Making friends is a skill. Like most skills, it improves with 36 . If you want to make friends, you must be able to take 37 . You must first go 38 there are people. You won't make friends staying home alone.
Join a club or a group, for talking with those who 39 the same things as you do is easier. 40 join someone in some activity.
Many people are 41 when talking to people. 42 meeting strangers means facing the unknown. And it's human 43 to feel a bit uncomfortable about the unknown.
Most of our fears about dealing with new people come from 44 about ourselves. We 45 other people are judging us, find us too tall or too short, too thin or too fat. 46 don't forget that they must be feeling the same way. Try to accept yourself
47 you are, and try to put the other person at ease. In this way you'll feel 48 .
Try to be self-confident even if you don't feel that way 49 you enter a room full of 50 such as a big hall, walk straight in, look 51 at other people and smile. If you see someone you'd like to say something to, don't wait for the other person to 52 a conversation.
Just meeting someone 53 doesn't mean that you will make friends with that person-friendship is 54 on mutual liking and "giving and taking". It takes 55 and effort to develop. And there are things that keep a new friendship from growing.
36. A. practice | B. money | C. girls | D. everything |
37. A. photos | B. actions | C. trouble | D. place |
38. A. where | B. that | C. which | D. when |
39. A. have | B. like | C. own | D. share |
40. A. So | B. Or | C. However | D. But |
41. A. nervous | B. happy | C. valuable | D. familiar |
42. A. Above all | B. After all | C. At all | D. In all |
43. A. nature | B. advantage | C. happiness | D. friend |
44. A. mistakes | B. beliefs | C. wonders | D. doubts |
45. A. suggest | B. regret | C. forget | D. imagine |
46. A. And | B. Therefore | C. But | D. So |
47. A. as | B. who | C. when | D. what |
48. A. dangerous | B. hopeless | C. nervous | D. comfortable |
49. A. when | B. while | C. that | D. why |
50. A. strangers | B. relatives | C. classmates | D. teachers |
51. A. anxiously | B. angrily | C. curiously | D. directly |
52. A. start | B. finish | C. end | D. delay |
53. A. tall | B. new | C. familiar | D. tired |
54. A. made | B. laid | C. taken | D. based |
55. A. hope | B. people | C. time | D. talk |