Question

Recently, one of my best friends, whom I've shared just about everything with since the first day of kindergarten, spent the week end with me. Since I moved to a new town several years ago, we've both always ___1___ the few times a year when we can see each other.
.Over the ___2___, we spent hours and hours, staying up late into the night, talking about the people she was ___3__ around with. She started telling me stories about her new boyfriend, about how he experimented with ___4___ and was into other ___5___ behavior. I was blown away! She told me how she had been ___6___ to her parents about where she was going and even sneaking out to see this guy because they didn't want her ___7___ him. No matter how hard I tried to tell her that she ___8__ better, she didn't believe me. Her self-respect seemed to have disappeared.
I tried to ___9___ her that she was ruining her future and heading for big trouble. I felt like I was getting ___10___. I just couldn't believe that she really thought it was ___11__ to hang with a bunch of losers, especially her boyfriend.
By the time she left, I was really worried about her and ___12___ by the experience. It had been so frustrating, I had come ___13___ to telling her several times during the weekend that maybe we had just grown too far apart to ___14___ our friendship - but I didn't. I put the power of ___15___ to the ultimate test. We'd been friends for far too long. The chance was that she ___16___ me enough to know that I was trying to save her from hurting herself. I wanted to believe that our friendship could ___17___ anything.
A few days later, she called to say that she had thought long and hard about our ___18___, and then she told me that she had ___19___ with her boyfriend. I just listened on the other end of the phone with tears of joy running down my face. It was one of the truly ___20___ moments in my life. Never had I been so proud of a friend.
1. A. worried about              B. looked forward to C. paid attention to     D. think of
2. A. weekend               B. months    C. years                D. days
3. A. working               B. falling in love    C. hanging                D. keeping in touch
4. A. books                   B. girls                  C. friends                     D. drugs
5. A. self-destructive      B. self-respecting  
C. self-confident           D. self-defensive
6. A. explaining            B. reasoning          C. declaring                  D. lying
7. A. on                        B. beside               C. around                     D. to
8. A. did                  B. deserved               C. had                       D. got
9. A. told                B. convince               C. force           D. warn
10. A. somewhere   B. everywhere               C. nowhere     D. anywhere
11. A. acceptable    B. believable            C. reliable             D. admirable
12. A. exhausted     B. surprised                  C. satisfied            D. terrified
13. A. almost         B. nearly                      C. close          D. over
14. A. stop             B. continue              C. start           D. make
15. A. love            B. friendship   C. truth          D. justice
16. A. thought        B. remembered      C. valued             D. hated
17. A. mean           B. conquer             C. tell                  D. prove
18. A. friendship    B. relationship              C. quarrel              D. conversation
19. A. broken away       B. broken down     C. broken up   D. broken out
20. A. demanding   B. challenging   C. frustrating      D. rewarding

Answer 1

1. B；2.A；3. C；4. D；5. A；6. D；7. C；8. B；9. B；10. C；11. A；12. A；
13. C；14. B；15. B；16.Ｃ；17. B；18. D；19. C20. D；

1. B因为他们是最好的朋友，所以自从分开后一直盼望着在周末见到对方。
2.A他们只有在周末才能见到对方。
3. C hang around with sb.同某人长时间呆在一起；如选B,则应把around去掉。
4. D 根据后文作者劝她的朋友同其男朋友分手是因为她的男朋友吸毒。
5. A吸毒的结果只能是自我毁灭。
6. D因为她的家人不想让她同她男朋友在一起，所以为了见到男朋友，她经常对家人撒谎。
7. C around sb.同某人在一起
8. B（如果她同男朋友分手）就能够得到更好的结果。
9. B convince sb.使某人相信，使其信服。
10. C get nowhere 没有取得任何成就；毫无进展。
11. A 作者的朋友认为同她的男朋友在一起是可以接受的，所以才同他呆在一起。
12. A根据后文可知作者曾一度想同好朋友分手，所以对此事感到精疲力竭，不想再去管她的事情了。
13. C close to此处意为“几乎”；come close to doing…差一点做某事。
14. B too…to表示一个否定的意思，所以后文应填continue。
15. B此处意为“我希望友谊的力量能经得起最后的考验，能改变最终的结果”。
16.Ｃ value重视，珍惜。很可能她非常珍惜我们之间的友谊，知道我是在救她。
17. B 我相信友谊能战胜、征服一切。
18. D 回去之后，对我们之间的谈话想了好久。
19. C break up with sb.同某人断绝关系。
20. D 这是一个得到回报的时刻。