1 . You know how wonderful you are, and you know that others know how wonderful you are, but what do you do when admiration crosses over the line into jealousy? For most teens there will come a day when you realize that one of your friends is jealous and that this jealousy is hurting your friendship. When this happens it can seem like there is nothing that you can do, but the good news is that there is. Don’t let jealousy spoil your relationships. Tackle it head on and you might be back to normal much sooner than you think.

It can be hard to walk up to a friend and ask them what the problem is, but if you want to save your friendship you’ll have to do just that. Don’t approach them and ask why they are jealous of you (unless of course you want to appear totally conceited), just take some time alone with them and let them know that you’ve been feeling like there’s been something coming between you. If they refuse to respond, then use the opportunity to explain how you have been feeling. Chances are that something you say will strike a nerve and your friend will open up as well.

When you figure out what is annoying your friend, ask him or her what (s)he thinks would make the situation better. If, for example, (s)he says that (s)he feels like (s)he doesn’t get to spend any time with you because of your being off with your new friends from the swim team then maybe you could invite her along the next time or block off one day a week for just the two of you. Remember, though, that whatever solution you decide on should be a compromise. Don’t limit your own talents or opportunities simply because your friend is unhappy. Try instead to include him or her in your new life and see how that works out.

Even the best of friendships can be tinged by jealousy. This destructive emotion is rarely productive and can turn best friends into worst enemies. Before taking extreme action, chat with your jealous friend to see if the two of you can work out a compromise. If you can’t, be prepared to know exactly how far you will go to keep your friend and how far you won’t.

1. According to the author, the jealousy emotion is________.

A．normal	B．destructive
C．productive	D．extreme

2. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a way to confront your friend when jealousy happens?

A．Spending some time with him/her and letting him/her know you think there’s something between you.

B．Spending some time with him/her and letting him/her know how you feel.

C．Walking up to him/her and asking him/her what the problem is.

D．Walking up to him/her and asking him/her why he/she is jealous of you.

3. The underlined “it” in the first paragraph refers to________.

A．friendship	B．relationship
C．jealousy	D．admiration

4. What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?

A．Jealousy can turn best friends into worst enemies.

B．There’s always a solution to solve the problem of jealousy.

C．You should go a long way with your friend to work out a solution.

D．You may lose a friend to keep your own gifts, chances or self-development.

5. The purpose of the passage is________.

A．to explain what causes jealousy

B．to offer some advice on making friends

C．to introduce the way to cope with a jealous friend

D．to explain how destructive the jealous emotion is

2 . Many teenagers feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends. They believe that their family members, especially their parents, don’t know them as well as their friends do. In large families, it is often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they can only go to their friends for advice. It is very important for teenagers to have one good friend or many friends. Even when they are not with their friends, they usually spend a lot of time talking among themselves on the phone. This communication is very important in children’s growing up, because friends can discuss something difficult to say to their family members.

However, parents often try to choose their children’s friends for them. Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their good friends. The question of “choice” is an interesting one. Have you ever thought of the following questions?

Who choose your friends?

Do you choose your friends or your friends choose you?

Have you got good friends your parents don’t like?

1. Many teenagers think their ___________know them better than their parents do.

A．friends

B．teachers

C．brothers and sisters

D．classmates

2. When teenagers stay alone, the usual way of communication is to ___________.

A．go to their friends	B．talk with their parents
C．have a discussion with their family	D．talk with their friends on the phone

3. Which of the following sentences is TRUE?

A．Parents should like everything their children enjoy.

B．In all families, children can choose everything they like.

C．Parents should try their best to understand their children better.

D．Teenagers can only go to their friends for help.

