Through my school years I never imagined of falling in love. I wanted to stay __1__ just from watching my friends get mistreated（虐待）by their boyfriends all the time. On my junior year, I was just ___2__ 17 and my best friend decides to set me __3__ with a stranger I have never known. I was really lucky to even make it to the place because my parents were so strict __4__ me at the time. So we meet and not even __5__ to say. I wasn't too excited, I was totally nervous. At the time I knew there was __6___ in him I liked. I couldn't understand that __7__ inside telling me he was the one.

My senior year after school ended. He had to leave to the Marines and I __8__ go to Ohio. We both had decided to __9__ our relationship because we didn't think it work from far distance. It was all over. On my 20 birthday there was__10__ on the mail for me. The letter came from a Marine base with his name on it. It had __11__ him a long time to find me and he did. After that day he promised he__12__ let me go again.

   Today he's my__13___, my best friend, and my hero. Within a million's miles away from me, he has kept his__14___. I love him with all my heart and I'm here  waiting. He has deployed（部署，配置） overseas for 8 months and we only _15__by e-mail and sometimes calls on the weekends. Today and every up coming day I wake up with a smile just waiting for him to come back home safe.

（ ）1. A.alone             B. single                   C. lonely                  D.pure

（ ）2. A. attending       B. accepting             C. turning                 D. receiving

（ ）3. A. up                B. down                   C. off                       D. on

（ ）4. A. on                B. at                        C. with                     D. to

（ ）5.A.a talk              B. a word                C. many talks           D. many words

（ ）6. A. everything     B. anything               C. nothing               D. something

（ ）7. A. thought         B. feeling                  C. mood                  D. idea

（ ）8. A. should          B. might                   C. had to                 D. used to 

（ ）9. A. end               B. start                     C.remember             D. forget

（ ）10. A.a man          B. a letter                 C. news                  D. word

（ ）11. A. taken          B. brought                C. spent                   D. paid

（ ）12. A. seldom       B. always                 C. never                   D. ever 

（ ）13. A. workmate   B. neighbor              C.boyfriend              D. husband

（ ）14. A. secret         B. promise       C. way                     D. hobby

（ ）15. A. talk      B. meet                    C. see                      D. communicate

The older I get, the more I value friends, yet the less time, energy and enthusiasm（热情）I have in maintaining（维持） old friendships and building up new ones.

Sunny, one of my dearest friends at work, will leave the office next month for a better job. He is not my first friend from the office to say goodbye. Over the years, there have been a handful of workmates who became friends. In recent times, at least three others have also left. So, next month, I’ll say goodbye to Sunny and I am left with one friend fewer at work. When Sunny told me that he was leaving, I sighed:" With you gone, I will have hardly any friends left in the office!”

I began to think: At what point does a workmate become a friend? And, to take a step back, what does “friendship” mean? Indeed, what makes you form a friendship with a person, but not some other? If a friend is a person I feel completely comfortable calling up at 3 am to get me out of trouble—as Sunny will do—then I don’t have that many friends. Other than family members, I can depend on just one female friend and three, at best four, male friends. But then, maybe that’s plenty. As someone said, one friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible.

Friendships are different form relationships. You can be great friends with your partner, of course, but a relationship is so much more complex（复杂）. It is not only about that wonderful feeling called love, but also a collection of emotions like jealousy,. resentment（不满）, anger, pain and despair（绝望）. Friendship is simpler and fills you, mostly, with positive emotions—kindness, fondness, warmth and honesty. With a lover, you make demands and have expectations. But with a friend, you’re cool. You don’t really owe him anything, or have to explain much, because you demand nothing more from each other than pleasant company（陪伴）and an occasional listening ear.

Love, I read somewhere, is blind, but friendship closes its eyes. How true.

21. Recently, _______ have left the office.  

A. 3 of my workmates              B. a handful of my workmates 

C. all of my friends                D. at least three of my friends.

22. The write tells us that friendship and relationship are _______.  

A. quite different                B. exactly the same 

C. more or less the same          D. both true

23. By citing（引用） “One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible.”, the writer implies “_______”  

A. a true friend is hard to find         B. so many friends will bring you trouble

C. it’s impossible to have three friends  D. making too many friends is no good for you

24. By writing this passage, the writer wants to tell us __ __.  

A. one of his friends will say goodbye to him

B. you may make friends with your workmates.

C. friendship is very precious（珍贵）

D. the difference between friendship and relationship

25. Which of the following is true to the passage?   

A. A friend must be able to get up at 3 in the morning.

B. A friend must be always with you.

C. You can demand a lot from a friend.

D. Your friend is your good listener.

________ my wife with a wallet in her hands just when I was about to quarrel with a workmate about it.

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