy and sell on the Stock Market (股市)．Today it seems that one of the best ways to protect your savings and even increase your wealth is to buy beautiful objects from the past．Here I am going to offer some advice on collecting antique (古董) clocks, which I personally consider are among the most interesting of antiques．I sometimes wonder what a being from another planet might report back about our way of life．“ The planet Earth is ruled by a mysterious creature that sits or stands in a room and makes a strange ticking sound．It has a face with twelve black marks and two hands．Men can do nothing without its permission, and it fastens its young round people’s wrists so that everywhere men go they are still under its control．This creature is the real master of Earth and men are its slaves.”Whether or not we are slaves of time today depends on our culture and personality, but it is believed that many years ago kings kept special slaves to tell the time．Certain men were very clever at measuring the time of day according to the beating of their own hearts．They were made to stand in a fixed place and every hour or so would shout the time．So it seems that the first clocks were human beings.However, men quickly found more convenient and reliable ways of telling the time．They learned to use the