Sometimes, when physically disabled persons want to try out new things, their parents are at a loss at what to do about it. They are reluctant to let their “special" child go, because they are afraid of what might happen to them. Physically disabled people must also leam through their mistakes. Their parents cannot always shield them from hurts. Certain things happen to us in order to make us grow.
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I think that sometimes parents are scared to ask for help, when it comes to looking after a child such as this. I also think that there are plenty of people out there who want to get to know a physically disabled person, but do not know how to act towards a person such as myself. Shall I tell you how to act? Be yourself! Act normal! It really frustrates me when people act phony (虚伪)towards me, like a big shot because they talked to a person in a wheelchair! Don't kid yourself. I know a phony person when I see one! I don't take very kindly to them! If someone is shy, or feels awkward towards me, I usually talk first. Another thing that helps to “break the ice" and gets them to talk is, if I joke around about myself. After that, they are not afraid of me anymore. There's a big difierence between those people who are shy and those people who feel that they know everything about how they should treat physically disabled people. They are the ones who wonder why they didn't get a smile out of that "poor" person!
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There may be plenty of people in this world, who look after the physically disabled. I think that people from our Reformed circles should get more involved with this sort of thing. I also think that sometimes, the mentally handicapped people get a lot done for them, and that the physically disabled person doesn't get enough done for him/her. Many people don't realize it, but it is sometimes very difficult to look after someone in a wheelchair. Quite often, the task of looking after handicapped people is done by too few. It ties the same family members or friends down too much. We might appreciate their help more, if we saw a difierent face once in a while.
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There are also people outside of the home, who do spend time with us. These people, seem to have a natural instinct about how it is, we would like to be treated. They're the kind of people we, as physically disabled people, like making friends with. Just come over, and talk to us, you may be pleasantly surprised! I am very grateful for what my family and friends do fbr me. Not every physically disabled or able-bodied person, fbr that matter, is as fortunate as I am, to have people, such as these, in my life. There are many people I would like to thank. The people, I'd like to mention in particular, are those who work at Anchor Home, and the Red Cross/VON Homemakers. It is my hope, that in reading this, many more able-bodied people will take an interest in working with those of us, who are handicapped. More things are being done today for people, like myself, than ever before! There should also be more programs made available for us. These days, more and more people are thinking better of those of us, who are physically disabled than, they were a long time ago. More things are being done for them. They are allowed to be in the open now, and are not just being shoved aside (推至U 一边)and forgotten about.
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Section C
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
Communications technologies are far from equal when it comes to conveying the truth. The first study to compare honesty across a range of communication media has found that people are twice as likely to tell lies in phone conversations as they are in emails. The fact that emails are automatically recorded 一and can come back to haunt you一appears to be the key to the finding.
Jeff Hancock of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, asked 30 students to keep a communications diary for a week. In it they noted the number of conversations or email exchanges they had lasting more than 10 minutes, and confessed to how many lies they told. Hancock then worked out the number of lies per conversation for each medium. He found that lies made up 14 per cent of emails, 21 per cent of instant messages, 27 percent of face-to-face interactions and an astonishing 37 percent of phone calls.
His results, to be presented at the conference on human-computer interaction in Vienna, Austria, in April, have surprised psychologists. Some expected e-mailers to be the biggest liars, reasoning that because deception makes people uncomfortable, the detachment of e-mailing would make it easier to lie. Others expected people to lie more in face-to-face exchanges because we are most practiced at that form of communication.
But Hancock says it is also crucial whether a conversation is being recorded and could be reread, and whether it occurs in real time. People appear to be afraid to lie when they know the communication could later be used to hold them to account, he says. This is why fewer lies appear in email than on the phone.
People are also more likely to lie in real time一in an instant message to phone call, say 一than if they have time to think of a response, says Hancock. He found many lies are spontaneous responses to an unexpected demand, such as: "Do you like my dress?,,
Hancock hopes his research will help companies work out the best ways for their employees to communicate. For instance, the phone might be the best medium for sales where employees are encouraged to stretch the truth. But, given his result, work assessment, where honesty is a priority, might be best done using email.
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