When it comes to friends, I desire those who will
share my happiness, who has wings of their own and who will fly with me.
When I was in the eighth grade, I
had a friend. We were shy and “too serious” about our studies when it was
becoming fashionable with our classmates to learn acceptable social behaviors.
We said little at school, but she would come to my house and we would sit down
with pencils and paper, and one of us would say, “Let’s start with a train
whistle（鳴笛）today.” We would sit quietly together and
write separate poems or stories that grew out of a train whistle. Then we would
read them aloud. At the end of that school year, we, too, were changing into
social persons and the stories and poems stopped.
When I lived for a time in London, I had a friend. He
was in despair（失望）and I was in despair, too. But our
friendship was based on the idea in each of us that we would be sorry later if
we did not travel over this great city because we had felt bad at the time. We
met every Sunday for five weeks and found many excellent things. We walked
until our despairs disappeared and then we parted. We gave London to each
other.
For almost four years I have had a great friend whose
imagination brightens mine. We write long letters in which we often discover
our strangest selves. Each of us appears, sometimes in a funny way, in the
other’s dreams. She and I agree that, at certain times, we seem to be parts of
the same mind.
It is such comforting companions（陪伴）I wish to keep. One bright hour with their kind is
worth more to me than the lifetime services of a psychologist, who will only
fill up the healing silence necessary to those darkest moments in which I would
rather be with my own best friend.
1.We can infer from Paragraph 2 that the writer ______
finally.
A. wasn’t serious about her studies
B. didn’t like writing poems or stories
C. became popular with her classmates
D. developed her proper social behaviors
2.The underlined sentence “We gave London to each
other” probably means ______.
A. our tour in London was a memorable gift to both of
us
B. our unpleasant feeling about London disappeared
C. we were unwilling to stay away from London
D. we waved goodbye to each other in London
3.What is the best title for the passage?
A. Unforgettable Experiences.
B. Unbelievable Imagination.
C. Touching Companions.
D. Lifelong Friendship.
