I once believed that a friend is a friend "all the way". Now I have changed my ideas about friendships. 1. Friends of convenience. They can be the people who live next door or the mothers of our children"s closest friends. Friends of convenience (便利) are convenient indeed. They"ll help us when we need them. They"ll look after our cats when we go on holiday. But we don"t ever get too close or tell too much. We keep our public face and emotional distance, which means that we"ll talk about being overweight but not about being sad or disappointed. However, people still feel these friendships valuable to them. 2. Special-interest friends. These friendships aren"t deeply personal or emotional. Their value lies in some shared interest, so we may have an office friend, a tennis friend, or even a shopping friend. 3. Historical friends. We all have a friend who knew us when… maybe we were back in the second grade of primary school, when our family lived in that two-room flat downtown. He or she was the first, the only friend we told our secrets to. The years have gone by, and we have gone different ways. We have little in common now, but we"re still a personal part of each other"s past. We know how we looked before our teeth were straightened, and our getting together reminds us of an earlier part of ourselves, which is important and never lost. 4. Cross-generational friends. These are friendships that form across generations (代). I have in my own life a precious (珍贵的) friend, a woman of 65, who is wise, who listens well, and who represents not only an ideal mother to me but also the person I"d like to be when I grow up. Best friends, I believe, totally love, support and trust each other. |
Types of friends | Description of friends | Friends of convenience | They can be the 1_______ or the mothers of our children"s closest friends. They can 2_______ us when we are in need. Though we don"t walk about emotional topics, this doesn"t mean that there isn"t any 3_______ to be found in these friendships. | Special-interest friends | We usually 4_______ some interests with our special-interest friends, so we may have an 5_______ friend, a tennis friend, or even a shopping friend. | 6_______ friends | This kind of friendship was usually formed when we were children, so we know how we 7_______ before our teeth were straightened. Although we have little in common now, our getting together can 8_______ us of each other"s happy old days. | Cross-generational friends | Cross-generational friends usually aren"t from the 9_______ generation. A friend like this may 10_______ an ideal mother or the person I want to be when I grow up. | 选词填空。 | visit, list, much, to, lie, as, interest, friend, by, be | 阅读理解。 | Look! There are thousands of people waiting to buy tickets home in the railway station. Each time when Spring Festival comes, buying tickets of train trip would be very hard. And things seem to be getting worse and worse, although we have greatly increased the mileage of railway network and speeded up trains. Why? It"s because too many people want to go back home to spend Spring Festival with their family. Many people become angry with the Ministry (部) of Railways. They wonder why it is hopeless for them to get the tickets from the railway station (火车站) Instead, they sometimes can only buy them from ticket scalpers (票贩) at much higher price. The Ministry of Railways estimated (估计) that about 188 million passengers would travel by train during the 40-day peak (高峰) period surrounding the 2009 Spring Festival holiday. The number of travelers will be 8% higher than that of 2008. This problem even drew the President Hu Jintao"s attention. He wrote a note to Liu Zhijun,Minister of the Ministry of Railways, asking him to take action to improve passenger convenience. Afterward, officials from the Ministry of Railways said they would try their best not to let any ticket-buyers spend Spring Festival at the railway station. | 1. Many people can"t buy the tickets from the railway station, and they sometimes can only buy them from the scalpers ________. | A. expensively B. happily C. dangerously D. hardly | 2. How many people took the train trip during the peak period surrounding the 2008 Spring Festival holiday? | A. About 203 million. B. About 188 million. C. About 180 million. D. About 174 million. | 3. What does the passage mainly tell us? | A. People go home much more easily during the Spring Festival. B. It is very hard to buy tickets in the railway station during the Spring Festival. C. President Hu Jintao cares about the railway building problem. D. The Ministry of Railways felt sorry about the problem. | 完形填空。 | The United States is full of automobiles (机动车). There are still many families without cars. But some families have two or 1 more cars. However, cars are used for more than pleasure. They are a 2 part of life. Cars are used for 3 . They are driven to offices and factories by workers who have no other way to 4 their jobs. When salesmen are sent to 5 parts of the city, they have to drive in order to 6 their products. Farmers have to drive into the city in order to shop for necessities. Sometimes, small children must be driven to 7 . In some cities, school buses are used only when children 8 more than a mile from the school. When the children are too 9 to walk that far, their parents take 10 driving them to school. One 11 drives on Mondays, taking her children and the neighbors" children as well. Another mother drives on Tuesdays, another on Wednesdays and so on. This is 12 forming a car pool (拼车). Working people also form car pools, with three or four people taking turns driving to the place 13 they work. More car pools should be formed in order to put 14 cars on the road and to use less oil. 15 is a great problem, and so is the traffic in and around cities. Too many cars are being driven. Something should be done about the use of cars. | ( )1. A. even ( )2. A. great ( )3. A. families ( )4. A. get to ( )5. A. same ( )6. A. catch ( )7. A. cities ( )8. A. move ( )9. A. small ( )10. A. money ( )11. A. parent ( )12. A. call ( )13. A. where ( )14. A. more ( )15. A. Driving | B. much B. necessary B. business B. look for B. different B. create B. schools B. study B. big B. time B. child B. calling B. that B. fewer B. Running | C. little C. proper C. education C. find out C. every C. cover C. parks C. live C. young C. pride C. way C. to call C. which C. many C. Parking | D. such D. possible D. farms D. use up D. each D. carry D. gardens D. work D. old D. turns D. car D. called D. when D. less D. Forming |
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