52. Which of the following is true?

　A. what you value above anything is the friendship developing during childhood

　 B. the friendship developing during your school days will be with you for a long time

　 C. only through your friends’ influence will you take the responsibility for your task

　 D. if you have no music in you, none of your friends will be a music lover

51. The first paragraph tells us _______.

　 A. how to make a true friend

　 B. we should make our friends in the childhood

　 C. what is friendship based on

　 D. friends play a very important part in our life.

50. Choose the best title fro the passage.

　A. An Earthquake　　 　　　　　　　B. A Scientist and an Earthquake

　C. How to Fight Against Earthquake　　 D. Earthquakes Today and Tomorrow

B

Friends play a very important role in everyone’s life. Friendship usually develops during childhood. New friends are made when you progress through school. Those friends that you make as a student can usually last long. Friends influence your development, maturity and sense of responsibility. A familiar expression is “you can tell a lot about a person by knowing who his friends are.” Friendship is based on common interests. If you like sports, most of your friends are likely to be athletic. If you enjoy reading and shopping, most of your friends do the same.

Some people call you their friends for the wrong reasons. These people are not really friends. They are superficial only “friends” on the outside, not the inside where it counts. Superficial friends only want to be your friends if it is their advantage. True friends are there whether you are rich or poor. It is easy to have many so–called “friends” if you are rich. By this time, you should be able to separate your friends into the real or the “phoney”.

True friends are most special. They are also difficult to find. You can consider yourself very lucky if you have one true friend. This friend is eager to help you whenever necessary. He or she knows you would do the same for them. A true friend is someone you can talk to about any subject or problem. You and your friend have good understanding of each other. True friends support you, take your side, and build up your confidence.

49. In the future we’ll be no longer so afraid of earthquakes ______.

　A. with the help of scientists’ exact prediction (预报)

　B. because of a map showing the “earthquake belts”

　C. because we can guess the date and place of earthquakes

　D. as scientists know what to do and how to do it

48. A map showing the earthquake belts will tell people ______.

　A. what kind of houses to build

　B. what kind of houses can stay up in an earthquake

　C. where earthquake may happen

　D. how to keep themselves safe during an earthquake

47. An earthquake happens _______.

　A. as a result of rock plate sudden movement

　B. that there are so many plates on the earth

　C. that the sea is too deep

　D. rocks’ cracking open

45. Jack insisted that we _________ (not give up) our project that we had made great efforts.

44. He has made up his mind _________ (go) into business when he leaves college.

43. It was last week ____________ we sold our old car to a Mexican.