Question

Your best friend is possibly the most important person in your life. But sometimes friendship’s road is not always smooth, or it’s a total dead end. What do you do when this happens?

Scenario(设想) 1: Drifting Apart(渐行渐远)

You’ve found that your friend no longer wants to jog (慢跑)with you. She’d rather hit the chat rooms, or she’s become crazy about hanging with her new interest.

It’s a bummer when old friends start having less in common. But it might still be worth trying to get into your friend’s new interest, trying something new on your own, or meet some new folks who like doing the things you enjoy. Another thing to try is talking to your friend about it- in a non-this-is-your-fault(过错) way. The goal is telling how you feel, not “winning”.

Scenario 2: Fights

“Yes, he is.” “No, he isn’t.” the argument could continue forever.

No matter how sure you are that you’re right, friendship is based on RESPECT. Since you and your friend aren’t clones(克隆), you will disagree sometimes! Is it worth fighting over? If it is trivial(无价值的), why not give it up? Agree to disagree(保留不同意见) and get on well with life. Even if you’ll never agree, try to see the other person’s viewpoint. At least honor his right to have his own opinions. Never get physical. Violence can make a small problem into a disaster.

Scenario 3: End of the Road

Is the friendship over? If you are not the one ending it, it feels as if a knife cut your heart into pieces. But the thing is that you can’t force someone to be your friend. Give yourself time. But don’t freeze in a looking-back, holding pattern(模式). Be open to new friendship. You never know when the “best friend forever” will come along.

1.The underlined word “bummer” in the third paragraph can be replaced by “________ thing”.

A. normal B. common

C. unpleased D. guilty（负疚的）

2.You are advised not ______ when your friend reduced communication with you.

A. develop the same interest as our friend does

B. blame（责怪） your friend for not being as friendly to you as before

C. give in to the friend who has hurt your feeling deeply

D. stick to the friendship that was built up in the past

3.In the writer’s opinion, showing disagreement ______________.

A. will surely lead to the end of a long friendship

B. shows that you don’t respect your friend

C. is natural and normal behavior of human being

D. means you have nothing in common with your friend.

4.The purpose of the passage is to teach you ________________.

A. how to mend a broken friendship

B. how to keep a long friendship

C. what to do when a friendship changes

D. what to do to win new friends

Answer 1

1.C

2.B

3.C

4.C

【解析】

试题解析：本题讲述了朋友对于每一个人来说都是非常重要的，但是友谊不可能一直持续不变，友谊也有发生改变的时候，当友谊变化时，我们可以做些什么来应对这种变化。

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3. matter how sure you are that you’re right, friendship is based on RESPECT. Since you and your friend aren’t clones(克隆), you will disagree sometimes!”中可以看出，作者认为毕竟每一个人都是不一样的，不是克隆人，所以有不一样的看法，这种行为是人类自然而又正常的行为。故选C。

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