2 . Few Americans stay in one place for a lifetime. We______from the city to the suburbs，from high school to college in a different state, from a job in one region to a better job______, from the home where we______our children to the home where we plan to live in______. With each move we are______making new friends, who become part of our new life.

For many of us the summer is a special time for forming new______. Today, millions of Americans go on vacation______, and they go not only to see new sights but also — in those places where they do not feel too______— with the hope of meeting new people. No one really______a vacation trip to produce a close friend, but the beginning of a friendship is possible. Surely in every country people______friendship？

The word “friend” to American people can be______to a wide range of relationships — to someone one has known for a few weeks in a new place, to a close business companion, to a childhood playmate, to a man or woman, to a______colleague. There are real______among these relations for Americans — a friendship may be______, casual, situational or deep and lasting. But to a European, who sees only our surface behavior, the differences are not clear.

As Europeans see it, all kinds of “friends” flow______of Americans' homes with little ceremony. They may be parents of the children's friends, house guests of neighbors, members of a committee, business associates from another town or even another country.______as a guest into an American home, the European visitor finds no______differences. The atmosphere is______. Most people, old and young, are called______first names. Americans’ characteristic openness to different styles of relationship makes it possible for us to find new friends abroad with whom we feel______.