You wake up in the morning，the day is beautiful and the plans for the day are what you have been looking forward to for a long time. Then the telephone rings，you say hello, and the drama starts．The person on the other end has a depressing tone in his voice as he starts to tell you how terrible his morning is and that there is nothing to look forward to. You are still in a wonderful mood? Impossible!
Communicating with negative people can wash out your happiness．It may not change what you think，but communicating long enough with them will make you feel depressed for a moment or a long time．
Life brings ups and downs，but some people are stuck in the wrong idea that life has no happiness to offer．They only feel glad when they make others feel bad．No wonder they can hardly win others’ pity or respect．
When you communicate with positive people，your spirit stays happy and therefore more positive things are attracted．When the dagger(匕首) of a negative person is put in you，you feel the heavy feeling that all in all，brings you down．
Sometimes we have no choice but to communicate with negative people．This could be a co-worker，or a relative．In this case，say what needs to be said as little as possible. Sometimes it feels good to let out your anger back to the negative person，but all this does is to lower you to that same negative level and they won’t feel ashamed of themselves about that．
Negativity often affects happiness without even being realized．The negative words of another at the start of the day can cling to(附着) you throughout the rest of your day，which makes you feel bad and steals your happiness．Life is too short to feel negative．Stay positive and avoid negativity as much as possible．
5. The purpose of the first paragraph is to ______.
A. make a comparison B. offer an evidence
C. describe a daily scene D. introduce a topic
6. How can negative people affect us?
A. By changing our ways of thinking． B. By telling us the nature of life．
C. By influencing our emotion． D. By comparing their attitudes to life with ours．
7. Some negative people base their happiness on ______.
A. making other people unhappy B. other people’s pity for them
C. building up a positive attitude D. other people’s respect for them
8. According to the passage, to reduce negative people’s influence on us，we are advised to ______.
A. change negative people’s attitudes to life
B. communicate with negative people as little as possible
C. make negative people feel ashamed of themselves
D. show our dissatisfaction to negative people