Q: When it comes to relationship, we spend a lot of time discussing their joys, but rarely talk about the pain when they break down. Yet most people have a story about a broken relationship.

For Jane Black, a six-year friendship ended when her friend was rude to one of her children. "After quite a few drinks at a party in my house, she said something rude to my child. I ended the friendship face to face at the party," she says. "I didn't realize what I was doing at the time, I was simply standing up for my child, but in her eyes any challenge was a betrayal."

When Angela Thompson noticed a seven-year friendship disappearing, she let it go. "I didn't know how to deal with the issue. I didn't sit down for a grown-up conversation; I just walked away quietly." The decision caused a reaction among Thompson's other friends. "The other friends in the circle are the worst people when you are trying to break up with a friend," she says. "They don't want you to stop being friends, because it puts them in a difficult position. You get told to just get it over."

Though we have plenty of measures for handling conflict at work or family fight, we still don't have good ways of ending friendships. Do we sit down and properly break up, or just walk away? Psychologist Serena Cauchy has the following advice.

Don't blame.

Talk about your needs and feeling rather than talking like a Dutch uncle.

Do talk about your needs.

Talk about why the friendship is not working for you--about how your needs aren't being met.

Don't gossip.

Negative talk hurts everyone involved and in some cases can make matters worse.

Don't be so accessible.

If there is a common wish to conclude the friendship, then you can remove it.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is the profession of the person who gives advice in the story?
2. Is it a man or woman?
3. What is her first name?
4. And last?
5. What is her 1st piece of advice?
6. What does she compare talking about your needs and feelings to?
7. Does she recommend you gossip?
8. How does she feel about being accessible?
9. How long was the friendship that Jane Black ended?
10. Why did she end it?
11. Had her friend had anything to drink?
12. How many?
13. Did she end the friendship via email?
14. How then?
15. Did she realize what she was doing?
16. How did her friend see the challenge?
17. What did Angela Thompson do when she noticed a friendship disappearing?
18. Did she know how to deal with the issue?
19. Did she run away?
20. What did her decision cause among other friends?
A: 1. Psychologist
2. woman
3. Serena
4. Cauchy
5. Don't blame
6. a Dutch uncle
7. no
8. Don't be
9. six years
10. her friend was rude
11. yes
12. quite a few
13. no
14. face to face
15. no
16. as a betrayal
17. let it go
18. no
19. no
20. a reaction
Q: Hi there! How are you doing today? I was hanging out with my friend earlier today. I am looking for a guy in a blue shirt and blue pants. Have you seen him? I cannot find him, and I thought I looked everywhere. I have checked behind the green couch and he was not there. I looked inside the white refrigerator and he was not there either. I looked to the left and looked to the right of the television and he was not in those places either!

Where would you look for someone? Where would you look in their house? I think he could be in one of the other rooms here. I checked in the living room and it was empty. I checked in the bedroom and it was empty too! I knocked on the bathroom door and that was empty. It is easy to find him because he is in blue.

Wait, what's that? You said you saw someone in the kitchen? What were they wearing? Were they wearing a blue shirt? Oh they weren't? I think that could still be my friend! I'll head over to the kitchen, you can follow if you want. There's my friend! And he's wearing an orange shirt now; he must have left to change his shirt. Thank you so much!

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was I hanging out with?
2. Who am I looking for?
3. What color was the couch I looked behind?
4. Was my friend there?
5. Where did I look next?
6. Was he in it?
7. Where did I look around the tv?
8. Did I check the living room?
9. How about the back yard?
10. Which door did I knock on?
11. Why should it be easy to find him?
12. Did you see someone in the kitchen?
13. Were they in a blue top?
14. What color shirt is he wearing?
15. Did he change?
A: 1. my friend
2. a guy in a blue shirt and blue pants
3. Green
4. no
5. the white refrigerator
6. no
7. to the left and the right
8. yes
9. no
10. the bathroom door
11. he is in blue.
12. yes
13. no
14. orange
15. yes
Q: The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (stylized in its logo as abc since 1957) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the DisneyABC Television Group, a subsidiary of Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is part of the Big Three television networks. The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, with additional major offices and production facilities in New York City, Los Angeles and Burbank, California.

ABC originally launched on October 12, 1943 as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS and NBC. In the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop and greenlight many successful series. In the 1980s, after purchasing an 80% interest in cable sports channel ESPN, the network's parent merged with Capital Cities Communications, owner of several print publications, and television and radio stations. In 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABC's assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company.

Answer the following questions:
1. When did ABC launch?
2. Where is it headquartered?
3. Does it have locations elsewhere?
4. For example?
5. Who did they first merge with?
6. What kind of business is that?
7. Did they purchase another business?
8. What?
9. What's that?
10. Were they ever bought out?
11. When?
12. For how much?
13. By who?
A:
1. October 12, 1943
2. On Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan
3. Yes
4. New York City, Los Angeles and Burbank, California.
5. United Paramount Theatres
6. A chain of movie theaters
7. Yes
8. An 80% interest in ESPN
9. A cable sports channel
10. Yes
11. In 1996
12. unknown
13. The Walt Disney Company.