配对阅读:将下面五个人的性格特征和某报社编辑给他们的交友建议相匹配。

1.Sara likes to make friends with popular people, because she finds it easier to communicate with them.

2.When Jane is happy, she likes to talk to everyone in her class. But when she feels sad, she doesn’t even say “hi” to anyone.

3..Paul is poor in his study, and he always feels shy to talk with others, so he has very few friends.

4.When Peter feels uncomfortable talking with someone, he often look here and there.

5.Susan is a good student, but she is never sure what to talk about when she

stays with others.

A. Be confident in yourself. Everyone has its good qualities. People who have

self-confidence are more attractive.

B. It is not polite to look around when talking with people. Try to look people in the

eye even you are not interested in the conversation. Then people will find it easier to

talk to you.

C. Try to make friends with kinds of people, not just with those who are easy to communicate. Then you will find there are greater chances for making friends.

D. Once you get to know a person, find more chances to meet. For example, you can

play soccer together or have a short travel. Then you will each other well.

E. Try to help others. For instance, look after people who are ill or help people take

care of their pets. Be kind to others and you will be treated kindly.

F. Other will think you are strange if you are friendly one day and don’t talk the next day. Learn to share your feelings with others. Share your sadness with your others,

and you will be happy again.

G. Care about what’s happening in the world. Read more newspapers, listen to the top CDs, and find out something about new sports or movie stars. Then talk about things that a person may interested in.

Going to a friend’s house is very exciting. You may spend time with a friend and get to see where he lives. So remember to be polite.

When to arrive?

The first thing to remember is that when a friend invites you , you need to get on time. If your friend tells you to come around 3.00 p.m., that means you can get there a little later after 3.00 p.m. But usually it is a good thing to arrive at the right time.

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Often it is also nice to bring something to your friend’s house. This could be a box of chocolates for you two to share, or maybe a movie that you can watch together. You can also bring some flowers. A little gift is a nice way to show your friend that you are excited to be at his house.

How to greet?

When you visit your friend’s house, you may also meet his parents. You should tell them who you are and they may tell you their names. As a child, I went to visit my friend Paul. I called his parents by their first names John and Mary. But now I know it is more polite to call them Mr or Mrs Smith. This will show them more respect (尊重) and then they may tell you to call them by their first names. Another way to show respect is to call them Madam or Sir.

It is a cool thing to visit a friend’s house. Be polite to your friend and your friend’s parents, and they will invite you again.

1.If your friend asks you to get to his house around 4.30 p.m., it is polite to arrive at ___.

A. 4.00 p.m. B. 4.35 p.m. C. 5.30 p.m. D. 6.00 p.m.

2.Which of the following can we choose for the blank (空白) in the passage?

A. What to watch? B. What to eat?

C. What to bring? D. What to wear?

3.The passage mainly tells us ___________.

A. when to arrive at your friend’s house

B. how to greet your friend’s parents

C. what to bring to your friend

D. how to be a good visitor

4. Which one is not true according to the article?

A. Bring something is nice if you want to go to your friend’s house.

B. It’s polite to call your friend’s parents madam or sir.

C. You don’t have to tell your friend’s parents who you are.

D. Be polite to your friend and your friend’s parents, and they will invite you again.

5.The passage may be from __________.

A. an article in a magazine

B. a letter from a child to parents

C. a TV advertisement

D. a TV news report

A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high and usually lands on its back. Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. In his book, A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson.

The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she puts herself directly over her child. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable thing. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby, so that it’s sent sprawling (四脚朝天).

When it doesn’t get up, what the mother has done is repeated again and again. The struggle (挣扎) to rise is important. As the baby giraffe grows tired, the mother kicks it again. Finally, it stands for the first time. Then the mother giraffe kicks it off again. Why? She wants it to remember how it can get up. In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group, where there’s safety.

Another writer named Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying great people, writing stories about such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin.

Stone was once asked if he had found something unusual about these great people. He said, “I write about people who sometime in their life have a dream of something. They’re beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere. But every time they stand up again. And at the end of their lives they’ve realized some small parts of what they set out (着手) to do.”

1. The expression “a tall order” in Paragraph 1 most probably means ______.

A. a happy thing B. a difficult thing

C. a big dream D. a beautiful place

2.A View from the Zoo is a book written by .

A. Gary Richmond B. Charles Darwin

C. Irving Stone D. Vincent van Gogh

3.The mother giraffe puts herself over her child and throws her long leg and kicks her baby because she .

A. is an unkind mother

B. likes watching her bay sprawling

C. doesn’t want her baby to live with her

D. wants to train her baby to get up in this way

4. The writer mainly wants to tell the readers that

A. the giraffe is an unusual animal

B. we should learn to be a careful writer

C. learning to get up leads to success

D. A View from the Zoo is a good book to read

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