Relationship skills and social skills are referred to as "skills" for a reason — they require learning, practice, and improvement. Here are the best relationship books on the market, according to a licensed mental health counselor.
Best for Communication: 4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication in Love, Life, Work — Anywhere!
In this day and age, we could all use a refresher in terms of basic communication skills. This award-winning book — filled with how-to guides and exercise challenges — is a great place to start. Written with all kinds of relationships in mind, including family, dating, friendships, and even work relationships, it's designed to help you improve empathy, listening skills, and communication skills.
Best for Socializing: How to Become a People Magnet
Social anxiety is a common issue in our modern-day world among all age groups. This book, written by award-winning author Marc Reklau, provides 62 simple strategies (策略) to help you improve your social skills in everything from first impressions to deeper relationships. With a variety of strategies available, you can choose the ones that are best suited for your needs. This book is also beneficial for those working in sales or customer service — industries that frequently handle complaints or require making connections.
Best for Problem-Solving: I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships
In this bestselling book, author Michael Sorensen put relationship problem-solving skills into a three-hour read. It reads more like a conversation to help users understand the value of listening and validation in relationships.
Best for Personality Types: The Enneagram for Relationships: Transform Your Connections with Friends, Family, Colleagues, and in Love.
The Enneagram is one of the fastest-growing personality assessments and concepts in the world right now, and rightfully so. There are nine different personality types with up to 27 subtypes to help you understand yourself — aiding in connection with those closest to you.
Mary had struggled to find the right words to convey her thoughts and feelings ever since she was a child. She was often told that she was "too quiet" or "too shy", and as she grew older, she became increasingly self-conscious about her inability. It wasn't that she didn't have anything to say — far from it. Mary's mind was constantly racing with ideas and observations, but no matter how hard she tried, she just couldn't seem to get the words out.
"Mary, I need to talk to you," Mr. Thompson, the boss of Mary's new company, said one day, his voice serious. Mary's heart sank. "Don't worry," Mr. Thompson said, noticing Mary's panic. "It's not that kind of conversation. I just wanted to talk to you about something that's been on my mind lately."
He paused for a moment, collecting his thoughts. "I've noticed that you've been struggling a bit lately. It seems like you're having a tough time communicating with customers. I hear that you're proficient at writing. So why not join our Advertising Department? Besides, I have another suggestion…"
Mary kept nodding, unable to find the words to express her gratitude.
Following Mr. Thompson's suggestion, Mary joined a writing competition. She had always been a talented writer, and she knew that she had the potential to create something truly special. So she set to work, pouring her heart and soul into her essay. The words started flowing, and Mary found herself writing with a newfound sense of clarity and purpose.
The judges of the competition were amazed by Mary's essay, and they selected it as the winner. Mary was thrilled, and she was grateful to have finally found the right way to do a good job.
Cloning is a technique scientists use to make exact genetic copies of living things. Genes, cells, tissues, and even whole animals can all be cloned.
Some clones already exist in nature. Single-celled organisms like bacteria make exact copies of themselves each time they reproduce. In humans, identical twins are similar to clones. They share almost the exact same genes. Identical twins are created when a fertilized egg splits in two. Scientists also make clones in the lab. They often clone genes in order to study and better understand them. To clone a gene, researchers take DNA from a living creature and insert it into a carrier like bacteria or yeast (酵母菌). Every time that carrier reproduces, a new copy of the gene is made.
In 1996, Scottish scientists cloned the first animal, a sheep they named Dolly. She was cloned by using an udder cell taken from an adult sheep. Since then, scientists have cloned cows, cats, deer, horses, and rabbits. They still have not cloned a human, though. In part, this is because it is difficult to produce a viable clone. In each attempt, there can be genetic mistakes that prevent the clone from surviving. It took scientists 276 attempts to get Dolly right. There are also ethical concerns about cloning a human being.
An embryo made by cloning can be turned into a stem cell factory. Stem cells are an early form of cells that can grow into many different types of cells and tissues. Scientists can turn them into nerve cells to fix a damaged spinal (脊髓) cord or insulin-making cells to treat diabetes (糖尿病). Livestock like cows and pigs have been cloned to produce more milk or meat. Clones can even bring a beloved pet that has died back to life. In 2001, a cat named CC was the first pet to be created through cloning.
Back in the distant past, job candidates had interests or hobbies. For example, reading a book was a perfectly acceptable way of spending your spare time. No longer. Today you will probably be asked if you have a "personal passion project", and the more exhausting your answer sounds, the better.
Passion is becoming basic for workplace success. A new piece of research from Jon Jachimowicz and Hannah Weisman of Harvard Business School includes an analysis of 200 million job postings in America. It finds that the number which mentions "passion" rose over time, from 2% in 2007 to 16% in 2019.
On the surface this makes sense. Better, surely, for an employee to be enthusiastic than not. Most workers want to do a job they love; most companies want a workforce that is committed and motivated.
