Once again, I was in a new school. So was a girl in my class named Paris. That's where the similarities ended.
I was tall and she was small. My thick, black hair had been recently cut short. Her natural blonde hair flowed to her waist and looked great. I was awkward and shy. She wasn't. I couldn't stand her. I considered her my enemy. She liked me. She wanted to be friends.
One day, she invited me over and I said yes — I was too shocked to answer any other way. No one had invited me over to play. But this girl who wore the latest fashions wanted me to go home with her after school.
I got very surprised when she led me into an apartment building. She lived on the fourth floor in a two-room place with her mother, her stepfather, her two brothers and her sister.
When we got to the room she shared with her sister, she took out a big case of Barbies — which was my next surprise. I would have thought she'd outgrown them. I had never played with them. But we sat on the floor of a walk-in closet, laughing as we made up crazy stories about the Barbies. That's when we found out that we both wanted to be writers when we were older and we both had wild imaginations.
We had a great day that afternoon. Our jaws ached from smiling so much. She showed me her wardrobe, which had mostly come from a designer clothing store down the block. The woman who owned it used her as a model sometimes for her newspaper ads and gave her clothes in exchange.
Paris had the whole neighborhood charmed. The bookstore owners lent her fashion magazines, the movie theater gave her free passes and the pizza place let her have free slices. Soon I was included in her magic world. We slept over at each other's houses, spent every free moment together. My dark hair grew out and I learned to love being tall.
Paris, my first real friend since childhood, taught me an amazing and very surprising thing about making friends: that your worst enemy can turn out to be your best friend.
【小題1】The writer and Paris were similar in that     .

A.they were both new students
B.both of them were friendly
C.both of them were tall
D.they were both the youngest in class
【小題2】In the article the writer described Paris as a girl who was     .
A.a(chǎn)wkward and shy B.fashionable and proud
C.quiet and lonely D.friendly and lovely
【小題3】What did the writer learn from Paris?
A.How to make best use of her neighborhood.
B.How to dress and look fashionable.
C.How to become a good writer
D.How to make friends.
【小題4】From the article, we can see that through her friendship with Paris, the writer     .
A.found she and Paris had more similarities than differences
B.was able to fit in at her new school with Paris’ help
C.was not so awkward or shy as before
D.learned more about fashion herself


【小題1】A
【小題2】D
【小題3】D
【小題4】C

解析試題分析:文章介紹帕瑞斯,我兒時(shí)的第一個(gè)真正朋友,幫我度過(guò)了我青澀歲月的最初幾年,并且在交友這件事上,教我懂得了一件令人奇妙而驚異的事情:那個(gè)看似最壞的敵人可能卻會(huì)是你最好的朋友。
【小題1】細(xì)節(jié)題:從第一段的句子:Once again, I was in a new school. So was a girl in my class named Paris. That's where the similarities ended.可知作者和Paris相似的是兩個(gè)人都是新來(lái)的,選A
【小題2】細(xì)節(jié)題:從第二段的句子:Her natural blonde hair flowed to her waist and looked great. She liked me. She wanted to be friends.可知作者描寫(xiě)Paris是可愛(ài)的,友好的,選D
【小題3】細(xì)節(jié)題:從最后一段的句子:Paris, my first real friend since childhood, taught me an amazing and very surprising thing about making friends: that your worst enemy can turn out to be your best friend.可知Paris教會(huì)了作者怎么交朋友,選D
【小題4】推理題;從倒數(shù)第二段的句子:My dark hair grew out and I learned to love being tall.可知作者和Paris交朋友后,不再象以前一樣窘迫害羞了,選C
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