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I met my friend when we were in graduate school, and we enjoyed hanging out together outside of class. After receiving our degrees, we both left school to live in different states. That was 10 years ago.

We've kept in touch, but our phone conversations and twice?a?year visits became opportunities for my friend to talk endlessly about her problems. When I tried to fill her in on my own life, she obviously ignored.

In the past few years I've not visited her at all and been afraid of her occasional phone calls and visits to my house. She invites herself now because I no longer invite her. When she's at my home, she literally follows me from room to room, talking nonstop, until I make an excuse to get away from her. I tell her I need to take a nap, but I don't sleep. I sit in my room and read or enjoy the quiet.

Here's the worst part. She and her family, including two young children, are moving to our city. Her family has a small income, and they are buying a house in a grand neighborhood they can't afford. She asked if she and her husband and her children could stay at my home on their trips to our town to deal with house matters.

My husband and I have no children. Even though our home is tiny and perfectly sized for us, I let them stay. She told me her husband would start his new job before they finished purchasing this house. I felt obligated to offer her our guest room. If I hadn't offered, she would have asked anyway.

Now he's here, and it turns out he'll be staying on through the weekends. I am seething.

I would never under any circumstances impose on a friendship this way. I feel used, resentful, and don't care if I ever see her again. Should I end this friendship? I'm getting absolutely nothing from it but a knot in my stomach.

1.Every time they got in touch, the author's friend __________.

A．had little to share with the author

B．was eager to know about the author's life

C．expressed her contentment with her own life

D．showed no interest in listening to the author's story

2.The author is afraid of her friend's phone calls and visits because ________.

A．she is engaged in her own life

B．she hates her friend's nonstop talking

C．her friend always borrows money from her

D．her friend always wants to show off before her

3.We can know from the text that the author ________.

A．is a selfish and jealous woman

B．has a larger house than her friend

C．has more children than her friend

D．is unwilling to share her house with her friend

4.What is the author's attitude towards their friendship?

A．Favorable. B．Appreciative.

C．Dissatisfied. D．Indifferent.

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