5.How to Make Friends
 Friendship is a very important human relationship and everyone needs good friends.Good friendship has many benefits.It offers companionship,improves self-worth and promotes good health.There are times in our lives such as when we have recently moved into a new town,or changed our jobs or schools.Such changes often leave us without a friend(36)E.But for many of us the process is difficult and requires courage.Below are some helpful suggestions on how to make and keep friends.
1.  Associate with others.
  The first step to making friends is associating with other people.You can go to public places to meet new people.Besides,you will need to make yourself known by becoming an active member of such places.
2. Start a conversation
  Starting a conversation is the second most important step in making new friends.(37)C  
 You can always start the conversation.Being able to make small talk is a very useful skill in relating with other people.
3.(38)BChoosing friends with common interests is important in building friendship as these interests would always bring you and your friend together,Hanging out will always be a pleasant experience.
4. Let it grow.
 It is a good thing to stay in touch.However,try not to press your new friend with calls,messages or visits as this would likely wear him or her out and finally you may lose your friend.(36)G.The best friendships are the ones that grow naturally.
5. Enjoy your friendship
  The best way to enjoy your friendship is to allow your friends to be themselves.(40)D.
Try not to change them from who they are to what you want them to be.Become the kind of friend you will want your friend to be to you.

A.Be cheerful.
B.Do things together.
C.Do not wait to be spoken to.
D.Try not to find fault with your friends.
E.Making new friends comes easy for some people.
F.For a friendship to develop you need to stay in touch.
G.So you will need to give your friend time to react to you.
4.The Great Fire of London started in the very early hours of September 2,1666.In four days it destroyed more than three-quarters of the old city,where most of the houses were made of wood and close together.Over one hundred people became homeless,but only a few lost their lives.
The fire started on Sunday morning in the house of the King's baker (面包师) in Pudding Lane.The baker,with his wife and family,was able to get out through a window into the roof.A strong wind blew the fire from the bakery into a small hotel next door.Then it spread quickly into Thames Street.That was the beginning.
By eight o'clock three hundred houses were on fire.On Monday nearly a kilometer of the city was burning along the River Thames.Tuesday was the worst day.The fire destroyed many well-known buildings,old St Paul's and the Guildhall among them.
Samuel Pepys,the famous writer,wrote about the fire,"People threw their things into the river.Many poor people stayed in their houses until the last moment.Birds fell out of the air because of the heat."
The fire stopped only when the King finally ordered people to destroy hundreds of buildings in the path of the fire.With nothing left to burn,the fire became weak and finally died out.
After the fire,Christopher Wren,the architect (建筑师),wanted a city with wider streets and fine new houses of stone.In fact,the streets are still narrow,but he did build more than fifty churches,among them the new St Paul's.
The fire caused great pain and loss,but after it London was a better place:a city for the future and not just of the past.
33.It seems that the writer of the text was most sorry for the fact thatC
A.some people lost their lives
B.the birds in the sky were killed by the fire
C.many famous buildings were destroyed
D.the King's bakery was burned down
34.Why did the writer cite (引用) Samuel Pepys?A
A.To give th e reader a clearer picture of the fire.
B.Because Pepys also wrote about the fire.
C.To show that poor people suffered most.
D.Because Pepys was among those putting out the fire.
35.How was the fire put out according to the text?D
A.The King and his soldiers came to help.
B.All the houses made of wood in the city were destroyed.
C.People managed to get enough water from the river.
D.Houses standing in the direction of the fire were pulled down.
3.Do you suppose Darwin,one of the greatest scientists of all time,really did foolish experiments?Or did he do experiments that were so simple and basic that other people just thought they were foolish?
Sometimes,people think they already know the answer to a question or the solution to a problem.Sometimes,they really do know an answer o r a solution,but without thinking they are important.
Charles Darwin didn't settle for(满足于)just thinking he knew something.And,he believed all things could be important however simple they seemed to be.
Suppose you drop sheets of paper that are of exactly the same size and shape.If you drop them at the same time in the same place,they will fall in the same way.Now make one of the sheets of paper into a tight little ball and let it drop along with the other sheets.What happens?You have done an experiment that is so simple that you might think it couldn't be worth anything.
But this simple experiment is important.It explains part of our present-day understandings of physics,ideas that were worked out long ago by Galileo and Newton.And these understandings set asidesome of ancient Greek physics.
Scientists sometimes stop to look at very simple things and to think very hard about them.Even the simplest idea,which we might think is foolish,can shake the foundations of science.
29.The passage tells us that Charles Darwin.C
A.was a great English scientist
B.always liked doing the experiments that others thought difficult
C.thought even the simplest thing was important
D.didn't get well with others
30.The underlined phrase"set aside"most probably means.A
A.throw away       B.store up       C.put to use         D.realize
31.The author of the passage tries to.D
A.convince us that Charles Darwin,Galileo and Newton are the greatest scientists in the world
B.draw the conclusion that basic sciences are simple things
C.prove that two sheets of paper,with the same size and shape,will fall at the same speed
D.draw our attention to everyday happenings around us
32.Which of the following is TRUE?B
A.Darwin really did foolish experiments.
B.According to some people Darwin did foolish experiments.
C.It is believed by all the people that things could be importan t though they seemed to be simple.
D.Galileo and Newton worked out ancient Greek physics.
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