填空题

Nonasserters(不表达自己的人) pay for not expressing themselves in several ways. The most (36) costs are social ones. Shy people make few new (37) and have a hard time building friendships with those people they do meet. They often wind up feeling (38) , even in a crowd, and thus become victims of unhappy social disease of loneliness. Even when they do mingle with others, nonexpressive people are often misunderstood. It’s easy to misinterpret the silence of shyness and discomfort for (39) , hostility, or snobbishness (势利).
Besides the social consequences, nonassertiveness takes a psychological toll on its victims. Three (40) often develop in people who are not able to express the full range of their feelings. Some simply withdraw from any kind of (41) contact with others, taking refuge in impersonal (42) : watching TV for hours at a time, wasting all their affection on such inanimate(无生命的) objects as cars or motorcycles, becoming (43) with earning money, or distracting themselves with liquor or other drugs. Other people deal with their improper communications by becoming cynics, claiming that people aren’t worth caring about anyway. A third group of Nonasserters react to their condition with despair at themselves. They claim that people are disgusting creatures and that life in this imperfect world is not worth living.
Reassertion also can have its physiological costs, often in the form of psychosomatic (身心的) illness. Psychosomatic disease is real: (44) . The characteristic that distinguishes a psychosomatic illness is that while the pain comes from a condition in the person’s body, (45) . Unassertive people often develop stress-related diseases as well as psychosomatic illnesses. (46) . Nonasserters(不表达自己的人) pay for not expressing themselves in several ways. The most (36) costs are social ones. Shy people make few new (37) and have a hard time building friendships with those people they do meet. They often wind up feeling (38) , even in a crowd, and thus become victims of unhappy social disease of loneliness. Even when they do mingle with others, nonexpressive people are often misunderstood. It’s easy to misinterpret the silence of shyness and discomfort for (39) , hostility, or snobbishness (势利).
Besides the social consequences, nonassertiveness takes a psychological toll on its victims. Three (40) often develop in people who are not able to express the full range of their feelings. Some simply withdraw from any kind of (41) contact with others, taking refuge in impersonal (42) : watching TV for hours at a time, wasting all their affection on such inanimate(无生命的) objects as cars or motorcycles, becoming (43) with earning money, or distracting themselves with liquor or other drugs. Other people deal with their improper communications by becoming cynics, claiming that people aren’t worth caring about anyway. A third group of Nonasserters react to their condition with despair at themselves. They claim that people are disgusting creatures and that life in this imperfect world is not worth living.
Reassertion also can have its physiological costs, often in the form of psychosomatic (身心的) illness. Psychosomatic disease is real: (44) . The characteristic that distinguishes a psychosomatic illness is that while the pain comes from a condition in the person’s body, (45) . Unassertive people often develop stress-related diseases as well as psychosomatic illnesses. (46) .