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When it comes to friends, I desire those who will share my happiness, who possess wings of their own and who will fly with me. I seek friends whose qualities illuminate me and train me up for love. It is for these people that I reserve the glowing hours, too good not to share.

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 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 were changing into social creatures and the stories and poems stopped.

When I lived for a time in London, I had a friend, he was in despair and I was in despair. But our friendship was based on the idea in each of us that we would be sorry later if we did not explore 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 remarkable friend whose imagination illuminates 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. In my most interesting moments, I often think:"Yes, I must tell..." We have never met.

It is such comforting companions 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 my own best friend.

In the darkest moments, the author would prefer to().

A. seek professional help

B. be left alone

C. stay with her best friend

D. break the silence

答案

参考答案:B

解析:

考查细节推断的能力。从最后一段可看出,在作者情绪最低落的时候,作者自己是最好的朋友。(those darkest moments in which I would rather be my own best friend.)

阅读理解

Once Effendi had a joke with the Prime Minister(宰相). He said that the Minister would die the next day. The next day, the Minister fell to the ground from the horse and really died. When the king learned this, he got angry and sent his men to catch Effendi at once.

When Effendi was brought to him, the king shouted angrily, “Effendi, since you knew when my Minister would die, you must know the date of your own death. Say it out, or you’ll die today.”

Effendi looked at the king for a while. Then he answered, “But how can I know? I’ll die two days earlier than you.” The king was afraid that if he killed Effendi, he himself would die after that. He thought he must keep Effendi alive as long as possible, so he let Effendi go.

小题1:This story tells us __________.

A.how Effendi fooled the king

B.when the king would die

C.why the Minister died

D.Effendi knew the date of everyone’s death小题2:The Prime Minister died because __________.

A.Effendi killed him

B.Effendi said he would die

C.he was badly ill

D.he fell off the horse小题3:Why did the king ask Effendi to tell him the date of Effendi’s own death?

A.Because the king wanted to know when he himself would die.

B.Because the king wanted to find an excuse to kill Effendi.

C.Because he himself had known the date of Effendi’s death.

D.Because he wanted to know when Effendi would die.小题4:The king let Effendi go because __________.

A.he hoped to live a long life

B.he was afraid of Effendi

C.he didn’t believe Effendi’s words

D.he knew the would die two days later小题5:Which of the following is not true?

A.Effendi played a joke on the Minister.

B.The king was afraid of death.

C.Effendi didn’t know when the king would die

D.If the king killed Effendi, he himself would die two days later.

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