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As years went by, I realized that one of the biggest problems of these adults are worry. A large majority of students were businessmen, executives, salesmen, engineers, accountants: a cross section of all the trades and professions—and most of them had problems! There were women in the classes — businesswomen and housewives. They, too, had problems! Clearly, what I needed was a textbook on how to conquer worry—so again I tried to find one.

I went to New York’s great public library at Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street and discovered to my astonishment that this library had only twenty-two books listed under the title WORRY. I also noticed, to my amusement, that it had one hundred and eighty-nine books listed under WORMS. Almost nine times as many books about worms as about worry! Surprising, isn’t it? Since worry is one of the biggest problems facing mankind, you would think, wouldn’t you, that every high school and college would give a course on “How to Stop Worrying”?

Yet, if there is even one course on that subject in any college in the land, I have never heard of it. No wonder David Seabury said in his book How to Worry Successfully: “ We grow up with as little preparation for the pressures of experience as a bookworm asked to do a ballet (芭蕾舞).”

The result? More than half of our hospital beds are occupied by people with nervous and emotional troubles.

I looked over those twenty-two books on worry, reposing (靠) on the shelves of the New York Public Library. In addition, I purchased all the books on worry I could find; yet I couldn’t discover even one that I could use as a textbook in my course for adults. So I decided to write one by myself.

1.What made the writer realise one of the adults’ biggest problems?

A. His wide reading.

B. His practical survey.

C. His scientific research.

D. His students’ real situation.

2.The writer went to New York’s great public library with the purpose of _________.

A. getting a book for his teaching

B. finding some material for his new book

C. obtaining some information for his research

D. borrowing some books on worms for his students

3.What do David Seabury’s words in Paragraph 3 show?

A. Worry is extremely common.

B. We lack knowledge of worry.

C. We show no interest in worry.

D. Worry can hardly be controlled.

4.The writer wrote the passage to __________.

A. show us how to conquer worry

B. warn us of the possible danger of worry

C. persuade us to get rid of worry

D. explain why he wanted to write a book on worry

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