1 . Recently, one of my best friends, whom I’ve shared just about everything with, spent the weekend with me.
Over the weekend, we spent
By the time she left, I was
A few days later, she called to say that she had thought long and hard about our conversation, and then she told me that she had
| A．minutes | B．days | C．hours | D．seconds |
| A．stories | B．lies | C．reasons | D．tragedies |
| A．self-protective | B．self-destructive | C．self-confident | D．self-centered |
| A．well | B．hard | C．close | D．late |
| A．proved | B．hoped | C．denied | D．deserved |
| A．nowhere | B．anywhere | C．somewhere | D．elsewhere |
| A．confused | B．fascinated | C．exhausted | D．pleased |
| A．conversation | B．weekend | C．friendship | D．appointment |
| A．use | B．end | C．trial | D．test |
| A．suspected | B．valued | C．forced | D．comforted |
| A．hurting | B．believing | C．enjoying | D．quitting |
| A．conquer | B．bargain | C．lose | D．ignore |
| A．put up with | B．come up with | C．made up with | D．broken up with |
| A．world | B．phone | C．house | D．pipe |
| A．frightening | B．moving | C．rewarding | D．disappointing |
1. When does the conversation probably take place?
| A．In the morning. | B．Around noon. | C．In the evening. |
| A．To invite the man to dinner. |
| B．To change an appointment. |
| C．To invite the man to visit their friends. |
| A．Go on business in Scotland. |
| B．Go to the woman’s house. |
| C．Attend a wedding party. |
In the past, friendships were
Time may limit our ability to keep social ties, but our desire for social communication is
4 . Ways to Always Be Yourself and Live Happily
Don’t aim to please others.
Don’t worry about how others view you. Occasionally thinking about how others view you may make you change for the better.
Forgive yourself. Forgive yourself for thinking negatively. Forgive yourself for talking without thinking twice. Don’t think negative thoughts about yourself for taking wrong steps or making wrong decisions. This kind of thinking puts your focus on the problem and not the solution. It’s better to say good thing about yourself than to say negative things.
Strive for what you want to accomplish. Being yourself does not have to mean that you have to be stuck in the status quo(现状).
| A．Learn more about yourself. |
| B．Aim for what you want to achieve. |
| C．Stop being negative about yourself. |
| D．Saying positive things is a sign that you have forgiven yourself. |
| E．Committing to something and working toward it will lead to happiness. |
| F．But you should not be constantly wondering about what others are thinking. |
| G．There is a problem if you are always doing what everyone else wants to do. |
5 . When apologizing, make sure it is about them and not you
Last week, I asked my Instagram community to submit questions, and this one stood out to me. “I’ve hurt someone I love. She hates me. How do I say I am sorry?” We’ve all been there. We’ve all hurt someone we love –to various degrees.
You probably hold powerful beliefs about apologizing. Explore any hesitation or fears you may have. It can be helpful to reflect on how your family has dealt with mistakes and forgiveness while you were growing up.
Make sure not to make it about you. Although you might regret your actions and feel all the feelings, this is not a time or place when they should be comforting you.
An apology is not a magic cure.
| A．Your feelings count. |
| B．Your intention matters. |
| C．It’s not about you right now. |
| D．Here are several things to keep in mind. |
| E．This is not a circumstance for you to flee. |
| F．Has your family modelled what an apology sounds like? |
| G．Just because you apologized, it doesn’t mean everything will go back to normal. |
6 . Some people spend tens of years looking for their best friends. However, I was
As we entered senior high school, a couple of girls
Among our many
At the beginning, we gave each other inexpensive gifts like butterfly hair clips, gloves and so on.Those gift
Holidays with family can be
| A．careful | B．shocked | C．lucky | D．clever |
| A．grown-up | B．teenage | C．selfish | D．slim |
| A．dropped out | B．worked out | C．made up | D．came along |
| A．broken | B．forced | C．separated | D．united |
| A．curious | B．confident | C．natural | D．complete |
| A．hobbies | B．traditions | C．challenges | D．strategies |
| A．carried on | B．took place | C．broke out | D．fell apart |
| A．register | B．buy | C．exchange | D．pack |
| A．add | B．ruin | C．waste | D．make |
| A．immediately | B．directly | C．finally | D．actually |
| A．homes | B．schools | C．shelters | D．offices |
| A．related to | B．gave way to | C．contributed to | D．referred to |
| A．salaries | B．jobs | C．kids | D．families |
| A．confusing | B．awkward | C．challenging | D．amazing |
| A．create | B．revise | C．apply | D．recognize |
7 . How many friends do you have? Not counting the hundreds on Facebook or the names gathering dust in your address book. But real friends, the ones cast in stone. The kind who would lend you $100 without asking why, or put you up if you were kicked out of your house.
