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Unit 1 Sour Grapes Defense
Reading Comprehension
What do you do when you are faced with a bad situation? In fact, your mind
has ways of dealing with an unpleasant reality and protecting you. One of them
is displacement. It is expressing your feelings somewhere else. (a) For example,
you might get angry at your teacher. (b) But you know you will get in trouble if
you express your feelings to him or her. (c) You become angry at your family or
friends. (d) Denial is another common way to protect yourself from pain. This is
when you refuse to see any problems or bad situations. You believe that they are
not real. Finally, there is a “sour grapes defense.” In one of Aesop‟s fables, a
hungry fox wanted to have some grapes. But they were hanging high on the
tree, and he could not reach them. Then he said to himself, “The grapes are
probably sour anyway!”
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Reading Comprehension
What do you do when you are faced with a bad situation? In fact, your mind
has ways of dealing with an unpleasant reality and protecting you. One of them
is displacement. It is expressing your feelings somewhere else. (a) For example,
you might get angry at your teacher. (b) But you know you will get in trouble if
you express your feelings to him or her. (c) You become angry at your family or
friends. (d) Denial is another common way to protect yourself from pain. This is
when you refuse to see any problems or bad situations. You believe that they are
not real. Finally, there is a “sour grapes defense.” In one of Aesop‟s fables, a
hungry fox wanted to have some grapes. But they were hanging high on the
tree, and he could not reach them. Then he said to himself, “The grapes are
probably sour anyway!”
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