4. The m idea of this passage is that ___________.

A．Teenagers need friends

B．Friends can give good advice

C．Parents often choose their children’s friends for them

D．Good friends can communicate with each other

3 . Americans use the word “friend” in a very general way. They may call many connections ____ Americans ____school friends, work friends, sports friends and neighbourhood friends. These friendships are based ____common interests. When the shared activity ____, the friendship may disappear. Now Steve and Yarer are no longer classmates. Their friendship has ____ In some ____ friendship means a strong lifelong bond(关系) between ____people. In these cultures friendship develop _____, since they are built to last. American society is one of ____ changes. Studies show that one out of five American families ____ every year because they must change their jobs. The result is ____American friendship develops quickly. People from the United States may ____ seem friendly. Americans often chat ____ with strangers. They exchange information ____their families, hobbies and work. They may ____ warmly and say “Have a nice day” or “See you later.” Schoolmates may say, “Let’s get ____sometime.” But American friendliness is not ____an offer of true friendship. After an experience like Yarer’s, outsiders may consider ____to be changeable. Learning how Americans view friendship can ____ non-Americans avoid misunderstanding. It can also help them make friends in the American ____1.

A．teachers

B．students

C．masters

D．friends

2.

A．hold

B．have

C．own

D．share

3.

A．on

B．with

C．in

D．for

4.

A．begins

B．develops

C．ends

D．continues

5.

A．missed

B．changed

C．failed

D．separated

6.

A．cultures

B．cities

C．schools

D．places

7.

A．some

B．two

C．three

D．all

8.

A．fast

B．soon

C．slowly

D．finally

9.

A．thick

B．high

C．rapid

D．large

10.

A．moves

B．comes

C．does

D．disappears

11.

A．which

B．how

C．whether

D．that

12.

A．at once

B．at first

C．at last

D．at all

13.

A．easily

B．hard

C．much

D．fast

14.

A．to

B．from

C．about

D．for

15.

A．smile

B．laugh

C．nod

D．greet

16.

A．there

B．over

C．away

D．together

17.

A．always

B．any

C．just

D．only

18.

A．Chinese

B．Japanese

C．Americans

D．Europeans

19.

A．cause

B．get

C．hope

D．help

20.

A．ones

B．way

C．people

D．means

4 . I was never very neat, while my roommate Kate was rather organized. Each of her objects had its ___________, but mine always hid somewhere. She even labeled (贴标签 ) everything. I always looked for everything. ___________time, Kate got neater and I got _________. She would push my dirty clothing over, and I would lay my books on her tidy desk. We both got ___________ of each other.

One evening war ___________ . Kate came into the room. Soon, I heard her shouting, "Take your _________ away! Why under my bed!" Deafened, I saw my shoes flying at me. I_______ to my feet and started shouting. She shouted back louder.

The room was filled with _________. We could not have stayed together for a single_________ but for a phone call. Kate answered it. From her end of the conversation, I could __________right away her grandma was seriously ill. When she __________, she quickly hid under her covers, sobbing(呜咽). __________, that was something she should not go through alone. All of a sudden ,a ________ feeling of sympathy(同情) rose up in my heart,

Slowly, I collected the pencils, took back the books, __________ my bed, cleaned the socks and swept the floor, ________ on her side. I was so buried in my work __________ I even didn't notice Kate had sat up.

She was watching, her tears dried and her __________one of disbelief. Then, to my surprise, she __________ out her hands to catch mine. I looked up into her eyes. She smiled at me. "Thanks."

Kate and I stayed ____________for the rest of the year. We didn't always agree, but we learned the key to ________together: giving in, cleaning up and holding on.

1.

A．room

B．place

C．station

D．seat

2.

A．Over

B．During

C．With

D．For

3.

A．uglier

B．cleaner

C．messier

D．lazier

4.

A．angry

B．tired

C．sad

D．mad

5.

A．broke in

B．took place

C．set off

D．broke out

6.

A．socks

B．clothes

C．shoes

D．trousers

7.

A．ran

B．jumped

C．flew

D．walked

8.

A．kindness

B．concern

C．sadness

D．anger

9.

A．hour

B．week

C．minute

D．day

10.

A．tell

B．express

C．forecast

D．show

11.

A．put up

B．hung up

C．held up

D．went up

12.

A．Surprisingly

B．Clearly

C．Happily

D．Excitedly

13.

A．warm

B．strange

C．cold

D．funny

14.

A．brought

B．caught

C．made

D．changed

15.

A．but

B．and

C．even

D．so

16.

A．that

B．which

C．what

D．who

17.

