蟑螂引发恐慌：从一个餐厅事件看恐惧的根源

One day at a restaurant, a cockroach (蟑螂) suddenly flew from somewhere and landed on a lady. The lady started shouting. She tried to use her hands to push away the cockroach, but it didn’t work. With the fact of getting away from it, she began to jump. She was so afraid that everyone in the group also got scared. They started to shout and jump, too. The lady finally pushed the cockroach away, but it landed on another lady in the group. Now it was the turn of a second lady in the group to act like the first lady. Everyone kept running here and there. How terrible! When the waiter saw it, he walked quickly towards them. During their running, the cockroach fell upon the waiter quietly. The waiter stood calm and watched the cockroach staying on his shirt. When he was confident enough without any second, he caught it with his finger and threw it out of the restaurant. Drinking my coffee and watching the whole thing, I had a few ideas and started thinking. Was it the cockroach that scared so many people? Was the cockroach really dangerous? If so, then why was the waiter so calm? He caught it with his fingers wisely, without any trouble. Surely it was not the cockroach, but the act and feelings of those people who saw the event that scared the ladies. I realize that it is not the shouting of my father or my mother or my boss that troubles me but it is that I couldn’t control my feeling well. That means it’s my attitude (态度) to the problem that makes trouble in my life. In other words, maybe you can’t run away from something terrible, but you can choose the way of treating. 16. B 17. A 18. D 19. A 20. A 21. B 22. A 23. C 24. D 25. B 26. A 27. C 28. B 29. D 30. A