Friends play an important part in our lives, and although we may take friendship for granted, we often don’ t clearly understand how we make friends. While we get on well with a number of people, we are usually friends with only a very few—for example, the average among students is about six per person. In all the cases of friendly relationships, two people like one another and enjoy being together, but beyond that, the degree of intimacy between them and the reasons for their shared interest vary enormously. As we get to know people we take into account things like age, race, economic condition, social position, and intelligence. Although these factors are not of prime importance, it is more difficult to get on with people when there is a marked difference in age and background. Some friendly relationships can be kept on argument and discussion, but it is usual for close friends to have similar ideas and beliefs, and to have attitudes and interests in common. They often talk about “being on the same wavelength“. It generally takes time to reach this point. And the more intimately involved people become, the more they rely on one another. People want to do friends favours and hate to break a promise. Equally, friends have to learn to put up with annoying habits and to tolerate differences of opinion. In contrast with marriage, there are no friendship ceremonies to strengthen the association between two people. But the supporting and understanding of each other that results from shared experiences and emotions does seem to create a powerful relationship, which can overcome differences in background, and break down barrier of age, class or race.

I am considering______my job as I’ m not getting on well with my boss. changing to change changed to be changed

The question is______the film is worth seeing or not. that whether if why

It is during his spare time______Johnson has been studying a course in history. when which what that

My room is in a mess, but I ______ clean it before I go out tonight. I can do it in tomorrow morning. dare not shouldn’t needn’t mustn’t

We must investigate as ______ customers as possible in order to make sure of the potential of the market. many much more most

If I______the challenges at that time, I might not have started my own business. would know have known had known will know

I am very interested in the training course, which______at Hilton Hotel in Beijing next week. held was held will hold will be held

______some degree, all managers who supervise people are involved in HR activities. On To For With

Be careful of those who use the truth to deceive people. When someone tells you something that is true, but leaves out important information that should be included, he can create a false impression. For example, someone might say, “I just won a hundred dollars on the lottery(彩票). It was great. I took that dollar ticket back to the store and turned it in for one hundred dollars!“ This guy’ s a winner, right? Maybe yes, maybe no, we then discovered that he bought two hundred tickets, and only one was a winner. He’ s really a big loser! He didn’ t say anything that was false, but he deliberately omitted important information. That’ s called a half-truth. Half-truths are not technically lies, but they are just as dishonest. Untrustworthy candidates in political campaigns often use this strategy. Let’ s say that during Governor Smith’ s last term, her state lost one million jobs and gained three million jobs. Then she seeks another term. One of her opponents runs an ad saying, “ During Governor Smith’ s term, the state lost one million jobs!“ That’ s true. However, an honest statement would have been, “During Governor Smith’ s term, the State had a net gain of two million jobs. “ Advertisers will sometimes use half-truths. It’ s against the law to make false claims so they try to mislead you with the truth. An ad might boast (自夸) , “ Nine out of ten doctors recommend Yucky Pills to cure nose pimples (疙瘩). “ It fails to mention that they only asked ten doctors and nine of them work for the Yucky Corporation. This kind of deceiving happens too often. It’ s a sad fact of life: Lies are lies, and sometime the truth can be a lie as well.

约翰从来没想到自己会在出租车上睡着，还把钱包落在了车上。

要一个烟瘾很重的人戒烟是很困难的。

使我们感到十分欣慰的是，警方正在调查事故的原因。

For this part, you are required to write a composition entitled My View on Job-hopping. You should base your composition on the outline given below and write it on the Answer Sheet. 1．有些人喜欢始终从事一种工作。 2．有些人喜欢经常更换工作。 3．你的看法。

The number of college graduates in a country______its economic standard. reflects reflected are reflecting has reflected

By the end of this year, I______enough money for a holiday. will save will have saved will have been saved have saved

The higher a rocket flies, ______air it meets. the fewer the little the less the much

I don’t like the color of this jacket. ______, it is too large for me. Except Besides Except that Beside

Only by adopting the highest standards of integrity______the trust of our clients and the companies we work with. we earn can we earn we earned did we earn

Technology companies usually focus on their employee benefits around making people stay in the office longer: ping-pong tables, game rooms, on-site training rooms: some even offer laundry services. We, ABC Company, don’ t do any of these. Instead, we focus on benefits that get people out of the office as much as possible. We designed our benefit system to reflect that. Here are some of the benefits we offer to get people away from the computer: * Vacations: For the last three years in a row, we’ ve worked with a professional travel agent to prepare different travel packages that employees could choose from as a holiday gift. Everything is paid for and included. Specific, pre-arranged trips—whether for a family to go to Disneyland or a couple to tour Spain—have helped make sure people actually take their vacations. * 4-day Summer Weeks: From May through October, everyone who’ s been with the company for more than a year gets to work just four days in a week. This started out as “Friday s off , but roles like customer support and operations need to cover all hours. To come up with the best ideas, you need a fresh mind. These travel and time-off benefits help everyone stay sharp.

The average person swallows about half a ton of food a year—not counting drink—and though the body is remarkably efficient at extracting just what it needs from this huge mixture, it can only cope up to a point. If you go on eating too many of some things and not enough of others, you’ll eventually get out of condition and your health will suffer. So think before you start eating. It may look good. It may taste good. Fine! But how much good is it really doing you? What you eat and the way it affects your body depend very much on the kind of person you are. For one thing, the genes you inherit from your parents can determine how your body metabolism(新陈代谢) copes with particular foods. The tendency to put on weight rather easily, for example, often runs in the family—which means that they have to take particular care. And your parents may shape your future in another way. The way you are brought up shapes some basic attitudes to food—like whether you have a sweet tooth, nibble between meals, take big mouthfuls or eat chips with everything. Eating habits, good or bad, tend to get passed on. And then there is your lifestyle. How much you spend on food (time as well as money) , how much exercise you get—these can alter the balance between food and fitness. And finally, both your age and your sex may affect this balance. For example, you’ re more likely to put on weight as you get older, especially if you’ re a woman. So everybody is different and the important thing is to know yourself.

According to the author, ______.

When we make friends, we consider such things as age, race, and background, because ______.

The phrase “being on the same wavelength“ in Paragraph 2 means______.

Which of the following is NOT implied in the passage?

To strengthen friendly relationship, people______.