But passion can affect judgment. For firms, the obvious danger is rewarding commitment over competence. The super-keen employee who volunteers for everything may not be that great at their job. Some research finds that passion may indeed be blinding managers to reality: it finds that even when the performance of passionate employees is on the downward slope, they are still more likely to be given promotions than peers who tend not to say much.
There are only so many ways to communicate passion. Widening your eyes and nodding wildly: too weird. Jumping, cheering and sweating: even weirder. Working ever longer hours, on the other hand, is a fairly simple way to show that your commitment is beyond question.
It is great to feel passion for your job. But if you are up at 4 am for a meeting with Asia, constantly working on your holiday or have just been handed a mop (抹布) and a bucket by your boss, you are in the grasp of something that is not entirely healthy.
Developing and maintaining healthy friendships involves give-and-take. Sometimes you're the one giving support, . Letting friends know you care about them and appreciate them can help strengthen your bond. It's as important for you to be a good friend as it is to surround yourself with good friends. Here are some tips helping you nurture your friendships.
Be a good listener. . Then while listening, let the other person know you are paying close attention through eye contact, body language and occasional brief comments such as, "That sounds fun." When friends share details of hard times or difficult experiences, be empathetic, but don't give advice unless your friends ask for it.
Show that you can be trusted. Being responsible, reliable and dependable is key to forming strong friendships. . Follow through on commitments you've made to your friends. When your friends share confidential information, keep it private.
. Building a close friendship takes time — together. Make an effort to see new friends regularly, and to check in with them in between meet ups. You may feel awkward the first few times you talk on the phone or get together, but this feeling is likely to pass as you get more comfortable with each other.
Manage your nerves with mindfulness. You may find yourself imagining the worst of social situations, and you may feel tempted to stay home. Use mindfulness exercises to reshape your thinking. Each time you imagine the worst, pay attention to how often the embarrassing situations you're afraid of actually take place. .
Investing time in making friends and strengthening your friendships can pay off in better health and a brighter outlook for years to come.
A. Value the time spent with friends
B. and more often you should receive
C. Create more opportunities with friends
D. Ask what's going on in your friends' lives
E. and other times you're on the receiving end
F. Keep your appointments and arrive on time
G. You may notice what you fear usually doesn't happen
When I was 4 years old, my aunt put a pair of headphones around my ears one day. For the first time I listened to classical music. My first experience with it was 1 . The moment she put those headphones on, I stopped everything and stared 2 out into the universe, 3 by what was going on between my ears.
4 her, I had an early enjoyable experience with classical music that 5 my life path. I started taking piano lessons and composing my pieces of music at 9. In high school I 6 a band with my best friends playing and recording music and it had become a huge part of my life and 7 .
None of these, though, would have much story 8 without some complications. In college, I started ballroom dancing, and all of us began to pursue our individual life 9 .Music took a 10 seat until one day in 2017.
It was a usual Sunday afternoon and I played a bit on the piano, but this time was a little 11 . Somehow, something out of nowhere 12 me and I was motivated for action. How could I have given up on music? I went online immediately to buy some such 13 as micophone stands, a mixer and some good microphones to start recording. The things you don't do today will end up being the 14 of tomorrow.
So I started playing with 15 , writing and posting my own pieces showing my inner thoughts online. In a few months, I had dozens of pieces published and my 16 was on fire.
As more people began to listen to my music, I got 17 feedback. They said my music made them think and relax. I told them that I could 18 . For some it was even good sleep aid or a good way to 19 stress from a hard day at work. I began to realize that my music wasn't just for me — it could heal and 20 others in a meaningful way.
Less than a century ago, patients requiring a blood transfusion (输血) (be) in a race against time. There was no (organize) network for people to donate blood, and because blood was difficult (preserve), there was no way to store it for future use. Patients had to find their own blood donors before it was too late.
In 1937, after inventing a technique for preserving blood for up to 10 days, physician Bernard Fantus set up nation's first "blood bank" at Chicago's Cook County Hospital. At about the same time, surgeon Charles R. Drew figured out a method for separating plasma (血浆) whole blood, and found that if whole blood wasn't necessary, blood transfusions could be (successful) performed with plasma alone. Plasma could be dried for long-term storage in blood banks. As World War II (break) out, Drew and the American Red Cross launched a program to collect donated plasma in the U.S. and ship it to Britain, essentially (create) a national system for blood donation. During the war, he worked with the Red Cross to set up "bloodmobiles" — mobile blood donation centers made sustaining blood banks more (practice).
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：
1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
My father is a teacher. He is the man who lead our family. My mother is a housewife doing her housework based at the schedule she's comfortable with. She is the one who understands me best, always share things with me. I love my family because they are the jewels of their life. They do what they can meet my needs, which makes me love and respect my parents considerable more. We play game every night and discussed various topics to spend quality time together. I give a respect and pay the highest regard to my family not only because they are my family, and for their incredible sacrifices for me.
1）你对中国古典音乐的认识；
2）你是否喜爱中国古典音乐以及原因。
注意：
1）词数100左右；
2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Mike,
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Yours,
Li Hua
