Sometimes, words are just words. But some words can make the kind of effect I'd very much like to avoid for my children. I don't fear strong language; I fear language that makes us weak.

1.How did the author feel on hearing his kids saying "I hate you"?

　A. Depressed. B. Annoyed. C. Unconcerned. D. Excited.

2.Why won't the author allow the three words "I hate myself"?

　A. Because the effect of thinking in this way is negative.

　B. Because it hurts parents to hear their kids saying so.

　C. Because it doesn't make any sense to blame oneself.

　D. Because the impoliteness of saying so is unbearable.

3.Which of the following can replace the underlined word "linger" in paragraph 5?

　A. come to an end B. continue to exist C. begin to change D. become out of date

　　 People around the world are hungry to learn. Instructor Barbara Oakley discovered this when her online course "Learning How to Learn" attracted over 1.5 million students.

　　Part of the goal of her course-and her new book, Mindshift : Break Through Barriers to

Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential-is to expose some of the wrong views that get in the way of learning, like the fact that we think we're bad at math or too old to change careers.

" People can often do more change, change more, and learn more-often far more-than they've ever dreamed possibly," Oakley writes.

　　Oakley thinks it important to keep learning. Throughout her early schooling, she failed math and science classes, resisted family pressure and managed to obtain a science degree. Today she's professor of engineering at Oakland University, after many different jobs in between.

Besides being fun, Oakley explains, continued learning can serve us well in the workforce. Mindshift tells the story of one Dutch university employee who enriched