Part B Reading
Hurt
Generally speaking, sometimes a hurt to feelings causes much greater harm than an injury. The latter will heal by care and nourishment while the former is sometimes so deep as to leave behind a life-long suffering.
Love is so much valued because it is one of the most beautiful flowers of youth, the golden time of one’s life. When love comes it will bring us great happiness if we are able to deal with it correctly.Otherwise, it will cause a hurt to us. In my opinion, nothing other than a hurt received in love affairs is likely to affect one more severely. There is such a kind of person who does not love her admirer but somehow or other accepts the latter’s affection, trying to cover it up by such a cheap excuse as “I’m afraid of hurting him. ” But the facts is her doing so is itself a real hurt.
Remember love is mutual. If you don’t have the same affection as the person who falls in love with you does towards you, you never turn round to look even if there is a tearful pleading face. That is just bad feelings at that time. As time goes on his grief will go off itself little by little. There will be a day when he finds his own happiness. You will then be pleased to see that now he has got a reciprocal love.
Go ahead holding up your head. Don’t be disturbed by your refusal to accept his love for it is not your fault. On your road, you will find flowers here and there, among which you can pick the one you like and are satisfied with.
When you look back at the end of the road, the person whose love you once didn’t accept will be the one forever grateful to you and wishing you well and happy, for you gave him respect instead of doing hurt.
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Exercises
Task One Answer the following questions according to the text.
1. What kind of hurt causes much greater to a person?
2. What is so valued in the golden time of one’s life?
3. Why shouldn’t you be disturbed by your refusal to accept somebody’s love?
4. What should you do if you don’t have the same affection as the person who falls in love with you does towards you?
5. Please tell us a moving love story.
Task Two Match the words.
1. affect A. harm done to a person or an animal’s body
2. affection B. to become healthy again
3. injury C. food that is needed to stay alive
4. mutual D. to produce a change in sb./sth.
5. heal E. strictly
6. nourishment F. a person’s feeling of love
7. severely G. responsibility for being wrong
8. disturb H. a feeling of great sadness
9. fault I. common to or shared by two or more parties
10. grief J. to interrupt sb. when they are trying to work, sleep, etc.
Task Three Fill in the blanks with the words given below. Change the word forms if necessary.(https://www.daowen.com)
1. The_______________of regular exercises should not be underestimated.
2. Nothing you say will_______________my decision.
3. His interest in this subject increases_______________.
4. He was filled_______________when he heard of the bad news.
5. It was his_______________that we were late.
6. Two players are out of the team because of_______________.
7. The pupil gave the teacher his_______________for being late.
8. Lies cannot_______________the facts.
9. Anne had two men trying to win her_______________.
10. We’re sure you’ll_______________this product.
Task Four Cloze.
( ) 1. A. most B. more C. mostly D. much
( ) 2. A. came B. comes C. come D. comes to
( ) 3. A. to B. on C. with D. of
( ) 4. A. On B. At C. From D. In
( ) 5. A. who B. which C. whom D. /
( ) 6. A. trying B. tryed C. trys D. try
( ) 7. A. to B. with C. of D. on
( ) 8. A. at B. round C. off D. toward
( ) 9. A. ahead B. away C. off D. out
( ) 10. A. happy B. happily C. happyness D. happiness
Task Five Order the words to make a sentence.
Task Six Translate the following sentences into English and use the given words or phrases.
