CTET Nov 2012 paper 02 Unseen Passage English. MCQ quiz with answers. Online quiz test.
Read the passage given below and answer the following question by selecting the most appropriate option.
Some researchers suggest that emotional intelligence can be learned and strengthened, whileothers claim it is an inborn characteristic. The purpose for developing our emotional literacy is to precisely identify and communicate our feelings. When we do this we are helping nature fulfill its design for our feelings. We must know how we feel in order to be able to fill our emotional needs. And we must communicate our feelings in order to get the emotional support and understanding we need from others, as well as to show our emotional support and understanding to them. Also, one of the first steps to developing our emotional intelligence is to improve our emotional literacy.
In other words, to improve our ability to identify our feelings by their specific names – and the more specific we can be, the better. In the English language we have thousands of words which describe and identify our emotions, we just don’t use many of them, If you are interested in working on your emotional literacy, the first step is to start using simple three word sentences such as these : I feel sad. I feel hurt. I feel offended. I feel appreciated. I feel motivated. I feel disrespected. When we talk about our feelings using three word sentences we are spendingwhat have been called ‘I messages’. On the other hand, when we say things like “You make me so jealous” weare sending a “you messages” typically put the other person on the defensive, which hurts communication and relationships rather than helping.