A．tongue

B．expression

C．sign

D．position

18.

A．took

B．held

C．reached

D．threw

19.

A．workmates

B．classmates

C．deskmates

D．roommates

20.

A．living

B．studying

C．playing

D．smiling

5 . About five years ago I started at a new school when my family moved to Iowa. I was just a little excited, but I worried I would never fit in with the other sixth graders.
Lucy, a girl in my class, who I thought was not ready for change, didn’t like me from the start. In fact, I was pretty sure she hated me. I would ask her a question, and I could tell she thought I was a total fool.
My teacher made us sit by each other for the last term. Lucy was horrified (惊骇的). I didn’t wear make-up (化妆品), and I didn’t wear those terrible bell-bottom pants. I didn’t exactly look like the coolest girl. But, I kept smiling at her, though she rolled her eyes, and I kept telling her she looked beautiful, even when she was angry.
Finally, Lucy let me talk to her, even in sight of her “cool” friends. She started telling me how beautiful I looked. I still remember that first time when she smiled at me saying that, and I smiled right back, telling her thanks. Lucy invited me over to her house for a party, and talked to me all the time instead of her other friends. Lucy, the girl who hated me, called me her best friend. After that, we still were good friends a whole year later.
I may have moved to Arizona after that, but I will never forget Lucy. It’s funny — I still remember her birthday. She was a great friend. And to think, she considered me her enemy at first. Though it was hard, and it felt like I was wasting my time, and losing my dignity (尊严), I still smiled at Lucy when she made fun of me. I’m not stupid, I didn’t think she was right in doing those things, but I still put up with it. And we became great friends.
About two weeks ago, I read a sentence by Abraham Lincoln: “Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?” Immediately, I smiled, thinking of Lucy. That sentence just reminded me how great it was for me to change Lucy into my friend in that state of Iowa five years ago.
1. When the author started at a new school in Iowa, she worried ________.

A．she looked stupid when asking questions

B．she didn’t look like the coolest girl in her class

C．she was not ready for change at all

D．she couldn’t get along well with her classmates

2. How did the author change Lucy’s attitude towards her?

A．By wearing make-up.

B．By keeping smiling at Lucy.

C．By wearing bell-bottom pants.

D．By sitting beside Lucy in class.

3. From Paragraph 5, we know the author thought ________.

A．it was right of her to suffer when making friends

B．it was a waste of time to make friends with Lucy

C．it was a shameful thing to put up with what Lucy did

D．it was foolish of her to smile at Lucy all the time

4. What is the main idea of this passage?

A．Patience is important in making friends.

B．Friendship needs to be cared for.

C．Making friends means losing enemies.

D．Kindness can defeat any enemy.

6 . When I told my father that I was moving to Des Moines, Iowa, he told me about the only time he had been there. It was in the 1930s, when he was an editor of the literary magazine of Southern Methodist University（SMU）in Dallas, Texas. He also worked as a professor at SMU, and there was a girl student in his class who suffered from a serious back disease. She couldn’t afford the operation because her family was poor.
Her mother ran a boardinghouse in Galveston, a seaside town near Houston, Texas. She was cleaning out the attic（阁楼）one day when she came across an old dusty manuscript（手稿）. On its top page were the words, “By O. Henry”. It was a nice story, and she sent it to her daughter at SMU, who showed it to my father. My father had never read the story before, but it sounded like O. Henry, and he knew that O. Henry had once lived in Houston. So it was possible that the famous author had gone to the beach and stayed in the Galveston boardinghouse, and had written the story there and left the manuscript behind by accident. My father visited an O. Henry expert at Columbia University in New York, who authenticated the story as O. Henry’s.
My father then set out to sell it. Eventfully, he found himself in Des Moines, meeting with Gardner Cowles, a top editor at the Des Moines Register. Cowles loves the story and bought it on the spot. My father took the money to the girl. It was just enough for her to have the operation she so desperately needed.
My father never told me what the O. Henry story was about. But I doubt that it could have been better than his own story.
1. Who found the O. Henry’s manuscript?

A．The girl’s mother.	B．The author’s father.
C．The girl.	D．The author.

