There are many benefits of friendship.     1     (general) speaking, close friendships have three “fruits”.

The first fruit is the peace that     2     (come) from sharing with friends our joy, sadness, success and failure. Friendship has a double advantage—happiness takes     3     a greater meaning and a trouble shared becomes a trouble halved!

The second fruit is the better understanding and judgement that may be achieved through conversations with friends. We often find it easier     4     (recognize) other people’s weakness than our own. As     5     result, our judgments might be one-sided if we are guided only by our own feelings. Also,     6     we want to talk our problems over with a friend, we have to put our thoughts into words first, which helps make our thoughts clearer.

The third fruit is the help that a friend may offer in many different ways. Friends can help us achieve anything     7     we want during life and perhaps, even after     8     (die).

Finally,     9     (enjoy) the company of a crowd is not the same as being with friends. Friends should     10     (choose) carefully. In this way, we can better walk the path of life.

One day, Mary was working in her office in London     1    she received an email from her friend Joan. In Joan’s email, she persuaded Mary     2    ( look) for a flat in London for her. As she had     3     (little) money than before, the flat had to be cheap, but it had to be modern, with elevators and gas lines. Though Mary found     4     difficult to find such a flat, she still went from one block to another, looking for a flat     5     would meet Joan’s requirements(要求). Having tried too many times, Mary came up     6     her boss and asked him for advice     7     (polite). It was the first time that she     8     (talk) with her boss about her personal problems. It happened that the boss just had such a flat for rent, so they quickly reached     9     agreement. But to her surprise, when she emailed Joan, telling her the good news, Joan said that she had changed     10     mind — she was not going to London.

Friendship is one of the most important things in everyone’s life.     1    is very difficult to find a better definition(定义)of friendship. A true friend is the person     2    can share all our sadness and double all our happiness. In time of trial(尝试), he or she is always at our side to give us his or her help and comfort. Knowing how    3     (value) friendship is, we should be very careful with our choice of a friend. We should choose those people with a good character    4     our friends, but we must try to avoid    5     (make) friends with a bad man. Besides, we should forgive their mistakes and try to help them as much as possible.

A true friend can always    6     (trust), loved and respected. If you tell a friend one of your    7     (secret), he or she won’t tell others. Friends share their joys and sorrows. They help each other when they are     8    trouble, and cheer each other up when they are sad.    9     most important thing is that a friend always understands you.

In conclusion,     10    you have made a good friend, don’t forget him or her.

When I married into a Chinese family, nobody ever warned me about the complicated " Chinese relatives name game". I would need     1    (explore) a world of completely novel terms for family members that have no exact equivalents in     2     (me) native language of English.

Consider this exchange that happened a few years ago while I was living with my     3    (in-law) in their rural village     4     Zhejiang Province during the summer holiday.

During dinner one evening, my sister-in-law said our mother-in-law     5    ( spend) the entire day planting the fields with     6     "jiujiu" , the Chinese term for uncles on the mother's side of the family.     7     as I understood, we only had two uncles we addressed with this term—Older Jiujiu and Younger Jiujiu. Neither needed help in the fields, especially the younger one     8    had just begun working as the village secretary. How could our mother-in-law     9    ( possible) have assisted someone     10    (call) jiujiu?

Two ladies living in opposite apartments say “hello” when they meet each other in the corridor. One of them says, “I moved here five years ago,     1     I never met you before. Could I ask your name please?” The other says, “I     2    (be) here for six years. How should I call you?”

It seems very ridiculous     3     people living so near don’t know each other for such a long time. However, You can find this kind of story     4    (perform) everywhere. It is the exact     5    (reflect) of interpersonal relationships in the modern world. In the modern world most people live in apartments. They close their doors and never go out as soon as they get home from work. If they live alone, they will kill their time     6    watching TV or reading magazines. They don’t have any connections even with their     7    (close) neighbors, who seem no different from people they meet every day in     8     street.

This phenomenon is no good to us, nor to our society. People will feel more and more lonely. The world becomes so indifferent. It’s time that we     9    (take) some measures to improve it. People living in the same place can     10    (organize) to have some activities. We should call on people to be friendly to each other.