Life is filled with challenges. As we get older we come to realize that those challenges are the very things that __1______ us and make us who we are. It is the same with the challenges that come with __2______.
When we are faced with a challenge, we usually have two __3______. We can try to beat it off, or we can decide that the thing __4______ the challenge isn’t worth the __5______ and call it quits. Although there are __6______ times when calling it quits is the right thing to do, in most __7______ all that is needed is __8______ and communication.
When we are committed to something, it means that no matter how __9______ or how uncomfortable something is, we will always choose to __10_____ it and work it through instead of running away from it. Communication is making a __11______ for discussion and talking about how you feel as opposed to just saying what the other person did wrong. If you can say to a friend, “I got my feelings hurt.” rather than “You hurt my feelings,” you are going to be able to solve the problem much __12______.
In dealing with many challenges that friendship will bring to you, try to see them for what they are: small hurdles you need to jump or get through on your way through life. Nothing is so big that it is __13______ to get over, and hurt only __14_______ to make us stronger. It’s all part of growing up, it __15______ to everyone, and some day yo
u will look back to all of this and say, “Hard as it was, it makes me who I am today. And that is a good thing.”
1．A．design B．promote C．direct D．shape
2．A．confidence B．friendship C．pressure D．difficulty
3．A．opportunities B．expectations C．choices D．aspects
4．A．demanding B．deserving C．predicting D．presenting
5．A．comment B．loss C．trouble D．expense
6．A．seriously B．certainly C．scarcely D．closely
7．A．cases B．fields C．parts D．areas
8．A．assessment B．commitment C．encouragement D．adjustment
9．A．doubtful B．shameful C．harmful D．painful
10．A．keep B．control C．face D．catch
11．A．space B．plan C．topic D．rate
12．A．faster B．worse C．further D．slower
13．A．unnecessary B．important C．impossible D．illegal
14．A．serves B．means C．aims D．attempts
15．A．opens B．appeals C．turns D．happens