2. Which of the following might explain the fact that the manuscript was found in the   attic?

A．O. Henry once worked in Houston.

B．O. Henry once stayed in Galveston.

C．O. Henry once moved to Des Moines.

D．O. Henry once taught at SMU.

3. The underlined word “authenticated” in Paragraph 2 probably means ______.

A．named	B．treated
C．proved	D．described

4. According to the text, why did the author’s father go to Des Moines?

A．To sell the O. Henry story.

B．To meet the author himself.

C．To talk with the O. Henry expert.

D．To give money to the girl.

7 . The day that I met my best friend for the first time, I was full of anxiety. I was trying to do some _____ for an important oral exam in the local library, but people kept _____ me. I was getting annoyed and of course, I wasn't able to _____. Suddenly I heard someone singing behind me. I _____ and glared at the person who was singing. It was a tall girl about the same age as me.

The fact that she looked like a sensitive, friendly girl didn't matter. If anything, it made me even angrier.“ How could she be so selfish?” I thought _____.

I picked up my books, glared at her and whispered coldly, “Thanks to your _____, I’ve been unable to study. You’re so _____!”

I left the library in such a hurry that I left the most important textbook _____. When I got home two hours later, I found that textbook gone. I was so______ that I almost cried. Just then, the phone rang. A gentle voice ______ the speaker as Jenny and asked if I was Jane. After ______ that I was, she said that she had noticed I’d left my book in the library and as my ______ was in it, she'd asked a librarian to get my phone number. She said that she didn't live far away and could bring it around for me if I needed it.

I sighed with ______ and agreed to meet her at the convenience store down the road. Of course you’ve ______ who Jenny was. She was the girl I had shouted at for singing in the library. When I recognized her in the convenience store, I was filled with ______ and apologized for my rude behavior. I felt so ______, but Jenny just laughed, saying she was glad to see that I’d also left my ______ in the library! I couldn’t help laughing at this and I invited her back to my apartment for a quick cup of tea.

Ever since then we’ve been best friends and we got along really well. To be honest, I trust her more than anyone else. I often think how ______ I am. If Jenny hadn’t been a kind person who was willing to ______ my shortcomings, I would ______ have experienced such true friendship.

1.

A．research

B．revision

C．work

D．experiment

2.

A．watching

B．asking

C．warning

D．disturbing

3.

A．speak

B．improve

C．concentrate

D．follow

4.

A．turned around

B．turned down

C．turned off

D．turned over

5.

A．sadly

B．hopelessly

C．angrily

D．crazily

6.

A．practice

B．noise

C．attitude

D．existence

7.

A．selfish

B．active

C．sensitive

D．stupid

8.

A．out

B．around

C．aside

D．behind

9.

A．nervous

B．careless

C．upset

D．forgetful

10.

A．introduced

B．considered

C．took

D．remembered

11.

A．deciding

B．confirming

C．realizing

D．thinking

12.

A．address

B．class

C．writing

D．name

13.

A．comfort

B．relief

C．confidence

D．satisfaction

14.

A．recognized

B．found

C．guessed

D．heard

15.

A．courage

B．energy

C．doubt

D．shame

16.

A．worried

B．sorry

C．terrible

D．excited

17.

A．glare

B．expression

C．virtue

D．friendship

18.

A．considerate

B．pleased

C．lucky

D．grateful

19.

A．overcome

B．share

C．hide

D．forgive

20.