Anthropologist Prof Robin Dunbar feels he can put a number on it: five. No matter how much of a social butterfly you are, you can count your real pals on one hand, he says. To that he says you can add an ideal number of 15 “good friends”, the kind of people you would see in a group and would join for a drink if you bumped into them in the pub, and up to 150 “meaningful contacts”.
Prof Dunbar’s latest research is an exact formula(公式) for friendship: new friendships take 34 hours of one-on-one time to form, in which you’d spend an ideal duration of three hours and four minutes per interaction together over the course of six months. Note that this is to turn an acquaintance into a friend, not one of the close friends that makes up your inner circle of five—to do that, you’d have to devote 90 hours, according to a 2018 University of Kansas study.
According to the experts, the pandemic years have changed the number and nature of our friendship. It gave people more grounds for disagreement: over adherence(遵守) to social-distancing rules, for example. Plenty of people lost relationships in the cracks. “We are always on the outlook for new and better friends, but lockdown has had a big effect in making people reevaluate,” says Dunbar. “Perhaps they’ve decided the time has come to part with some and therefore there’s an empty space to fill.”
The forecast for British friendship was already gloomy before the pandemic. Three million people said they feel lonely “often or always”, according to the Government’s 2019 community life survey. But the average British adult lost four friends over the course of the pandemic, according to the poll.
1. What does the underlined expression “cast in stone” probably mean?| A．Firmly connected. | B．Interested in stones. |
| C．Living nearby. | D．Extremely generous. |
| A．34 hours of one-on-one time. |
| B．90 hours of interaction. |
| C．Six months of one-on-one time. |
| D．Three hours and four minutes of interaction. |
| A．The more sociable you are, the more real friends you can make. |
| B．It’s much easier for people to make friends online. |
| C．The more friends you make, the happier your life will be. |
| D．There is a limit to the number of real friends in your life. |
| A．Whether to part with some old friends. |
| B．How to make better friends. |
| C．Whether to obey social distancing. |
| D．How to limit the number of friends. |
“Why she let out my secret? Why she did that to me?” I vividly remembered that day when I was confused at the knowing looks everyone gave me. That terrible experience was impressed on my mind. I couldn’t forgive the person with whom I had shared my secret. She lost all my trust and friendship.
Five years back, Sally was a new addition in our class. There was something mysterious about her that attracted me towards her. She was the most friendly person I had known. We started as classmates but after a few months we were like best friends. We did homework together and dreamed of going to the same university one day. We hung out and went to the movies on weekends. That was a sweet time.
Nevertheless, I couldn’t expect such an enormous betrayal(背叛)from her. I didn’t know what made me tell Sally about my personal life. I felt much regret to myself. She added her own spices to it and made it the hottest topic in school. It was like someone had stabbed(戳) a knife in my back. After she let out my secret, everyone at school started laughing at me and gazing at me whenever I passed. I was like a pond in which someone had thrown a stone and it had been spilled up. Soon afterwards, I left school and shifted to another one, because I couldn’t bear the pain any more. Sally called me many times. However, I didn’t answer and deleted all her contact information. My heart was broken because the person whom I trusted most cheated me.
I made efforts to remove the scar from my heart. I started a new life, leaving all the bad memories behind, because they made me a person who often thought about the past experiences. Five years later, with the life going on, I made new friends and seldom thought about the past.
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But one day I happened to get the shocking truth from Helen, my former classmate.
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I immediately called Sally in order to break up the misunderstanding.
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10 . Peer pressure occurs when a peer group has direct or indirect pressure to do certain actions. The term “peer” often refers to people one knows in real life and that have a similar social status to oneself. However, the larger culture can also bring about peer pressure.
Many people consider peer pressure a negative thing.
Research suggests peer pressure sometimes begins in elementary school.
Research has long shown that peer pressure can increase the risk of someone trying drugs, alcohol, or cigarettes.
| A．However, this isn’t always the case. |
| B．Coping with peer pressure can be tough. |
| C．Unconsciously, we are all influenced by people around us. |
| D．Certain people are more affected by peer pressure than others. |
| E．At this age, group values and routine begin to form among children. |
| F．It’s impossible to resist peer pressure when a child is struggling to fit in. |
| G．For example, television can convey to the public an acceptable way to behave. |
