Recently, one of my best friends, whom I've shared
just about everything with since the first day of kindergarten, spent the weekend
with me. Since I moved to a new town several years ago,we've both always looked forward to the few times a
year when we can see each other.
Over the weekend, we spent hours and hours, staying up
late into the night, talking about the people she was hanging around with. She
started telling me stories about her new boyfriend, about how he experimented
with drugs and was into other selfdestructive(自我毀滅的)
behavior. I was blown away! She told me how she had been lying to her parents
about where she was going and even stealing out to see this guy because they
didn't want her around him. No matter how hard I tried to tell her that she
deserved better, she didn't believe me. Her selfrespect seemed to have
disappeared.
I tried to convince her that she was ruining her
future and heading for big trouble. I felt like I was getting nowhere. I just
couldn't believe that she really thought it was acceptable to hang out
with a group of losers, especially her boyfriend.
By the time she left,I was
really worried about her and exhausted by the experience. It had been so
frustrating,I had come close to telling her several
times during the weekend that maybe we had just grown too far apart to continue
our friendship, but I didn't. I put the power of friendship to the final test.
We'd been friends for far too long. I had to hope that she valued me enough to
know that I was trying to save her from hurting herself. I wanted to believe
that our friendship could conquer anything.
A few days later, she called to say that she had
thought long and hard about our conversation, and then she told me that she had
broken up with her boyfriend. I just listened on the other end of the phone
with tears of joy running down my face. It was one of the truly rewarding
moments in my life. Never had I been so proud of a friend.
1.In the writer's opinion,her friend ________.
A.was a girl
with no selfrespect
B.could find a
better boyfriend
C.was brave
enough to stick to her own choice
D.didn't value
the writer's suggestion
2.What did the writer worry about?
A.She would
lose the friendship with her.
B.Her friend's
parents would be worried about their daughter.
C.Her friend
would get into great trouble with the boy.
D.Her friend's
boyfriend would be in great trouble.
3.We may learn from Paragraph 3 that the
writer________.
A.didn't want
to go anywhere else
B.understood
her friend's hanging with her boyfriend
C.couldn't
believe that her friend's choice was acceptable
D.doubted that
she could in any way help her friend
4.What can be concluded from the passage?
A.Friendship
starting from childhood is not reliable.
B.Friendship is
a cure for any injury in life.
C.Friendship
should be everlasting once begun.
D.Friendship
can have magical power in life.