Many teenagers feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends.They believe that their family members don’t know them as well as their friends do.In large families，it is quite often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they can only go to their friends for some ideas.It is very important for teenagers to have one good friend or a group of friends.Even when they are not with their friends，they usually spend a lot of time talking among themselves on the phone.This communication is very important in children’s growing up，because friends can discuss something.These things are difficult to tell their family members. However，parents often try to choose their children’s friends for them.Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their good friends.Have you ever thought of the following questions?
Who chooses your friends?
Do you choose your friends or your friends choose you?
Have you got a good friend your parents don’t like?Your answers are welcome.
1.Many teenagers think that________can understand them better.
A．friends B．brothers C．sisters D．parents
2.When teenagers have something difficult to tell their parents，they usually________.
A．stay alone at home B．fight with their parents
C．discuss it with their friends D．go to their brothers and sisters for help
3.The underlined sentence “Your answers are welcome.” means “________”.
A．You are welcome to discuss the questions with us.
B．We’ve got no idea，so your answers are welcome.
C．Your answers are always right.
D．You can give us all the right answers.
4.Which of the following is the writer’s attitude(态度)?
A．Parents should choose friends for their children.
B．Children should choose everything they like.
C．Parents should understand their children better.
D．Teenagers should only go to their friends for help.
A Strange Greeting, a True Feeling. Last week I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables. In one of the wards a patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn't long to 36 , but he came up to me and placed his right foot close mine on the floor.
“Frank！” I cried in astonishment. He couldn’t 37 , as I knew, but all the time 38 his foot against mine.
My 39 raced back more than thirty years to the 40 days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The 41 was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about hundred other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank.
42 wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to 43 each other very well. Frank West 44 me because he wasn’t 45 , not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had 46 of a mind than a baby has. His “ 47 ” consisted of rough sounds—sounds of pleasure or anger and 48 more. Mrs. West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank 49 on her entirely. He needed all the 50 of a baby.
One night a policeman came and told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder. She 51 nearly everything she owned.
When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the 52 ones. So before we 53 that morning, I stood beside Frank and 54 my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a pair of shoes to the shelter for frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot against mine. After that, his 55 to me was always the same.
1. A．work B．stay C．live D．expect
2. A．answer B．speak C．smile D．laugh
3. A．covering B．moving C．fighting D．pressing
4. A．minds B．memories C．thoughts D．brains
5. A．better B．dark C．younger D．old
6. A．cave B．place C．sight D．scene
7. A．Discussing B．Solving C．Sharing D．Suffering
8. A．learn from B．talk to C．help D．know
9. A．needed B．recognized C．interested D．encouraged
10. A．normal B．common C．unusual D．quick
11. A．more B．worse C．fewer D．less
12. A．word B．speech C．sentence D．language
13. A．not B．no C．something D．nothing
14. A．fed B．kept C．lived D．depended
15. A．attention B．control C．treatment D．management
16. A．lost B．needed C．destroyed D．left
17. A．troublesome B．unlucky C．angry D．unpopular
18. A．separated B．went C．reunited D．returned
19. A．pushed B．tried C．showed D．measured
20. A．nodding B．greeting C．meeting D．acting
Jack is late again.It is of him to keep others waiting.
A．normal B．typical C．common D．ordinary
If I ______ about this computer program, a hage amount of time and energy would have been saved.
A．know B．knew C．had known D．have known
It doesn’t ______ if you are late to my party. I just want you to come
A．make a decision B．make a choice
C．make a change D．make a difference
The man is notreliable, for he seems ______ frankness.
A to lack in B. to be lacking in C. to lack of D. to be lacking of