A．ever

B．never

C．seldom

D．still

8 . Once again, I was in a new school. So was a girl in my class named Lisa. That’s where the similarities ended.
I was tall and she was small. My thick black hair had been recently cut short into an untidy style. Her natural blonde hair flowed to her waist and looked great. I was 12 and one of the oldest in the class while she was 11 and the youngest. I was awkward and shy. She wasn’t. I couldn’t stand her, considering her my enemy. But she liked me and wanted to be friends.
One day, she invited me over and I said yes—I was too shocked to answer any other way. My family had moved six times in six years, and I had never managed to develop any friendships. But this girl who wore the latest fashions wanted me to go home with her after school.
She lived in a fun part of town that had two pizza places, an all-right bookstore, a movie theater and a park. As we walked from the school bus stop through her neighborhood, I tried to guess which house might be hers. Was it the white one with the perfect lawn or the three –story house with a front porch? I got very surprised when she led me into an old apartment building. She lived on the fourth floor in a two-room place with her mother, her stepfather, her two brothers and her sister.
When we got into the room she shared with her sister, she took out a big case of Barbies, which was my next surprise. I had never played with them. We sat on the floor, laughing as we made up crazy stories about the Barbies. We found out that we both wanted to be writers when we were older and both had wild imaginations. We had a great day that afternoon .
Lisa was loved by the whole neighborhood. The bookstore owners lent her fashion magazines; the movie theater gave her free tickets…. Soon I was included in her magic world. We slept over at each other’s houses and spent every free moment together.
Lisa, my first real friend since childhood, helped me get through the rough years of early adolescence and taught me an amazing and very surprising thing about making friends: your worst enemy can turn out to be your best friend.
1. The writer and Lisa were similar in the way that          .

A．they were both new students

B．they had the same hair styles

C．they were both tall

D．they were of the same age

2. One day Lisa invited the writer         .

A．to go to the movie

B．to go to walk in a park

C．to go to her home

D．to go to a pizza place

3. In the passage the writer described Lisa as a girl who was       .

A．friendly and lovely	B．rich and happy
C．quiet and lonely	D．awkward and shy

4. Which of the following did the writer learn from Lisa?

A．How to make up stories.	B．How to deal with enemies.
C．How to live a better life.	D．How to make friends.

9 . 假定你是李华，作为一名交换生（an exchange student）刚结束在英国为期一个月的学习。学习期间，你和房东Mr. Wilson 结下了深厚的友谊。请按下列要点给Mr. Wilson发一封邮件表示感谢：
1. 生活上的照顾；2. 学习上的帮助；3. 希望保持联系。
注意：1. 词数100左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；3. 开头语已为你写好。
Mr. Wilson,
Time flies! I’ve been back home.
Best wishes, Li Hua
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

10 . The internet will open up new vistas (前景), create the global village —you can make new friends all around the world .That, at least, is what it promised us. The difficulty is that it did not take the human mind into account. The reality is that we cannot keep relationships with more than a limited number of people. No matter how hard the internet tries to put you in communication, its best efforts will be defeated human mind.
The problem is twofold（双重的）.First, there is a limit on the number of people we can hold in mind and have a meaningful relationship with. That number is about 150 and is set by the size of our brain. Second, the quality of your relationships depends on the amount of time you invest（投入）in them. We invest a lot in a small number of people and then distribution what’s left among as many others as we can. The problem is that if we invest little time in a person, our engagement with that person will decline（减弱）until eventually it dies into “someone I once knew”.
This is not, of course, to say that the internet doesn’t serve a socially valuable function. Of course it does. But the question is not that it allows you to increase the size of your social circle to include the rest of the world, but that you can keep your relationships with your existing friends going even though you have to move to the other side of the world.
In one sense, that’s a good thing. But it also has a disadvantage. If you continue to invest in your old friends even though you can no longer see then, then certainly you aren’t using your time to make new friends where you now live. And I suspect that probably isn’ t the best use of your time. Meaningful relationships are about being able to communicate with each other, face to face. The internet will slow down the rate with which relationships end, but it won’t stop that happening eventually.
1. What is stressed in the first paragraph?

A．The present situation of the internet.

B．The difficulty in communication on the internet.

C．The socially valuable function of the internet.

D．The role of the human mind in the internet communication.

2. The underlined word “engagement” in the second paragraph probably means “      ”.

A．appointment

B．connection

C．interview

D．agreement

3. According to the passage, the author holds the view that     .

A．the internet fails to play so valuable a role in communication as it promised

B．the Internet determines the quality of social relationships

C．the internet greatly increases the size of social circles

D．the internet communication is no less effective than the face-to-face talk

4. What is the author’s attitude towards the use of the internet to strengthen relationships?

A．He is uncertain about it.	B．He is hopeful of it
C．He approves of it	D．He doubts it