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A businesswoman got into a taxi in midtown. As it was the rush hour and she was in a__
1__to catch
a train, she__
2__a quick way to reach it. "I have been a taxi driver for 15 years!" the driver said__
3__.
"You don't think I know the best way to go?"
The woman tried to explain that she hadn't__
4__to annoy him, but the driver kept__
5__. She finally
realized that he was too annoyed to be__
6__, so she changed her__
7__. "You know, you are right,
" she told him. "It must seem__
8__for me not to think you know the best way__
9__the city."
10 , the driver glanced at his
11 in the rearview mirror, turned down the street she wanted and
got her to the train on time. "He didn't say another word the rest of the ride, "she said. "
12 I got out
and paid him. Then he thanked me."
When you find yourself
13 with people like the taxi driver, you will always try to
14 your idea. It
can lead to longer arguments, lose job chances or
15 marriages. I have discovered one simple
16
extremely unlikely method that can prevent the disagreement or other difficult situations from
17 in a
disaster.
The
18 is to put yourself in the other person's shoes and look for the
19 in what that person is
saying. Find a way to
20 , and the result may surprise you.
( )1. A. hurry ( )2. A. chose ( )3. A. jokingly ( )4. A. supposed ( )5. A. apologizing ( )6. A. reasonable ( )7. A. road ( )8. A. strange ( )9. A. across ( )10. A. Surprised ( )11. A. rider ( )12. A. until ( )13. A. satisfied ( )14. A. give up ( )15. A. combine ( )16. A. and ( )17. A. lying ( )18. A. problem ( )19. A. fact ( )20. A. agree |
B. rush B. made B. angrily B. expected B. driving B. thoughtful B. mind B. wrong B. at B. Worried B. speaker B. after B. concerned B. turn down B. destroy B. that B. resulting B. importance B. meaning B. argue |
C. moment C. found C. anxiously C. meant C. asking C. normal C. direction C. terrible C. through C. Annoyed C. helper C. because C. crowded C. stick to C. suffer C. but C. setting C. key C. expression C. escape |
D. way D. suggested D. curiously D. decided D. shouting D. practical D. manner D. stupid D. along D. Disappointed D. comer D. since D. faced D. point out D. divide D. though D. leading D. reply D. truth D. fight |