There are two families on Earth who want a baby girl, but there is only one girl waiting to be born. She turns herself into two girls, but each of the girls only has half of a heart.Years later, the two girls meet.When they come together, their hearts beat faster, and they feel complete again.
Do you ever feel like you and your best friend were once the same person, but were split（分裂)before birth? Do you want to spend every minute with her? If you have a really good best friend, you might feel like you're incomplete when you are apart. In US middle schools, many girls show their feelings with a best friends necklace (项链).
The best friends necklace can take many forms. Usually, it is a heart split in two. It reads"best friends"and each one of the friends wears half of the necklace. Best friends may live far away and not see each other for a long time. But the two pieces of the heart fit together perfectly when they meet again. If your very best friend is wearing her necklace, she has half of your heart.
Make a best friends necklace and give one half of it to your best friend.Some girls make their own necklaces out of clay (泥土) or pieces of a jigsaw puzzle (拼图). Alone,the necklace doesn't mean a lot. But when your friend is there, and the pieces fit together, everything seems to be complete again.
1.What is the first paragraph about?
It's about a report of a special family.
B.It's about a true story of two girls.
C.It's about what the necklace used to be.
D.It's about how best friends feel together.
2.According to the passage, if you have a best friend, what will you do?
A.You will live together in her family.
B.You will share one heart together.
C.You will want to be with her.
D.You will play jigsaw puzzle with her.
3.What does the underlined word "apart" mean?
A.分离. B.相聚. C.重逢. D.团结.
4.Which of the following is NOT true about the best friends necklace?
A.It's very popular around the world now.
B. Each one of the friends wears half of it.
C. Some girls use clay to make it.
D. It can take many shapes.
5.What is this article mainly about?
A.It's mainly about how to make friends.
B.It's mainly about how the two girls grow up.
C.It's mainly about the best friends necklace in America.
D.It's mainly about what American girls are doing at present.
完形填空（10小题，每小题1分，共10分）
Everybody loves a good joke. Even children at a very young age start ___ jokes to their friends. Some people are _ very good at telling funny stories. When they tell a joke, everyone finds it _3 But someone else telling the same joke may not make you laugh. This is because it is not only the end of the joke that has to be funny. A good joke-teller is amusing ____ telling the whole story.
Some people are witty (诙谐的，风趣的) in their normal everyday conversation. They say humorous things all the time. They can quickly see two ____ words in the same word and then like to make puns (双关语). If someone says to them, after their trip to the US. "How did you find New York?" They will probably answer by saying something like, "By driving south from Boston!"
There is another type of humor where people play jokes on their __ . They tease them by saying untrue things like, "Someone just ____ me that our English teacher is going to give us a test today." When their friends start to worry, they laugh and say, "I am only ___." These people love to make ____ of you, make you silly and ridiculous. And nobody likes to be made fun of, ___, of course, on April 1st. On this day, everyone is allowed to play jokes on their friends.
1.A. saying B. telling C. speaking D.talking
2.A. always B. sometimes C. never D.hardly
3.A. exciting B.relaxing C. surprisng D.amusing
4.A. before B. while C.after D.until
5.A. different B. same C. similar D. opposite
6.A. teachers B. students C. friends D. family
7.A. taught B. answered C. asked D. told
8.A. kidding B. asking C. playing D. talking
9.A. use B. fun C. story D. friends
10.A.though B. besides C. except D. however
---Was your trip exciting?
---Wait a minute, my photos taken there will show ________,
A. what the trip was like B. how did we go there
C. where we go D. when did we meet
--I fell asleep _______ I was reading the newspaper.
--Really? Maybe you have to relax a bit.
A. until B. after
C.while D.before
A lot of medicine and clothes _______ to Japan since the earthquake happened.
A. will be sent B. have been sent
C. are sending D.have sent
The little boy is too short to _______ the poster on the wall.
A.put down B. put out
C. put up D.put off
