Question

I grew up in Jamaica Plain. My best friend Rose and I used to dream about raising a family of our own someday and living next door to one another.

Our dream remained alive through school and beyond. Rose was my maid of honor when I married Dick. Later, Dick was stationed in Alaska and we moved. Rose was sad to see me leave, but wished me the best of luck. We remained in touch for a few years before we lost track.

I thought of her several times over the years. All of my children now have families of their own, and Dick passed away a few years ago. Basically, a lifetime has passed. Then one day, near my 80th birthday, I received a phone call “Hi Natalie, it’s Rose,” the voice on the other end said, “ I don’t know if you remember me, but we used to be best friends in Jamaica Plain when we were kids.”

We have spent hours on the phone catching up. Even after 52 years of separation our personalities and interests are still extremely similar. We both share a passion for several hobbies that we each picked up independently several years after we lost touch with one another. It almost feels like we are picking up right where we left off.

Her husband died a few years ago as well, but she mailed me several photographs of her family that were taken over the years. It’s so crazy, just looking at the photos and listening to her description of her family reminds me of my own: a reasonably large, healthy family. Part of me feels like we led fairly similar lives.

I don’t think the similarities between our two lives are a coincidence either. I think it shows that we didn’t just call each other best friend; we truly were best friends and even now we can be best friends again. Real friends have two things in common: a compatible(相容的)personality and a strong-willed character. The compatible personality is what starts the connection between two people.

A strong-willed character at both ends is what maintains the connection. If those two ingredients are present in a friendship, the friendship is for real, It can pass the tests of time and long distance between one another and will never disappear.

1.From the passage we may know that the author .

A. lived next door to Rose in her childhood

B.was Rose’s maid of honor when she was married

C.lost touch of Rose since she moved to Alaska

D. missed her friend although they lost contact

2.After 52 years of separation, they .

A.had a lot to talk on the phone

B. sent each other photographs of their family

C.they lived the same life

D. developed different personalities and hobbies

3. The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 6 refers to .

A. Rose’s description

B. coincidence

C. best friend

D. the similarities between our two lives

4.The author thinks that .

A. the similarities between their lives are coincident

B. although they’re not best friends, they have much in commom.

C. they both have a compatible personality and a strong-willed character

D. only those who have similar characters can be real friends

 

Answer 1

1.D

2.A

3.D

4.C

【解析】

試題分析：文章大意：真正的朋友，永恒的友誼需要：兩個人相容的個性和堅強的個性。

1. I thought of her several times over the years. ”可知，“我”和我的好朋友在分開之后，我一直很想念她。A選項錯誤在于，做是鄰居是“我們”的夢想，而不是現(xiàn)實；B選項：張冠李戴；C選項：時間錯誤。

2.We have spent hours on the phone catching up.”可知，在分開了52年之后，“我們”花了很長的時間在電話里聊各自的生活。

易錯選項C,注意題目給的時間狀語是After 52 years of separation, 而不是During 52 years of separation.

3.“I don’t think the similarities …are…/ I think it shows…”顯然，it指代的是“我們生活的相似性”。

4.Real friends have two things in common: a compatible(相容的)personality and a strong-willed character. ”可知，“我”和“我”的好朋友之所以能在失聯(lián)多年重新聯(lián)系上后仍是朋友，在于我們是真正的朋友，我們有相容的個性和堅強的品格。

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