A. 阅读短文,完成下列任务。
If someone asks you to describe yourself, what would you say? It can be difficult at times to think about your personal features or characters in an objective way.
Our characters mainly make up who we are, and are about how we are thought of by other people around us. Here are some common characters. Believe it or not, some of them are negative. Let's have a look at them.

Of course, there are also many other words to describe our characters. And it is impossible that a person has only a single one. You can get to know what kind of person you are by asking yourself some searching questions like "When and where are you the happiest?""What kind of friend do you like best?""If you win the lottery(彩票) , how will you spend the money?"
You can change your negative characters by taking active steps in your daily life to become a better person. Taking up a hobby is a great way. Sports can help you learn teamwork. Arts can make you more patient. Even just reading a book can push you to be better. Why not try some of them?
任务一:阅读短文,提取下列信息。
1. 下列选项中,能放进“ ▲ ”的是: 。
A. lazy B. crazy C. hard-working
2. 短文中出现的积极性格有 、、 ,消极性格有 、、。
3. 在短文中用“”标出改变消极性格的三种方法。
4. 用一句话概括本文主旨。(no more than 20 words)

任务二:仿照短文中的画线句子,描述你如何改变自己的一个小缺点。

任务一：
1. A
2. clever; creative; sociable; lazy; careless; selfish
3. 标出内容：Taking up a hobby; Doing sports; Learning arts / Reading a book
4. It introduces common characters and ways to improve negative ones.
任务二：示例：I can change my laziness by finishing my homework on time every day to be a more hard-working student.

任务一1：根据▲后的释义“hating to work or doing little（厌恶劳作、很少做事）”，A选项lazy意为懒惰的，和释义匹配；crazy（疯狂的）、hard-working（勤奋的）均不符合含义，因此选A。
任务一2：根据思维导图的内容，左侧三个是正向定义的积极性格，右侧三个是负向定义的消极性格，直接提取对应词汇即可。
任务一3：定位文章最后一段，可找到文中给出的三种改变消极性格的方法，符合原文表述即可。
任务一4：通读全文可知，文章先介绍了常见的不同性格，再说明如何改正消极性格成为更好的人，提炼出不超过20词的主旨即可。
任务二：仿照画线句“主语+change+自身缺点+by+具体行动+to do”的结构，写出逻辑通顺、符合语法的句子即可，答案不唯一。