In choosing a friend, one should be very careful. A good friend can help you study. You can have fun together and make each other happy. Sometimes you will meet fair weather friends.① They will be with you as long as you have money or luck, but when you are down, they will run away. How do I know when I have found a good friend? I look for certain qualities (品质) of character, especially understanding, honesty and reliability (可靠).

  

At the same time, however, a good friend is honest. He does not look for faults (过错) in others. He notices their good points. In short, a friend will try to understand me and accept me.②

  Another quality of a friend is reliability. I can always depend on (信赖) a good friend. If he tells me he will meet me somewhere at a certain time, I can be sure that he will be there. If I need a favor, he will do his best to help me. If I am in trouble, he will not run away from me.

  There is a fourth quality that makes a friend special. A special friend is someone with whom we can have fun.③ We should enjoy our lives, and we would enjoy our friendship. That is why I especially like friends who are fun to be with. A good friend likes the same things I like. We share experience (经验) and learn from each other. A good friend has a good sense of humor (幽默), too. He likes to laugh with me. That is how we share in the joy of being friends. And I know that he is looking for the same quality in me.

  When I meet someone who is reliable, honest, and understanding, I know I've found a friend!

1. Which of the following qualities the writer thinks is the most important in choosing a friend?

  A. understanding.   B. honesty.

  C. reliability.       D. a sense of humor.

2. If you have fair weather friends, ______ .

  A. they will give you all that they have when you need help

  B. you will be refused when you get into trouble

  C. you will become rich

  D. you can be sure that you get real friends

3. Good friends need to ______.

  A. always point out each other's mistakes

  B. be helped with money

  C. understand each other's feelings

  D. have money or luck

4. This passage mainly discuss ______ .

  A. the qualities of a friend

  B. where to choose friends

  C. how to get along with friends

  D. the importance of having a friend

If you ask some people, “How did you learn English so well?” you may get a surprising answer: “In my sleep!”

  These are people who have taken part in one of the recent experiments (实验) to test the learn while you sleep method (方法), which is now being tried in several countries, and with several subjects. English is among them.

  

In one experiment, ten lessons were broadcast over the radio for two weeks. Each lesson lasted twelve hours — from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. The first three hours of English grammar and vocabulary (词汇) were given with the students awake. At 11 p.m. a lullaby (催眠曲) was broadcast to send the student to sleep and for the next three hours the radio in a soft and low voice broadcast the lesson again into his sleeping ears. At 2 a.m. a sharp noise was sent over the radio to wake the sleeping student up for a few minutes to go over the lesson. The soft music sent him back to rest again while the radio went on.② At 5 o’clock his sleep ended and he had to go through the lesson again for three hours before breakfast.

1. By the learn while you sleep method, one____ .

A. starts to learn a new lesson in sleep        

B. learns how to sleep better

C. is made to remember his lesson in sleep

D. can listen to the radio broadcast while lying in bed

2. In the experiment, lessons were given____ .

A. in the night time            B. after lullabies were broadcast

C. while the student was awake   D. all through the twelve hours

3. Before each lesson finishes, the student has to____ .

A. get up and take breakfast         B. be woken up by a loud voice

C. listen to the lesson again in sleep   D. review (复习) the lesson by himself

4. The sleep study method is being tried in many countries to teach____ .

A. the English language   B. grammar and vocabulary

C. a number of subjects   D. foreign languages

There are many kinds of friends. Some are always ___1___you, but don't understand you. Some say only a few words to you, but understand you. Many people will step in your life, but only ___2___friends leave footprints (脚印).

  I shall always recall (回忆) the autumn and the girl with the ___3___ . She will always bring back the friendship between us. I know she will always be my best friend.

  It was the golden season. I could see the yellow leaves ___4___  on the cool ___5___. In such a season, I liked walking alone in the leaves, ____6__ to the sound of them.

  Autumn is a __7____ season and life is uninteresting. The free days always get me ___8___ . But one day, the sound of a violin  __9____into my ears like a stream (小溪) flowing in the mountains. I was so surprised that I jumped to see what it was. A young girl, standing in the wind, was__10____ in playing her violin.

  I had __11____ seen her before. The music was so nice that I listened quietly. Lost in the music, I didn't know that I had been ___12___ there for so long but my existence (存在) did not seem to disturb her.

  Leaves were still falling. Every day she played the violin in the corner of the building  ___13___ I went downstairs to watch her performance. I was the only listener. The autumn seemed no longer lonely and life became ___14___.  __15____ we didn't know each other, I thought we were already good friends. I believe she also loved me.

  Autumn was nearly over. One day, when I was listening carefully, the sound suddenly ___16___. To my astonishment (惊讶), the girl came over to me.

  “You must like violin.” she said.

  “Yes. And you play very well. Why did you stop?” I asked.

  Suddenly, a __17____ expression appeared on her face and I could feel something unusual.

  “I came here to see my grandmother, but now I must leave. I once played very badly. It was your listening every day that _18_____ me.” she said.

  “In fact, it was your playing _19_____ gave me a meaningful autumn,” I answered, “Let's be friends.”

  The girl smiled, and so did I.

  I never heard her play again in my life. I no longer went downstairs to listen like before. Only thick leaves were left behind. But I will always remember the fine figure (身影) of the girl. She is like a __20____—so short, so bright, like a shooting star giving off so much light that it makes the autumn beautiful.

1. A. with      B. for       C. against          D. to

2. A. good     B. true       C. new            D. old

3. A. sound    B. song      C. play            D. violin

4. A. shaking   B. hanging   C. falling          D. floating

5. A. wind     B. snow     C. air              D. rain

6. A. watching  B. listening  C. seeing           D. hearing

7. A. lively     B. lovely    C. harvest          D. lonely

8. A. up        B. off       C. down           D. over

9. A. flowed     B. grew     C. entered         D. ran

10. A. lost      B. active     C. busy           D. interested

11. A. once     B. never     C. often           D. usually

12. A. waiting   B. stopping  C. standing        D. hearing

13. A. because   B. so       C. when          D. but

14. A. interesting  B. moving  C. encouraging    D. exciting

15. A. But       B. However  C. Even         D. Though

16. A. stopped   B. began     C. gone         D. changed

17. A. happy    B. sad       C. strange        D. surprised

18. A. surprised  B. excited   C. encouraged     D. interested

19. A. that       B. which    C. it            D. who

20. A. song      B. dream    C. fire          D. sister

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