Question

【题目】任务型阅读。

I once believed that a friend is a friend all the way. Now I have changed my ideas about friendships.

1. Friends of convenience(便利). They can be the people who live next door or the mothers of our children’s closest friends. Friends of convenience are good indeed. They’ll help us when we need it. They’ll look after our cats when we go on holidays. But we don’t ever get too close or tell too much. Between us, we’ll talk about being overweight but not about being sad or disappointed(失望). However, people still find it necessary to make friends like this.

2. Special-interest friends. These friendships aren’t deeply personal or emotional(感情上的). They lie in some shared interests, so we may have an office friend, a tennis friend, or even a shopping friend.

3. Historical friends. We all have a friend who knew us when…maybe we were back in the second grade of primary school, when our family lived in that two-room flat downtown. He or she was the first, the only friend we told our secrets to.

The years have gone by, and we have gone different ways. But we’re still a personal part of each other’s past. We know how we looked before our teeth were straightened(矫正), and our getting together makes us think of an earlier part of ourselves, which is important and never lost.

4. Cross-generational friends. These are friendships that from across generations(代). I have in my own life a precious(珍贵的) friend, a woman of 65, who is clever, who listens well, and who means not only an ideal mother to me but also the person I’d like to be when I grow up.

Best friends, I believe, totally love and help each other.

【1】of friends	Description of friends
Friends of convenience.	They can be the【2】or the mothers of our children’s closest friends. They can help us when we are in need. Though we don’t talk about all the topics, this doesn’t mean it is 【3】for us to have friends like this.
【4】friends.	We usually【5】 some interests with our special-interest friends, so we may have different friends like an office friend, a tennis friend, etc.
Historical friends	We got to these friends when we were very【6】, so we know how we【7】 before our teeth were straightened. Over these years we have【8】greatly, but our getting together can help us remember each other’s happy old days.
Cross-generational friends	Cross-generational friends usually aren’t from 【9】own generation. Maybe a friend like this is the one I want to be like in the【10】 .

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】Types/ Kinds

【2】neighbours

【3】unnecessary

【4】special-interest

【5】share

【6】young

【7】looked

【8】changed

【9】our

【10】future

【解析】

【1】根据全文介绍的是朋友的种类，根据句意，故填Types/ Kinds。

【2】根据They can be the people who live next door or the mothers of our children’s closest friends.可知亲近的朋友是指邻居或孩子们亲近的朋友们的母亲，根据句意，故填neighbours。

【3】根据However, people still find it necessary to make friends like this.可知交到像这样的朋友，人们发现是必要的，根据句意，故填unnecessary。

【4】根据Special-interest friends.可知特殊的朋友，根据句意，故填special-interest。

【5】根据They lie in some shared interests, so we may have an office friend, a tennis friend, or even a shopping friend.可知他们有一些共同的利益，所以我们可能有一个办公室的朋友，一个网球的朋友，甚至是一个购物的朋友。根据句意，故填share。

【6】根据We all have a friend who knew us when…maybe we were back in the second grade of primary school, when our family lived in that two-room flat downtown.可知我们都有一个认识我们的朋友，也许我们在小学二年级时，我们家住在市中心的2个房间。即年轻时的朋友，根据句意，故填young。

【7】根据We know how we looked before our teeth were straightened(矫正), and our getting together makes us think of an earlier part of ourselves, which is important and never lost.可知我们知道在我们的牙齿被矫正之前，我们看起来是怎样的，我们聚在一起叫我们想起以前的我，这是很重要的，永远不会失去。根据句意，故填looked。

【8】根据The years have gone by, and we have gone different ways. But we’re still a personal part of each other’s past.可知这些年过去了，我们有了不同的方式。但我们仍然是彼此的过去的一部分。根据句意，故填changed。

【9】根据These are friendships that from across generations(代).可知这是跨时代的友谊，即这些朋友们不是来自我们的国籍，根据句意，故填our。

【10】根据I have in my own life a precious(珍贵的) friend, a woman of 65, who is clever, who listens well, and who means not only an ideal mother to me but also the person I’d like to be when I grow up.可知我有一位珍贵的的朋友，是一个65岁的女人，她很聪明，她听得很好，对于我来说，他不仅是我的一个理想的母亲，并且也是我长大了想要成为的一个人。根据句意，故填future。